Martin J. Rees

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

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

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

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

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

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

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)

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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 Greg Bear, Brenda Cooper, Ramez Naam, Jasper T. Scott, Catherine Asaro, Douglas Rushkoff, Hugh Howey, James E. Gunn, Jeremy Lichtman, David Brin, J. Daniel Batt, Martin J. Rees, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, Robert Sawyer, William Faloon, Alan Dean Foster, Douglas E. Richards, Ray Kurzweil, Joe Haldeman, Allen M. Steele, Zoltan Istvan, Kevin J. Anderson

Visions of the Future

Saga of the Skolian Empire

Greg Bear, Brenda Cooper, Ramez Naam, Jasper T. Scott, Catherine Asaro, Douglas Rushkoff, Hugh Howey, James E. Gunn, Jeremy Lichtman, David Brin, J. Daniel Batt, Martin J. Rees, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, Robert Sawyer, William Faloon, Alan Dean Foster, Douglas E. Richards, Ray Kurzweil, Joe Haldeman, Allen M. Steele, Zoltan Istvan, Kevin J. Anderson

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)

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