Seminar in Natural Science

BGS 391 / Spring 2000

Required Texts

Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald, Exploding the Gene Myth:  How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers.    Beacon Press, 1999.

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Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment.   Vintage Books, 1998.

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Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch:  A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Vintage Books, 1995.

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Recommended (Optional) Texts

Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources.  St. Martin's, 1998.

Online!

Diana Hacker, Rules For Writers:  A Brief Handbook.  Bedford Books, 1999.

Rules For Writers

All texts are available at the Roosevelt University Bookstore

Mike Bryson
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Map of Antarctica, where I did field work as part of a Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institute research group in 1991.

 

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