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Barnes, R. S. K., ed. The Diversity of Living Organisms. Blackwell, 1998. Quick reference guide on all living organisms.

Liebes, Sidney, and others. A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us, the Evolution of Life on Earth. Wiley, 1998. Lavishly illustrated accompaniment to an exhibition of the same name.

Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan. What Is Life? University of California Press, 2000. A renowned biologist and science writer explore the nature of life.

Moore, John Alexander. Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology. Harvard University Press, 1993,1999. History of selected ideas in biology.

O'Daly, Anne, ed. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Marshall Cavendish, 1996. All aspects of biology for young adults.

Ridley, Matt. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. HarperCollins, 2000. A science writer's guide to the Human Genome Project and human chromosomes, for a general audience.

Smith, John Maynard, and Eors Szathmary. The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language. Oxford University Press, 1999. The development of complexity in life forms, dense but accessible to the general reader.

Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. Reprint, Penguin , 1995. Observations and reflections of a biologist; a classic first published in 1974.

Watson, James. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Reprint, NAL, 1991. First-personal narrative of one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, first published in 1968.

For younger readers

Hoagland, Mahlon. The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along. Times, Crown, 1995. 1998. For high school readers.

Kramer, Stephen. Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Robinson, Richard, ed. Biology. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference, 2001. Alphabetically arranged entries for readers in grade 7 and up.

Silverstein, Alvin, and others. Symbiosis. Twenty-First Century, 1998. From the Science Concepts series for middle school readers.

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