Readings in Biology
Books Available at Wolverton Learning Resource Center
They're right here on campus--a five minute walk away!
Why not try one and expand your horizons?
Alvarez, Walter, 1997, T. rex and the Crater of Doom
Balick, Michael and P. A. Cox, 1997, Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotanyy
Jones, Steve, 2000, Darwin’s Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated for the Twenty-first Century
Pielou, E. C., 2000, Fresh Water
Rensberger, Boyce, 1996, Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell
Sagan, Carl, 1996, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sweetlow, Joel, 2000, Nature's Medicine: Plants That Heal
Helpful Books
Feeling lost in Bio I?
Here are some other ways of looking
at the course information that may be helpful.
Clark, David P. and Lonnie D. Russell, 1997, Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun
Gonick, Larry and Mark Wheelis, 1983, A Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Hoagland, Mahlon and Bert Dodson, 1995, The Way Life Works
Rensberger, Boyce, 1996, Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell
Classics and Others for Those Who Want to Learn More
Anatomy, Physiology
Ewing, 1996, Inside Information: Imaging the Human Body
Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut, 1972, How Animals Work
Vogel, Stephen, 1992, Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems
Widmaier, Eric, 1998, Why Geese Don’t Get Obese (and We Do): How Evolution’s Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everyday Lives
Animal Behavior
Dethier, Vincent, 1962, To Know a Fly
Lorenz, Konrad, 1952, King Solomon’s Ring
Tinbergen, Niko, 1958, Curious Naturalists
Biodiversity and Biogeography
Quammen, David, 1996, Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
Ward, Peter, 1994, The End of Evolution: On Mass Extinctions and the Preservation of Biodiversity
Wilson, Edward O., 1992, The Diversity of Life
Biographies and History of Science
Darwin, Charles, 1840, Voyage of the Beagle
Diamond, Jared, 1997, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Gould, Stephen Jay, 1989, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Watson, James, 1968, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Wilson, Edward O., 1998, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Botany
Attenborough, 1995, The Private Life of Plants
Dinosaurs
Bakker, Robert T., 1986, The Dinosaur Heresies
Horner, John R. and Edwin Dobb, 1997, Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga
Ecology and Environment
Carson, Rachel, 1962, Silent Spring
Colinvaux, Paul, 1979, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Leopold, Aldo, 1949, Sand County Almanac
Evolution
Darwin, Charles, 1859, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Dawkins, Richard, 1976, The Selfish Gene
Dawkins, Richard, 1986, The Blind Watchmaker
Dawkins, Richard, 1996, Climbing Mount Improbable
Dennett, Daniel, 1996, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Gould, Stephen Jay, 1977, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Gould, Stephen Jay, 1996, Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Mayr, Ernst, 1991, One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
Tatteraall, Ian, 1995, The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution
Weiner, Jonathan, 1994, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Zimmer, Carl, 1998, At the Water’s Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life
General Biology, General Science
Ball, Philip, 1999, Life’s Matrix: A Biography of Water
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1994, The Handy Science Answer Book
Wilson, Edward O., 1984, Biophilia
Wilson, Edward O., This is Biology
Microbiology
Dekruif, Paul, 1926, Microbe Hunters
Desowitz, Robert, 1987, New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers
Karlen, Arno, 1996, Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Time
Leavitt, Judith W., 1996, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
Preston, Richard, 1994, The Hot Zone
Regis, Edward, 1998, Virus Ground Zero : Stalking the Killer Viruses With the Center for Disease Control
Scientific American / Special Issue 1993, Life, Death and the Immune System
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