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Order Your Textbook
Each Seminars on Science course has at least one required textbook and possibly recommends others. They are listed below. Since they're an important resource, we encourage you to get your books as soon as possible after you enroll. You can purchase them from Amazon.com or another source.

The Diversity of Fishes

The Science Times Book of Fish
by Nicholas Wade, ed.
Paperback: 231 pages
Publisher: Lyons Press (September 1997)
ISBN: 1558216049


Earth: Inside and Out

The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet
by Edmond A. Mathez, James D. Webster
Hardcover: 378 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (June 2, 2004)
ISBN: 023112578X


Genetics, Genomics, Genethics

Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
by Rob DeSalle, Michael Yudell
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Wiley (September 2004)
ISBN: 0471453315


In the Field with Spiders

Spiders and Their Kin
by Herbert Levi, Lorna Levi, Herbert Zim, & Nicholas Strekalovsky
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Golden Guides (April 2001)
ISBN: 1582381569

Spiders of the World
by Rod Preston-Mafham & Ken Preston-Mafham
Hardcover: 191 pages
Publisher: Blanford (April 2003)
ISBN: 081605214X


The Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds

The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds
by Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: W H Freeman (October 1997)
ISBN: 071672944X


The Ocean System

Essentials of Oceanography
by Tom S. Garrison Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Brooks Cole (3rd edition, June 18, 2003)
ISBN: 0534392598


Sharks and Rays

Sharks in Question
by Victor G. Springer, Joy P. Gold
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press (April 1989)
ISBN: 0874748771


Space, Time and Motion

One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos
by Neil De Grasse Tyson, Robert Irion, Charles Tsun-Chu Liu
Hardcover: 218 pages
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press (March 2000)
ISBN: 0309064880
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