SGM book reviews - Children's and popular books
I. Haanstra Blue Henry: The Almost Forgotten Story of the Blue Glass Sputum Flask Cortex Design (2010)
R. Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Pan MacMillan (2010)
S. Sellwood Mrs. A Visits the hospital NHS (2010)
B. Dixon Animalcules: The Activities, Impacts, and Investigators of Microbes American Society for Microbiology (2009)
B. Goldacre Bad Science Fourth Estate Ltd (2008)
R. Barnett & M. Jay Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures Strange Attractor Press (2008)
D.H. Crawford Deadly Companions Oxford University Press (2007)
S. Hempel The Medical Detective Granta Books (2007)
G. Poinar Jr & R. Poinar What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous Princeton University Press (2008)
J.B. Nardi Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners University of Chicago Press (2007)
V. Smith Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity Oxford University Press (2007)
D.A. Hopwood Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine:
The Antibiotic Makers Oxford University Press (2007)
P. Laszlo Communicating Science - A Practical
Guide Springer-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (2006)
C. Wickramasinghe (Edited by K.
Wickramasinghe) A Journey with Fred Hoyle: The Search
for Cosmic Life World Scientific Publishing (UK) Ltd (2004)
A. Ullman, Ed. Origins of
Molecular Biology: A Tribute to Jacques Monod. Revised EditionAmerican
Society for Microbiology (2003)
J.M. Bishop How to Win
the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in ScienceHarvard University Press
(2003)
J. Beckwith Making Genes,
Making Waves: A Social Activist in ScienceHarvard University Press
(2002)
H. Gest Microbes: An
Invisible Universe American Society for Microbiology (2003)
E.W. Koneman The Other
End of the Microscope: The Bacteria Tell Their Own Story. A Fantasy
American Society for Microbiology (2002)
M.S. Peppler MicrobeCards
American Society for Microbiology (2002)
U. Lagerkvist Pioneers of
Microbiology and the Nobel Prize World Scientific (2003)
N. Rothwell Who Wants to
be a Scientist? Choosing Science as a CareerCambridge University Press
(2002)
Brenda Maddox Rosalind
Franklin. The Dark Lady of DNAHarper Collins (2002)
F. Balkwill, Series Editor; Illustrated by
M. Rolph Supercell. Making Sense of Science Children's
Books SeriesPortland Press (2002)
H. Harris Things Come to Life:
Spontaneous Generation Revisited Oxford University Press (2002)
P.L. Lutz The Rise of Experimental
Biology. An Illustrated History Humana Press (2002)
I. Wilmut, K. Campbell & C.
Tudge The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control
by the Scientists who Cloned DollyHeadline (2000)
W. Maas Gene Action: A
Historical AccountOxford University Press (2001)
P. Moore Super Bugs:
Rogue Diseases of the Twenty-first CenturyCarlton Books Ltd (2001)
Various authors Horrible
Science
SeriesScholastic Children's Books (1996-2001)
L.A. Garza-Valdes The
DNA of God? Hodder &Stoughton (2000)
J.D. Watson A Passion
for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society Oxford University Press (2000)
S. Ede, Ed. Strange and
Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation (UK) (2000)
D.H. Crawford The
Invisible Enemy: a Natural History of Viruses Oxford University Press
(2000)
M.B.A. Oldstone Viruses,
Plagues and History Oxford University Press (2000)
J.M.W. Slack Egg and Ego.
An Almost True Story of Life in the Biology Lab Springer (1999)
John Postgate Microbes
and Man, Fourth Edition Cambridge University Press (2000)
G. Kolata Flu: The Story
of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that
Caused It Macmillan (2000)
P.J. Gosling Scientist's
Guide to Poster
Presentations Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (1999)
M. F. Perutz I Wish I'd
Made You Angry Earlier. Essays on Science, Scientists and Humanity
Oxford University Press (1999)
P.D. Riley Biology Now!
11-14 (1) Pupil's Book (2) Teacher's Resource Book John Murray
(Publishers) Ltd (1998)
E. Schaechter In the
Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale Harvard University Press
(1998)
K.F. Kiple, Ed. Plague,
Pox and Pestilence. Disease in History Weidenfeld and Nicolson
(1997)
G.A. Fine Morel Tales:
The Culture of
Mushrooming Harvard University Press (1998)
Catherine Wilson (1995) The
Invisible World. Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the
Microscope. Princeton University Press
J. G. Gall (1996) Views of the
Cell The American Society for Cell Biology
Y. Baskin (1997) The Work of
Nature Island Press
David Bellamy. Illust. Mic Rolph, Fran
Balkwill, Ed. (1997) Poo You and the Potoroo's Loo
Portland Press Ltd
S. Rose & A. Lichtenfels. Illust. Mic
Rolph, Fran Balkwill,
Ed. (1997) Brainbox Portland Press Ltd
Elio Schaechter (1997) In the
Company of Mushrooms Harvard University Press
B. Rensberger. Illust. N. Orme (1996)
Life Itself Oxford University Press
Richard Dawkins (1996) The Evolution
of Life. PC/MAC CD-ROM Notting Hill Electronic Publishers
E. J. Wood, C. A. Smith & W. R.
Pickering (1996) Life Chemistry and Molecular Biology
Portland Press Ltd
F. Balkwill (1997) Planet
Ocean Portland Press Ltd
Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph with Victor
Darley-Usmar (1995) Microbes Bugs and Wonder Drugs: Potions to
Penicillin, Aspirin to Addiction Portland Press
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