Bookshelf
Sections below:
- Recent and Popular Biology
- Birdwatching and Our World
- The Modern Synthesis
- Anthropology and Behavior
- General
- Biology Textbooks
- Documentaries
- Field Guides
Recent and Popular Biology
- Berg, Howard C. (1993) Random Walks in Biology. ISBN
- Brockman, John (Ed.) (1996) The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. ISBN
- Brockman (2006) Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement. ISBN
- Carroll, Sean B. (2005) Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdom. ISBN
- Carroll (2006) The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. ISBN
- Dawkins, Richard (1976) The Selfish Gene. ISBN
- Dawkins (1982) The Extended Phenotype. ISBN
- Dawkins (1996) The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. ISBN
- Dawkins (Ed.) (2008) The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. ISBN
- de Duve, Christian (2002) Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning. ISBN
- de Duve (2005) Singularities: Landmarks on the Pathways of Life. ISBN
- Dennett, Daniel C. (1995) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. ISBN
- Gould, Stephen Jay (1981) The Mismeasure of Man. ISBN
- Gould (1989) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. ISBN
- Gould (1996) Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. ISBN
- Greaves, Mel (2000) Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy. ISBN
- Harris, Henry (1998) The Birth of the Cell. ISBN
- Harold, Franklin M. (2001) The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life. ISBN
- Hazen, Robert M. (2005) Gen-e-sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origins. ISBN
- Janovy, John Jr. (1996) On Becoming a Biologist. ISBN
- Judson, Horace Freeland (1979) The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology. ISBN
- Kirschner, Mark W., and Gerhart, John C. (2005) The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s Dilemna. ISBN
- Korobkin, Russell (2007) Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology. ISBN
- Kornberg, Arthur (1989) For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist. ISBN
- Landecker, Hannah (2007) Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies. ISBN
- Loomis, William F. (2008) Life as It Is: Biology for the Public Sphere. ISBN
- Lynch, Michael (2007) The Origins of Genome Architecture. ISBN
- Morowitz, Harold J. (1992) Beginnings of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis. ISBN
- National Academies of Science (2008) Science, Evolution, and Creationism. ISBN
- Nesse, Randolph M., and Williams, George C. (1995) Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. ISBN
- Ridley, Anne J., et al. (ed.) (2004) Cell Motility: From Molecules to Organisms. ISBN
- Sagan, Carl (1996) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. ISBN
- Scott, Eugenie C. (2004) Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. ISBN
- Shubin, Neil (2008) Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. ISBN
- Thomas, Lewis (1978) The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. ISBN
- Thomas, Lewis (1980) The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher. ISBN
- Weinberg, Robert A. (1998) One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins. ISBN
- Wilson, Edward O. (1998) Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. ISBN
- Wishart, Adam (2007) One in Three: A Son’s Journey into the History and Science of Cancer. ISBN
- Zimmer, Carl (2008) Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. ISBN
- Zivkovic, Bora (ed.) (2007) The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006. Lulu
- Zivkovic (2008) The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2007. Lulu
Birdwatching and Our World
- Barnes, Simon (2005) How to be a (Bad) Birdwatcher. ISBN
- Carson, Rachel (1962) Silent Spring. ISBN
- Cockell, Charles S. (2006) Space on Earth: Saving Our World by Seeking Others. ISBN
- Chu, Miyoko (2006) Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds. ISBN
- Dessler, Andrew E., and Edward A. Parson (2006) The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate. ISBN
- Foreman, Dave (2004) Rewilding North America: A Vision For Conservation In The 21st Century. ISBN
- Gallagher, Tim (2006) The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. ISBN
- Garte, Seymour (2007) Where We Stand: A Surprising Look at the Real State of Our Planet. ISBN
- Leopold, Aldo (1968) Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections). ISBN
- Lorenz, Konrad (1952) King Solomon’s Ring: New Light on Animals’ Ways. ISBN
- Quammen, David (1996) Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. ISBN
- Sagan, Carl (1994) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. ISBN
- Stutchbury, Bridget (2007) Silence of the Songbirds. ISBN
- Thoreau, Henry David (Francis H. Allen, ed.) (1910) Thoreau on Birds. ISBN
- Thoreau (Bradley P. Dean, ed.) (1993) Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings. ISBN
- Weidensaul, Scott (1999) Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds. ISBN
- Weisman, Alan (2007) The World Without Us. ISBN
- Wilson, Edward O. (2002) The Future of Life. ISBN
- Wilcove, David S. (2007) No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations. ISBN
- Zickefoose, Julie (2006) Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods. ISBN
The Modern Synthesis
- Crick, Francis (1966) Of Molecules and Men. ISBN
- Darwin, Charles (E.O. Wilson, ed.) (2005) From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin’s Four Great Books. ISBN
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1937) Genetics and the Origin of Species. ISBN
- Fisher, Ronald A. (1930) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. ISBN
- Gould, Stephen Jay (2002) The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. ISBN
- Margulis, Lynn (1970) Origin of Eukaryotic Cells.
