Assignment #1: Summer Reading List
Molecules And Cells (includes many cross-topic books w/chemical aspects)
Life ltself – Crick
Mapping the Code - Davis
Reinventing the Future - Bass
Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery – Goldberg
Symbiosis in Cell Evolution - Margulis
Correcting the Code – Thompson
For the Love of Enzymes - Kornberg
Brainstorming – Snyder
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse –
The Man Who Tasted Shapes – Cytowic
Djerassi
Plagues and People - McNeill
Life in Amber - Poinar
An Anthropologist on Mars - Sacks
Rethinking AIDS - Root-Bernstein
The Hot Zone - Preston
Good Intentions – Nussbaum
Man and Microbes - Karien
An Imagined World - Goodfield
The Coming Plague – Garrett
Virus Hunting - Gallo
Evolution of Infectious Disease - Ewald
Cancer: Science and Society - Cairn
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice - Plotkin
Physician to the Gene Pool - Nell
They Laughed at Columbus - Weissmann
Beginnings of Cellular Life – Morowitz
Evolutionary Medicine - Lappe
Mapping Our Genes - Wingerson
The Transformed Cell - Rosenberg
Energy and the Evolution of Life – Fox
Genetics and Evolution
The Eighth Day of Creation - Judson
Oncogenes - Cooper
The Double Helix – Watson
Rosalind Franklin and DNA - Sayre
A Century of DNA - Portugal & Cohen
The Transforming Principle - McCarty
Exploding the Gene Myth - Hubbard and Wald
The DNA Mystique - Nelkin & Lindee
Superpigs and Wondercorn – Fox
Natural Obsessions - Angier
In the Name of Eugenics – Kevles
Hannah's Heirs (Alzheimees) - Pollen
A Feeling For the Organism - Keller
Hen's Teeth & Horses Toes - Gould
Organisms and Populations
Bad Blood - Jones (The Tuskegee Syphilis
Experiment)
The Body in Question – Miller
The Third Chimpanzee - Diamond
A Matter of Life – St. Woe & Edwards
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – Sapolsky
Healing and the Mind - Moyers
The Log from the Sea of Cortez – Steinbeck
An Island Called California - Bakker
A Natural History of the Senses - Ackerman
Walking with the Great Apes - Montgomery
Life on Earth - Attenborough
The Living Planet - Attenborough
The Life of Plants - Corner
Natural Affairs (Plant and People) - Bernhardt
The Mismeasure of Man - Gould (brain size)
The Panda's Thumb - Gould
Origins - Leakey
Darwin's Islands – Thornton
The Odgin of Species - Darwin
The Origin - Stone (a historical novel)
Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Darwin
Molecular Basis of Evolution - Anfinsen
Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life - Morowitz
The Miner's Canary – Eldredge
The Ant and the Peacock - Cronin
The Wisdom of the Genes – Wills
The Gene Age - Sylvester & Klotz
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Skloot
Reflections of Eden - Gaidikas
The Insect Societies - Wilson
Naturalist - Wilson
King Solomon's Ring - Lorenz (behavior)
Elephant Memories - Moss
In the Shadow of Man - Goodall (chimpanzees)
Through a Window - Goodall
The Brain - Restak
Receptor's – Restak
The Dragons of Eden – Sagan
The Evolution of Culture in Animals - Bonner
The Education of Koko - Patterson & Linden
Gorillas in the Mist – Fossey
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal - Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers - Roach
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Roach