Faculty Recommended Reading in Science

Introduction [revised 2004]- To enhance student access to scientific ideas and works, the library began a faculty recommended reading shelf in 1998. Faculty members were invited to recommend books, articles, or Internet site readings or resources. In the course of drawing attention to collective publications suggested in the intervening semesters, recommendations from faculty at other institutions are also included.

The Web page below provides publication information and Yale library call number along with the source of the recommendation, both in print and in person. For reader information, the designation of faculty member may differ somewhat between institutions. Additional related resources include: Amazon.com (see the read more section within featured bestsellers) or book review sources.

The recommended reading shelf is located in the Kline Science Library reading room near the new book area facing the glass doors. Displayed books may usually be checked out of the library for reader use within a few weeks of their showcasing.

SPRING 1998 Recommendations

Bracewell, Ronald N. The Fourier Transform and its Applications. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1978, 2nd ed.
"A beautiful exposition of the theory of Fourier transformation and its practical applications." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QA403 B73 1978
Jacob, Francois and Jacques Monod, "Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins." Journal of Molecular Biology (1961) 3:318-356.
"A marvelously written review that marshalled the evidence for the existence of mRNA and the mechanism of the control of gene expression in bacteria." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH611 A1 J685
MEDICAL LIBRARY: shelved by title
Lipson, Henry and CA Taylor. Fourier Transforms and X-ray Diffraction. London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1958.
"Without doubt the best, short introduction to crystallography." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QD945 L55 1958 c.2
Orel, Vitezslav. Gregor Mendel: the First Geneticist. Translated by Stephen Finn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
"... should be recommended read[i]ng for faculty and grad students. It is an excellent and comprehensive account of Mendel's experiments, how they were driven by ideas [about] plant hybrid development in the mid-19th century, the fate of his work in the context of late 19th century biology and also carries a good description of Mendel's life and his qualities as a thinker, administrator and, to some extent, a politician (which he was bad at)." Sidney Altman, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH31 M45 O67X 1996
Pardue, Mary Lou. Molecular Hybridization of Nucleic Acids in Cytological Preparations. Yale dissertation, 1970.
"As part of her thesis work she developed in situ hybridization, a central technique in molecular biology. Now on faculty at MIT." John Carlson, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: dissertations being relocated to Library Shelving Facility
Traub, P. and M. Nomura, "Structure and function of E. coli ribosomes, v. reconstitution of functionally active 30s ribosomal particles from RNA and proteins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. (1968) 59:777-784.
"Reconstitution of functionally active 30s ribosomal subunits from RNA and proteins. ... Remains the most remarkable demonstration of self-assembly in all of biology." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: Q11 N286 A3

SUMMER 1998 Recommendations

Kostytschew, S. Chemical Plant Physiology. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1926.
"The most respected text [for plant biochemistry] of that period." Bruce Stowe, [then] Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QK711 K6 [original German edition]
Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire: Graphics Press, 1983.
"He is a professor here at Yale and the book was excellent and informative." Stephen Dellaporta, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Permanent Reserve: QA90 +T84 1983
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: a Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968. [Update: see also Summer 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2006, and Summer 2008.]
"A hugely entertaining account of the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QP551 W37 1968 c.2
Wrangham, Richard and Dale Peterson. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
"It's a great read." Robert Wyman, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QL737 P96 W73X 1996
Whitehouse, H.L.K. Towards an Understanding of the Mechanism of Heredity. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973, 3rd ed.
"Although genetics has changed tremendously as a discipline since the text ... was written, it still has unique advantages in the presentation and codification of data from original research into many classical issues of genetics." Douglas Kankel, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH431 W395 1973
Wieschaus, Eric Francis. Clonal Analysis of Early Development in Drosophila melanogaster. Yale dissertation, 1974.
"Won Nobel Prize [1995] for his work on early development in Drosophila melanogaster. Now on faculty at Princeton." John Carlson, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: dissertations on lower level

FALL 1998 Recommendations

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. [Update: see also Spring 2000 and Fall 2006.]
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most significant books written in the 20th century on the way science actually happens. It is the starting point for most modern discussions of the sociology of science." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: Q175 K84 1968
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. [Update: see also Spring 2000 and Fall 2006.]
"... influential in fostering the recent rise of ecological and naturalistic thought. ... should be read for historical interest, and for understanding the source of the ideological thrust of the modern movement." Arthur Galston, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH81 L46 1949
Mak, Tak W. and John J.L. Simard. Handbook of Immune Response Genes. New York: Plenum Press, 1998.
"The book [Handbook of] Immune Response Genes by Simard and Mak is a reference work for any gene you may wish to know about that affects the immune response. Again, it is not for readers but for reference, it is outstanding and up-to-date." Charles Janeway, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QR184.4 M35X 1998
Paul, William E. Fundamental Immunology. New York: Raven Press, 1993. 3rd ed.
"The book Fundamental Immunology is an excellent reference as it contains quite recent information on a broad range of Immunological topics. However, it is difficult to read as a primary source of information, as each chapter is discontinuous. Thus, it is a reference book for people who already have read another, simpler text on immunology." Charles Janeway, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QR181 +F84 1993
Smith, Brian Cantwell. On the Origin of Objects. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996.
"Only book I know of that attempts a philosophy of computer science." Leo Buss, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY: BD111 S573X 1996 (LC)
Tilman, David and Peter Kareiva. Spatial Ecology: the Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997.
"Understanding mechanisms of distribution and abundance at large spatial scales has been described as the last frontier in ecology. This volume, edited by two of the leading lights of the field, represents the current state of the art." David Skelly, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH541.15 S62 S62X 1997

FALL 1999 Recommendations

Caplan, Ralph. By Design: why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV, and other object lessons. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
"Whether we teach, run a business, or espouse a cause, we spend most of our lives in totally designed environments. Usually realizing little how much they influence the culture we live in. And designers are seldom successful explaining what they do. Caplan is an exception and takes a by turns serious and funny look at how design and culture interact." Peter Kindlmann, Electrical Engineering, Yale University
ART & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY stacks: TS171.4 C35 1982
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: the fates of human societies. New York: WW Norton & Company, 1997.
Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Letters: general non-fiction.
"A reaction to war is the development of Infectious Diseases, often more important and long lasting than the conflict." Stephen Edberg, Laboratory Medicine, Yale University
BASS LIBRARY Closed Reserve: HM206 D48X 1997 (LC) and Hist HM206 D48 1997
Norman, Donald A. The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1988.
"... 1988 wake-up call to engineers to design products in more usable forms. ... He is a person whose perceptions I've come to respect." Peter Kindlmann, Electrical Engineering, Yale University
STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY stacks: TS171.4 N67 1988 (LC)
ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY Reserve: TS171.4 N67 1988 (LC)
Postman, Neil. The End of Education: redefining the value of school. New York: Knopf, 1995.
"I consider Postman as one of our most incisive social critics, with a command of the English language unequalled since Orwell. Here he discusses how to restore to our schools larger unifying narratives such as used to inspire earlier generatioins, and which, I believe, are crucial to the successful synthesis of public policy. ..." Peter Kindlmann, Electrical Engineering, Yale University
BASS LIBRARY: LA217.2 P67X 1995 (LC)
Saenger, Wolfram. Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984.
"The bible for nucleic acid chemists." Peter Moore, Chemistry, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Closed Reserve: QD433 S24 1984
Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
"The story of how one disease, typhus, changed the courses of history." Stephen Edberg, Laboratory Medicine, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: RC199 Z5 c.2

