Recommended Readings

(Last updated on 9th June 2011)

  1. Alcock J (2001) TheTriumph of Sociobiology . Oxford University Press, Oxford
  2. Ali S (1985) The Fall of a Sparrow . Oxford University Press, Delhi
  3. Axelrod R (1984) The Evolution of Co-operation (Foreword by Richard Dawkins). Basic Books Inc., New York
  4. Ayala FJ (2007) Darwin's Gift To Science and Religion . Joseph Henry Press, Washington,D.C.
  5. Badcock C (1995) PsychoDarwinism The new synthesis of Darwin and Freud. Flamingo, London
  6. Barash D (1979) Sociobiology: The Whisperings Within. Fontana/Collins, Great Britain
  7. Barass R (1978) Scientists Must Write - A guide to better writing for scientists, engineers and students . Chapman and Hall , London
  8. Bateson P, Martin P (2000) Design For a Life - How Behaviour Develops. Vintage, London
  9. Beteille A (2006) Ideology and Social Science . Penguin Books, New Delhi
  10. Bonner JT (2002) Lives of a Biologist - Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science . Harvard University Press , Cambridge, Massachusetts
  11. Bonner JT (2009) The Social Amoebae - The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds . Princeton University Press , Princeton & Oxford
  12. Bragg M (2003) The Adventure of English - 500 AD to 2000 The Biography of a Language. Hodder & Stoughton, Great Britain
  13. Browne J (2008) Darwin's Origin of Species - A Biography . Manjul Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Bhopal, India
  14. Carson R (1967) Silent Spring. Fawcett World Library, New York
  15. Clark R (1968) The Life and Work of J.B.S.Haldane. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  16. Costa JT (2006) The Other Insect Societies . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  17. Crick F (1966) Of Molecules and Men. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
  18. Crick F (1981) Life Itself -Its Origin and Nature. Simon and Schuster, New York
  19. Crick F (1988) What Mad Pursuit - A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. Basic Books, Inc., New York
  20. Cronin H (1991) The Ant and the Peacock - Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  21. Daly M, Wilson M (1998) The Truth About Cinderella - A Darwinian View of Parental Love. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
  22. Dawkins R (1986) The Blind Watchmaker. Longman Scientific & Technical, England
  23. Dawkins R (1989) The Selfish Gene (New Edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York
  24. Day RA (1989) How to Write, Publish a Scientific Paper (Third Edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  25. Dugatkin LA (2006) The Altruism Equation - Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness . Princeton University Press , Princeton and Oxford
  26. Dyson FJ (1985) Origins of Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  27. Eastwood J (1994) Oxford Guide to English Grammar. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  28. Ehrlich A, Paul R (1981) Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species. Ballantine Books, New York
  29. Evans HE (1963) Wasp Farm. Cornell University Press., Ithaca
  30. Evans HE (1968) Life on a Little-known Planet. E.P.Dutton & Co., Inc, New York
  31. Fabre JH (1993) Insect Behaviour. Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi
  32. Fisher RA (1978) The Life of a Scientist. John Wiley & Sons, New York
  33. Fossey D (1983) Gorillas In the Mist. Penguin Books, London
  34. Fowler HW (1926) A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press , Oxford, New York
  35. Fowler HW, Fowler FG (1931) The King's English . Oxford University Press , Oxford, New York
  36. Frisch Kv (1971) Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
  37. Gaarder J (1994) Sophie's World - A Novel about the History of Philosophy (Translated by Paulette Møller). Dolphin paperback, London
  38. Gadagkar R (1997) Survival Strategies - Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies. Harvard University Press and Universities Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Hyderabad, India
  39. Gadagkar R (2001) The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata - Toward Understanding the Evolution of Eusociality. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, xiii +368pp.
  40. Garg A, Garg S (2003) A Word A Day . John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
  41. Goodall J (1988) In The Shadow of Man . Houghton Mifflin Company, Buston
  42. Griffin DR (1992) Animal Minds. The University of Chicago Press., Chicago & London
  43. Haldane JBS (1985) On Being the Right Size: And Other Essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford (Ed.)
  44. Heinrich B (1979) Bumblebee Economics. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  45. Hrdy SB (1977) The Langurs of Abu. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,USA
  46. Hrdy SB (1981) The Woman That Never Evolved. Harvard University Press., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  47. Hrdy SB (1999) Mother Nature - Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species. Ballantine Books, New York
  48. Hubbell SP (2001) The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (Monographs in Population Biology). Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
  49. Hunt JH (2007) The Evolution of Social Wasps - With a Foreword by Raghavendra Gadagkar . Oxford University Press , Oxford
