Bookshelf

Sections below:



Birding and Conservation

  • Barnes, Simon (2005) How to be a (Bad) Birdwatcher. US/UK
  • Carson, Rachel (1962) Silent Spring. US/UK
  • Chu, Miyoko (2006) Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds. US/UK
  • Cocker, Mark (2002) Birders: Tales of a Tribe. US/UK
  • Cokinos, Christopher (2000) Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds. US/UK
  • Elphick, Jonathan (2007) Natural History Museum Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World’s Birds. US/UK
  • Leopold, Aldo (1968) Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections). US/UK
  • Lorenz, Konrad (1952) King Solomon’s Ring: New Light on Animals’ Ways. US/UK
  • Quammen, David (1996) Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. US/UK
  • Weidensaul, Scott (1999) Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds. US/UK
  • Weidensaul, Scott (2007) Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding. US/UK
  • Wilson, Edward O. (2002) The Future of Life. US/UK
  • Wilcove, David S. (2007) No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations. US/UK


Molecular, Developmental, and Evolutionary Biology

  • Carroll, Sean B. (2005) Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdom. US/UK
  • Coyne, Jerry A. (2009) Why Evolution is True. US/UK
  • Darwin, Charles (E.O. Wilson, ed.) (2005) From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin’s Four Great Books. US/UK
  • Dawkins, Richard (1976) The Selfish Gene. US/UK
  • Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1937) Genetics and the Origin of Species. US/UK
  • Harris, Henry (1998) The Birth of the Cell. US/UK
  • Kirschner, Mark W., and John C. Gerhart (2005) The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s Dilemna. US/UK
  • Kornberg, Arthur (1989) For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist. US/UK
  • Mayr, Ernst (1982) The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. US/UK
  • Morowitz, Harold J. (1992) Beginnings of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis. US/UK
  • Schrödinger, Erwin (1943) What is Life?. US/UK
  • Thomas, Lewis (1974) Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. US/UK
  • Wolpert, Lewis (1991) The Triumph of the Embryo. US/UK
  • Zimmer, Carl (2008) Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. US/UK


Bird Identification

  • R.T. Peterson’s Birds of Eastern and Central North America. US/UK
  • D.A. Sibley’s The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. US/UK
  • N. Arlot’s Birds of the Palearctic: Passerines. US/UK
  • N. Arlot’s Birds of the Palearctic: Non-Passerines. US/UK
  • K. Mullarney et al.’s Birds of Europe. US/UK
  • R. Porter et al.’s Birds of the Middle East. US/UK


Biology Textbooks and Lab Manuals

  • Alberts et al.’s Molecular Biology of the Cell (6th Ed). US/UK
  • Campbell and Reece’s Biology (8th Ed). US/UK
  • Scott Gilbert’s Developmental Biology (8th Ed). US/UK
  • Frank Gill’s Ornithology (3rd Ed). US/UK
  • Lodish et al.’s Molecular Cell Biology (6th Ed). US/UK
  • David Nelson’s Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (4th Ed). US/UK
  • Sambrook and Russell’s Molecular Cloning: A Lab Manual (3rd Ed). US/UK
  • Hazel Sive, et al.’s Early Development of Xenopus Laevis: A Laboratory Manual. US/UK