SPRING 2000 Recommendations

Recommendations for this period are those listed in a recent article in the journal American Scientist. The list of readings, with call numbers, is provided below. To see the article electronically, first link to the database General Science Abstracts either directly at http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=139 or (if from a non-PPP remote address) through the Remote Access Proxy Server at http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/proxy/proxy_about.html . After connecting to General Science Abstracts, type in the search "books that shaped" and then click on the Search Now box.

Morrison, Philip and Phylis Morrison, "100 or so books that shaped a century of science." American Scientist (1999) 87(6):499-503.
Scientists, authors, and American Scientist staff selected titles for this list of influential books. The print copy of this article contains additional information: a narrative with explanations for some of the books chosen.
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: Q1 +A54 for American Scientist.
STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY: A79 +151 58-
ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY: Q1 +A48 (LC)
ASTRONOMY LIBRARY: Q1 +A48 (LC)
MEDICAL LIBRARY: shelved by title
The titles mentioned in the article are available in the libraries of Yale University unless otherwise noted. Call numbers with authors and titles are provided below, although all copies may not be shown at this time.

biography

Charles Darwin, Autobiography (1950)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH3 D3 A16 1950

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Biog D259 1950

G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)

1967 edition at: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QA29 H37 A3 1967

1967 edition at: MATHEMATICS LIBRARY Misc H222m 1967

1967 edition at: BASS LIBRARY QA29 H37 1967

James Watson, The Double Helix (1968) [Update: see also Summer 1998, Fall 2006, and Summer 2008.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QD551 W37

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QD431 A2 W38

Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC16 D95 A33

BASS LIBRARY QC16 D95 A33

Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: adventures of a curious character (1985)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC16 F49 A37

BASS LIBRARY QC16 F49 A37

field guides

William Garnett, Aerial Photographs (1994)

Art & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY E269.04 +G36X

Jonathan Kingdon, East African Mammals: an atlas of evolution in Africa (1971)

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QL731 E27 +K56

Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz, Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth (1998, 3rd ed.)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Reference QH83 +M36

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Starr Main Reference Room QH83 +M36

Photo-Atlas of the United States: a complete photographic atlas of the USA using satellite photography (1975)

Not at Yale.

Roger Tory Peterson, A Field guide to the Birds (1934)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL681 P4

Allan Sandage, The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (1961)

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Folio Q9

John S. Shelton, Geology Illustrated (1966)

GEOLOGY LIBRARY QE26 +S54

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QE26 +S54

BASS LIBRARY QE26 +S54

John Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts, Sea of Cortez: a leisurely journal of travel and research, with a scientific appendix comprising materials for a source book on the marine animals of the Panamic faunal province (1941)

BASS LIBRARY F1246 S84

BEINECKE LIBRARY Za St345 941s

H. Bradley, W.A. Craigie, J.A.H. Murray, and C.T. Onions (editors), Oxford English Dictionary (1933)

AART & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY Reference PE1625 +M87

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Starr Main Reference Room and stacks PE1625 +M87

BRITISH ART LIBRARY Reference PE1625 +M87

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Hortus (1930)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY SB45 B32

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY Uzb16 930b

physical sciences

Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang (1997)

BASS LIBRARY QB981 F38X

George Gamow, One, Two, three ... Infinity (1947) [Update: see also Summer 2008.]

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY A6a 947g [Yale classification]

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB981 H377

BASS LIBRARY QB981 H377

Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, The Mind's I

BASS LIBRARY B29H58

Kenneth Hsu, The Mediterranean Was a Desert: a voyage of the Glomar Challenger (1983)

GEOLOGY LIBRARY QE350.22 M42 H78

LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QE350.22 M42 H78

Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: a universal history of numbers (1985)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QA141.2 I3613

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table (1984)

BASS LIBRARY PQ4872 E88 S513

John McPhee, Annals of the Former World (1998)

GEOLOGY LIBRARY QD77 M38X

Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot (1994)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB500.262 S24X

Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (1992)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC21.2 W428X

Herman Weyl, Symmetry (1952)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY N76 W4

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY/Art Collection J25952W

ART & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY J25952W

BASS LIBRARY N76 W49
MEDICAL LIBRARY N76 W4

GEOLOGY LIBRARY Q175 W49

Paul Dirac, Quantum Mechanics (1930)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC174.1 D58

Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: the Swiss years, 1902-09 (1930)

1987 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC16 E5 A2

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Fractals (1977)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QA447 M3613

Linus Pauling, Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals; an introduction to modern structural chemistry (1939)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QD469 P38

MEDICAL LIBRARY QD469 939p

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (1910-1913, 3 volumes)

MATHEMATICS LIBRARY volume 1 LW587p

Cyril Smith, Search for Structure: selected essays on science, art, and history (1981)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q171 S618

BASS LIBRARY

John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY/Math Collection MiscV896t

Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics (1948)

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY Q310 W53

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY/Math Collection CompW636c

R.B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, Conservation of Orbital Symmetry (1970)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QD461 W66

BASS LIBRARY QD461 W66

Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (1922)

1923 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC6 E351
1923 edition: ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY QC6 E4313

Richard Feynman, QED: the strange theory of light and matter (1985)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC793.5 P422 F48

BASS LIBRARY QC793.5 P422 F48

Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (1968)

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY QA76.5 K58

MEDICAL LIBRARY QA76.5 K58

history of science

A. Pais, Inward Bound (1986)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC21.2 P35

BASS LIBRARY QC21.2 P35

John Desmond Bernal, Science in History (1954)

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY CB151 B47 (LC)

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY CB 954B

Paul de Kruif, Microbe Hunters (1926) [Update: see also Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QR31 A1 D4

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY QR31 A1 D45

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Coll Biog D442

Martin Gardner, In the Name of Science (1952 reprint edition, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science)

LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY A4A 952g

1957 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q173 G3

1957 edition: MEDICAL LIBRARY Q173 G27

1957 edition: STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Q173 G27

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being; a study of the history of an idea (1936)
BASS LIBRARY B105 C5 L68

LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY B105 C5 L69

1964 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY B105 C5 L68

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Philosophy Study, Room 609-610 KA L68

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (1947)

various volumes held at the following libraries: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Anthropology AZ791 N39

