Science - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on the sciences and the scientific method.
a. Biology
*Richard Lewontin/Richard Levins/Stephen Rose/Leon Kamin:
Dialectical Biologist - Lewontin/Levins
Biology Under the Influence - Lewontin/Levins
Not in Our Genes - Lewontin/Rose/Kamin
Towards A Liberatory Biology - Rose, Ed.
The Making of Memory - Rose
The Science and Politics of I.Q. - Kamin
The Conscious Brain - Rose
Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology - Rose/Rose
Biology as Ideology - Lewontin
The Doctrine of DNA - Lewontin
*Stephen J. Gould:
Ever Since Darwin
The Panda's Thumb
Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes
The Flamingo's Smile
Bully For Brontosaurus
Wonderful Life
An Urchin In The Storm
The Mismeasure of Man
Eight Little Piggies
Full House
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
*Niles Eldridge:
The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism
Unfinished Synthesis
The Myths of Human Evolution
Time Frames
Roger Lewin/Richard Leakey:
People of The Lake
Origins
Origins Reconsidered
Life at The Edge of Chaos (Lewin)
E. Mayer:
Animal Species and Evolution
The Growth of Biological Thought*
Populations, Species and Evolution
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives On The Unification of Biology
The Undiscovered Mind - John Horgan
The Language of Genes - S. Jones
*Mankind Evolving - Dobzhansky
*Lucy - Donald Johanson
*The IQ Myth - Mensh/Mensh
The Seas Around Us - Rachel Carson
Science on Trial - D. Futuyama
Science Wars - Ross
*Abusing Science - P. Kitcher
The Atheist and the Holy City - G. Klein
The Bell Curve Wars – S. Fraser, Ed.
Myths of Gender – A. Fausto-Sterling
Primate Paradigms – Fedigan
Vaulting Ambition – Kitcher
The Ontogeny of Information – S. Oyama
Sex and Friendship in Baboons – Smuts
Primate Societies – Smuts, et al. Eds.
Biological Politics – Sayers
Biology: A Self-Teaching Guide – Garber
Biological Science – Keeton
b. Physics
*Cosmos - Carl Sagan
*Order Out of Chaos - Ilya Prigogene
The Big Bang Never Happened – E. J. Lerner
The Strange Story of the Quantum – Banesh Hoffman
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics – D. Bohm
Making a New Science - Gleick
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Chaos - James Gleick
The Arrow of Time - P. Coveney/R. Highfield
The Quark and the Jaguar - M. Gell-Mann
Complexity - M. Waldrop
*Hannes Alfven:
Cosmic Plasma
On the Origin of the Solar System
Structure and Evolutionary History of the Solar System
Worlds-Antiworlds: Anti-Matter in Cosmology
*Basic Physics – Kuhn
*Physics the Easy Way – Lehrman
*Six Easy Pieces/Six Not-So-Easy Pieces – Feynman, Davies, Ed.
My View of The World – Schrodinger
Space-Time Structure – Schrodinger
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics – Schrodinger
Dreams of a Final Theory – Weinberg
*Science and The Retreat From Reason – Gillot/Kumar
Mathematics for Physicists - Dennery
Albert Einstein:
The Evolution of Physics (with Infeld)
Relativity
The Meaning of Relativity
Essays in Physics
c. Chemistry
General Chemistry - Linus Pauling
The Development of Chemical Principles – Langford/Beebe
The Historical Background of Chemistry – Leicester
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – Pauling
Modern Quantum Chemistry – Szabo
Thermodynamics of Irreversible Process – Haase
Chemistry the easy Way – Macetta
Chemistry: Concepts and Problems – Houk/Post
Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of College Chemistry - Rosenberg
d. Geology
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle - S.J. Gould
Basic Paleontology – Benton/Harper
The Earth: An introduction to Physical Geology – Tarbuck/Lutgens
Origin and Evolution: Principles of Historical Geology – Condie/Sloan
e. Mathematics
*A History of Mathematics - Boyer/Merzbach
A Concise History of Mathematics - Dirk J. Struik
Capitalism and Arithmetic - Swetz
The Art of Mathematics – King
*A-Plus Notes for Algebra – Rong yang
*College Algebra – Leff
*Algebra the Easy Way – Downing/Detrich
*Calculus the easy Way – Downing
Advanced Calculus – Widder
Basic Calculus: From Archimedes to Newton to its Role in Science – Hahn
Calculus and Analytic Geometry – Thomas
Geometry – Jacobs, Ed.
Geometry: A Comprehensive Course - Pedoe
*Schaum’s Outlines:
Theory and Problems of Beginning Linear Algebra
Theory and Problems of Matrix Operations
Theory and Problems of Differential Equations
Theory and Problems of Linear Algebra
Abstract Algebra
General Topology
Group Theory
Advanced Calculus
Outline of Calculus
Theory and Problems of Beginning Calculus
Theory and Problems of Pre-Calculus
f. Medicine
*Dangerous To Your Health - V. Navarro
*The Second Sickness - H. Waitzkin
The Social Transformation of American Medicine - P. Starr
The Youngest Science - L. Thomas
h. Science, Capitalism and Method
*The Political Economy of Science - H. Rose/S. Rose
*Science and Society - H. Rose/S. Rose
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge – di Leonardo, Ed.
*Marxism and the Philosophy of Science – Sheehan
*Marxism and Modern Science – Alan Wood
Science in History – J. D. Bernal
Reflections on Gender and Science - Keller
Feminism and Science - Tuana
The Revolutionary Ideas of Frederick Engels (International Socialism 65, 1994)
Order Out of Chaos - P. McGarr (International Socialism 48, 1990)
*The Advancement of Science - P. Kitcher
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - T. Kuhn
Martin Gardner:
Science: Good, Bad, Bogus
The New Age

