Options for the chosen texts are listed in the table below. The "Available?" column indicates whether the the book has already been chosen by someone else. "Yes" in this column means that you can choose this book. To choose a book, please email Dr. Ernsting. Do not begin the book until you have received confirmation.
| Title |
Author |
Available? |
Clones, Genes, and Immortality
Ethics and the Genetic Revolution |
John Harris |
Yes |
| Chance in the House of Fate |
Jennifer Ackerman |
No |
| The Mating Mind |
Geoffrey Miller |
No |
The Broken Cord
(Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) |
Michael Dorris |
No |
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- (Paradigms and Crises)
|
Thomas Kuhn |
No |
| The Extended Phenotype (Molecular Evolution) |
Richard Dawkins |
No |
Full House
The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin |
Stephen Jay Gould |
No |
At Home in the Universe
(Life and Complexity) |
Stuart Kaufman |
Yes |
Sex on the Brain
The Biological Differences Between Men and Women |
Deborah Blum |
No |
| Silent Spring (Ecological Bellwether) |
Rachel L. Carson |
No |
Living Downstream
An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment |
Sandra Steingraber |
No |
Cadillac Desert
The American West and Its Disappearing Water |
Mark Reisner |
No |
| Fatal Sequence
|
Kevin J. Tracey |
No |
The Unsettling of America
Culture & Agriculture |
Wendell Berry |
No |
Altars of Unhewn Stone
Science and the Earth |
Wes Jackson |
No |
Encounters with the Archdruid
(Brower, Dominy, et al and the Glen Canyon Dam) |
John McPhee |
Yes |
Collapse
How Societies choose to fail or succeed |
Jared Diamond |
No |
And the Band Played on
Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic |
Randy Shilts |
No |
- A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
(Profundity in the common)
|
Aldo Leopold |
Yes |
- My Own Country
- A Doctor's Story
|
Abraham Verghese |
No |
- Monster of God:
- The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
|
David Quammen |
No |
| Curing Cancer : Solving One of the Greatest Medical Mysteries of Our Time |
Michael Waldholz |
No |
| This Is Biology : The Science of the Living World |
Ernst Mayr |
Yes |
- The Intern Blues
- The Private Ordeals of Three Young Doctors
|
Robert Marion |
No |
| Egg & Ego : An Almost True Story of Life in the Biology Lab |
J. M. W. Slack |
No |
- Darwin's Ghost
- The Origin of Species Updated
|
Steve Jones |
Yes |
| How the Mind Works |
Steven Pinker |
No |
Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
|
Carl Zimmer |
No |
| Flu : The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It |
Gina Kolata |
No |
| The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation |
Matt Ridley |
No |
| Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition. and other Confusions of our Time |
Michael Shermer |
No |
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
|
by Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont |
Yes |
| What is Art For?
Adaptive role of artistic behavior.
|
Ellen Dissanayake |
No |
| Endless Forms Most Beautiful
|
Sean B. Carroll |
No |
| The Secret Life of Lobsters |
Trevor Corson |
No |
| Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon |
Daniel Dennett |
No |
| Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life |
Robert Kohler |
Yes |
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