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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
Paperback
One of Smithsonian Magazine's ‘Ten Best Science Books of the Year’
A gripping account of the "city-killer" asteroids that could threaten Earth and the race to build a planetary defence system
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
Paperback
An exhilarating, time-travelling journey to the solar system’s strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes
Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case
Paperback
"An accessible, passionate indictment of the ignorance, opportunism and social indifference that enriched lawyers and a few plaintiffs, though the available scientific evidence was against them." —New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of 1996
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Paperback
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Hardback
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.