Books which may interest biology majors:
All books with call numbers are available in Skillman Library
Call #: QL761 .B57 2000
Author: Birkhead, T. R
Title: Promiscuity : an evolutionary history of sperm competition.
Call #: TP248.65.F66 W565 2002
Author: Winston, Mark L
Title: Travels in the genetically modified zone.
Call #: RG133.5 .M86 2007
Author: Mundy, Liza, 1960-
Title: Everything conceivable : how assisted reproduction is changing men, women, and the world.
Call #: RM263 .C75 2005
Author: Critser, Greg
Title: Generation Rx : how prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies.
Call #: QH31.D2 Q35 2006
Author: Quammen, David
Title: The reluctant Mr. Darwin: an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
Call #: QP82.2.S8 S266 2004
Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
Title: Why zebras don't get ulcers.
Call #: QL 737 .P96 S28 2004
Author: van Schaik, Carel
Title: Among orangutans: Red apes and the rise of human culture.
Call #: QL737.C22 S63 2005
Author Smith, Douglas W.
Title: Decade of the wolf: The return of wolves to Yellowstone.
Call #: QL 638.95 .L3 C37 2005
Author: Casey, Susan
Title: The Devil's Teeth: A true story of obsession and survival among America's great white shaarks.
Call #: QP85 .H255 2003Ê
Author: Hall, Stephen S.
Title: Merchants of immortality: chasing the dream of human life extension.
Call #: GN280.7 .M37 2002
Author: Marks, Jonathan
Title: What it means to be 98% chimpanzee: Apes, people, and their genes.
Call #: HQ25 .J83 2003x
Author: Judson, Olivia
Title: Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation:
The definitive guide to the evolutionary biology of sex.
Call #: QH375 .H66 2002
Author: Hooper, Judith
Title: Of moths and men: an evolutionary tale - the untold story of science and the peppered moth.
Call #: QL761 .Z85 2002
Author: Zuk, Marlene
Title: Sexual selections: what we can and can't learn about sex from animals.
Call #: Not yet in Skillman Library (on order)
Author: Barker, Kathy
Title: At the bench: a laboratory navigator.
NOTE: Not only is this an excellent book for beginning research students, it's REQUIRED READING for beginning graduate students and those starting any job in a research lab.
Call #: QH541.5.I8 Q35 1996
Author: Quammen, David
Title: The song of the dodo: island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
Call #: QL495 .H39 1996
Author: Heinrich, Bernd
Title: The thermal warriors: strategies of insect survival.
Call #: QH81 .Q17 2000
Author: Quammen, David
Title: The boilerplate rhino: nature in the eye of the beholder.
Call #: QP321 .V64 2001
Author: Vogel, Steven
Title: Prime mover: a natural history of muscle.
Call #: QR189.5.A33 T48 2001
Author: Thomas, Patricia
Title: Big shot: passion, politics, and the struggle for an AIDS vaccine.
Call #: TP 248.23 .A53 2000
Author: Andrews, Lori and Dorothy Nelkin
Title: Body bazaar: the market for human tissue in the biotechnology age.
Call #: TP248.65.F66 L35 2001
Author: Lambrecht, Bill
Title: Dinner at the new gene cafe: how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food.
Call #: GN 281 .D53 1992
Author: Diamond, Jared
Title: The third chimpanzee.
Call #: QL737.P93 S27 2001
Author: Sapolsky, Robert M
Title: A primate's memoir.
Call #: 599.8 H873w
Author: Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer
Title: The woman that never evolved.
Call #: HM206 .D48 1997
Author: Diamond, Jared M
Title: Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
Call #: RA643 .R93 1997
Author: Ryan, Frank
Title: Virus-X: tracking the new killer plagues : out of the present and into the future.
Call #: RA1063.45 .G64 2000
Author: Goff, M. Lee
Title: A fly for the prosecution: how insect evidence helps solve crimes.
Call #: RM172 .S728 1998
Author: Starr, Douglas P
Title: Blood: an epic history of medicine and commerce.
Call #: QH438.5 .L49 2000
Author: Lewontin, Richard C.
Title: It ain't necessarily so: the dream of the human genome and other illusions.
Call #: QH505 .V63 1994
Author: Vogel, Steven
Title: Life in moving fluids: the physical biology of flow.
Call #: QH390 .R325 1996
Author: Raff, Rudolf A
Title: The shape of life: genes, development, and the evolution of animal form.
Call #: 595.7 H469i
Author: Heinrich, Bernd
Title: In a patch of fireweed.
Call #: Not in Skillman Library, 1979
Author: Heinrich, Bernd
Title: Bumblebee economics.
Call #: 500.973 L587s, 1966
Author: Leopold, Aldo
Title: A Sand County almanac. With other essays on conservation from Round River.
Call #: 632.95042 C321s c.2
Author: Carson, Rachel
Title: Silent spring.
Call #: 632.95042 C321sYm
Editors: Gino J. Marco, Robert M. Hollingworth, and William Durham
Title: Silent spring revisited.
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