Books by Mike Goldsmith and Complete Book Reviews
Mike Goldsmith. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-19-960068-7
From the moment the alarm clock sounds until our heads hit the pillow again at night, noise assaults our ears. Yet, as British acoustic scientist Goldsmith reminds us in this sometimes harmonious and occasionally dissonant history, noise has been a...
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Mike Goldsmith. Thames & Hudson (Norton, dist.), $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-500-65025-7
Research scientist and science writer Goldsmith creates an entertaining and highly visual overview of more than a dozen breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and other arenas of human knowledge. Included are Alexander Fleming's discovery of...
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Mike Goldsmith, illus. by Mark A. Garlick. Kingfisher, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7534-6625-4
Goldsmith documents 15 “key moments” in the geological history of our planet, from a cloud storm in space that led to the birth of the sun more than four billion years ago, to Earth’s gradual cooling (which paved the way for life to exist), and the...
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