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Botany

Built by Animals

Built by Animals

Author: Mike Hansell
Description: The natural history of animal architecture
Reviewed By: Spinney
Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish

Author: Neil Shubin
Description: A look at the discovery of Tiktaalik, and how we are related to it and to fish.
Reviewed By: Spinney
What Evolution Is

What Evolution Is

Author: Erns Mayr
Description: All about evolution and how we understand it today
Reviewed By: Spinney
The Secret Life of Trees

The Secret Life of Trees

Author: Colin Tudge
Description: All about trees, how they live and why they matter
Reviewed By: Spinney
The Emerald Planet

The Emerald Planet

Author: David Beerling
Description: How plants changed Earth's history
Reviewed By: Spinney

The Worst Journey in the World / The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard / Steinbeck/Ricketts
Description: Two books, two classic field trips.
Reviewed By: Tam
What Does a Martian Look Like?

What Does a Martian Look Like?

Author: Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
Description: Xenobiology and much more.
Reviewed By: Tam
Complexity

Complexity

Author: M. Mitchell Wardrop
Description: The early years of the Santa Fe Institute and its groundbreaking studies of life, emergent phenomena, artificial life and economics.
Reviewed By: Andy
Chloroform:  The Quest for Oblivion

Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion

Author: Linda Stratmann
Description: Account of the anaesthetic vapour.
Reviewed By: tam
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Author: Donald R. Prothero
Description: A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the fossil evidence for evolution.
Reviewed By: AnneRNW
The Molecule Hunt

The Molecule Hunt

Author: Martin Jones
Description: An account of the use of molecular biology techniques in archaeology.
Reviewed By: Tam
Life at the Extremes - The Science of Survival

Life at the Extremes - The Science of Survival

Author: Frances Ashcroft
Description: A very readable account of how humans and other anmals survive (or not!) in extremes of temperature and pressure.
Reviewed By: Spinney
The Shocking History of Phosphorus:  A Biography of the Devil's Element

The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil's Element

Author: John Emsley
Description: Popular scientific account of the element.
Reviewed By: tam
The Plague Race

The Plague Race

Author: Edward Marriott
Description: An account of the identification of the cause of bubonic plague
Reviewed By: Tam
Still Me

Still Me

Author: Christopher Reeve
Description: Autobiography.
Reviewed By: Tam
The Piltdown Men

The Piltdown Men

Author: Ronald Millar
Description: An account of the Piltdown Man fraud.
Reviewed By: Tam
Ancient Medicine

Ancient Medicine

Author: Vivian Nutton
Description: Medicine from before Hippocrates to the end of the Roman Empire.
Reviewed By: Tam
Nightingales:  Florence and her Family

Nightingales: Florence and her Family

Author: Gillian Gill
Description: Biography and contextual study of Florence Nightingale.
Reviewed By: Tam
Wild Flowers of Britain

Wild Flowers of Britain

Author: Roger Phillips
Description: Photographic Flora
Reviewed By: Tam

The Life That Lives On Man

Author: Michael Andrews
Description: The ecology of the human skin.
Reviewed By: Tam
The Dinosaur Hunters

The Dinosaur Hunters

Author: Deborah Cadbury
Description: The story of the rivalry between Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen, over the interpretation of fossil dinosaur bones.
Reviewed By: Spinney
The Father of Forensics

The Father of Forensics

Author: Colin Evans
Description: Biography of Sir Bernard Spilsbury.
Reviewed By: Tam
Trilobite!

Trilobite!

Author: Richard Fortey
Description: Everything you ever wanted to know about trilobites!
Reviewed By: Spinney
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus

Author: Robert S Desowitz
Description: An account by a respected epidemiologist of the current problems as tropical diseases appear in temperate climes.
Reviewed By: Tam
Hostile Habitats – Scotland's Mountain Environment

Hostile Habitats – Scotland's Mountain Environment

Author: Nick Kempe and Mark Wrightham (eds)
Description: A description of the mountain environments and wildlife of Scotland's mountains.
Reviewed By: Spinney
Why Intelligent Design Fails

Why Intelligent Design Fails

Author: Matt Young & Taner Edis (eds)
Description: A series of essays of scientific analysis about the claims of the Intelligent Design movement.
Reviewed By: Spinney
The Human Body Book

The Human Body Book

Author: Steve Parker
Description: A lavishly illustrated guide to the structure and function of the organ systems in the human body.
Reviewed By: AnneRNW
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