  50. Jablonka E, Lamb MJ (2005) Evolution in Four Dimensions - Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  51. Joshi Y (2003) Communicating in Style. teri - The Energy and Resources Institute , Delhi
  52. Kandel ER (2006) In Search of Memory - The Emergence of a New Science of Mind . W.W.Norton & Company , New York, London
  53. Keller L, Gordon E (2009) The Lives of Ants . Oxford University Press , Oxford, New York
  54. Krebs JR, Davies NBE (1997) Behavioural Ecology - An Evolutionary Approach (Fourth Edition). Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, London
  55. Latour B, Woolgar S (1986) Laboratory Life - The Construction of Scientific Facts . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
  56. Lindauer M (1967) Communication among Social Bees. Altheneum, New York
  57. Lorenz K (1952) King Solomon's Ring - New Light on Animal Ways . Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York
  58. Martin P, Bateson P (1987) Measuring Behaviour - An Introductory Guide. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  59. Maynard Smith J (1986) The Problems of Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  60. Maynard Smith J (1993) The Theory of Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  61. Mayr E (1991) One Long Argument - Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Penguin Books, London
  62. Medawar J (1991) A Very Decided Preference : Life with Peter Medawar. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  63. Medawar PB (1979) Advice to a Young Scientist . Pan Books , London and Sydney
  64. Medawar PB (1986) Memoir of a Thinking Radish. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  65. Medawar PB, Medawar JS (1983) Aristotle to Zoos A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  66. Miller JC, van Loon B (1982) Darwin For Beginners. Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd., London
  67. Monod J (1979) Chance and Necessity : An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology. William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., Glasgow
  68. Moore R (1965) The Coil of Life. DELL Publishing Co., New York
  69. Morowitz HJ (1979) The Wine of Life and Other Essays on Societies, Energy & Living Things . Bantam Books, Inc. New York
  70. Mukherjee S (2010) The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer . Scribner - A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York
  71. Nasar S (2001) A Beautiful Mind. Faber and Faber Limited, London
  72. Nesse RM, Williams GC (1996) Evolution and Healing - The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Phoenix, London
  73. Oldroyd BP, Wongsiri S (2006) Asian Honey Bees - Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,USA
  74. Phillips K (1994) Tracking the Vanishing Frogs : An Ecological Mystery. Penguin Books U.S.A. Inc., New York
  75. Ridley M (1985) The Problems of Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  76. Russell B (1968) The Impact of Science on Society . Unwin Books , London
  77. Seeley TD (1985) Honeybee Ecology : A Study of Adaptation in Social Life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
  78. Seeley TD (1995) The Wisdom of the Hive : The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  79. Strunk Jr. W, White EB (2000) The Elements of Style (With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapater on Writing by E.B.White). Longman Publishers, New York
  80. Suri G, Bal HS (2007) A Certain Ambiguity = A Mathematical Novel. Penguin/Viking , England
  81. Sykes B (2004) Adam's Curse - A Future Without Men. Corgi Books , London
  82. Thomas L (1974) The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcher. Bantam Books, Inc., Toronto
  83. Thorpe WH (1979) The Origins and Rise of Ethology : The Science of the Natural Behaviour of Animals. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., London and Praeger Publishers, New York
  84. Truss L (2004) Eats, Shoots & Leaves - The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation . Profile Books Ltd, London
  85. Van Lawick H (1976) SOLO : The Story of an African Wild Dog Puppy and her Pack. Fontana/Collins, Great Britain
  86. Watson JD (1970) The Double Helix : A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Penguin Books Ltd., England
  87. Weiner J (1995) The Beak of the Finch. Vintage, London
  88. Williams GC (1966) Adaptation and Natural Selection - A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
  89. Wilson DS (2008) Evolution For Everyone - How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives . Delta Trade Paperbacks , New York
  90. Wilson EO (1990) Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social insects (Ed. O.Kinne). Ecology Institute, Nordbünte, Germany
  91. Wilson EO (1994) Naturalist. Island Press/ Shearwater Books , Washington, D.C. and Covelo, California
  92. Wilson EO (1999) Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge . Vintage Books, New York
  93. Wilson EO (2010) Anthill - A Novel . W.W.Norton & Company , New York
  94. Winston ML (1992) Killer Bees - The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  95. Zahavi A, Zahavi A (1997) The Handicap Principle - A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York


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