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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.
- 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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