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Required Books

The following three books are on Reserve in the Biology Library (Life Sciences Building, Level 2 & 3). You may check them out for 2 hours.

  • Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything,  Broadway, 2003.
  • Goodenough, Ursula, The Sacred Depths of Nature, Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Rue, Loyal, Everybody's Story: Wising up to the Epic of Evolution, State University of New York Press, 2000.

Other Reserve Books

Additional useful books on two hour reserve in the Biology Library:

  • Officer, Charles and Page, Jake, Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet,
         
    Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1993.
  • Press, Frank, and Siever, Raymond, Understanding Earth, W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1998
  • Davidson, Jon,  Reed, Walter, and Davis, Paul, Exploring Earth, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2001
  • Rees, Martin, Just Six Numbers, Basic Books, 2000.
  • De Waal, Frans, Our Inner Ape, Riverhead Trade, 2006.
  • Carroll, Sean, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Norton, 2005.

Supplementary Reading

 

  • Ferris, Timothy, The Whole Shebang, Touchstone Books, 1998.
  • Guth, Alan H., The Inflationary Universe, Perseus Books, 1997
  • Officer, Charles and Page, Jake, Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1993
  • Calvino, Italo, Cosmicomics, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, San Diego, New York, London, 1968.
  • Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Oxford University Press (paperback edition, 1989).
  • Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Vintage Books, 1994.
  • Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974, Harper Perennial paperback 1988.
  • Leslie, John (editor), Modern Cosmology & Philosophy, Prometheus Books, 1999.
  • Davidson, Reed and Davis, Exploring Earth, Prentice Hall.
  • Davies, Paul, God and the New Physics, Touchstone Books, 1983.
  • Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton, New York, 1986.
  • Dawkins, Richard, The Extended Phenotype, Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Damasio, Antonio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam, NY, 1994.
  • de Waal, Frans, and Lanting, Frans, Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
  • Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1998.
  • McPhee, John The Control of Nature, The Noonday Press; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1989.
  • Padmanabhan, T., After the First Three Minutes, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Press, Frank, and Siever, Raymond, Understanding Earth, W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1998 (2nd Ed.)
  • Rees, Martin, Before the Beginning, Perseus Books, 1997.
  • Silk, Joseph, A Short History of the Universe, Scientific American Library, 1997.
  • Thorne, Kip S., Black Holes & Time Warps, Norton, 1994.
  • Thomas, Lewis, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Penguin, New York, 1974.
  • Vogel, Shawna, Naked Earth: The New Geophysics, Dutton, New York, 1995.
  • Weinberg, Steven, The First Three Minutes (updated edition), Basic Books, 1993.
  • Westbroek, Peter, Life as a Geological Force, Norton, New York, 1991.
  • Wilson, Edward O., On Human Nature, Harvard University Press (paper) 1978.
  • Wranghamt, Richard, and Peterson, Dale, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1996.
  • Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1996.
  • Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1994.

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