- Mayr, Ernst (1942) Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist. ISBN
- Mayr (1982) The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. ISBN
- Mayr (1991) One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. ISBN
- Mayr (2001) What Evolution Is. ISBN
- Monod, Jacques (1971) Chance and Necessity.
- Ohno, Susumu (1970) Evolution by Gene Duplication.
- Schrödinger, Erwin (1943) What is Life?. ISBN
- Simpson, George Gaylord (1944) Tempo and Mode in Evolution
Anthropology and Behavior
- Atran, Scott (2002) In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. ISBN
- Axelrod, Robert (1984) The Evolution of Cooperation. ISBN
- Boyer, Pascal (2001) Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. ISBN
- Bronowski, Jacob (1976) The Ascent of Man. ISBN
- Campbell, Joseph (1949) Hero With a Thousand Faces. ISBN
- Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi L., et al. (1994) The History and Geography of Human Genes [Abridged]. ISBN
- Darwin, Charles (1871) The Descent of Man and selection in relation to sex. ISBN
- Dawkins, Richard (1998) Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder. ISBN
- Desalle, Rob, and Tattersall, Ian (2008) Human Origins: What Bones And Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves. ISBN
- Diamond, Jared (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. ISBN
- Diamond (2006) The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. ISBN
- Hauser, Marc (2006) Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. ISBN
- James, William (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. ISBN
- Salter, Frank K (2002) Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship, and Ethnicity. ISBN
- Kelly, Raymond (2000) Warless Societies and the Origin of War. ISBN
- McCullough, Michael E. (2008) Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. ISBN
- Sagan, Carl (1978) Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. ISBN
- Sagan (Ann Druyan, ed.) (2006) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. ISBN
- Wilson, Edward O. (1975) Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. ISBN
- Wilson (1984) Biophilia. ISBN
General
- Adams, Douglas (1979) The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story.* ISBN
- Chalmers, Alan F. (1999) What is this thing called Science? (3rd Ed). ISBN
- Dawkins, Richard (2006) The God Delusion. ISBN
- Dean, John W. (2006) Conservatives Without Conscience. ISBN
- Dennett, Daniel C. (2006) Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. ISBN
- Harris, Sam (2004) The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. ISBN
- Harris (2006) Letter to a Christian Nation. ISBN
- Henderson, Bobby (2006) Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. ISBN
- Hitchens, Christopher (2007) God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. ISBN
- Kuhn, Thomas S. (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ISBN
- Lloyd, Stu (2002) Hare of the Dog: History, Humour and Hell-raising From the Hash House Harriers.
- Mooney, Chris (2005) The Republican War on Science. ISBN
- Mooney (2007) Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. ISBN
- Obama, Barack (2006) The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. ISBN
- Pirsig, Robert M. (1974) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. ISBN
- Popper, Karl (1934) The Logic of Scientific Discovery. ISBN
- Sagan, Carl (1980) Cosmos. ISBN
- Thoreau, Henry David (1849) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. ISBN
- Thoreau (1854) Walden; Life in the Woods. ISBN
- Zinn, Howard (1980) A People’s History of the United States. ISBN
Biology Textbooks
- Bruce Alberts et al.’s Molecular Biology of the Cell (6th Ed.)
- Neil Campbell and Jane Reece’s Biology (7th Ed.)
- Ian Freshney’s Culture of Animal Cells (5th Ed.)
- Douglas J. Futuyma’s Evolution.
- Scott Gilbert’s Developmental Biology (8th Ed.)
- Harvey Lodish et al.’s Molecular Cell Biology (6th Ed.)
- David Nelson’s Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (4th Ed.)
- Joseph Sambrook & David W. Russell’s Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (3-Volume Set)
- Robert Weinberg’s Biology of Cancer
- Mary Jane West-Eberhard’s Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
Documentaries
- The Ascent of Man (1973), with Jacob Bronowski
- Blue Planet (2001), with David Attenborough
- A Brief History of Disbelief (2005), with Jonathan Miller
- Cosmos (1980), with Carl Sagan
- Evolution (2002), with Liam Neeson
- Flock of Dodos (2006), with Randy Olson
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006), with Al Gore
- The Life of Birds (1998), with David Attenborough
- March of the Penguins (2004), with Morgan Freeman
- Planet Earth (2006), with David Attenborough/Sigourney Weaver
- Planet in Peril (2007), with CNN
- Winged Migration (2001), from Jacques Perrin
Field Guides
- James F. Clements et al.’s The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World (6th Ed.)
- Roger Tory Peterson’s Birds of Eastern and Central North America (5th Ed.)
- R. Porter et al.’s Birds of the Middle East






