For years, whenever I have needed to get “up to speed” quickly on a subject, one of the first sources of information I turn to is the Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions series. For those who might not be familiar with this extraordinary collection, the Very Short Introductions (or “VSI”) series presently contains over […]
With the recent report that NASA’s Curiosity Rover is sending back information regarding not just evidence of ancient lakes once having existed on Mars, I thought it might be a good time to point out that Ocean Worlds; The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press this coming January.
I was very glad to see that a new, fully updated third edition of this volume of the truly brilliant Very Short Introduction series from Oxford University Press has now been released under a new title – Climate Change – that reflects the continued increase in understanding of this global phenomenon.
I’ll admit that when I received my advance copy of The Lost Elements; The Periodic Table’s Shadow Side from Oxford University Press, I thought that they had quite possibly achieved publishing Nerdvana. A history of the periodic table is one thing – but its “shadow side?” What dark secrets about it could there possibly be?