Recommended Reading - Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences - page 277

Menard, H. W. The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics . Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1986.
Oreskes, N., and H. E. LeGrand. Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of
the Earth . Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2001.
Stewart, J. A. Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience
Revolution . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Schwarzbach, M. Alfred Wegener: The Father of Continental Drift . Madison, Wis.: Science
Tech, 1980.
Meteorite Impact and the Alvarez Theory
Alvarez, L. W. Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist . New York: Basic Books, 1987.
Alvarez, W. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom . New York: Vintage, 1998.
Bourgeois, J., and S. Koppes. “Robert S. Dietz and the Recognition of Impact Structures on
Earth.” Earth Sciences History 17, no. 2 (1998): 139-156.
Hoyt, W. G. Coon Mountain Controversies: Meteor Crater and the Development of Impact The-
ory . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987
Levy, D. H. Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 2002.
Mackenzie, D. The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be . New York: Wiley, 2003.
Mark, K. Meteorite Craters . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
Powell, J. L. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of
Modern Geology . New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998.
Pyne, S. J. Grove Karl Gilbert: A Great Engine of Research . Ames: University of Iowa Press,
2007.
Ward, P. D., and D. Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe .
New York: Copernicus, 2000.
Wilhelms, D. E. To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration . Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1993.
Global Warming
Spencer Weart's The Discovery of Global Warming (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 2008) is the indispensable account.
Crawford, E. T. Arrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect . Canton, Mass.:
Science History Publications, 1996.
Edwards, P. N. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global
Warming . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010.
Fleming, J. R. The Callendar Effect. The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar . Boston:
American Meteorological Society. 2007.
. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Mann, M. E. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines . New
York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Oreskes, N., and E. M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the
Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming . New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.