Martin J. Rees

42 books

Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin J. Rees

Our Cosmic Habitat

Martin J. Rees

224 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin Rees

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning

Martin Rees

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science informative slow-paced
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond by Martin J. Rees

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond

Martin J. Rees

240 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

419 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays science challenging informative slow-paced
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy by Govert Schilling, Martin J. Rees

Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

Govert Schilling, Martin J. Rees

345 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative fast-paced
30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Jim Al-Khalili, Jon Gribbin, Bill McGuire, Christian Jarrett, Mark Ridley, Robert Matthews, Paul Parsons, Martin J. Rees, Susan Blackmore, Michael Brooks

30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute

Jim Al-Khalili, Jon Gribbin, Bill McGuire, Christian Jarrett, Mark Ridley, Robert Matthews, Paul Parsons, Martin J. Rees, Susan Blackmore, Michael Brooks

160 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reference science informative medium-paced
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

Edge Question

John Brockman

411 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide by Martin J. Rees, Robert Dinwiddie

Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide

Definitive Visual Guides

Martin J. Rees, Robert Dinwiddie

512 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction reference science informative slow-paced
Visions of the Future by J. Daniel Batt

Visions of the Future

Saga of the Skolian Empire

J. Daniel Batt

685 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know by Stefan Klein

We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

Stefan Klein

288 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy science informative medium-paced