|  |
|---|
| Title | Rate | Reviews |
|---|
| 1
|
Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Jonathan Weiner
|
Current:
9.6 |
In the words of Jonathan Weiner, "Time, love, and memory are ... three cornerstones of the pyramid of behavior." While some find it difficult to view humans as mere machines, molecular biologists maintain that most behavior is genetically b
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 2
|
Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Richard Durbin
|
Current:
9.5 |
Probablistic models are becoming increasingly important in analyzing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. For example, hidden Markov models are used for analyzing bio
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 3
|
The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
Jeremy Rifkin(Introduction)
|
Current:
9.4 |
When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto the fro
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 4
|
The Evolution of Consciousness : The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
|
Current:
9.3 |
Based on his life's research, the author of the bestseller The Psychology of Consciousness provides a provocative look at the evolution of the mind. He explains that we are not rational but adaptive, and that it is Darwin, not Freud, who is
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 5
|
Mood Genes : Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression
Samuel H. Barondes
|
Current:
9.3 |
It's official. Our tendencies to be happy or sad come in part from our genes. Samuel H. Barondes is a neurobiologist and psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, and his direct involvement with the subject lends friendly
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 6
|
Figments of Reality : The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
|
Current:
9.3 |
In Figments of Reality, mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen's thesis (or schtick) is that human minds are produced by complicity between human brains and culture. In their earlier book more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 7
|
Remaking Eden : How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family
Lee M. Silver
|
Current:
9.3 |
In this brilliant, provocative, and necessary book, Lee M. Silver takes a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago--indeed, in ways t
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 8
|
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
|
Current:
9.1 |
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinki
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 9
|
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson(Preface), Lawrence Bragg
|
Current:
9.1 |
"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won N
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 10
|
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis
|
Current:
9.0 |
Having trouble deciphering your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the ba
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 11
|
The Biotech Century : Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
Jeremy Rifkin(Introduction)
|
Current:
9.0 |
When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto the fro
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 12
|
Living With Our Genes : Why They Matter More Than You Think
Dean H. Hamer, Peter Copeland
|
Current:
9.0 |
How many of our faults are in our genetic stars, and how many in ourselves? Human geneticist Dean Hamer, whose research team found the popularly termed "gay gene," surveys what is currently known about the inheritance of human beh
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 13
|
Cosmic Serpent : DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby, Jeremy Nanby
|
Current:
9.0 |
A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medic
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 14
|
Born That Way : Genes, Behavior, Personality
William Wright
|
Current:
9.0 |
William Wright takes on the question of nature versus nurture, examining the roles heredity and environment play in determining not only what we look like, but why some of us like coffee rather than tea or prefer cats to dogs. Wright's posi
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 15
|
Sudden Origins : Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
|
Current:
9.0 |
Despite the title, Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't really explain how new species are born. Scientists have been struggling with that thorny problem ever since its publication, and the r
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 16
|
The Clone Age : Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology
Lori B. Andrews
|
Current:
8.9 |
Yesterday's science fiction is today's litigation, and nobody knows that better than Lori B. Andrews, an attorney specializing in genetic and reproductive technology. Her book The Clone Age is a personal look at the sweeping changes
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 17
|
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson, Gunther S. Stent
|
Current:
8.8 |
"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won N
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 18
|
Song for the Blue Ocean : Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
Carl Safina
|
Current:
8.8 |
The oceans of the world rank foremost among humankind's last great frontiers, and their climatological and ecological workings remain mysterious to all but specialists. In this lively, well-written survey, marine scientist Carl Safina encou
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 19
|
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures
Norman A. Melnkoth, Norman A. Meinkoth
|
Current:
8.7 |
Each of the 690 identification pictures is a full-color photograph of a seashore creature. Arrangement by shape and by color makes identification quick and easy. 666 species are covered in full detail. more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 20
|
Civilization and the Limpet (Helix Books)
Martin J. Wells(Preface)
|
Current:
8.6 |
Celebrated zoologist Martin Wells recorded his thoughts while on a Mediterranean sea voyage, and Civilization and the Limpet is the result. Written in charming, pithy prose, this collection of essays is eminently quotable, charmingly
