Science Books Galore!

[ghostexorcist]

I previously posted on TTA a list of Science book PDFs and EPUBs that I have downloaded over the years. I decided to post the list here (having to start over since the original was deleted along with the forum). I'll post them in batches over the next few days as I have to copy each title individually. Those interested can contact me for a copy.

I have books on astrobiology, botany, dinosaurs, fossils, geology, kinesiology, linguistics, morality, neuroscience, osteology, paleoanthropology/anthropology, physics, play, primatology, and random biology. I may skip over some categories (such as kinesiology) as I doubt many would want to read them. Let me know what you think.

P.s. Can the mods please pin this?

Batch one

Astrobiology

* Beyond the Stars - Our Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe (PDF)

* From Fossils to Astrobiology - Records of Life on Earth and the Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures
(PDF)

* Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes (PDF)

* The Universe Within - Discovery the Common History of Rocks, Plants, and People (EPUB)

Botany

* Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution (PDF)

* Paleobotany - The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants (2nd ed.) (PDF)

* The Emerald Planet - How Plants Changed Earth's History (PDF)

Dinosaurs

* Crocodile - Evolution's Greatest Survivor (PDF)

* Dinosaurs - The Encyclopedia (Vol. 1-4) (PDF)

* Dinosaur in a Haystack - Reflections in Natural History (PDF)

* Dinosaur Paleobiology (PDF)

* Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe (PDF)

* Dinosaurs - A Concise Natural History (PDF)

* Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs - Soft Tissues and Hard Science (PDF)

* The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (2nd ed.) (PDF)

* The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book (2nd ed.) (PDF)

* The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (PDF)

* The Sauropods - Evolution and Paleobiology (PDF)

* Tyrannosaurus Rex - The Tyrant King (PDF)

Fossils (in general)

* A Sea Without Fish - Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region (PDF)

* Bonebeds - Genesis, Analysis, and Paleobiological Significance (PDF)

* Cenozoic Mammals of Africa (PDF)

* Embryos in Deep Time The Rock Record of Biological Development (PDF)

* Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters (EPUB)

* The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives (PDF)

* The First Fossil Hunters - Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (PDF)

* The Fossils of the Burgess Shale (PDF)

* The Great Fossil Enigma - The Search for the Conodant Animal (EPUB)

* The Origin and Evolution of Mammals (PDF)

* Vertebrate Paleontology (3rd ed.) (PDF)

Geology

* Comparing the Geological and Fossils Records - Implications for Biodiversity Studies (PDF)

* Eruptions That Shook the World (PDF)

* Nature's Clocks - How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything (PDF)

* Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli - Human Evolution in Context - Volume 1 - Geology, Geochronology, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment (PDF)

* The Hidden Landscape - A Journey into the Geological Past (PDF)

* Worlds Before Adam - The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform (PDF)

[Inkubus]

Science Hacks Galore!

IE, hack journalists writing 'ahem' science articles.

Full supermoons occur when the orbit of the moon is at perigee - the closest point to Earth in its orbit, which makes the Moon appear bigger and brighter in the night sky. Link

Yes there's a difference but you need one, or is it two, of these to see it:



Even NASA promotes this shit:

A "supermoon" appears to us as a larger-than-usual Moon in our night sky. A supermoon looks larger just because it's a bit closer to Earth. "Supermoon" is actually just a nickname for what astronomers call a perigean full moon – a moon that is full and at its closest point in its orbit around Earth. Link

Then there's the Harvest Blood Supermoon.

And the super blood wolf moon.

Last and by all means least: The Black Supermoon.

Also mentioned in despatches: The Beaver Moon.

Is it any wonder kids are getting stupider.

[SYZ]

Split image showing "average" full moon on left,
and so-called "super moon" on right. Size difference
in the sky to the naked eye almost imperceptible.



  Images captured with 180mm mid-tele lens.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Most of my current library is about military history. Read plenty of science earlier in life, including coursework in college, and follow the news.

[Cavebear]

Split image showing "average" full moon on left,
and so-called "super moon" on right. Size difference
in the sky to the naked eye almost imperceptible.



  Images captured with 180mm mid-tele lens.

Thank you.  I liked seeing that comparison in size.  Real, but hard to tell by looking...

[Alan V]

Most of my current library is about military history. Read plenty of science earlier in life, including coursework in college, and follow the news.

This would be an interesting general topic: What books do members of the forum collect?

I have multiple books in the following categories:
Thoreau
memoirs
politics
psychology
consciousness studies
dreaming
cosmology
big history
climate change
general physics
atheism
art history, museums, and artists
illustration
cartoon collections
writing
mysteries 
Tolkien

Lately, I've been busy expanding my collection of books by, about, or just illustrated by Edward Gorey.

I'm obviously spread way too thin, which is why my retirement has largely been about reading.  I really should give away a fair number of books which I am unlikely to read in my remaining years.

And the funny thing is that my wife also collects books, owns more than I do, and has twelve bookcases filled with them which line our dining room.  

[Dānu]

I don't buy dead tree books anymore. I've got a large collection of digital print and audiobooks, most of which I haven't read.