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY

ASTRONOMY LIBRARY

BASS LIBRARY DS721 N44

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC773 R46

BASS LIBRARY QC773 R46

Charles Singer, E.J. Holmyard, and A.R. Hall, A History of Technology (1954)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY T15 S56

BASS LIBRARY T15 S56

ART & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY T15 S56

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY T954H

Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff (1979)

BASS LIBRARY TL789.8 U5 W64

science itself examined

Vannevar Bush, Science, the Endless Frontier (1945)

MEDICAL LIBRARY R745 945u

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) [Update: see also Fall 1998 and Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q175 I582:2

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Q121 I55 2:2

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Q175 K83

Peter B. Medawar, The Art of the Soluble (1967)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q175 M43

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Hist Q175 M43

Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

1959 edition: STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Philosophy Study, Room 610

C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) [Update: see also Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q181 S66

BEINECKE LIBRARY 1995 82

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1945)

1925 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q171 W45

1925 edition: LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY Q171 W45

1925 edition: MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Hist Q175 1948Ws

1925 edition: BEINECKE LIBRARY Za H418 Zz948W

1925 edition: ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY [call number missing in Orbis at present]

many-sided life
(explorations)

William Beebe, Jungle Days (1925)

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY SLhda 23

ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY QL246 B4

BEINECKE LIBRARY 1974 3640

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) [Update: see also Fall 2006 and Summer 2008.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Closed Reserve SB959 C37

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY SB959 C37

BASS LIBRARY SB959 C37

EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY SB959 C37

John R. Horner and James Gorman, Digging Dinosaurs (1988)

GEOLOGY LIBRARY QD862 D5 H643

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY QD862 D5 H643

Francois Jacob, The Possible and the Actual (1982)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH371 J2

BASS LIBRARY QH371 J2

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949) [Update: see also Fall 1998 and Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH81 L46

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH81 L46

BASS LIBRARY QH81 L46

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: imagination and desire in a northern landscape (1986)

BASS LIBRARY QH84.1 L67

Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring (1952)

ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY QL751 L61

MEDICAL LIBRARY QL751 952p

BASS LIBRARY QL751 L6713

Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity (1971)

BASS LIBRARY QH331 M6513

Richard Preston, The Hot Zone (1994)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY RC140.5 P74X

MEDICAL LIBRARY RC110.5 P74

Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell (1974) [Update: see also Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH331 T35

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH331 T46

BASS LIBRARY QH331 T46

MEDICAL LIBRARY QH311 T36

(monographs)

Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature (1984)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH108 A1 F67

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH108 A1 F67

BASS LIBRARY QH108 A1 F67

Stephen S. Morse (editor), Emerging Viruses (1993)

MEDICAL LIBRARY RA644 V55 E44

Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life: the physical aspect of the living cell? (1944) [Update: see also Fall 2006 and Summer 2008.]

1945 and 1946 editions: KLINE SCIENCE LILBRARY QH331 S3

D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY Sh22 211

Vladimir Vernadskii, The Biosphere (1986, 1998 in English, 1929 in French)

1929 edition: SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY S13v 253

1986 edition: FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH501 V548X13

1998 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH343.4 V4713X

Alister Clavering Hardy, The Open Sea: its natural history (1956-1959)

BASS LIBRARY QH91 H37

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Hist QH91 956H

Edward O. Wilson, The Insect Societies (1971) [Update: see also Summer 2008.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL496 +W55

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QL496 +W55

BASS LIBRARY QL785.5 I45

evolution of life

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH366.2 D37

BASS LIBRARY QH366.2 D37

Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: reflections in natural history (1977) [Update: see also Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH361 G65

BASS LIBRARY QH361 G65

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Hist QH361 G68

Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1944)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL696 P246 W45X

BASS LIBRARY QL696 P246 W45X

Richard Goldschmidt, The Material Basis of Evolution (1940)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH366 G65

Ronald Aylmer Fisher, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH366 F48

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY SH31f 372

MEDICAL LIBRARY QH366 930F

1958 edition: BASS LIBRARY QH366 F57

1958 edition: STATISTICS LIBRARY QH366 F57

1958 edition: MEDICAL LIBRARY QH366 958F

1958 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH366 F48

1958 edition: EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY QH366 F5

George Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection: a critique of some current evolutionary thought (1966)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH546 W54

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY QH546 W55

BASS LIBRARY QH546 W55

Howard Gruber and Paul H. Barrett, Darwin on Man: a psychological study of scientific creativity (1974)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH31 D3 D37

MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Biog D259 D27 1974

BASS LIBRARY QH31 D3 D37

the nature and rise of our own species
(explorations)

Elizabeth Barber, Women's Work (1994)

BASS LIBRARY GN799 T43 B37X

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind: collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology (1972)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Anthropology Collection GN6 B39

DIVINITY LIBRARY GN6 B39

BASS LIBRARY, Closed Reserves GN6 B39 1972

Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1965) [Update: see also Fall 2006.]

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q175 B7

FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY Q175 B7

BASS LIBRARY Q175 B7

Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man (1988)

1971 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL785.5 C5 L38

1971 edition: BASS LIBRARY QL785.5 C5 L38

RL Gregory, The Intelligent Eye (1970)

BASS LIBRARY QP495 G74

MEDICAL LIBRARY BF421 G74

ART & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY Birren L BF241 G73 (LC)

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954)

BASS LIBRARY RM666 P48 H38

MEDICAL LIBRARY RM666 P48 954H

LSB Leakey, Adam's Ancestors: an up-to-date outline of what is known about the origin of man (1934)

MEDICAL LIBRARY QH367 934L

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct (1994)

BASS LIBRARY P106 P476X

Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How Writing Came About (1996)

1992 edition: STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Babylonian Collection

George B. Schaller, The Mountain Gorilla: ecology and behavior (1963)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL737 P9 S3

BASS LIBRARY QL737 P9 S32

Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic (1987)

SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY RA644 A25 S48

BASS LIBRARY RA644 A25 S48

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY BD512 T411

BASS LIBRARY BD512 T4113

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, Thought and Language (1962)

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY P106 V9413

Charles Leonard Wooley, Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur (1969)

title not in Orbis

(monographs)

CK Brain, Hunter and Hunted (1981)

title not in Orbis

Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (1957)

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Yale class F15 J26 4

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Linguistics Seminar Room 302 HGS P291 C48

BASS LIBRARY P291 C48

Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1920)
Other editions also available.

