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The Ends of the World
Peter Brannen
4.29 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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The Control of Nature
John McPhee
4.25 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
4.37 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Lewis Dartnell
4.17 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Basin and Range
John McPhee
4.18 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Steve Olson
4.01 average rating, · 4k ratings
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Robert M. Hazen
4.24 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Donald R. Prothero
4.12 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Grand Canyon
Jason Chin
4.34 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Assembling California
John McPhee
4.17 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey
4.11 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Rising from the Plains
John McPhee
4.24 average rating, · 2k ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Álvarez
4.06 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
Lucy Jones
4.13 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Marcia Bjornerud
4.07 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
Michael J. Benton
4.10 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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In Suspect Terrain
John McPhee
4.12 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Old Rock [is not boring]
Deb Pilutti
4.23 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
Robin George Andrews
4.04 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
Craig Childs
4.05 average rating, · 863 ratings
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Irons in the Fire
John McPhee
4.09 average rating, · 710 ratings
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Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
Clive Oppenheimer
4.03 average rating, · 661 ratings
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A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
Peter D. Ward
4.10 average rating, · 579 ratings
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Neil Shubin
4.13 average rating, · 574 ratings
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