Bookshelf of Recommendations

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

Microbes

• O’Malley. Philosophy of Microbiology.
  
• Kirchman. Processes in Microbial Ecology.
• Ingraham. March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen.
  
• Kolter and Chimileski. Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World.

Plants

• Karban. Plant Sensing & Communication.
  
• Trewavas. Plant Behavior & Intelligence.

Agriculture

• Denison. Darwinian Agriculture: How Understanding Evolution Can Improve Agriculture.
  
• Smil. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production.

Pedagogy

• Brown, Roediger III, & McDaniel. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.

Biology

• Kozo-Polyansky. Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution.
• Shapiro. Evolution: A View from the 21st Century
• Sapp. Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis.
• Levins and Lewontin. The Dialectical Biologist.

Complex Systems

• Bechtel and Richardson. Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research.
• Wimsatt. Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality.