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Books like The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
The best books like The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, A World Without Ice, and A Short History of Nearly Everything. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen is about mass extinctions, deep time, earth history. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert · Science
The Sixth Extinction is Elizabeth Kolbert's account of the mass extinction event currently underway — the sixth in Earth's history, and the first caused by a single species.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A World Without Ice
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Henry Pollack · Science
Henry Pollack is a geophysicist at the University of Michigan who spent decades studying the Earth's heat flow and was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's attempt to understand the scientific story of everything — from the Big Bang to the emergence of modern humans — by spending three years talking to scientists and reading science history.
A kindred science read.
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- Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - The Ancestor's Tale
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Ancestor's Tale is Richard Dawkins's account of the history of life on Earth, told backwards: beginning with humans and traveling back in evolutionary time to meet successive ancestors at the points where different lineages join.
Both dig into deep time.
Read the summary → - Revelation Space
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Alastair Reynolds · Science fiction
Revelation Space opens in 2551 on a dead alien world, where archaeologist Dan Sylveste is excavating a civilization that vanished instantaneously nine hundred thousand years ago.
Both dig into deep time.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Pattern Language
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Christopher Alexander · Science
A Pattern Language is an extraordinary attempt to describe, in systematic form, the conditions that make human habitats feel alive.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Philosophy of Software Design
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A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout · Science
John Ousterhout's central claim in this book is that the greatest limitation in software development is our ability to manage complexity, and that almost every problem in large systems can be traced back to complexity that was unnecessary and could have been prevented.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Universe from Nothing
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Lawrence M. Krauss · Science
A Universe from Nothing is Lawrence Krauss's argument that modern physics has resolved, or at least reframed, the ancient philosophical question of why there is something rather than nothing.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Alan Cooper · Science
Alan Cooper's About Face, first published in 1995 and revised through multiple editions, is the foundational text of interaction design as a professional discipline.
A kindred science read.
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Books like The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions: quick answers
What are the best books like The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions?
The best books like The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, such as mass extinctions, deep time, earth history.
What should I read after The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions?
A natural next read after The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. A kindred science read. Other strong choices are A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
What books are similar to The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen?
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions centers on mass extinctions, deep time, earth history. Books with a similar feel include The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
