Re: [ECOLOG-L] Looking for books to read this summer

2015-04-01 Thread Gavin Jones
E.O. Wilson's recent book, Letters to a Young Scientist is at the top of my list. Incredibly inspiring and encouraging message to folks just getting into ecological research. I've got a copy that I frequently lend to undergrads or fellow graduate students. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Jake

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Looking for books to read this summer

2015-04-01 Thread Samuel Raasch
Gavin is right, Letters to a Young Scientist is very helpful. Moreover, most of EO Wilson's books are great. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert is a quick and digestible overview of the mass extinction currently occurring on Earth. Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold is a classic

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Looking for books to read this summer

2015-04-01 Thread Malcolm McCallum
if you have not read it, The Selfish Gene. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Jake Melichar melic...@iastate.edu wrote: Hey Ecologers, I am currently an undergraduate student in biology at Iowa State University and I am trying to create a reading list for this summer over books regarding