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1. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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2. Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
Yale University Press
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3. Sex life on the planet Mars (Fredric Brown in the detective pulps)
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- Inherited within McMillan family
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4. The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA's Weather
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5. The Geology of Mars
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6. Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics
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7. The Case for Mars The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Chinese Edition)
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you double posted, so here's mine in this one.
I had a great great grandmother we called Nana. She was the oldest of 13 children and took care and helped raise them all. When she was about 13 (I think) she moved her family from Cape Breton, Canada to Rhode Island and hand sewed handkerchiefs (because that was a woman's job) to help take care of her siblings. She built the large, French-Canadian, loud, ginger, wine-loving family that I am proud to be a part of today. When she got mad at us, or we did something not to her liking, she would raise her hand like she was about to slap someone and would said "don't make me give you one of these" while waving her hand in your face... as she got older she would say it from across the room, but her hand was always raised. When I was 14, she was 96, and she woke up one day and made a blueberry pie. When the pie was out and cooling down, she called my great aunt and said "take me to the hospital, I'm going to die." I kid you not, not even 24 hours later she was dead. My great aunt then came home from the hospital and froze the pie. When our family gathered together to celebrate her life, we ate the pie (after a lobster dinner of course... the were in Rhode Island). Nothing has ever tasted better.
I would love this book. I love love love Mary Roach and I really enjoy learning and my fiance and I would totally read it out loud with each other.
It looks like we are out of time but thank you so much for all the questions! I really enjoyed the AMA and hope you found it to be interesting.
If you want to read more about the topic of ongoing and future human evolution, check out my book: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Humans-Science-Continuing-Evolution/dp/0300208715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492200514&sr=8-1&keywords=future+humans
...and feel free to follow me on Twitter: @ScottESolomon
See you around!
-SES
I love these lists that everyone has compiled here, I've seen some amazing books that I've read and have yet to read. But since no one's mentioned this one, I'd to add a book that I think is really significant to AskWomen and the state of our society today:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It's about how a black woman died of cervical cancer in the 50s, then doctors took her cancer cells to experiment on without telling her family, and they're basically the only human cells to be replicated in the lab without dying so they've been used in all of medicine, including to develop vaccines like polio -- and yet her descendants live without healthcare. It's an amazingly well written, interesting, and exciting book.
Other than that I recommend Mary Roach as an author, she is very fun to read. My favorites are Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Not exactly what you're looking for, but Packing For Mars is a pretty interesting read. Full of interesting facts about the science of space travel, while still being readable and funny.
A lot of the better-researched/possible in the next 5 years stuff will have "speculative fiction" tacked on as a label instead of sci-fi. Just an observation.
In terms of very readable science nonfiction, you might try The Poisoner's Handbook, which is told in anecdotes about murder cases and the development of modern forensics in New York or Mary Roach's humorous essay collections in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, and others. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan was also quite readable and well-researched (about agrobusiness), but his other books get overly preachy, I think.
The Best Science and Nature anthologies are a good starting point when you're looking for new authors you click with too.
You should take some time to see a movie. "Exit" Through the Gift Shop is one of my favorites, and it might even help you feel a little less crabby. Some beautiful street art in there.
Wishlist
I'm all over the place, I have a few books in progress.
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Packing for Mars - Mary Roach
Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
SIX HUNDRED and FORTY USD on amazon?!?! What in the everloving tarnation?
Well, that was a fun rabbit hole!
Not outside of this book, but it's a great read. Packing for Mars
Here are three books that I got off Amazon that I thought were good beginner books more or less:
http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Book-Easy-Understand-Guide/dp/0679776656?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
http://www.amazon.com/Meteorology-Manual-Practical-Guide-Weather/dp/0857332724?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
http://www.amazon.com/Meteorology-Understanding-Atmosphere-Steven-Ackerman/dp/1449631754?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
I'm a relative noob myself, but these were helpful reads.
There's a new book on this by a Rice University professor named David Solomon. It's called Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution. https://www.amazon.com/Future-Humans-Science-Continuing-Evolution/dp/0300208715
I'm reading it now. Pretty interesting discussion of current evolutionary pressures. And it discusses how things that were evolutionary pressures until recently may not be so any more due to technology & medicine. That alone will have effects down the road.
I'm not a scientist, so I can't vouch for that aspect. But as a book of serious popular science, it is very informative & engaging.
Good question. I did a search, since the only book I knew that answered the description was the "Atlas of Mars," from NASA and the US Government Printing Office, and that, while it is a very interesting collection of pictures, is not an in-depth textbook. (My copy was given to me by Sally Ride, so it's very out of date. I don't know if there is a newer edition.)
Not in any particular order:
(Edit: most recent book - Sedimentary Geology of Mars, Edited by: John P. Grotzinger and Ralph E. Milliken http://network-yes.blogspot.com/2012/10/sepm-announces-new-book-on-martian.html)
The Geology of Mars Hardcover – June 1, 1976 by Thomas A. Mutch (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Geology-Mars-Thomas-Mutch/dp/0691081735
The Geology of Mars: Evidence from Earth-Based Analogs (Cambridge Planetary Science) Hardcover – May 28, 2007 by Mary Chapman (Editor) http://www.amazon.com/The-Geology-Mars-Earth-Based-Cambridge/dp/0521832926 There is a 2011 edition: http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5275896/Main/5248054
If you don't want to spend money, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Mars and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_Mars (Edit: Wikipedia does not include the magnetic history of Mars. See http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:SPAC.0000032719.40094.1d#page-1 , http://www.pnas.org/content/102/42/14970.short , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103501966710 )
Finally, I found a web page that has photos of the covers of ~all the serious books on Mars published in the last 60 years. http://mars-literature.skynetblogs.be/
I always thought the "seat belt rock" they recovered on Apollo 15 was funny.
Every Apollo mission was planned down to the minute, the planners even accounted for "gawping time" to let Astronauts just stare out into the abyss and appreciate where they were.
During Apollo 15 David Scott and James Irwin were driving around the Lunar Rover from crater to crater doing what science they could and taking a few samples. On their way back to the Lunar Module Scott spied an impressive basalt sample (it was large and can only be formed from Magma cooling at or near the surface of a planet or moon), he stopped the Rover and to account for the stop said he was experiencing a seat belt malfunction.
Irwin played along and distracted Mission Control by describing the craters. Scott got out of the rover grabbed the rock and then they hauled ass back to the Lunar Module.
Mission Control didn't know about this sample until after they had returned to Earth.
If you want to check out the transcripts they're all here.
If you like this kinda story, you should check out Mary Roach's book Packing For Mars. She's got a lot of other anecdotes in it.
Have you read "Packing For Mars" by Mary Roach?? I highly recommend it!
I haven't read it yet, but Packing for Mars by Mary Roach is probably as hilarious and informative as everything else she's written (which is why I'm recommending it).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1405177837/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1321207776&sr=8-1
Good book here. Got me through my Geology Masters in the UK. There's some cheaper ones in the used & new.
Robert Zubrin's book, The Case for Mars, has been published in Mandarin.
The Case for Mars The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Chinese Edition) (Chinese) Paperback – March 1, 2012
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Settle-Planet-Chinese/dp/7030335333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540054651&sr=8-1&keywords=the+case+for+mars+chinese&dpID=419o8VUuaDL&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
If it's not mentioned already - people should read "Packing For Mars" by Mary Roach. It talks all about the side of space travel you never hear about but want to know. Including how to shit in space. It even talks about that transcript.
http://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/B00AR2BCLW