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 21
|
Planetary Dreams : The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth
Robert Shapiro
|
Current:
8.5 |
Are we alone, literally freaks of nature, just one planet of living, breathing things amidst a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert? This is one of the big questions posed by human nature, one that we have traditionally looked to religion to
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 22
|
Jacques Cousteau the Ocean World
Jacques Ives Cousteau, Jacques Yves Cousteau
|
Current:
8.4 |
Virtually an encyclopedia of the undersea world, this magnificent and comprehensive volume covers all aspects of life in the oceans. It is illustrated throughout with over 385 photographs, plus maps and diagrams. 9 1/2" x 11 3/4". more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 23
|
The Enchanted Braid : Coming to Terms With Nature on the Coral Reef
Osha Gray Davidson
|
Current:
8.3 |
In this work of scientific journalism, Osha Gray Davidson surveys the condition of the world's great coral-reef systems, which offer habitat to countless diverse species of marine life. Many of those systems are now threatened by developmen
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 24
|
Guide to Marine Life of the Caribbean, Bahamas and Florida : Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida
Marty Snyderman
|
Current:
8.3 |
A layman's guide to identifying and understanding the marine life while scuba diving. Read more
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 25
|
Other Worlds : The Search for Life in the Universe
Michael D. Lemonick
|
Current:
8.1 |
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior scie
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 26
|
Genes VI
Benjamin Lewin
|
Current:
8.0 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 27
|
Against the Grain : Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food
Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey
|
Current:
8.0 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 28
|
Recombinant DNA
James D. Watson
|
Current:
7.9 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 29
|
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are : The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright
|
Current:
7.9 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 30
|
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Anne Sayre
|
Current:
7.9 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 31
|
Molecular Biotechnology
Bernard R. Glick, Jack. J. Pasternak
|
Current:
7.9 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 32
|
Encyclopedia of Fishes, Second Edition
John R. Paxton
|
Current:
7.8 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 33
|
Dr. Burgess's Mini-Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes
Warren E. Burgess
|
Current:
7.8 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 34
|
What the River Reveals : Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds
Valerie Rapp
|
Current:
7.7 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 35
|
Cichlids : Purchase, Care, Feeding, Diseases, Behavior, and Breeding
Georg Zurlo
|
Current:
7.7 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 36
|
After Contact : The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life
Albert A. Harrison
|
Current:
7.7 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 37
|
Great White Sharks : The Biology of Carcharodon Carcharias
A. Peter Klimley, David G. Ainley
|
Current:
7.7 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 38
|
Ecological Geography of the Sea
Alan R. Longhurst
|
Current:
7.6 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 39
|
Restoring Streams in Cities : A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens
Ann L. Riley
|
Current:
7.6 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 40
|
Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson
|
Current:
7.5 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 41
|
Darwin's Dreampond : Drama in Lake Victoria
Tijs Goldschmidt
|
Current:
7.3 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 42
|
Biology of Marine Mammals
John E., III Reynolds, Sentiel A. Rommel
|
Current:
7.2 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 43
|
The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett (Afterword)
|
Current:
7.1 |
In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection. more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 44
|
Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology
Joao Carlos Setubal
|
Current:
7.0 |
Computational biology applies the power of computers to large, complex mathematical problems arising in molecular biology, especially in DNA sequencing. Setubal and Meidanis provide an overview of algorithms for computational biology as wel
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 45
|
Architects of the Underworld : Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx
Bruce Rux
|
Current:
6.9 |
By painstakingly following the long international paper trails that connect such apparently unrelated manifestations and occurrences as crop circles, alien abductions, extraterrestrial activity, and many other modern mysteries, Bruce Rux un
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 46
|
The Living Ocean : Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity
Boyce Thorne-Miller, Sylvia A. Earle (Foreword)
|
Current:
6.9 |
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior scie
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 47
|
Cephalopod Behaviour
Roger T. Hanlon, John B. Messenger
|
Current:
6.7 |
'This book is a major zoological event'. American Zoologist'...an essential volume for anyone working in almost any field of cephalopod behaviour, physiology or ecology' Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology'An exceptionally ha
... [more]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 48
|
Cichlids from Lake Malawi & Tanganyika, Success With
Sabine Melke
|
Current:
6.7 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 49
|
Marine Plants of the Caribbean : A Field Guide from Florida to Brazil
Diane Scullion Littler
|
Current:
6.6 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
| 50
|
Marine Biology : An Ecological Approach
James W. Nybakken
|
Current:
6.5 |
[Read Reviews]
[Submit] |
|---|
 | |
|---|
| |
|---|