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Kqc5 916fg

LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY (may be paged from a Yale library) PX40 F895g
BEINECKE LIBRARY Za T3384 Zz920f

1943 edition: MEDICAL LIBRARY BF173 F74 V6

1943 edition: BASS LIBRARY BF173 F7313 1943

Mary Leakey, Laetoli: a Pliocene site in northern Tanzania (1987)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QE740 +L34

GEOLOGY LIBRARY QE740 +L34 1987

Richard Lee, The Kung San (1979)

KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Anthropology Collection DT797 L43

BASS LIBRARY DT797 L43

Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Treasures of Prehistoric Art (1967)

BASS LIBRARY N5310 +L5313

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY, Art and Architecture Collection J511 +965Lg

ART & ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY J511 +965Lg

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind (1986)

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY BF431 +M553

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BF431 +M553 1986

Peter and Iona Opie, Children's Games in Sstreet and Playground: chasing, catching, seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting, pretending (1969)

SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY GV1203 O63

BASS LIBRARY GV1203 O63

Ivan P. Pavlov, Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes (1926)

1928 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QP381 P3

1928 edition: MEDICAL LIBRARY QP381 928P

1928 edition: BASS LIBRARY QP381 P3913

1928 edition: SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY SL22th 571

Oskar Pfungst, Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten): a contribution to experimental animal and human psychology (1911)

SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY SzLb 766

1965 edition: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL785 P48 1965

LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY L785 P38 1911

novels

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1925)

BEINECKE LIBRARY ZA6588 925ba

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (1963)

BASS LIBRARY PS3572 O55 C3

HG Wells, Tono Bungay (1908)

1909 edition: BEINECKE LIBRARY Iq W462 909t

1909 edition: STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Iq W462 909tc

1927 edition: SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY WA 4788

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

BASS LIBRARY PS3566 Y53 G7

FALL 2000 Recommendations

Heilbron, JL. The Sun in the Church: cathedrals as solar observatories. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
"It is a very stimulating book regarding the use of some Italian churchs as astronomical observatories particularly between the XV and XVII centuries. Many ideas can stimulate the reader, even if not the specialist. A rich historical background and a deeply detailed bibliography make this book a useful instrument in approaching the study of the history of astronomy and of science in general. The question of Galileo's process as here treated is rather inadequate with respect to the level of the rest of the book. The (Catholic) Church, in the relationship with science, is still presented as responsible for the "darkness". Even while in the Church itself (in the view of the author), starting from the calculations for Eastern's date, the light of the Sun entered both from a physical point of view (because the churchs were perfect astronomical observatories) and from an epistemological point of view (because the scientists mostly gravitated around -and were stimulated to work by- its environment).
From the previous calculations of Easter's date, the Sun's beams into the Churchs become useful to assess the reformation of the calendar by Pope Gregorio XIII and afterwards they showed the secular motion of the ecliptic plane already pointed out by Caldaic astronomers. Every calendar and every clock have their roots in those studies, and this book introduces us to that argument with a quite complete approach.
There are two necessary complements to this book: 1) a trip in Italy to visit the Churchs here described, and 2) I strongly recommend integrating the chapter on Galileo's case in the web site of the Vatican Observatory http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/gghist.html and also on the web site of Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/group/catholic/sherwin.html." Costantino Sigismondi, [then Visiting Fellow] Astronomy, Yale University; Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma and ICRA (International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics), Dept. of Physics, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza".
STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY stacks: QB29 H33X 1999

FALL 2001 Recommendations

Sobel, Dava. Galileo's Daughter: a historical memoir of science, faith and love. New York: Walker & Co., 1999.
"Should be read to learn more about the life of one of the most important scientsts who ever lived, and also for insights into the repression of scientific truth by the "establishment", ways to content against this pressure, and the raw courage and wily tactics needed to overcome adversity." Arthur Galston, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QB36 G2 S65X 1999
STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY stacks: QB36 G2 S65X 1999
Simon, Herbert Alexander. The Sciences of the Artificial. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
"Herbert Simon, Nobel laureate in economics, artificial intelligence pioneer, died February 9th, aged 84. He is the author of a, for me, defining work about engineering and design, "The Sciences of the Artificial". I read the first edition in 1971, the book is now in its 3rd edition." Peter Kindlmann, Electrical Engineering, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: Q175 S46 1969

SPRING 2002 Recommendations

Recommendations for this semester are those publications written about and by their authors in the Contemporary Classics In Science series, published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), c1986. Volumes in this series include several at-the-time Yale-author essays (as well as essays by authors who later became affiliated with Yale), with remarks on why a specific publication of theirs may have become highly cited in its field (a "citation classic"). The concept of "citation classic" was used by Eugene Garfield originally, beginning in 1977, and the notes as to why a publication may be considered recommended reading are found in the essays in these volumes, taking into consideration the usual precautions about drawing erroneous conclusions about highly-cited publications (for a recent example, see Nature for February 14, 2002, pp.726-729).

At the time of publication, Yale-authored works in science (not including medicine) rated as citation classics and portrayed in the series are:

Anand, Bal K. and J.R. Brobeck, "Hypothalamic control of food intake in rats and cats." Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (1951) 24:123-140.
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH301 Y28
MEDICAL LIBRARY: shelved by title

Galston, Arthur W., "The adaptive formation and psychological significance of indoleacetic acid oxidase." American Journal of Botany (1954) 41:373-380.
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QK1 A56

Massaro, E.J. and C.L. Markert, "Isozyme patterns of salmonid fishes: evidence for multiple cistrons for lactate dehydrogenase polypeptides." Journal of Experimental Zoology (1968) 168:223-238.
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QL1 J68

Rhoads, Donald C., "The influence of deposit-feeding organisms on sediment stability and community trophic structure." Journal of Marine Research (1970) 28:150-178.
KLINE GEOLOGY LIBRARY and KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: QH91 A1 J68

For user information, titles of all volumes in this series are listed below. All volumes are located at KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY: Recommended Reading shelf unless otherwise noted.
Contemporary Classics in Clinical Medicine
Medical Library: R850 C66 1986
Contemporary Classics in Engineering and Applied Science
Contemporary Classics in Physical, Chemical, and Earth Sciences
Contemporary Classics in Plant, Animal, and Environmental Sciences
Contemporary Classics in the Life Sciences: Cell Biology
Contemporary Classics in the Life Sciences: Molecules of Life
Contemporary Classics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
The last title is not held in the Yale libraries.

FALL 2002 Recommendations

For this installment of recommendations, readers are referred to the online resource Faculty of 1000, from Biology Reports, Ltd. This is a source for ratings and rankings of current journal literature in the biological sciences. Whether there will be any archiving of the contents at any given time or if the intent is directed at primarily the latest literature remains to be determined. Yale readers may access this source online at URL: http://www.facultyof1000.com/browse. Some Yale participation and recommendations for published Yale research are included.

SPRING 2003 Recommendations

Highlighted for this term is a recent article in Physics Education (January 2003, volume 38(1):pages 67-70), "Recommended reading of science fiction" in its opinions section. In this article written by Ken Zetie, 13 professors, curators, and other specialists, answer the question, "If a physics student were to only read one science fiction book, what would you recommend and why?".

