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ON SCIENCE | Txtwriter Home Page | My Bookshelf
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These book reviews are all from books that are on my office bookshelf, the books I read about biology. The books selected by me for my bookshelf are not technical references about biology per se. Rather, they are books where biology provides not the subject so much as the frame. Some are about research being done, others about current issues where biology plays a key role, and many of them are novels or other works of fiction in which biology plays an interesting role. My hope is that these reviews will help people find a new book that they enjoy.
Dr. George Johnson
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AMERICA'S CHILDREN James Thackara. Overlook Press, New York, 2001 [ISBN 1-58567-111-8] 330 pp
A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING Bill Bryson. Broadway Books, New York, 2003 [IBSN 0-7679-0817-1] 544 pp.
BECOMING HUMAN Ian Tattersall. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1998
WHERE DARWIN MEETS THE BIBLE Larry Witham. Oxford University Press, New York, 2002 [ISBN 0-19-515045-7] 338 pp.
KRAKATOA Simon Winchester. HarperCollins, New York, 2003 [IBSN 0-06-621285-5] 416 pp.
ORYX AND CRAKE Margaret Atwood. Doubleday, New York, 2003 [ISBN 0-385-50385-7] 376 pp.
OUR FINAL HOUR Martin Rees. Basic Books, New York, 2003 [ISBN 0-465-06862-6] 228 pp
PATTERN RECOGNITION William Gibson. Putnam, New York, 2003 [ISBN 0-399-14986-4] 356 pp.
THE BLANK SLATE Steven Pinker. Viking, New York, 2002 [ISBN 0-670-03151-8] 509 pp.
THE BUG Ellen Ullman. Doubleday, New York, 2003 [IBSN 0-385-50860-3]
THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER Richard Preston. Random House, New York, 2002 [ISBN 0-375-50856-2] 238 pp.
THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Bjorn Lomborg. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001 [IBSN: 0-521-01068-3].
THE PEPPERED MOTH Margaret Drabble. Harcourt, Inc., New York, 2001 [IBSN: 0-15-100521-4].
GERMS: BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AND AMERICA'S SECRET WAR Judith Miller, Stephan Engelberg, and William Broad. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001 [IBSN: 0-684-87158-0].
THE ETERNAL FRONTIER Tim Flannery. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2001 [IBSN: 0-87113-789-5].
THE BOTANY OF DESIRE: A PLANT'S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD Michael Pollan. Random House, New York, 2001 [IBSN: 0-375-50129-0].
HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS Christopher Cokinos. Warner Books, New York, 2000 [IBSN: 0-446-67749-3].
BEING DEAD Jim Crace. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1999 [IBSN: 0-312-27542-0].
THE HUNTER Julia Leigh. Four Walls Eight Windows Publ., New York, 2000 [IBSN: 1-56858-169-6].
TRILOBITE! Richard Fortey. Alfred Knopf, New York, 2000 [ISBN: 0-375-40625-5].
THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT Richard Feynman. Perseus Publishing, New York, 1999 [ISBN: 0-7382-0349-1].
LONGITUDE Dava Sobel. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 1995 [ISBN: 0-8024-1312-2].
A RUM AFFAIR Karl Sabbagh. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000.
DRIVING MR. ALBERT Michael Paterniti. Random House, New York, 2000.
THE MONK IN THE GARDEN Robin Marantz Henig. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000.
GENOME Matt Ridley. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1999.
THE POPE'S RHINOCEROS Lawrence Norfolk. Henry Holt, New York 1997.
EINSTEIN'S DREAMS Alan Lightman. Warner Books, New York, 1994.
DARWIN’S GHOST Steve Jones. Random House, New York, 2000.
THE ORCHID THIEF Susan Orlean. Ballantine Books, New York, 1998 (printed as a paperback in 2000).
GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL Jared Diamond. Norton, New York, 1998 (printed as a paperback in 1999).
IN SEARCH OF DEEP TIME Henry Gee. Free Press, New York, 1999.
THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND Oliver Sacks. Random House, New York, 1998.
MENDEL’S DWARF Simon Mawer. Crown Publishers, New York, 1998.
THE EVOLUTION OF JANE Cathleen Schine. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1998.
DARWIN’S DREAMPOND Tijs Goldschmidt. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.
MR DARWIN’S SHOOTER Roger McDonald. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1998.
THROWIM WAY LEG Tim Flannery. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1998.
SUMMER FOR THE GODS Edward Larson. Harper Collins, New York, 1997.
RACING TO THE BEGINNING OF THE ROAD Robert Weinberg. Random House, New York, 1996
SAVAGES Joe Kane. Random House, New York, 1996.
THE SONG OF THE DODO David Quammen. Scribner, New York, 1996.
SHIP FEVER Andrea Barrett. Norton, New York, 1996.
CHARLES DARWIN VOYAGING Janet Browne Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1995 (printed as a paperback in 1996).
THE BEAK OF THE FINCH Jonathan Weiner. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1994.
THE COMING PLAGUE Laurie Garrett. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1994.
DIGGING DINOSAURS John Horner and James Gorman Harper & Row, New York, 1988 (printed as a paperback in 1990).
THE END OF THE GAME Peter Beard Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1963 (revised and reprinted in pa-perback, 1988).
NATURAL OBSESSIONS Natalie Angier. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1988.
THE BLIND WATCHMAKER Richard Dawkins. Norton, New York, 1986.
ORIGINS Robert Shapiro. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986.
WEST WITH THE NIGHT Beryl Markham. North Point Press, San Francisco, 1942. (reprinted as a paperback in 1983).
THE EIGHTH DAY OF CREATION Horace Judson. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979.
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