The Naturalist's Booklist

Suggested Readings by Tom Eisner, Harry Greene,
and students of The Naturalist's Way (BioNB 420 Entom 494, Fall 2004)

Where to buy used books:

In Ithaca: The Bookery,

Friends of the Library Book Sale

On the web: abebooks.com

Tom Eisner's List

Berenbaum. M. R. 1993. Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers. University of Illlinois Press, Urbana, IL.

Brodo, I. M., S. D. Sharnoff and S. Sharnoff. 2001. Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Desowitz, R. S. 1981. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.

Fraenkel, G. S. and D. L. Gunn. 1940. The Orientation of Animals. Oxford University Press, London.

Fisher, H. E. 1992. Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery and Divorce. W. W. Norton, New York, NY.

Greene, H. W. 1997. Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature. University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, CA.

Gullan, P. J. and P. S. Cranston. 1994. The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. Chapman and Hall, London.

Harrow, L. 2004. What Can I Do?: An Alphabet for Living. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction, VT.

Keller, E. F. 1983. A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, CA.

Kov‡ly, H. M. 1986. Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968.

LaRoe, E. T., G. S. Farris, C. E. Puckett, P. D. Doran, and M. J. Mac (eds.). Our Living Resources: A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. US Department of Interior-National Biological Service, Washington, DC.

Leopold, Aldo. 2001. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Lindauer, M. 1971. Communication Among Social Bees. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Liittschwager , D. and S. Middleton. 2001. Remains of a Rainbow: Rare Plants and animals of HawaiÕi. National Geographic Society, Washington, DC.

Middleton, Susan and David Liittschwager. 1994. Witness. Chronicle books, San Francisco, CA.

Moorehead, A. 1966. The Fatal Impact. Mutual Publishing. Honolulu, HI.

Roeder, K. D. 1967. Insect Cells and Insect Behavior. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Weschler, L. 1990. A Miracle A Universe. Pantheon Books, New York, NY.

Wilson, E. O. 1984. Biophilia. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Wilson, E. O. 1994. Naturalist. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Harry Greene's List

Avise, J. C. 1994. Molecular markers, natural history and evolution. Chapman and Hall (I think there may be a more recent edition of this boo)

Brooks, D. R. and D. A. McLennan. 2002. The nature of diversity: an evolutionary voyage of discovery. U. Chicago Press.

Caro, T. (ed.) 1998. Behavioral ecology and conservation biology. Oxford University Press.

Conant, R., and J. T. Collins. 1998. Reptiles and amphibians of eastern/central North America. Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton Mifflin.

Eisner, T. 2003. For love of insects. Harvard University Press.

Flannery, T. 1994. The future eaters: an ecological history of the australasian lands people. George Braziller, NY.

Foreman, D. 2004. Rewilding North America: a vision for conservation in the 21st century. Island Press.

Matthiessen, P.1990. Killing Mister Watson. Vintage Books.

Peterson, D. 2001. Writing naturally: a down-to-earth guide to nature writing. Johnson Books.

Quammen, D. 1996. The song of the dodo: island biogeography in an age of extinctions. Scribner.