Books or stories mentioned or recommended in this article are (and the person recommending):

Anderson, Poul. Tau Zero, Brian Milner and Clute, John and Peter Nicholls in Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, (Orbit, 1993)
"Artifact", Alex Barnett
Asimov, Isaac. Almost all of his anthologies, especially Nightfall, Monica Grady, Natural History Museum
Adams, Douglas. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, R. Stannard, Open University
Bova, Ben. Venus, Alex Barnett
Brin, David. Uplift [series], Alan Evans
Conklin, Groff. Great Science Fiction Stories by Scientists, Bob Lambourne, Open University
Crichton, Michael. Timeline, Vicky Brightman, National Space Centre
Forward, Robert L. Dragon's Egg, Brian Milner
Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling. Difference Engine, Mark Brake, University of Glamorgan
Gibson, William. [in general], Alan Evans
Hamilton, Peter F. Reality Dysfunction, Andrew Hunt/Tim Hunt
Hoyle, Fred. Black Cloud, John Polkinghorne, formerly of Cambridge University
Langford, Dave. Leaky Establishment, Dave Langford
Latham, Philip. "Xi effect" [story], Brian Milner
Lee, Tanith. Silver Metal Lover, Alan Evans
Niven, Larry. Integral Trees, Bob Lambourne, Open University
Niven, Larry. Ringworld, Tim Boundy, National Space Centre
Pohl, Fred. Expert Dreamers, Bob Lambourne, Open University
Rosen, Steven. Moebius Seed: a visionary novel of planetary transformation, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Mars [trilogy], Alex Barnett
Stannard, R. Time and Space of Uncle Albert (and the Uncle Albert trilogy as a whole), R. Stannard, Open University
Stephenson, Neal. [in general], Alan Evans
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, Alan Evans

The full article, with additional content and commentary, may be found at:
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC1 P4433
online (for Yale) http://ej.iop.org/EJ/S/3/148/journal/0031-9120

Readers may also find of interest The Science in Science Fiction, edited by Peter Nicholls (New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q162 +S4127 1983

FALL 2003 Recommendations

The following recommendations are found in One Hundred Books Famous in Science: based on an exhibition held at the Grolier Club by HD Horblit, c1964, in the Sterling Memorial Library stacks Xq11 +964 H 1964. The text's main arrangement is by author with an appendix listing in chronological order. Below, grouped by city of printing or publication, the list of 100 works is shown.

Amsterdam

Experimenta Nova

Augsburg
1760 Photometria, JH Lambert

Basel
1542 De Historia Stirpium, L Fuchs
1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica, A Vesalius [Update: see also Summer 2008.]
1544 Opera, Archimedes
1546 De Natura Fossilium, G Agricola
1556 De Re Metallica, G Agricola
1713 Ars Conjectandi, J Bernoulli

Berlin
1827 Die Galvanische Kette, GS Ohm
1839 Mikroscopische Untersuchungen, T Schwann
1847 Uber die Erhaltung der Kraft, HLF von Helmholtz
1858 Die Cellularpathologie, R Virchow
1861-3 Das Sonnenspectrum, GR Kirchoff
1881 Von Pathogenen Organismen, R Koch

Bologna
1477 Cosmographia, C Ptolemy
1566 Conicorum, Apollonius
1791 De Viribus Electricitatis , L Galvani

Brunn
1866 Versuche Uber Pflanzen-Hybriden, GH Mendel

Brunswick
1837 Anleitung zur Analyse Organischer Korper, J Von Liebig
1863 Von Den Tonempfindungen, MLF Von Helmholtz

Cambridge
1904 Radio-activity, E Rutherford

Coblenz
1826 Uber die Phantatischen Gesichtserscheinungen, JP Muller

Copenhagen
1573 De Nova ... Stella, T Brahe
1820 Experimenta, HC Oersted

Danzig
1540 Narratio prima, GJ Rheticus

Edinburgh [and London]
1614 Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, J Napier
1619 Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio, J Napier
1795-1899 Theory of the Earth, J Hutton
1802 Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, J Playfair

Florence
1632 Dialogo...due...sistemi del mondo, G Galilei [Update: see also Summer 2008.]
1668 Alla Generazione Degl'Insetti, F Redi
1669 De Solido Intra Solidum..., N Steno

Frankfort
1628 De Motu Cordis, W Harvey

Leipzig
1684 Nova Methodus Pro Maximis et Minimus, GW von Leibniz
1874 Der Physiologischen Psychologie, W Wundt
1900 Die Traumdeutung, S Freud
1900 Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung, MKEL Planck
1901-1903 Die Mutationstheorie, H De Vries
1916 Der Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie, A Einstein [Update: see also Summer 2008.]

Linz
1619 Harmonices Mundi, J Kepler

Lisbon
1537 Tratado da Sphera, P Nunez

London
1600 De Magnete, W Gilbert
1605 Advancement of Learning
1620 Instauratio Magna, F Bacon
1661 Sceptical Chymist, R Boyle
1662 New Experiments, R Boyle
1667 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 1, Royal Society of London
1671-1672 Letter on light/Philosophical Transactions, volume VI, I Newton
1675-1679 Anatome Plantarum, M Malpighi
1682 Anatomy of Plants, N Grew
1686-1704 Historia Plantarum, J Ray
1687 Principia, I Newton [Update: see also Fall 2006 and Summer 2008.]

New Haven
1874-1878 Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, JW Gibbs

Nuremberg
1543 De Revolutionibus Orbium, N Copernicus [Update: see also Summer 2008.]

Paris
1636 Harmonie Universelle, M Mersenne
1665 Journal des Scavans, 1st volume, [a society]
1673 Horologium Oscillatorium, C Huygens
1751-1780 Encyclopedie, D Diderot
1784 Sur la Structure des Crystaux, RJ Hauy
1785-1789 Memoires sur l'Electricite, CA de Coulomb
1788 Mechanique Analitique, JL de La Grange
1789 Genera Plantarum, AL de Jussieu
1789 Traite Elementaire de Chimie, AL Lavoisier
1798-1827 Traite de Mecanique Celeste, PS de Laplace
1800-1805 Lecons d'Anatomie Comparee, GLCFD Cuvier
1812 Ossemens Fossiles, GLCFD Cuvier
1826 Des Phenomenes Electrodynamiques, AM Ampere
1839 Rapport ... sur le Daguerreotype, F Arago
1839 Historique ... du Daguerreotype, LJM Daguerre
1853 Nouvelle Fonction du Foie, C Bernard
1857 Memoire sur la Fermentation Appelee Lactique, L Pasteur
1865 De la Medecine Experimentale, C Bernard
1903 Sur les Substances Radioactive, MS Curie

Prague
1609 Astronomia nova, J Kepler

Rome
1680-1681 De Motu Animalium, GA Borelli

Strassburg
1473 Canon Medicinae, Avicenna
1530-36 Herbarum Vivae Eicones, O Brunfels

Toulouse
1679 Varia Opoera Mathematica, P de Fermat

Venice
1469 Historia Naturalis, G Pliny
1482 Elementorum, Euclid
1490 Opera, Galen
1496 In Almagestum Ptolomei, J Regiomontanus
1610 Sidereus Nuncius, G Galilei

Wurzburg
1896-1897 Uber Eine Neue Art von Strahlen, WC Rontgen

Zurich
1551-87 Historiae Animalium, K von Gesner

FALL 2006 Recommendations

The following recommendations are taken from "Reading beyond the textbook: great books of biology" by Jack L. Carter, professor of biology and director emeritus of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study at Colorado College, and William V. Mayer, professor emeritus of biology at University of Colorado, Boulder and director emeritus of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Bioscience (July/August 1988) 38(7):490-492. Recommendations came from 77 respondents to a survey. The full article may be read at KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH301 A18+ and at the FES LIBRARY.

