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

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