Suggested Reading
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Ecology
Silent Spring
- Rachel Carson
The Hidden Life of Trees
- Mark Wohlleben
Finding the Mother Tree
- Suzanne Simard
The Secret Life of Trees
- Colin Tudge
Slime
- Ruth Kassinger
Evolution
The Selfish Gene
- Richard Dawkins
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters
- Donald R. Prothero
On the Origin of Species
- Charles Darwin
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- Steve Brusatte
Graduate School Success
One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as a Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way
- William M. Chace
Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Student Guide to Graduate School
- Frederick Frank and Karl Stein
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
- Robert Peters
On Becoming a Biologist
- John Janovy Jr.
General Biology
Coming Soon
Health Science
I Contain Multitudes
- Ed Yong
Health & Wellness
The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research
- Martin A. Schwartz
Other Science
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
- J. Craig Venter
The Blind Watchmaker
- Richard Dawkins
What if? Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- Randall Munroe
Other Non-Fiction
Coming Soon
Pedagogy
Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students
- Norman Eng
Teach Students How to Learn
- Saundra Yancy McGuire
How Learning Works
- Susan Ambrose and Michael Bridges
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Paulo Freire
Teaching to Transgress
- Bell Hooks
Politics & Policy
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
- Barbara F. Walter
Skill Building
Coming Soon
Textbooks
Multivariate Statistical Methods: A Primer
- Bryan F.J. Manly & Jorge A. Navarro Alberto
UofL Biology Department Books
Principles of Animal Behavior [4th Ed.]
- Lee Dugatkin
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
- Lee Dugatkin
Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others
- Lee Dugatkin
The Prince of Evolution
- Lee Dugatkin
Evolution [2nd Ed.]
- Carl T. Bergstrom and Lee Dugatkin
Mr. Jefferson and the Guant Moose: Natural History in Early America
- Lee Dugatkin
Game Theory and Animal Behavior
- Lee Dugatkin and Hudson Reeve
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans
- Lee Dugatkin
The Altruism Equation
- Lee Dugatkin
Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology
- Lee Dugatkin
Evolution of Infectious Disease
- Paul Ewald
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
- Paul Ewald
Writing & Reading
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
- Paul J. Silva
The Dissertation Warrior: The Ultimate Guide to Being the Kind of Person Who Finishes a Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis
- Guy E. White
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
- Charles von Doren and Mortimer J. Adler
The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars
- Betty S. Lai