James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968) [Update: see also Summer 1998, Spring 2000, and Summer 2008.]: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QP551 W37; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QD341 A2 W38; BASS LIBRARY QH450.2 W37
Orbis keyword:double and helix and Watson
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859) [See also Fall 2003, Summer 2008.]: MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY 19th Century QH365 O2 1860 and locked (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1861, 1874, 1877, 1888, 1893, 1898, 1899; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY locked cage (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1861 and also QH365 O2 1912 and 1911, 1931, 1960, 1956B, 1936, 1890, 1873B, 1880, 1956A, 1968, 1991; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH9 D37 1972 4-5; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Arts of the Book (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1936B (LC); LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY A4 23 11 and AC1 G74 1990 49 (LC)+; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH365 O2 1909; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Modern Library 247 and 1975, 783 and 2000 2294; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1963; DIVINITY LIBRARY QH365 O2 1972 (LC); BASS LIBRARY QH365 O2 1936; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Philosophy Study (non-circulating) Room 609-610 QH365 O2 1936 and 1966; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY QH365 O2 1889 A1 and 1889A; SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1967
Orbis keyword:origin and species and Darwin
Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell (1976) [See also Spring 2000.]: FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH311 T46 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH331 T35 1974 and 1975; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH311 T36 1974; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QH311 T46; Also an online book. Orbis keyword:lives and cell and Thomas
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) [Update: see also Spring 2000 and Summer 2008.]: BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) ZaC239 962 Sf and sound recording Za8 A1986 S; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY (non-circulating) SB959 C3 1964; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY SB959 C37 1970 and 2002; BASS LIBRARY SB959 C37 (LC); EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY SB959 C3; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY SB959 C37 (LC)
Orbis keyword:silent and spring and Carson
Stephen J. Gould, Ever Since Darwin (1977) [See also Spring 2000.]: BASS LIBRARY QH361 G65 1977; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH361 G65 1977; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY QH361 G68 1977
Orbis keyword:ever and since and Darwin
Stephen J. Gould, The Panda's Thumb (1980): BASS LIBRARY QH361 G66 1980; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH361 G66 1980 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH361 G66 1980
Orbis keyword:panda's and thumb and Gould
Aldo Leopold, The Sand County Almanac (1968) [See also Fall 1998 and Spring 2000.]: FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH81 L56; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH81 L46 1949 and 1987 and QH81 L56X 2001+, QH81 L56 1970, QH81 L46 1966; BASS LIBRARY QH81 L56 1968 and 1987
Orbis keyword:sand and county and almanac and Leopold
Ernst Mayr, Growth of Biological Thought (1982): BASS LIBRARY QH305 M26; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY (non-circulating) QH305 M26 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH305 M38 1982; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH305 M26
Orbis keyword:growth and biological and thought and Mayr
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1970) [See also Fall 1998 and Spring 2000.]: BASS LIBRARY Q175 K84 1996; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Anthropology Collection Q175 K84 1965; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q175 K84 1968 and Q175 I58 2:2 1970, Q175 K84 1996; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Philosophy Room (non-circulating) Room 609-610 Q175 K84 1965; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Q175 K83 1963 and Q175 K95 1970; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY Q175 K84 1968 (LC) and Q121 I55 2:2 (LC); SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY Q175 K84 1968 (LC) and Q175 K95 1970 (LC); DIVINITY LIBRARY Q175 K95 1970 (LC); EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY Q175 K95 1970; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Q171 I55 2:2 1970; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY Q121 I55 2:2 (LC)
Orbis keyword:structure and scientific and revolutions and Kuhn
Paul DeKruif, Microbe Hunters (1926) [See also Spring 2000.]: STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY QR31 A1 D45 1932; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q123 A1 D4 and QR31 A1 D4 1932; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QR31 A1 D45; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Coll Biog D442 1926 and QR46 M5365 1996
Orbis keyword:microbe and hunters and DeKruif
Stephen J. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981) [Update: see also Summer 2008.]: BASS LIBRARY BF431 G69 1996 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY BF431 G69 1996 (LC) and BF431 G69 1981 (LC); MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY BF431 G68 1981; SOCICAL SCIENCE LIBRARY BF431 G69 1981 (LC); STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BF431 G69 1981 (LC)
Orbis keyword:mismeasure and man and Gould
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1909)[Update: see also Summer 2008.]: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH11 D3 and 1972, QH365 O2X 2003 (LC); BASS LIBRARY QH11 D25 1959, QH11 D2X 1989; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY QH11 D27 1962; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY (non-circulating) QH11 D34 1960; BRITISH ART Reference QH365 O2 2003 (LC)
Orbis keyword:voyage and beagle and Darwin
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1974): KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH311 T43 1979; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QH311 T56; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH311 T56 1979
Orbis keyword:medusa and snail and Thomas
E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature (1978): BEINECKE LIBRARY Zab W693 978P; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY GN365.9 W54 and KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Anthropology Collection; BASS LIBRARY GN365.9 W54; EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY GN365.9 W54 1978; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY GN365.9 W54 (LC)
Orbis keyword:human and nature and Wilson
Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1965) [See also Spring 2000.]: BASS LIBRARY Q171 B77 1965; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY Q171 B77 1965 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q171 B7 1965, Q171 B7 1956 and 1959; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY Q171 B77 1965, Q171 B77; SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY Q171 B77 1961 (LC); MEDICAL LIBRARY Q175 956B and Q171 B76 1959; BEINECKE LIBRARY ZaW255 Z956Bb
Orbis keyword:science and human and values and Bronowski
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976) [Update: see also Summer 2008.]: SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY QH437 D38 1978 (LC); BASS LIBRARY QH437 D38 1989; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH437 D38 1976; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH437 D38 1976
Orbis keyword:selfish and gene and dawkins
Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1968): BASS LIBRARY HB881 E47 1968; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY HB881 E47 1968 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY HB881 E47 1968; MEDICAL LIBRARY HB881 E47 1968; SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY HB881 E47 1968 (LC)
Orbis keyword:population and bomb and Ehrlich
Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden (1977): KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY BF431 S2 (LC); BASS LIBRARY BF431 S2 (LC)
Orbis keyword:dragons and eden and Sagan
E. Schrodinger, What is Life? (1956) [Update: see also Spring 2000 and Summer 2008.]: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH331 S3 and locked cage (non-circulating) QH581 S275 1967, QH331 S3 1946; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH331 S37 1967; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH331 S23 1967 and QH331 946S
Orbis keyword:what and life and schrodinger
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1964) [See also Spring 2000.]: BASS LIBRARY Q125 S59 1963; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY Q125 S59 1963 and DO19.17; BEINECKE LIBRARY 1995 82; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Q181 S66 1959; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Q181 S56 (1960)
Orbis keyword:two and cultures and snow
Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (1975): BASS LIBRARY QP26 F68 S29 1975; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QP26 F68 S29 1975; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Biog F856 S29 1975
Orbis keyword:Rosalind and franklin and dna and Sayre
E.O. Wilson, Sociobiology (1975): BASS LIBRARY QL775 W54 1980+ and QL775 W54+; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL751 W55 1975; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QL775 W54 (LC)+; MEDICAL LIBRARY QL775 W54 1975
Orbis keyword:sociobiology and Wilson

