John Gribbin, Author . Overlook $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58567-831-0
In his latest book, astrophysicist and veteran science writer Gribbin (In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
) sweeps away the dust of historical distance to offer a detailed look into the lives and obsessions of the men at the heart of the...
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John Gribbin. Wiley, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-118-14797-9
“The Milky Way contains a few hundred billion stars, but almost certainly contains only one intelligent civilization,” says astrophysicist and veteran popular science writer Gribbin (The Theory of Everything). In an infinite universe, on the other...
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John Gribbin. Yale Univ, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-21827-5
Acclaimed science writer Gribbin (Einstein’s Masterwork), a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex, delivers a lively and accessible look at how astronomers determined the age of our universe. Popular science titles tend to cover...
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John Gribbin. Pegasus, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-68177-212-7
Contrary to widespread belief that 1905 was Einstein’s most important year, British astrophysicist and science writer Gribbin (13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything) posits that 1915, the year that...
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John Gribbin, Author, Mary Gribbin, Author Princeton University Press $24.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-691-13750-6
Author and Earth Sciences professor Ward (of the Univ. of Wash.) has authored numerous books for non-specialists (Under a Green Sky, Rare Earth); this latest is a critical response to James Lovelock's Gaia concept, which argues that homeostatic
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Mary Gribbin, Author, John Gribbin, Author . Oxford Univ. $27.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-19-280718-2
Veteran science writers, the Gribbins (Richard Feynman: A Life in Science
) tell the stories of 11 18th- and 19th-century botanical explorers. Two were Swedes, including the renowned taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, who botanized in Lapland. The others...
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John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin. Yale Univ., $32.50 (328p) ISBN 978-0-300-22675-1
The married Gribbin team (The Cat in the Box), visiting fellows at the University of Sussex, argue forcefully that two of Isaac Newton’s contemporaries, Robert Hooke (1635–1703) and Edmund Halley (1656–1742), have not been fully recognized for the...
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