{"id":31510,"date":"2019-02-03T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=31510"},"modified":"2019-02-03T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:08:55","slug":"super-cheap-super-science-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/03\/super-cheap-super-science-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Cheap Super Science eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reason there is a sudden avalanche of of inexpensive (most $2 or less) of kindle science books that are good, and a couple of other not so science books that also happen to be good and on sale. Without further ado:<\/p>\n

The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe<\/a>\"\" by Anil Ananthaswamy. Sais to be \u201cA thrilling ride around the globe and around the cosmos.\u201d \u2014Sean Carroll.<\/p>\n

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History<\/a>\"\" by Elizabeth Kolbert. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.<\/em><\/p>\n

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life<\/a>\"\" by Ed Yong.<\/p>\n

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series \u00ae)<\/a>\"\" edited by Sam Kean. An amazing diversity of topics, including politics of and in science.<\/p>\n

\"\"Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time<\/a>\"\" by Dava Sobel. Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. <\/em><\/p>\n

Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)<\/a>\"\" by Michael Wall. In the vein of Randall Munroe’s What If? meets Brian Green’s Elegant Universe, a writer from Space.com leads readers on a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier, investigating what’s really “out there.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto<\/a>\"\" by Alan Stern. Called “spellbinding” (Scientific American) and “thrilling…a future classic of popular science” (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons\u2019 mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.<\/em><\/p>\n

And, not science but still cheap right now:<\/p>\n

The classic Texas: A Novel<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

Eleanor: The Years Alone<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

He, She and It: A Novel<\/a>\"\" by Marge Piercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reason there is a sudden avalanche of of inexpensive (most $2 or less) of kindle science books that are good, and a couple of other not so science books that also happen to be good and on sale. Without further ado: The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the … Continue reading Super Cheap Super Science eBooks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[1038,1524,1480,557],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Books_on_shelf.png?fit=960%2C605&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8ce","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31514,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31510\/revisions\/31514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}