A Primate's Memoir
Robert M. Sapolsky
Published 2001
303 pages
The most popular earth sciences books
Earth sciences books explain the planet under your feet and the sky above it. Rocks, volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, weather and climate are all covered, along with the deep history of the Earth. Read them to understand the landscape around you and the forces still shaping it.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul M. Kennedy
Published 1989
704 pages
All We Can Save Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
2019 · 2021 edition
448 pages
Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger
Published 2020
413 pages
An Inconvenient Truth The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It
Al Gore
2006 · 2009 edition
325 pages
The Ends of the World Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
Peter Brannen
2017 · 2018 edition
352 pages
The Revenge of Geography
Robert D. Kaplan
Published 2012
432 pages
The Diversity of Life
Edward Osborne Wilson
Published 1992
424 pages
The Great Derangement
Amitav Ghosh
Published 2016
284 pages
The New Map
Daniel Yergin
Published 2020
492 pages
Why the West Rules--for Now The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris, Antony Ferguson
Published 2010
750 pages
A Crack in the Edge of the World America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Simon Winchester
Published 2005
462 pages
Rising Tide
John M. Barry
Published 1997
524 pages
Zero Waste Home
Bea Johnson
2013 · 1719 edition
292 pages
What the Eyes Don't See A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Mona Hanna-Attisha
2018 · 2019 edition
384 pages
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush A Preposterous Adventure
Eric Newby
1972 · 1999 edition
247 pages
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Judith Schalansky
2009 · 2012 edition
239 pages
A Brief History of Earth
Andrew H. Knoll
Published 2021
272 pages
What Doesn't Kill Us How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
Scott Carney
2017 · 2019 edition
272 pages
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert, Hope Davis
Published 2006
224 pages
Caesar's Last Breath The Epic Story of the Air Around Us
Sam Kean
2017 · 2018 edition
384 pages
The Wizard and the Prophet Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Charles C. Mann
Published 2018
616 pages
The Lost World of Genesis One Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
John H. Walton
Published 2009
192 pages
Denali's Howl The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
Andy Hall
Published 2014
252 pages