genetics books

	The Gist of Genetics: Guide to Learning and Review
	By: Rowland H. Davis, Stephen G. Weller ISBN: 0763707457 Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers Release Date: 01 December, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 721645	I've had Dr. Davis as a professor and he used this book as a reading for the course. It is very helpful and straight to the point, will help you see the big picture, as well as providing the important details. In my sophomore genetics class we used two textbooks. One is a 600 pages textbook filled with colorful pictures, the other one is the this book. After I spent hours reading and comprehending a chapter in the 600-pages tiny-font textbook, I turned to the 200-pages large-font Gist of Gennetics. And there it is, truly the gist of genetics. I regretted that I didn't read this book first but instead wasted my valuable time reading useless [junk]. The only problem is that this book is entirely black and white, with little to no picture (only has genetic diagrams). But unless you are the type who fall asleep reading b/w textbooks, this is a great book for quick understanding of basic genetics. The Gist of Genetics
	Genetic Improvement of Cattle and Sheep (Cabi Publishing)
	By: G. Simm ISBN: 0851996426 Publisher: CABI Release Date: 19 December, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 480837	This is one of the best books I have read on genetic improvement of livestock. It covers everything from basic molecular genetics to statistical analysis of genetic progress. It gives a lot of terrific examples and I think anybody who is entertaining the idea of breeding livestock or working with livestock should definitely read this book. It is much more interesting than all of the old Animal Science books that have a lot of photographs of Showring Winners and little applied science. Get This Book!
	Molecular Genetics of Plant Development
	By: Stephen H. Howell ISBN: 0521587840 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 13 July, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 764182	This is a very good book for anyone interested in the molecular basis of plant development. It contains a few errors as it was published 3 years ago, but this is still a good book if you are looking for a solid background on the current theories of molecular plant development. I can easily say that this is the best book out there by far on this material. Really, interesting and impressive book. This book shows why we have to apply molecular genetics to study plant development. The study of plant development is rapidly changing as genome sequencing projects uncover a multitude of new genes. This book provides the modern trend toward molecular genetics of plant development study through well-defined model plant system. It also gives many figures and conceptual drawings.
	Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (Inside Technology)
	By: Shobita Parthasarathy ISBN: 0262162423 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 01 April, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 835881
	Development and Evolution: Including Psychophysical Evolution, Evolution by Orthoplasy, and the Theory of Genetic Modes
	By: James Mark Baldwin ISBN: 1402160682 Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation Release Date: 22 February, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 845018
	Principles of Developmental Genetics
	By: Sally A. Moody ISBN: 0123695481 Publisher: Academic Press Release Date: 29 June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 459820
	Genetics: Analysis and Principles
	By: Robert J. Brooker ISBN: 007722972X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 11 January, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 891109	[[ASIN:1405121459 Conservation and the Genetics of Populations]][[ASIN:0716779285 Genetics: A Conceptual Approach]][[ASIN:0716799022 Introduction to Genetic Analysis]]
	The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition: From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics (Scripture)
	By: Joseph F. Kelly ISBN: 0814651046 Publisher: Liturgical Press Release Date: January, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 792769	Well researched yet very readable -- looks at developments in theology, philosophy and literature in each period of intellectual history, analyzing the ways different authors did or did not attempt to reconcile the existence (or apparent existence) of evil in the world with the classical theist concept of the omnipotent, omnibenevolent God. While the book draws on a variety of sources, each chapter goes into greater depth on two or three works or thinkers who either exemplify or stand in contrast to a particular tradition: excursi on the Marquis de Sade, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and Dostoyevski's "The Brothers Karamazov" are particularly compelling. <br /> <br />A potential weakness of this strategy is the illusion of a single thread of development, or of successive schools of thought that each characterize a particular time period. Kelly addresses this by the use of contrasting voices within each time period, and by highlighting the recurrence of particular themes or emphases across time. <br /> <br />I read this book in a seminary-level course, but think it could be enjoyed by anyone with a little background in western intellectual history. It avoids jargon, and explains technical terms when they are necessary.
	Computational Modeling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks (Computational Molecular Biology)
	By: James M. Bower, Hamid Bolouri ISBN: 0262524236 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 01 March, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 778044	Regulatory networks are central to every aspect of computational biology. Determining what they are, and what genes, proteins, and post-translational modifications interact is a major and exciting field of study.<p>I just didn't come away from this book with that excitement. I was hoping for more about the large-scale regulation networks, but these papers go down to the quantum mechanics of interactions between pairs of molecules. I appreciate that the exact interactions matter, and that computation is probably the only way to examine some kinds of interactions (e.g. the ones in lethal mutations). It's just not what I think of as a "network."<p>I was also hoping for some more specifics about the computation techniques. There were some interesting insights here. For example, I never thought about the similarities between steady state chemical equilibrium and steady state Markov model behavior before, but the formalisms have striking similarities. I was also interested in some of the information-based measures for determining how well a model represents a system. I learned that the statistical assumptions behind normal chemical "equilibrium" break down at the scale of bacteria - instead, presence or absence of individual molecules matters more. Still, those were isolated kinds of facts and never came together into a whole for me.<p>The range of views was worthwhile. On the whole, though, the models all seemed very low-level to me, probably not well suited to handling more than a few dozen interactions, and the computation specifics were not always explicit. I'm still looking for a book with more information that I can apply directly. An excellent survey for anyone contemplating doing research in this area. The authors make a special effort to identify the open research problems, what has been done to date and what there is very little of. This book will bridge the gap for anyone with a background in Molecular Biology that wants to build computer models for cellular and genetic activities. It is especially focused on gene regulation, but also covers other modeling areas such as diffusion. In reading this book, you will appreciatge both the good start this field is off to, but also the long way to go before a complete cell can be modeled. A great area to do pioneering work. For many years, biologists have been accumulating descriptions of biological "parts" with an almost complete lack of a framework for understanding how those parts might really work together. This book represents the first and so far only example I have seen of an effort to describe modeling techniques that are right now being developed to construct such a framework. There are other books on "computational biology", but most of them are focused only on measuring and comparing different strands of molecules -- this book describes how computational techniques are starting to be applied to actually trying to understand how those molecules work together to generate life. On the outside jacket of the book, Bruce Alberts, President of the National Academy of Science, AND the guy whose book on molecular biology I had to buy for a lot of money when I was in college, describes the authors of this book as being "Brave". I would say it is an introduction to a "Brave New World". This has to be where biology is going -- Each of the chapters are written by different people, and as such there is some variation in readability. I also wish that the color illustrations were part of the chapter they refer to instead of being grouped in the middle. But most of the chapters start with enough of an overview to be understandable to anyone with a decent background in biology. And WOW -- biology is going to get much more exciting!! Oh one other thing -- the art on the inside of the jacket is wonderful - especially in contrast to the black cover with its standard diagram of metabolism -- I wonder if there is a message there :-) .
	The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or...Human-Alien Hybrid?
	By: Lloyd Pye ISBN: 0979388104 Publisher: Bell Lap Books Inc. Release Date: 2007 Bioscience book rank: 337010	The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? explores amazing possible evidence that humans are not alone in the universe. Author Lloyd Pye chronicles his eight-year-long quest to discern the truth behind an alleged "starchild" skull - from an examination of its bone structure to microscopic scrutiny revealing durable fibers and red residue in its bone, to the results of DNA testing. Could the Starchild have been a human-alien hybrid? Black-and-white photographs and a handful of color plates illustrate this amazing report, enthusiastically recommended for anyone curious about the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life on earth.