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Microhistories: Biology
Exhaustively researched, and usually entertaining histories of one thing.
Culture
Biology
Physical Sciences
Sea Creatures
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by
Mark Kurlansky
Call Number: 333.9566 KUR
ISBN: 9780140275018
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
by
Mark Kurlansky
Call Number: 641.694 KUR
ISBN: 9780345476388
The Founding Fish
by
John McPhee
Call Number: 597.45 MCP
ISBN: 9780374104443
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
by
Philip Hoare
Call Number: 599.5 HOA
ISBN: 9780061976216
Tuna: A Love Story
by
Richard Ellis
Call Number: 333.956783 ELL
ISBN: 9780307267153
Botany
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
by
Amy Stewart
Call Number: 338.175966 STE
ISBN: 1565124383
Genetics
The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls our Lives
by
David Bainbridge
Call Number: 611.01816 BAI
ISBN: 0674010280
Women
A History of the Breast
by
Marilyn Yalom
Call Number: 391.6 YAL
ISBN: 0679434593
Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
by
Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
Call Number: 612.662 STE
ISBN: 9780312379964
Woman: an Intimate Geography
by
Natalie Angier
Call Number: 612.62 ANG
ISBN: 0395691303
Animals
How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to our Best Friends
by
Mark Derr
Call Number: 636.709 DER
ISBN: 9781590207000
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by
Carl Zimmer
Call Number: 591.7857 ZIM
ISBN: 0684856387
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by
Robert Sullivan
Call Number: 599.3521 SUL
ISBN: 1582343853
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
by
Gordon Grice
Call Number: 591.53 GRI
ISBN: 9780385318877
Medicine
Blood and Guts: a History of Surgery
by
Richard Hollingham
Call Number: 617 HOL
ISBN: 9780312575465
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
by
Douglas Starr
Call Number: 362.1784 STA
ISBN: 067941875X
Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men who Made it
by
Julie M. Fenster
Call Number: 617.96 FEN
ISBN: 9780060195236
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it
by
Gina Kolata
Call Number: 614.518 KOL
ISBN: 9780374157067
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by
Mary Roach
Call Number: 611 ROA
ISBN: 0393050939
Rabid
by
Bill Wasik; Monica Murphy
Call Number: 614.563 WAS
ISBN: 9780670023738
Sexuality
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by
Mary Roach
Call Number: 612.6 ROA
ISBN: 9780393064643
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