extended reading for sixth form: biology as and a level
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Extended Reading for Sixth Form
Biology AS & A Level
Climbing Mount Improbable
By Richard Dawkins
Almost Like a Whale
By Steve Jones
The Blind Watchmaker
By Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor's Tale
By Richard Dawkins
The Chemistry of Life
By Steven P.R. Rose
Corvus
By Esther Woolfson
NF 576.8 JON NF 576.83 DAW
NF 572 ROS NF 575.0162 DAW
NF 576.8 DAW
NF 598.864 WOO
The Dominant Animal
By Paul R. Ehrlich
NF 573 EHR
The Greatest Show on Earth
By Richard Dawkins
NF 576.8 DAW
The Incredible Unlikeness of Being
By Alice Roberts
NF 599.938 ROB
A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology
By Jim Endersby
NF 576.509 END
NF 547.596 WAT
The Double Helix
By James D. Watson
The Diversity of Life
By Edward O. Wilson
NF 333.95 WIL
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
An extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world
“A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book”
- Hilary Mantel, Guardian
“A fine book…a gripping read…The book has deservedly been a huge bestseller in the
US. It should be here too.”
- Sunday Times
NF 616.027 SKL
Genome
By Matt Ridley
NF 599.93 RID
Life Unfolding
By Jamie A. Davies
NF 612.6 DAV
Oxygen:
the Molecule that Made the World
By Nick Lane
Explores the strange and Profound effects that oxygen has had on the evolution of life and death, explaining how oxygen became the foundation for biological complexity.
“A worthy effort with a clearly argued message,
full of informative and
entertaining details.”
- American Scientist NF 546.721 LAN
Life Ascending
By Nick Lane
NF 576.8 LAN
A Life Decoded
By J. Craig Venter
NF 572.86 VEN
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
By Karl R. Popper
NF 501.8 POP
The Rise and Fall of
the Third Chimpanzee
By Jared Diamond
NF 575 DIA
River Out of Eden
By Richard Dawkins
NF 576.8 DAW
The Red Queen
By Matt Ridley
NF 599.938 RID
Symbiotic Planet
By Lynn Margulis
Wonderful life
By Stephen Jay Gould
Y: the Descent of Men
By Steve Jones
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
By Mick O’Hare
The Selfish Gene
By Richard Dawkins
A Troublesome Inheritance
By Nicholas J. Wade
What is Life?
By Addy Pross
NF 599.938 WAD NF 576.85 MAR NF 576.8 DAW
NF 570.1 PRO
NF 599.938 JON NF 576.8 GOU NF 590 OHA
Uncle Tungsten
By Oliver W. Sacks
Neurologist and storyteller Oliver Sacks recalls his childhood fascination for numbers, metals, and natural patterns, and tells how he was encouraged by his uncle Dave, a light bulb manufacturer known as “Uncle Tungsten,” to investigate the myster-ies of chemistry.
“If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change
your mind.”
- The Times NF 616.8092 SAC
Image Source: Amazon.co.uk February 2016