Surendra Verma (science writer)

This article is about the Indian-Australian science writer. For the Hindi playwright, see Surendra Verma.

Surendra Verma (born 1942) is an Indian-Australian journalist ^[1] and writer of science books for a popular audience. ^{[2] [3]}

Early life and education

Verma was born in India in 1942. He has been working in Melbourne, Australia since 1970. ^[4]

Career

Verma has written a number of book which explain scientific topics to a general audience. Verma's books have received positive reviews, ^[5] and have been published in Australia, UK, US and India and have been translated into 14 languages.

Books

• The Tunguska Fireball: Solving One of the Greatest Mysteries of the 20th Century (Icon Books, UK; 2005) ISBN   978-1-84046-620-1 ^{[4] [6] [7]}
• Why Aren't They Here?: The Questions of Life on Other Worlds (Icon Books, UK; 2007) ISBN   9781840468069
• The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow: Beginnings, Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science (Icon Books, UK, 2007) ISBN   9781840468311 ^[8]
• The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories & Things (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2005) ISBN   9781877069208 ^[9]
• The Little Book of Maths Theorems, Theories & Things (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2008) ISBN   9781741106718
• The Little Book of Unscientific Proportions, Theories & Things (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2011) ISBN   9781742570778 ^[10]
• The Little Book of the Mind: How We Think and Why We Think (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2012) ISBN   9781742572130 + a children's book ^[11]
• Who Killed T. Rex: Uncover the mystery of the vanished dinosaurs (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2010) ISBN   9781741108248
• Learn & Unlearn: The novel way to rethink the things that matter in life (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2015) ISBN   9781742575964.
• Little-Big Book of Science in 100 Words (Orient Publishing, India; 2015) ISBN   9788122205923

References

1. "Why Aren’t They Here? The Question of Life on Other Worlds’ by Surendra Verma". Astrobiology Society of Britain book review. 27 March 2014.
2. "BOOK REVIEW: The Tunguska Mystery". Amboy Guardian. 22 August 2012. by Paul Wang
3. "Surendra Verma: Why aren't they here". CHRONON CRITICAL POINTS.
4. "Russian meteorite: Not the first strange event in the skies of Siberia". Christian Science Monitor. Randy Dotinga, 20 February 2013.
5. "Review - The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories & Things - Surendra Verma". Popular Science.
6. "Peer review: The Tunguska Fireball by Surendra Verma". The Guardian, Tim Radford, 24 February 2005
7. "The Tunguska Fireball" Archived 13 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine . The Naked Scientist
8. "Review: The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow by Surendra Verma". Beard, Jonathan, August 2007 New Scientist , Vol. 195 Issue 2616, p50
9. "New Arrivals". The Hindu, 30 August 2011.
10. "The Little Book of Unscientific Propositions, Theories & Things". Book Review by Rama Gaind]. PS News.
11. "The Little Book of the Mind: How we think and why we think" Archived 17 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine . Samara Magazine. Desolie Page.