Books by Iosif Shklovsky
“This is a great book. It was published in 1966 and I read it in 1968, the year Apollo 8 circumnavigated the moon. …This is the first astrobiology book. A dozen or more astrobiology books have appeared over the last ten years, it’s become such a hot topic, but many of them repeat this book. Certainly our knowledge of the planets has increased since then. But the underlying principles are still all expounded in this book. It has everything from cosmology, the origin of the universe, all the way up to searching for intelligent life and first contact.” Read more...
The best books on Life Below the Surface of the Earth
Tullis Onstott, Environmentalist
Interviews where books by Iosif Shklovsky were recommended
The best books on Life Below the Surface of the Earth, recommended by Tullis Onstott
The ‘subterranaut’ describes how the discovery of ancient bacteria miles beneath the Earth’s surface opens the possibility of finding life on Mars. He picks five books that show how our knowledge of life deep in this planet could lead us to discover it elsewhere.
The best books on Life Beyond Earth, recommended by James Kasting
Geoscience professor and NASA adviser James Kasting talks us through the scientific possibilities for life beyond earth. He recommends books by both ‘optimists. and ‘pessimists.’
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Life on Earth
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On the Generation of Animals (Contained in The Works of William Harvey)
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Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
by Robert Carroll -
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
by Richard Feynman -
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
by Carl Sagan & Iosif Shklovsky
The best books on Accessible Science, recommended by David Bainbridge
The best books on Accessible Science, recommended by David Bainbridge
The Clinical Veterinary Anatomist from Cambridge chooses five books on popular science and discusses evolution, paleontology and quantum physics