Book Reviews at the Bioscience Resource Project

Some of the finest books ever written on Science and Agriculture are reviewed here.

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Agriculture titles

The Unsettling of America
 by Wendell Berry
The relationship between farmers and agricultural science is the subject of Wendell Berry's classic book.

The Killing of the Countryside
by Graham Harvey
An ecological history of the British agricultural landscape.

Food is different: Why we must get the WTO out of agriculture
by Peter Rosset
Free trade from the point of view of agriculture.

General Science titles

Biology as Ideology: The doctrine of DNA
by Richard Lewontin
In the six short chapters contained in Biology as Ideology, Richard Lewontin, a renowned geneticist, sets about clarifying the relationship between genes, society and genetics. In particular, he scrutinises the dominance acquired by genetic determinism as a mechanism of causation.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Science
by Jerome Ravetz
Philosophy and sociology of science have much of interest to say about modern science. Read a short and up-to-date guide to current issues. Required reading for scientists with no background in philosophy of science.

The River
by Edward Hooper
In the 1950s and 1960s millions of people in central and western Africa were the subjects of experimentation with live polio vaccines. These programmes may have used local chimpanzee tissues to culture the vaccines. Could HIV have been the result?