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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
by Brenda Maddox  Publisher Comments The untold story of the woman whose role in the discovery of DNAUs structure is one of the most fascinating and controversial in modern science, is told here by the prize-winning author of "Nora: The Real Molly Bloom." Photo inserts....
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Darwin & the Barnacle
by Rebecca Stott Publisher Comments PAIRING CHARLES DARWIN and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott has written an absorbing work of history that guides readers through the treacherous shoals of nineteenth-century biology. Beginning her scientific...
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Naturalist (94 Edition)
by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments Recalling his life from a childhood exploring the Gulf Coast of Alabama to a career as a renowned professor at Harvard, Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson details how a boyhood enchantment with nature became a lifelong calling. Thoughtful and utterly...
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Watching: Encounters with Humans and Other Animals
by Desmond Morris Publisher Comments The long-awaited autobiography of Britain's best-known zoologist and natural historian. It is an irresistible blend of memoir, adventure and travel, with touching and often hilarious anecdotes and encounters with beasts. There will be an extensive...
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Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
by Deborah Blum 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index....
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Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
by Evelyn Fox Keller About the Author Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor of History and Philosophy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at M.I.T....
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What Mad Pursuit?: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
by Francis Crick Publisher Comments Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA....
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Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life
by Geerat Vermeij Book News Annotation The autobiography of this evolutionary biologist and paleontologist (blind since the age of four), reveals how he overcame his presumed handicap and profited from it, developing an awareness of details completely apart from a reliance on vision...
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Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
by Kenneth R Manning Publisher Comments This is a biography which illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of...
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Rosalind Franklin & DNA
by Anne Sayre
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
by Brenda Maddox
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Chase, Chance, & Creativity
by James H Austin
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Toward the habit of truth :a life in science
by Mahlon Hoagland Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index....
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Restless Energy a Biograp :william Rowan
by Marianne Ainley Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-361) and index....
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The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintockus Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control
by Nathaniel C Comfort Publisher Comments This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902P1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes,...
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On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West
by Barbara R Stein Publisher Comments The biography of Annie Alexander (1867-1950), an adventurous, independent woman, amateur naturalist, intrepid collector of mammals and fossils, she was the founder and patron of two natural history museums at the UC, Berkeley, and remains an inspiration...
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Louis Agassiz 2 Volumes His Life & Correspond
by Louis Agassiz
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Forgotten Naturalist in Search of Alfred
by John G Wilson
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Memories
by Julian Huxley
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No Ordinary Mike
by Eric Damer
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