MOTHER NATURE – Introduction
This section of Calder’s Updates is a catch-all for science that is neither about Predictions (in the future tense) nor about Climate Change.
Sub-headings in this section
- About Magic Universe
- About Einstein’s Universe
- About Comets
Magic Universe covers all subjects but Einstein’s Universe and Comets are still in print, and updates will posted to whichever of the books is most relevant.
Here’s a bibliography of my writing and editing on science in general. It excludes items listed under Predictions and Climate Change, unless there’s clearly an overlap. ESA means European Space Agency.
Books
- 2005 Albert Einstein: Relativity – Intro. to a Penguin Classic, Penguin USA
- 2005 Einstein’s Universe (updated ex 1979) – author, for Penguin UK & USA
- 2003 Magic Universe – author, OUP
- 1999 Success Story: 30 Discoveries – compiler, for ESA
- 1995 Beyond This World — author, for ESA
- 1994 Comets: Speculations and Science — Dover Classic ex 1980
- 1993 Hubble Space Telescope: The Harvest So Far — author, for ESA
- 1992 Giotto to the Comets – author, for Presswork and Springer
- 1991 Spaceship Earth – author, for Viking UK etc.
- 1990 Scientific Europe – general editor, for Foundation Scientific Europe
- 1986 The English Channel – author, for Viking and Chatto
- 1983 Timescale: Atlas of the Fourth Dimension – author, for Viking etc.
- 1980 The Comet is Coming! — author, for BBC, Viking, etc. – reissued 1994
- 1979 Einstein’s Universe — author, for BBC, Viking, etc. – reissued 2005
- 1977 The Key to the Universe — author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
- 1976 The Human Conspiracy — author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
- 1973 The Life Game — author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
- 1973 Nature in the Round — editor, for Weidenfeld
- 1972 Restless Earth — author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
- 1970 The Mind of Man — author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
- 1969 Technopolis — author, for McGibbon & Kee, Shuster, etc.
- 1969 Violent Universe — author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
- 1967 The Environment Game — author, for Secker, Holt, etc.
- 1958 Radio Astronomy — author, for Phoenix
- 1957 Robots — author, for Phoenix
- 1957 Electricity Grows Up — author, for Phoenix
Principal television, video and film credits
- 2006 Abdus Salam – shooting script for 90 min. film for Kailoola Productions, New York (awaiting funding for production)
- 2003-06 Concept and scripts of fifteen science video talks for ESA
- 2000 The Gift from the Stars — script of a video on water sources for UNESCO
- 1996 Nimble Auroras — script of video for MPI für extraterrestrische Physik
- 1994-2001 Scripts for fifteen videos and three live TV events for ESA
- 1992 Life in the Balance – editing script of a video for EMBL
- 1992 Giotto at Grigg-Skjellerup – script consultant for live TV for ESA/BBC-TV
- 1991 Spaceship Earth – script for Channel 4 and SCETV, 10 X 25 min.
- 1981 The Comet is Coming! — script for BBC-TV, 60 min.
- 1979 Einstein’s Universe — script & performer for BBC-TV etc. 90 min.
- 1977 The Whole Universe Show — script for BBC-TV, 6 X 25 min.
- 1977 The Key to the Universe — script & presenter for BBC-TV, etc., 120 min.
- 1976 The Human Conspiracy — script for BBC-TV, etc., 120 min.
- 1973 The Life Game — script for BBC-TV, etc., 150 min.
- 1972 The Restless Earth — script for BBC-TV, etc., 120 min.
- 1970 The Mind of Man — script for BBC-TV, etc., 120 min.
- 1969 The Violent Universe — script for BBC-TV, etc., 150 min
- 1966 Russia: Beneath the Sputniks — script & presenter for BBC-TV, 50 min.
- 1963 to the present many ad hoc TV interviews and discussions
