North Middlesex Regional High School
AP Biology 2004-05 - Mr. Virzi
Independent Reading Assignment

Due Date: Your last day of class
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This assignment will count as one test grade (100 test points) for seniors and two test grades (200 test points) for juniors.

Select books from the following list (you may also pick out your own books to read, as long as you obtain my approval). For each book, (1) write a short summary for each chapter and (2) write a 300 - word (minimum) book review and post it on the Amazon.com web site for your two books. You may either post it using your real name, or a pseudonym.

Our reading period begins Wednesday, May 10th. Bring your books to class! Penalty for not having a bookto read will be 10 test points per class.

SCIENCE READING BOOKS IN NMRHS LIBRARY

The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels (Paperback) by Freeman Dyson (Foreword), Thomas Gold



Endangered Oceans: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints) (Hardcover) by Louise I. Gerdes (Editor)



Growth And Development of Specialized Cells, Tissues, And Organs: An Anthology Of Current Thought (Contemporary Discourse in the Field of Biology) (Library Binding) by Craig C., Ph.D. Freudenrich (Editor)



The Nature of Plants: Habitats, Challenges, and Adaptations (Hardcover) by John Dawson, Rob Lucas



Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human [BARGAIN PRICE] (Hardcover) by Matt Ridley



Tears of the Cheetah: And Other Tales from the Genetic Frontier (Hardcover) by Stephen J. O'Brien



Oceans 2020: Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability (Paperback) by Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (Corporate Author), International Council of Scientific Unions Scientific Committee on oce (Corporate Author), John G. Field (Editor), Gotthilf Hempel (Editor), C. P. Summerhayes (Editor)



The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat : The Story of the Penicillin Miracle (John MacRae Books), by Eric Lax; NMRHS Library # 615.329 - LAX



Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew: A Biography, by Dietrich Stoltzenberg ; NMRHS Library # B - HAB



A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, by Michael D. Gordin ; NMRHS Library # B - MEN



The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James D. Watson ; NMRHS Library # 547.5 - WAT (2 copies)



FORCE OF NATURE - Biography of Linus Pauling, by Thomas Hager ; NMRHS Library # B - PAU



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SCIENCE READING BOOKS NOT IN NMRHS LIBRARY

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver W. Sacks



Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA, by Robert Pollack



Ether Day : The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, by J.M. Fenster



Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester



The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story, by Leonard A. Cole



Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, by Nick Lane



Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine M. Benyus



Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser



If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to Fermi's Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life, by Stephen Webb



What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Niles Eldredge



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