SUMMER 2008 Recommendations

The following recommendations are taken from "The All-time essential reading list, here in one place, the 25 greatest science books ever written" by the editors of Discover magazine, introduction by Kary B. Mullis, Discover (December 2006) 27(12):58-63, 77.

Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1845) [See also Fall 2006.]: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH11 D3 2 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH11 D3 1972 2 copies; SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY S22 931W; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, stacks Hist QH11 D27 1962; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY (non-circulating) QH11 D34 1960; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY A4 23 29; BASS LIBRARY QH11 D2X 1989 3 copies; Also an online book.
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) [See also Fall 2003 and Fall 2006.]: BASS LIBRARY QH365 O2 1859A 2 copies; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH365 O2 1966; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1859B 3 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1967; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, stacks Hist QH365 O2 D37 1998; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 2003B (LC); Also an online book. (multiple editions); STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Microform (non-circulating) Fiche B1244 Fiche N.1.1.4328; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1878; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY Locked Cage (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1871, QH365 O2 1866, and QH365 O2 1861; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1873; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH365 O2 1950; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 19th cent QH365 O2 1861 and 19th Cent QH365 O2 1860; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRDARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) Rare book QH9 D25 859o and Rare book QH9 D25 859oc; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Sh31D 121 3 copies; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) 1980 290; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY (request for use at Arts of the Book) Z232 H475 Z9 D37 (LC); BASS LIBRARY QH365 O2 1959; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1959 3 copies; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QH365 O2 1959; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH365 O2 1959; BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (non-circulating QH365 O2 2003 (LC); STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Arts of the Book (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1936B (LC); LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY A4 23 11; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH365 O2 1909; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 19th cent QH365 O2 1874 and 19th cent QH365 O2 1877; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY QH365 O2 1963; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Modern Library 247; BASS LIBRARY QH365 O2 1936 4 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1936; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Philosophy Study, Room 609-610 (non-circulating) QH365 O2 1936, QH365 O2 1966; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1912; DIVINITY LIBRARY QH365 O2 1972(LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH9 D37 1972 4-5 volumes 1,2; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 19th cent QH365 O2 1888 volumes 1,2; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1900 volumes 1,2; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 19th cent QH365 O2 1893; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1931; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Stacks, LC Classification QH365 O2 1904B; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1956B; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 19th Cent QH365 O2 1899 volumes 1,2; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Stacks, LC Classification QH365 O2 1889A+ oversize, QH365 O2 1889A; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1873B, QH365 O2 1911, QH365 O2 1890, QH365 O2 1880; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) 2000 2294; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 19th cent QH365 O2 1888 volumes 1,2; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) 1975 783 volumes 1,2; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 Os 1956A, QH365 O2 1968; SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY QH365 O2 1967; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Linonia and Brothers Room AC1 G74 1990 49 (LC)
Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) (1687) [See also Fall 2003.]: MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Stacks Hist QB41 G36 1953; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRDARY, Stacks, LC Classification QB41 G321; BASS LIBRARY QB41 G321 1967 4 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB41 G321 1967 (LC)
Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelstium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) (1543) [See also Fall 2003.]: MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) Classics 2 copies; SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY WE 3790; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) QB41 C66 1617, QB41 C663+ oversize; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB41 C64 1543 A+ oversize; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB3 C6713 1978+ oversize; ASTRONOMY LIBRARY, Room 217 Gibbs (non-circulating) QB41 C7613 1976 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB41 C6413 1976
Aristotle, Physica (circa 330 B.C.): STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Stacks, LC Classification PA3895 A3 1961 7:1:1; CLASSICS LIBRARY (non-circulating) Gf0.84 i879; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY Gfa84 i879 (bound with other titles); STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Stacks, Yale Classification GFa84 1936b; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY PA3895 A3 1961 7:1:1-7:2
Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) (1543) [See also Fall 2003.]: MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 16th cent Vesalius VI, A-2; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Stacks Hist QM25 V48 1972+ oversize; BASS LIBRARY QM101 V4713 1998+ oversize, QM151 V47X13 1999+ oversize; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 16th cent Vesalius +V1.A-20 1998; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Stacks Hist AM101 V47 1998+ oversize, Hist Qm151 V4713 1999+ oversize; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 16th cent Vesalius +V1.A-21 1999
Albert Einstein, Relativity: the special and general theory (1916) [See also Fall 2003.]: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC6 E352 1920, QC6 E352 1947; SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY, Mathematics Collection, 3rd floor P+AM Ei68r 1920; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC173.55 E384513 2005 (LC), QC6 E352 1920B 2 copies; ASTRONOMY LIBRARY, Room 217 Gibbs (non-circulating) QC173.55 E3845X13 1931 (LC); LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QU72 Ei68uE; SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY, Mathematics Collection, 3rd floor P+Am Ei68r 1920; BASS LIBRARY QC6 E4213 1961 2 copies; ASTRONOMY LIBRARY, Room 217 Gibbs (non-circulating) QC6 E5; BASS LIBRARY QC173.55 E36X13 2001 3 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC173.55 E3613X 2001 (LC), QC173.55 E384513X 2006 (LC)
Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene (1976) [See also Fall 2006.]: SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY QH437 D38 1978 (LC); BASS LIBRARY QH437 D38 1989; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH437 D38 1976, QH437 D38X 2006 (LC); MEDICAL LIBRARY QH437 D38 1976
George Gamow, One Two Three ... Infinity (1947) [See also Spring 2000.]: STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Stacks, Yale Classification A6a 947g; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY Q162 G36 1962 (LC)
James D. Watson, Double Helix (1968) [See also Summer 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2006.]: FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QD341 A2 W38; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QP551 W37 1968 3 copies, QP551 W37 1980 2 copies; BASS LIBRARY QH450.2 W37 4 copies, QH450.2 W37 1980 2 copies
Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life? (1944) [See also Spring 2000 and Fall 2006.]: KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH331 S3 2 copies, QH581 S275 1967, QH331 S3 1946; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Locked Cage (non-circulating) QH331 S3; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH331 S37 1967; MEDICAL LIBRARY QH331 S23 1967, QN331 946S; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QH331 S37 3 copies
Edward O. Wilson, Insect Societies (1971) [See also Spring 2000.]: BASS LIBRARY QL785.5 I45 W55+ oversize; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QL496 W55 (LC)+ oversize; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL496 W55 1971+ oversize 2 copies
Steven Weinberg, First Three Minutes (1977): ASTRONOMY LIBRARY, Room 217 Gibbs (non-circulating) QB981 W48 (LC); GEOLOGY LIBRARY QB981 W48 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QB981 W48 1977 2 copies; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Stacks, LC Classification QB981 W48; BASS LIBRARY QB981 W48 1993 2 copies; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY AB981 W48 1993 3 copies
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) [See also Spring 2000 and Fall 2006.] For copies in non-English languages see Orbis.: BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) ZA C239 962Sb, ZA C239 962Sf; ORNITHOLOGY LIBRARY (non-circulating) SB959 C3 1964; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Za C239 962 Sc, Za C239 962S, Za C239 962Se, Za C239 962Sd; BASS LIBRARY SB959 C37 4 copies; EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY SB959 C3; FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY SB959 C37 (LC) 2 copies(br>; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY, Permanent Reserve SB959 C37 1962; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Za C239 962Cg, Za C239 962Sj; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY SB959 C27 2002 (LC); BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) sound recording Za8 A1986S
Stephen Jay Gould, Mismeasure of Man (1961) [See also Fall 2006.]: BASS LIBRARY BF431 G69 1996 (LC) 3 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY BF431 G69 1996 (LC), BF431 G69 1981 (LC); MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Stacks Hist BF431 G68 1981; SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY BF431 G69 1981 (LC); LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY BF431 G69X 1981 (LC); STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Stacks, LC Classification BF431 G69 1981 (LC)
Oliver Sacks, Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales: LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY RC351 S195X 1998 (LC); BASS LIBRARY RC351 S195 1981 (LC) 2 copies; DIVINITY LIBRARY RC351 S23 1981; BASS LIBRARY RC351 S195 1985 (LC)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Journals of Lewis and Clark (1814): BASS LIBRARY F592.4 1964B (LC) 3 copies, F592.4 1989A (LC), F592.4 1953; STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY F592.4 1953 (LC), F592.4 1997 (LC); BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Zc10 +989Leb
Richard P. Feynman, Feynman Lectures on Physics (1963): ASTRONOMY LIBRARY, Room 217 Gibbs (non-circulating) QC23 F49 1966+ oversize 3 volumes; GEOLOGY LIBRARY QC23 F49 1966+ oversize 3 volumes; ASTRONOMY LIBRARY, Room 217 Gibbs (non-circulating) QC23 F49 1965 (LC)+ oversize 3 volumes; ENGINEEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY QC23 F4+ oversize 3 volumes, 3 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QC23 F49 1965+ oversize 3 volumes; BASS LIBRARY QC21.2 F49X 2006+ oversize 3 volumes; ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE LIBRARY QC21.2 f49X 1989(LC) vol 1 of 3; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY 12 sound discs AC23 F47 2003(LC)
Alfred C. Kinsey et. al., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948): BASS LIBRARY HQ18 U5 K55 1998(LC) 4 copies, HQ18 U5 K55 (LC), HQ18 U55 K55 3 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY HQ18 U5 K55 1948; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY SD60 K625s 2 copies; MEDICAL LIBRARY QP251 948K 3 copies
Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist (1983): BASS LIBRARY QL737 P96 F67 1983 3 copies; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL737 P96 F67 1983; Film Study Center DVD videodvd 1988, Video (VHS) videovhs 1988
Roy Chapman Andrews, Under a Lucky Star (1943): SEELEY MUDD LIBRARY SL2a 563
Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665): STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Microform (non-circulating) Film S2663; BEINECKE LIBRARY (non-circulating) Sh15 0162; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Histories, Locked (non-circulating) 17th cent; BASS LIBRARY QH271 H66 1665A; KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH271 H66 1665A; LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QH271 H66 1665A; MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Stacks Hist QH271 H65 1961; Also an online book.
James Lovelock, Gaia, a new look at life on earth (1979): FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LIBRARY QH313 L69 (LC); KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH313 L68 1979; GEOLOGY LIBRARY QH313 L68 1995 (LC)

