GGE Book Club

GGE Book Club

…reads and discusses book pertaining to the earth sciences in order to educate and engage the non-scientific community about the planet we live on.

Click on the book title to purchase on Amazon. Most of these you can find used at third-party sellers for very little money. Better yet, visit your local library!

From time to time we take a break and catch our breath with a one-off. One-offs are a week between books where we discuss an article of interest. Please click on the link to access the article.

Future Reads

• September 2018 The Genius of Birds by Jen Ackerman

Currently Reading

• Summer 2018 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Past Reads

• May 2018 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• April 2018 The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• March 2018 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
• February 2018 Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans by Sylvia A. Earle
• January 2018 The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures by John Muir
• December 2017Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
• December 2017Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
• One-Off A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System, Chapter 4 by Committee on a Framework for Assessing the Health, Environmental, and Social Effects of the Food System
• November 2017Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
• October 2017 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• September 2017 The Story of Life in 25 Fossils by Donald R. Prothero
• One-off  Watson-Crick… and Rosalind Franklin
• Summer 2017 The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
• April/May 2017 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• April 2017 The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
• March 2017 Theory of Earth by James Hutton
• One-off Data Illuminate a Mountain of Molehills Facing Women Scientists
  
• January/February 2017 Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall
• November 2016 Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
• October 2016 Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince