Micro - Michael Crichton [160]
This field is blessed by some of the best science writing for the general reader, as well as some of the clearest exposition for the college-level reader.
Agosta, William. Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees, A Close-up Look at Chemical Warfare and Signals in Animals and Plants. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
———. Thieves, Deceivers and Killers, Tales of Chemistry in Nature. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Arnold, Harry A. Poisonous Plants of Hawaii. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1968.
Attenborough, David. Life on Earth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
———. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Ayres, Ian. SuperCrunchers. New York: Bantam, 2007.
Ball Jr., Stuart M. Hiker’s Guide to O‘ahu. Revised edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
Baluska, Frantisek, Stefano Mancuso, and Dieter Volkmann, eds. Communication in Plants: Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2006. (Technical.)
Beerling, David. The Emerald Planet, How Plants Changed Earth’s History. New York: Oxford, 2007.
Belknap, Jody Perry, et al. Majesty: The Exceptional Trees of Hawaii. Honolulu: The Outdoor Circle, 1982.
Berenbaum, May R. Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs. New York: Perseus, 1995.
Bier, James E., et al., and the Department of Geography, University of Hawaii. Atlas of Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1973.
Bodanis, David. The Secret Garden. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Bonner, John Tyler. Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.
———. Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Bryan, William Alanson. Natural History of Hawaii. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co. Ltd., 1915. (Available on Google Books.)
Buhner, Stephen Harrod. The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002.
Chippeaux, Jean-Philippe. Snake Venoms and Envenomations. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing, 2006.
Cox, George W. Alien Species in North America and Hawaii, Impacts on Natural Ecosystems. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999.
Darwin, Charles. The Power of Movement in Plants. London: John Murray, 1880. (Available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/.)
Dicke, Marcel, and Willem Takken. Chemical Ecology, From Gene to Ecosystem. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006.
Eisner, Thomas. Eisner’s World: Life Through Many Lenses. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, 2009.
———. For Love of Insects. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Eisner, Thomas, Maria Eisner, and Melody Siegler. Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Eisner, Thomas, and Jerrold Meinwald, eds. Chemical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic Interaction. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995.
Fleming, Andrew J., ed. Intercellular Communication in Plants, Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 16. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2005.
Foelix, Rainer D. Biology of Spiders. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press—George Thieme Verlag, 1996.
Galston, Arthur W. Life Processes of Plants. New York: Scientific American, 1994.
Gotwald Jr., William H. Army Ants: The Biology of Social Predation. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Gullan, Penny J., and Peter S. Cranston. The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. 4th edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Hall, John B. A Hiker’s Guide to Trailside Plants in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2004.
Hillyard, Paul. The Private Life of Spiders. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Hölldobler, Bert, and Edward O. Wilson. The Ants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.
Homer; Robert Fagles, translator. The Odyssey. New York: Viking,