Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

Evelyn Fox Keller

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2002; 388 pp. £19.95, hardback. ISBN 0-674-00746-8.

Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science

Jon Beckwith

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2002; 242 pp. £18.50, hardback. ISBN 0-674-00928-2.

Seeds of Concern: The Genetic Manipulation of Plants

David R Murray

CABI Publishing, Oxford. 2003; 156 pp. £19.95, paperback. ISBN 0-85199-725-2.

Introducing Genetics: From Mendel to Molecule

Alison Thomas

Nelson Thornes Ltd, UK. 2003; 216 pp. £17.00, paperback. ISBN 0-7487-6440-2.

Fungal Populations and Species

John Burnett

Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2003; 348 pp. £37.50, paperback. ISBN 0-19-851553-7.

Origin and Early Evolution of Life

Tom Fenchel

Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2003; 264 pp. £25.00, paperback. ISBN 0-19-852533-8.

Chromosomes: Organisation and Function

Adrian T Sumner

Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford. 2002; 287 pp. £29.50, paperback. ISBN 0-632-05407-7.

Principles of Genome Analysis and Genomics (3rd edn)

SB Primrose and RM Twyman

Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford. 2002; 263 pp. £29.50, paperback. ISBN 1-4051-0120-2.

Introduction to Bioinformatics: A Theoretical and Practical Approach

Stephen A Krawetz and David D Womble

Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ. 2003; 746 pp. $89.50, paperback. ISBN 1-58829-241-X.

IQ and the Wealth of Nations

Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen

Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT. 2002; 298 pp. $67.95, hardback. ISBN 0-275-97510-X.

Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome

R Scott Hawley and Michelle Y Walker

Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford. 2003; 239 pp. £54.95, paperback. ISBN 1-40510-336-1.

Human Molecular Biology: Laboratory Manual

Stefan Surzycki

Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford. 2003; 229 pp. £49.95, paperback, ringbound. ISBN 0-632-04676-7.

Mobile DNA II

Nancy L Craig, Robert Craigie, Martin Gellert and Alan M Lambowitz

ASM Press, Washington, DC. 2002; 1204 pp. $169.95, hardback. ISBN 1-55581-209-0.