Biology: properties of organisms: General resources

Arndt, Ingo & Jürgen Tautz, Animal architecture, Abrams, QL756.A7613 2013

Collias, Nicholas E. & Elsie C. Collias, Nest building and bird behavior, Princeton University Press, QL675.C65 1984

Frisch, Karl von, Animal architecture, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, QL756.F7413

Gould, James L., Animal architects: building and the evolution of intelligence, Basic Books, QL756.G57 2007

Hansell, Hansell, Built by animals: the natural history of animal architecture, Oxford University Press, 2007 (via Ebrary)

Boden, Margaret A., The Philosophy of Artificial Life, Oxford University Press, BD418.8.B63 1996

Emmeche, Claus, Garden in the machine: the emerging science of artificial life, Princeton University Press, QH324.2.E4613 1994

Langton, Christopher G., Artificial Life, MIT Press, QH324.2.A74 1995

Riskin, Jessica, Genesis redux: essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life, University of Chicago Press, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)

Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, Oxford (part of the Future of Humanity Institute)

Whitelaw, Mitchell, Metacreation: art and artificial life, MIT Press, NX650.A67W48 2004

Donglu, Shi, Introduction to Biomaterials, World Scientific, 2005 (ebook via Ebrary)

Forbes, Peter, The Gecko's foot: bio-inspiration: engineering new materials from nature, W. W. Norton, T173.8.F63 2006

Williams, David F., Biomaterials, Elsevier, 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

National Research Council, Inspired by biology: from molecules to materials to machines, National Academies Press, 2008 (ebook via Ebrary)

Aranoff, Shara, et al., Industrial biotechnology, Nova, 2009 (ebook via Ebrary)

Biospace life sciences news & jobs

Biotechnology Innovation Organization (formerly the Biotechnology Industry Organization)

Fukuyama, Francis, Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, TP248.2.F84 2002

Johnson, Arthur T., Biology for engineers, CRC Press, TA164.J64 2011

Landecker, Hannah, Culturing life: how cells became technologies, Harvard University Press, 2007 (ebook via Ebrary)

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ternaux, Elodie, Industry of nature: another approach to ecology, Frame Publishers, QH541.T468 2012

Afzelius, Björn, Anatomy of the cell, University of Chicago Press, QH581.A2813

Becker, Wayne M., et al., The world of the cell, Benjamin Cummings, QH581.2.B43 2009

Hill, Mark, “Cell biology Wiki,” including lecture notes, exercises, visuals

Skloot, Rebecca, “Henrietta Lacks: a donor's immortal legacy,” NPR, February 2, 2010

Berkes, Fikret, et al., Navigating social-ecological systems: building resilience for complexity and change, Cambridge University Press, HM861.N38 2002

Gilbert, Scott F., et al., “A Symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals,” The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2012, p. 325-341 (PDF via Jstor)

Human Microbiome Project, National Institute of Health

Levin, Simon A., et al., The Princeton Guide to Ecology, Princeton University Press,2009 (ebook via Ebrary)

Molles, Manuel C., Ecology: concepts and applications, McGraw-Hill, QH541.M553 2009

Parris, Kirsten M., Ecology of Urban Environments, John Wiley & Sons, 2016 (ebook via Ebrary)

Terrestrial ecoregions, World Wildlife Fund

Calcott, Brett, et al., The Major transitions in evolution revisited, MIT Press 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

Darwin, Charles & Mark Ridley, The Darwin Reader, 2^nd ed., QH365.D25D37 1996

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish gene, Oxford University Press, QH437.D38 2006

Scientific American (ed.), Evolution: a Scientific American reader, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (ebook via Ebrary)

Prothero, Donald R. & Carle Dennis Buell, Evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters, Columbia University Press, QE721.2.E85P76 2007

Capman, Audrey R. & Mark S. Frankel, Designing our descendants: the promise and perils of genetic modifications, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (ebook via Ebrary)

Lim, Hwa A., Multiplicity yours: cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine, World Scientific, 2006 (ebook via Ebrary)

National Science Foundation, Genetically engineered crops: experiences and prospects, National Academies Press, 2016

Rees, Andy, Genetically modified food: a short guide for the confused, Pluto Press, 2006 (ebook via Ebrary)

Watson, James D., The Double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, Antheneum, QD341.A2 W315

Aristotle & A. S. L. Farquharson, On the gait of animals, circa 350 BCE (ebook via Ebrary)

Braun, Marta, Picturing time; the work of Étienne-Jules Marey, University of Chicago Press, TR840.B73 1992

Motion capture database (Carnegie Mellon University)

Muybridge, Eadweard & Robert Taft, The Human figure in motion, Dover, QP301.M85 1955

Muybridge, Eadweard, Animals in motion, Dover, QP301.M84 1957

Nagai, Minoru, Thinking Fluid Dynamics with Dolphins, IOS Press, 2002 (ebook via Ebrary)

Woiwood, Ian, Insect movement, Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International, 1999 (ebook via Ebrary)

Cazort, Mimi, et al., The Ingenious machine of nature: four centuries of art and anatomy, National Gallery of Canada, NC760.C39 1996

Dickison, William C., Integrative plant anatomy, Academic Press, 2000 (ebook via Ebrary)

E-Skeletons Project (University of Texas, Austin)

Egmond, Egmond & Peter Mason, Mammoth and the mouse: microhistory and morphology, Johns Hopkins University Press, D16.E32 1997

Fahn, A., Plant anatomy, Pergamon Press, QK641.F313 1990

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von & Gordon L. Miller, The Metamorphosis of plants, MIT Press, 1790 (ebook via Ebrary)

Gray, Henry, & Warren H. Lewis, Anatomy of the human body, Lea & Febiger, 1918  (illustrations via Bartleby.com)

Haeckel, Ernst, et al., Art Forms In Nature, Prestel, QH46.H813 1998

McGowan, Christopher, Diatoms to dinosaurs: size and scale of living things, Island Press, QL799.M38 1994

Minelli, Alessandro, Development of animal form: ontogeny, morphology, and evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (ebook via Ebrary)

Owen, Richard, et al., On the nature of limbs: a discourse, University of Chicago Press, 1849 (ebook via Ebrary)

Petherbridge, Deanna, Quick and the dead: artists and anatomy, University of California Press, NC760.Q53 1997

Shubin, Neil, Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-​billion-​year history of the human body, Pantheon Books, QM26.S58 2008

Thom, René, Structural stability and morphogenesis, Addison-Wesley, QH323.5.T4813 1988

Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth, On Growth and form, Cambridge University Press, QP84.T4 1992

Craver, Carl F., Explaining the brain, Oxford University Press, 2007 (ebook via Ebrary)

Feinberg, Todd E. & Julian Paul Keenan, The Lost self: pathologies of the brain and identity, Oxford University Press, 2014 (ebook via Ebrary)

Price, J., et al., Building brains: an introduction to neural development, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

Sporns, Olaf, Networks of the brain, MIT Press, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)