[Alan V]

I don't buy dead tree books anymore.  I've got a large collection of digital print and audiobooks, most of which I haven't read.

I own a Kindle with over 500 titles on it, so I'm moving in that direction myself.

However, I still prefer dead-tree books for art and illustration books, though a certain number I buy are used books anyway.

Over the years I have most likely given away more books than I still own, to both libraries and to charities. If I don't think I will read or reread them, I let them go for space reasons. I have eight bookcases, but use them for other purposes as well (a stereo, art supplies, lecture CDs and DVDs, correspondence, filing, and so on).

My wife has collected a lot of books which she likely will never read. As she has gotten older, reading tends to put her to sleep.

[TheGentlemanBastard]

Most of my current library is about military history. Read plenty of science earlier in life, including coursework in college, and follow the news.

This would be an interesting general topic: What books do members of the forum collect?

I have multiple books in the following categories:
Thoreau
memoirs
politics
psychology
consciousness studies
dreaming
cosmology
big history
climate change
general physics
atheism
art history, museums, and artists
illustration
cartoon collections
writing
mysteries 
Tolkien

Lately, I've been busy expanding my collection of books by, about, or just illustrated by Edward Gorey.

I'm obviously spread way too thin, which is why my retirement has largely been about reading.  I really should give away a fair number of books which I am unlikely to read in my remaining years.

And the funny thing is that my wife also collects books, owns more than I do, and has twelve bookcases filled with them which line our dining room.  

Between print, eBook, and audio, I have well over 10,000 titles (including a handful of signed firsts), and yes, I've read nearly all of them. About half of those are sci-fi/fantasy, and the rest range all over the spectrum. I am a prolific reader, usually finishing over 150 titles each year. Back a few years ago, I challenged myself to see just how many books I could read in a single year. I surprised even myself when I completed 539 titles, leaving two (one audio, one ebook) unfinished. Usually, if I don't have eyes on a page, I have ears engaged, some days for over 18 hours. On another forum, I'm knows as the Unrepentant Book Junkie.

I had my first library card before I started my formal education, and a mother who not only supported my love of books, but also never attempted to censor my reading list, even when what I was reading was actively offensive to her faith.

[pattylt]

I have four large bookcases stuffed with an eclectic collection…from children’s books to general fiction to sci-fi. I also have all my classroom books on biology, chemistry, math as well as research books covering the same. I have quite a few books on religion and atheism.

My kindle books look similar without the classroom books. I’m currently into militarty scifi but, I have a Kindle Unlimited subscriptions so many are free but temporary. On Audible, I have 285 titles and several are biographical. I prefer listening to biographies rather than reading them. I read close to 300 books last year and the year before.

[Inkubus]

I don't buy dead tree books anymore.  I've got a large collection of digital print and audiobooks, most of which I haven't read.

I own a Kindle with over 500 titles on it, so I'm moving in that direction myself.

However, I still prefer dead-tree books for art and illustration books, though a certain number I buy are used books anyway.

Over the years I have most likely given away more books than I still own, to both libraries and to charities.  If I don't think I will read or reread them, I let them go for space reasons.  I have eight bookcases, but use them for other purposes as well (a stereo, art supplies, lecture CDs and DVDs, correspondence, filing, and so on).

My wife has collected a lot of books which she likely will never read.  As she has gotten older, reading tends to put her to sleep.

I've owned just about every model of Kindle since they first appeared. but somewhere in my head there were always a few hooligan neurons saying 'I don't like the feel of these things'.
Then one day I was raking around in the junk room and found a first edition of Dune.



So I sat down with it. For 10 minutes.

No. I can no longer read tree books.

[Szuchow]

This would be an interesting general topic: What books do members of the forum collect?

My collection centers on history (Shoah and Russian Revolution primarily), sociology, philosophy and fantasy. There are also classics like Master and Margarita or Doctor Zhivago coupled with books like Il principe or Divine Comedy as I was raised in family that read such.

[Alan V]

Between print, eBook, and audio, I have well over 10,000 titles (including a handful of signed firsts), and yes, I've read nearly all of them. About half of those are sci-fi/fantasy, and the rest range all over the spectrum. I am a prolific reader, usually finishing over 150 titles each year. Back a few years ago, I challenged myself to see just how many books I could read in a single year. I surprised even myself when I completed 539 titles, leaving two (one audio, one ebook) unfinished. Usually, if I don't have eyes on a page, I have ears engaged, some days for over 18 hours. On another forum, I'm knows as the Unrepentant Book Junkie.

I had my first library card before I started my formal education, and a mother who not only supported my love of books, but also never attempted to censor my reading list, even when what I was reading was actively offensive to her faith.

I have liked some fiction, but not enough to support reading so many titles in a year.  I tend to read more nonfiction, and highlight or underline passages so I can reread what was most relevant to me during later perusals.

If I had been more like you, I might have enjoyed my life more than I did.  I watched too many bad TV shows and movies instead.

[Alan V]

I have four large bookcases stuffed with an eclectic collection…from children’s books to general fiction to sci-fi.  I also have all my classroom books on biology, chemistry, math as well as research books covering the same.  I have quite a few books on religion and atheism.

