Alan Stern
Books by Alan Stern
“This is an account of NASA’s New Horizons probe, which zipped past Pluto on a July 2015 flyby 4.8 billion kilometres from Earth—a dynamic soup-to-nuts treatment of the mission by its principal investigator Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon. Thus, it’s the ultimate insider’s account.” Read more...
The Best Science Books of 2018
Barbara Kiser, Science Writer
Interviews where books by Alan Stern were recommended
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by Sabine Hossenfelder -
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen -
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
by Alan Stern & David Grinspoon -
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The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
by Alan Jasanoff -
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A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
by Patricia Fara
The Best Science Books of 2018, recommended by Barbara Kiser
The Best Science Books of 2018, recommended by Barbara Kiser
“As life on Earth is rocked by conflict and environmental crisis, these serene little scientific emissaries remind us of how different it can be when we collaborate selflessly in the getting of knowledge.” Barbara Kiser, veteran science journalist and the books and arts editor at Nature, chooses the best science books of 2018.
