Carl Zimmer

32 books

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Carl Zimmer

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer

Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life

Carl Zimmer

243 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced
More Brain Cuttings: Further Explorations of the Mind by Carl Zimmer

More Brain Cuttings: Further Explorations of the Mind

Brain Cuttings #2

Carl Zimmer

82 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Oldest Living Things in the World by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carl Zimmer, Rachel Sussman

The Oldest Living Things in the World

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carl Zimmer, Rachel Sussman

269 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer

A Planet of Viruses

Carl Zimmer

144 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction health science adventurous informative fast-paced
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed by Carl Zimmer

Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

Carl Zimmer

271 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction art science informative slow-paced
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Story of Heredity, Its Past, Present and Future by Carl Zimmer

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Story of Heredity, Its Past, Present and Future

Carl Zimmer

672 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins by Carl Zimmer

Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins

Carl Zimmer

176 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution by Carl Zimmer

The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution

Carl Zimmer

464 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective medium-paced
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by Kevin P. Hand, V.S. Ramachandran, James J. O'Donnell, Carl Zimmer, George Dyson, Andrei D. Linde, Jonathan Gottschall, John Brockman, Richard H. Thaler, Armand Marie Leroi, Gino Segrè, Judith Rich Harris, A.C. Grayling, Thomas Metzinger, Aubrey de Grey, Satyajit Das, Sean Carroll, Jennifer Jacquet, Richard Dawkins, David G. Myers, Paul Saffo, Hugo Mercier, Susan Blackmore, Freeman Dyson, Matt Ridley, Robert R. Provine, Martin J. Rees, David Eagleman, Jeremy Bernstein, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Robert M. Sapolsky, Joel Gold, Mahzarin Banaji, Daniel C. Dennett, Carlo Rovelli, Steven Pinker, Paul J. Steinhardt, Clay Shirky, David M. Buss, Shing-Tung Yau, Dan Sperber, Scott Atran, Anton Zeilinger, Alan Alda, Gerd Gigerenzer, Stewart Brand, Haim Harari, Howard Gardner, Leonard Susskind, Rebecca Goldstein

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

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Kevin P. Hand, V.S. Ramachandran, James J. O'Donnell, Carl Zimmer, George Dyson, Andrei D. Linde, Jonathan Gottschall, John Brockman, Richard H. Thaler, Armand Marie Leroi, Gino Segrè, Judith Rich Harris, A.C. Grayling, Thomas Metzinger, Aubrey de Grey, Satyajit Das, Sean Carroll, Jennifer Jacquet, Richard Dawkins, David G. Myers, Paul Saffo, Hugo Mercier, Susan Blackmore, Freeman Dyson, Matt Ridley, Robert R. Provine, Martin J. Rees, David Eagleman, Jeremy Bernstein, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Robert M. Sapolsky, Joel Gold, Mahzarin Banaji, Daniel C. Dennett, Carlo Rovelli, Steven Pinker, Paul J. Steinhardt, Clay Shirky, David M. Buss, Shing-Tung Yau, Dan Sperber, Scott Atran, Anton Zeilinger, Alan Alda, Gerd Gigerenzer, Stewart Brand, Haim Harari, Howard Gardner, Leonard Susskind, Rebecca Goldstein

411 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced