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Molecular Biology of the Cell
by Bruce Alberts
Listed under Molecular Biology
Consilience:
The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson
The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long
career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology,
entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the
humanities, and the social sciences. The result of his lifelong, wide-ranging
investigations is Consilience (the word means "a jumping together," in
this case of the many branches of human knowledge), a wonderfully broad
study that encourages scholars to bridge the many gaps that yawn between
and within the cultures of science and the arts. No such gaps should exist,
Wilson maintains, for the sciences, humanities, and arts have a common
goal: to give understanding a purpose, to lend to us all "a conviction,
far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and
can be explained by a small number of natural laws." In making his synthetic
argument, Wilson examines the ways (rightly and wrongly) in which science
is done, puzzles over the postmodernist debates now sweeping academia,
and proposes thought-provoking ideas about religion and human nature. He
turns to the great evolutionary biologists and the scholars of the Enlightenment
for case studies of science properly conducted, considers the life cycles
of ants and mountain lions, and presses, again and again, for rigor and
vigor to be brought to bear on our search for meaning. The time is right,
he suggests, for us to understand more fully that quest for knowledge,
for "Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission
natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within
ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Wilson's wisdom, eloquently
expressed in the pages of this grand and lively summing-up, will be of
much help in that search. Amazon.com
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Genes
VIII
by Benjamin Lewin
Hardcover from Prentice Hall
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Immunobiology
by Charles A., Jr. Janeway, Paul Travers, Mark Walport, Mark J. Shlomchik
Paperback from Garland Publishing
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Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (3-Volume Set)
by Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell,
Listed under Molecular Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
by Harvey F. Lodish
Listed under Molecular Biology
Essential
Cell Biology, Second Edition
by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Dennis
Bray, Karen Hopkin, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
Hardcover from Garland Science/Taylor &
Francis Group
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Molecular Biology of the Gene
by James D. Watson, et al.
Listed under Molecular Biology
Short Protocols in Molecular Biology
by Frederick M. Ausubel, et al.
Listed under Molecular Biology |
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Biology
by Peter H Raven, George B Johnson
Hardcover from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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From
Neuron to Brain
by John G. Nicholls, John G. Nicholls, Bruce G. Wallace, Paul A. Fuchs,
A. Robert Martin
Hardcover from Sinauer Associates
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