FALL 2009 Recommendations

Coyne, Jerry A. Why Evolution is True. New York: Viking, 2009.
"This is the best and most recent comprehensive statement of the evidence for organic evolution in simple terms written for a lay audience. Anyone concerned with the creationism vs. evolution controversy should read it and give it to their friends." Stephen Stearns, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH366.2 C74X 2009(LC)
Williams, George C. Adaptation and Natural Selection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.
"This book did three big things. First, it exposed the logical weakness of group selection. Second, it provided the first in-depth view of life history evolution. Third, it identified the gene as the unit of selection, an insight picked up and expanded on by Richard Dawkins. It and his 1957 paper on the evolution of aging earned George membership in the National Academy." Stephen Stearns, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH546 W54 1966
BASS LIBRARY QH546 W55
LIBRARY SHELVING FACILITY QH546 W55 1967
Williams, George C., "Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence." Evolution (1957) 11:398-411.
"This is the classic paper on the evolution of aging: it contains the main ideas on why we grow old and die." Stephen Stearns, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH301 E86
Hamilton, W.D., "The moulding of senescence by natural selection." Journal of Theoretical Biology (1966) 12:12-45.
"This extension of Williams' ideas on aging provides a clear explanation of why natural selection grows less intense on older organisms." Stephen Stearns, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QH301 J69
MEDICAL LIBRARY
Maynard Smith, John. Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
"This is the founding text of evolutionary game theory, one of the cornerstones of modern ideas in behavioral ecology and evolutionary genetics." Stephen Stearns, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
BASS LIBRARY QH371 M325 1982
Kessel, Richard G. and Randy H. Kardon. Tissues and Organs a text-atlas of scanning electron microscopy. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1979.
"The micrographs are simply stunning." Mark Mooseker, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
KLINE SCIENCE LIBRARY QL807 +K47 1979

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