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Philosophy, recommended by Malcolm Richard Turner

1

What Does It All Mean?
by Nagel

2

The Dream of Reason
by Gottlieb

3

The Dream of Enlightenment
by Gottlieb

4

How the World Thinks
by Baggini

5

History of Western Philosophy
by Russell

Philosophy

by Malcolm Richard Turner

General history of biology, recommended by Malcolm Richard Turner

1

A History of Biology to About the Year 1900
by Singer

2

A History of the Life Sciences
by Magner

3

The Rise of Experimental Biology
by Lutz

4

The Biology Book
by Gerald

5

Doing Biology
by Hagen

General history of biology

by Malcolm Richard Turner

Human physiology, recommended by Malcolm Richard Turner

1

Color Atlas of Physiology
by Silbernagl & Despopoulos

2

Medical Physiology
by Boron & Boulpaep

3

Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology
by Herring & Paterson

4

Nunn's Applied Respiratory Physiology
by Lumb

5

Principles of Neural Science
by Kandel et al

Human physiology

by Malcolm Richard Turner

Physical biology, recommended by Malcolm Richard Turner

1

Life's Devices
by Vogel

2

Comparative Biomechanics
by Vogel

3

Animal Mechanics
by McNeill Alexander

4

Bionanotechnology
by Goodsell

5

Physical Biology of the Cell
by Phillips et al

Physical biology

by Malcolm Richard Turner

Biology, recommended by Malcolm Richard Turner

1

The Problems of Biology (The Problems of science)
by Maynard Smith

2

Biological Science
by Freeman

3

Exploring the Way Life Works
by Hoagland et al

4

Evolution
by Charlesworth & Charlesworth

5

Life Unfolding
by Davies

Biology

by Malcolm Richard Turner

Comparative physiology, recommended by Malcolm Richard Turner

1

How Animals Work
by Schmidt-Nielsen

2

Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment
by Schmidt-Nielsen

3

Environmental Physiology of Animals
by Willmer et al

4

Animal Physiology
by Hill et al

5

Biochemical Adaptation: Response to Environmental Challenges from Life's Origins to the Anthropocen
by Somero et al

Comparative physiology

by Malcolm Richard Turner

On Walking and Observing, recommended by PHurducas

1

Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity
by Deborah L. Parsons

2

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
by Lauren Elkin

3

The Cost of Living
by Deborah Levy

4

The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Studies in Contemporary German So
by Susan Buck-Morss

5

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
by Nan Shepherd

On Walking and Observing

by PHurducas

The Interintellect Starter Reading Kit, recommended by TheAnnaGat

1

Finite and Infinite Games
by James P. Carse

2

Gods in Everyman: Archetypes That Shape Men's Lives
by Jean Shinoda Bolen M.D.

3

The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
by Robert Axelrod

4

The Complete I Ching _ 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Translation by Taoist Master Alfred
by Taoist Master Alfred Huang

5

Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought
by Myra Strober

The Interintellect Starter Reading Kit

by TheAnnaGat

India, recommended by Aniruddha G. Kulkarni

1

The English Teacher
by R. K. Narayan

2

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
by Joseph Lelyveld

3

Raag Darbari [Paperback] [Jul 20, 2012] Shrilal Shukla and Gillian Wright (Tr.)
by Shrilal Shukla

4

India: A Wounded Civilization
by V.S. NAIPAUL

5

The Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux

India

by Aniruddha G. Kulkarni

Fantasy Treasures, recommended by Martin Mares

1

The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, 1)
by Gene Wolfe

2

The Worm Ouroboros
by E. R. Eddison

3

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
by Mervyn Peake

4

Season of Storms
by Andrzej Sapkowski

5

The Children of Húrin
by J.R.R. Tolkien

Fantasy Treasures

by Martin Mares

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