My kindle books look similar without the classroom books.  I’m currently into militarty scifi but, I have a Kindle Unlimited subscriptions so many are free but temporary.  On Audible, I have 285 titles and several are biographical.  I prefer listening to biographies rather than reading them.  I read close to 300 books last year and the year before.

I liked children's books too, but never cared for actual children.  I never picked up on Audible books.

I average only between 50 and 100 books a year.  I wish I was a faster reader sometimes.

[Alan V]

This would be an interesting general topic: What books do members of the forum collect?

My collection centers on history (Shoah and Russian Revolution primarily), sociology, philosophy and fantasy. There are also classics like Master and Margarita or Doctor Zhivago coupled with books like Il principe or Divine Comedy as I was raised in family that read such.

My parents both enjoyed reading novels more than anything else, though I did pick up my mother's interest in art history.  I didn't read much more than what was required in school as a child.

So I learned more of my tastes in reading during high school from a friend, and explored books on my own from there.

[Szuchow]

My parents both enjoyed reading novels more than anything else, though I did pick up my mother's interest in art history.  I didn't read much more than what was required in school as a child.

Judging by contents of their bookshelves my parents were interested in history, WWII and some light reading with addition of venerable classics like Iliad. 

So I learned more of my tastes in reading during high school from a friend, and explored books on my own from there.

I inherited part of my tastes and rest came as result of wanting to know more.

[pattylt]

I’ve always been a reader and my mom was my biggest influence. From my dad, I loved reading newspapers and I still go to several news sites first thing in the morning with my coffee…no longer get any paper news…the price became ridiculous. I was an only child and always pretty good at self entertainment. I remember being about 8 when Nancy Drew Mysteries came out and devoured them

[Thumpalumpacus]

When I lived in Iran, English-language TV was only on for three hours, between 7 and 10 PM local the first couple of years. Later they introduced morning shows for kids, but by then they were a little behind me (10 years old at the time).

As a result of this, while I'd already enjoyed reading, I took it up avidly in that time. My parents gave me a 1975 set of Encyclopedia Americana which I read almost cover-to-cover. As I grew older I read less but never lost the love. I just had some Hellraisin' to do.

I can't do reading books on a screen. I just don't jive with it. I needs me some paper.

[Szuchow]

I’ve always been a reader and my mom was my biggest influence.  From my dad, I loved reading newspapers and I still go to several news sites first thing in the morning with my coffee…no longer get any paper news…the price became ridiculous.  I was an only child and always pretty good at self entertainment.  I remember being about 8 when Nancy Drew Mysteries came out and devoured them

I stopped reading newspapers when even respectable titles started choking on neoliberals cock. Now it's only online stuff for me and most of it is foreign as there isn't all that much worth reading in Polish.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I stopped reading newspapers when even respectable titles started choking on neoliberals cock. Now it's only online stuff for me and most of it is foreign as there isn't all that much worth reading in Polish.

I've got six or so news sources which I go to for their expertise -- the Hill for American political coverage, doesn't skew either side for bias; NPR for TED Talks and foreign coverage. Reuters and AP for the same. A couple of smaller e-newspapers for particular topics. And I choose to do Internet news precisely because it's international.

I avoid TV for the most part, so that is not a food group in this diet.

[Szuchow]

I stopped reading newspapers when even respectable titles started choking on neoliberals cock. Now it's only online stuff for me and most of it is foreign as there isn't all that much worth reading in Polish.

I've got six or so news sources which I go to for their expertise -- the Hill for American political coverage, doesn't skew either side for bias; NPR for TED Talks and foreign coverage. Reuters and AP for the same. A couple of smaller e-newspapers for particular topics. And I choose to do Internet news precisely because it's international.

I avoid TV for the most part, so that is not a food group in this diet.

I've mostly use Krytyka Polityczna and Kultura Liberalna for news from Poland. First is left leaning and second centre with right leanings. For international news it's International Politics and Society, Commondreams, Guardian and Politico. It mostly covers what I want to know.

I only use TV for playing games.

[jerry mcmasters]

I can't do reading books on a screen. I just don't jive with it. I needs me some paper.

Same, I just can't do it.  Even long-form articles I'm interested in on the internet I copy n paste and print out.  Books I own I mark up with a pencil like I'm still in school.  I still trek out to my local library to have book in hand though allegedly it would be more convenient with some kind of Ipad or screen.

[Dānu]

Dead trees make me sleepy. Reading on the computer, tablet, or e-reader is less likely to make me sleepy.

[Inkubus]

I can't do reading books on a screen. I just don't jive with it. I needs me some paper.

Same, I just can't do it.  Even long-form articles I'm interested in on the internet I copy n paste and print out.  Books I own I mark up with a pencil like I'm still in school.  I still trek out to my local library to have book in hand though allegedly it would be more convenient with some kind of Ipad or screen.

[Alan V]

Dead trees make me sleepy.  Reading on the computer, tablet, or e-reader is less likely to make me sleepy.

I like the "highlight" option on my Kindle.  I can highlight all the passages which most interest me and then see them listed as extracts on my computer.  They automatically upload when I reconnect to wifi. It's a nice feature.