Books

Mission Ready joins these other titles:

Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton (William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2022)

My memoir of life as a scientist and exploration on Earth and in space.

Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton (Bloomsbury, 2017)

Earth is a magical, unusual, curious book…Cohen and Elkins-Tanton describe is as a ‘little book about an impossibly large subject.’ This subject is made even larger by Cohen and Elkins-Tanton’s forays into discussions of beauty, creativity, and imagination…” – PopMatters

Planetesimals by Linda T. Elkins-Tanton and Benjamin P. Weiss (Cambridge, 2017)

A collection of papers for specialists: “… a host of academic cosmogonists, meteoriticists, Solar System dynamicists, and planetary physicists have collaborated to write 17 review papers. These are collected to form this impressive book, one that is beautifully produced, well-illustrated and an ideal introduction to the topic for a researcher qualified in maths and physics … I recommend this book unreservedly…” – David W. Hughes Source: The Observatory

Volcanism and Global Environmental Change by Schmidt, Fristad, Elkins-Tanton (Cambridge, 2017)

A collection of papers for specialists: “Adding immense value to this book are the abundant references at the end of each chapter. Many excellent and relevant maps, charts, graphs, and photographs appear throughout the text. This volume is an outstanding reference for geologists, volcanologists, geochemists, atmospheric scientists, and environmentalists.” – T. L. T. Grose Source: Choice

The Solar System series by Linda T. Elkins-Tanton (Facts on File 2006, 2010)

The set consists of six books written for general-interest readers at high-school or college level: The Sun, Mercury, and Venus; The Earth and the Moon; Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets; Mars; Jupiter and Saturn; Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Outer Solar System.