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Christopher Booker,
The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession with
‘Climate Change’ Turning out to be the Most Costly Blunder in
Scientific History?
A scholarly and detailed history of the
global warming scare.
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A.W. Montford, The
Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of
Science. An exposure of the plot by unscrupulous propagandists to
“abolish” the medieval warm period, thereby aiding their
claim that 20th century global warming is unprecedented in world
history. Most readable.
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Ian Plimer: Heaven
and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science. A report
by a geologist on different climate extremes during Earth’s 4.6
billion year-old history demolishes the notion of the uniqueness
of modern temperature fluctuations.
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Matt
Ridley, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity
Evolves. Why there is little to fear from the 21st and
succeeding centuries. |
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Ray
Villard and Lynette R. Cooks' Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets Beyond Our Sun.
A wonderfully illustrated and fascinating account of worlds that
may exist circling other stars, some of them unimaginably strange.
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Michael
Crightons new novel State of Fear. An exciting
adventure story in which the villains are extreme
environmentalists! A debunking of the man-made global warming
theory, with convincing science.
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Reginald
Turnill's The
Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Account (foreword by Buzz
Aldrin).
An extremely well-written and
highly personal history of America’s manned space programme,
with narrative accounts of all the major missions. Full of good
reporting and amusing anecdotes. |
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Michio Kaku’s
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and
Our Future in the Cosmos is a lucid and exciting
discussion of of how parallel realities exist all around us. |
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Patrick Moore, Atlas of the
Universe (1994). A useful and well-illustrated guide of
many interesting objects in the cosmos. With star charts of both
hemispheres. |
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Ed Regis, Nano: The True Story of
Nanotechnology - The Astonishing New Science that will Transform
the World. The prospects for ``molecular machines'',
sub-microscopic devices that will manipulate atoms. |
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Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A
Vision of the Human Future in Space. An eloquent prophecy
whose title speaks for itself. The ``pale blue dot'' is Earth seen
from afar. |
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David G. Stork (editor), HAL's
Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality. How we might
build machines as terrifyingly intelligent as the ``character'' in
the greatest of SF films. |
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Arthur C. Clarke: Profiles of
the Future: An Enquiry into Limits of the Possible. |
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Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner, The
Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why we
Must. Another title that speaks for itself. |
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Martin Gardner, Relativity
Simply Explained. Enabling everyone to understand
Einstein's theories, without mathematics or technicalities. |
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Lawrence M. Krauss, The Physics
of Star Trek. Scottie would explode like an atom bomb if
you tried to ``beam him up.'' |
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John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky:
Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets. |
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Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff, The
Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar
Flight. Technical in parts, but fascinating. Don't leave
the solar system without it. |
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