Biology Digest Book Reviews
Volume 30 2003/2004
September 2003
Blood & Guts: A Short History of Medicine, Roy Porter, 2003, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Weeds in My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants, Charles B. Heiser, 2003, Timber Press
Thinking about Biology, Stephen Webster, 2003, Cambridge University Press
What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life, Gilbert Waldbauer, 2003, Harvard University Press
Sleep and Rest in Animals, Corine Lacrampe, 2003, Firefly Books, Ltd.
October 2003
Slipper Orchids of Vietnam: With an Introduction to the Flora of Vietnam, Leonid Averyanov, Phillip Cribb, Phan Ke Loc, Nguyen Tien Hiep, 2003, Timber Press, Inc.
Sex Wars: Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex Ratios, Michael E. N.,Majerus, 2003, Princeton University Press
In the Blink of an Eye, Parker Andrew, 2003, Perseus Publishing
Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease, Jonathan A. Edlow, 2003, Yale University Press
Bat Ecology, Thomas H. Kunz, M. Brock Fenton, 2003, University of Chicago Press
November 2003
The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism, Patricia Stacey, 2003, Da Capo Press
Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion, Brian Alexander, 2003, Basic Books
The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth, Barbara Seaman, 2003, Hyperion
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World, Ian R. Hall, Steven L. Stephenson, Peter K. Buchanan, Wang Yun, Anthony L. J. Cole, 2003, Timber Press
The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf: Back to the Blue, Bobbie Holaday, 2003, University of Arizona Press
December 2003
An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms, Robert Lee Riffle, Paul Craft, 2003, Timber Press, Inc.
Wonderwalks: The Trails of New Jersey Audubon, Patricia Robinson, 2003, Plexus Publishing, Inc.
Owls of the World: Their Lives, Behavior and Survival, James R. Duncan, 2003, Firefly Books, Ltd.
Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives, Norman C. Ellstrand, 2003, Johns Hopkins University Press
The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male & Female Brain, Simon Baron‑Cohen, 2003, Basic Books
January 2004
Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth, Douglas Palmer, 2003, University of California Press
Who Owns Life?, David Magnus, Arthur Caplan, Glenn McGee, 2002, Prometheus Books
Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth, Laura Dassow Walls, 2003, Cornell University Press
Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations, Edward F. Pace‑Schott, Mark Solms,
Mark Blagrove, Stevan Harnad, 2003, Cambridge University Press
Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, 2003, University of California Press
February 2004
The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought, Gary Marcus, 2004, Basic Books
The Biology of Death: Origins of Mortality, Andre Klarsfeld, Frederic Revah , 2004, Cornell University Press
A Brand‑New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal, Tim Birkhead, 2003, Basic Books
Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation, Kristen Albrecht Llamas, 2003, Timber Press
Blood Evidence: How DNA Is Revolutionizing the Way We Solve Crimes, Henry C. Lee, Frank Tirnady, 2003, Basic Books
March 2004
The Oxytocin Factor: Tapping the Hormone of Calm, Love, and Healing, Kerstin Uvnès‑Moberg, 2003, Da Capo Press
The Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer, Dietland Muller‑Schwarze, Lixing Sun, 2003, Cornell University Press
Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California, Richard P. Hilton, 2003, University of California Press
Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology, Richard C. Francis, 2003, Princeton University Press
The Natural History of Madagascar, Steven M Goodman, Jonathan P. Benstead, 2004, University of Chicago Press
April 2004
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity, Joseph Dumit, 2004, Princeton University Press
Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology, Thomas Bernauer, 2004, Princeton University Press
Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins, Jeanette A Thomas, Cynthia F. Moss, Marianne Vater, 2004, University of Chicago Press
The Atlantic Forest of South America: Biodiversity Status, Threats, and Outlook, Carlos Galindo‑Leal, Ibsen de Gusmao Cëmara, 2003, Island Press
Amazonia: The Land, the Wildlife, the River, the People, Afonso Capelas, Jr., 2003, Firefly Books
May 2004
Iguanas: Biology and Conservation, Allison C. Alberts, Ronald L. Carter, William K. Hayes, Emilia P. Martins, 2004, University of California Press
Medicinal Plants of the World: An Illustrated Scientific Guide to Important Medicinal Plants and Their Uses, Ben‑Erik van Wyk, Michael Wink, 2004, Timber Press
The Natural History of a Garden, Colin Spedding, Geoffrey Spedding, 2003, Timber Press
Introduction to Population Biology, Dick Neal, 2004, Cambridge University Press
Deeper than Darwin, John F. Haught, 2003, Westview Press