Books I've Read Recently:

• The Origins of Order, Stuart Kauffman
• Complexity : Metaphors, Models, and Reality, edited by G. Cowan, D. Pines, and D. Meltzer
• Likelihood, A.W.F. Edwards
• Time's Arrow & Archimedes' Point : New Directions for the Physics of Time, Huw Price
• The Design Inference : Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities, William Dembski
• Quantitative Genetics, Falconer and Mackay
• Concepts of Genetics, Klug and Cummings
• The Symbolic Species : The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, Terrence Deacon
• Biostatistical Analysis, Jerrold H. Zar
• Applied Multivariate Techniques, Subhash Sharma
• The Dynamics of Complex Systems, Yaneer Bar-Yam
• Nonlinear Dynamics, Steven H. Strogatz
• The Essence of Chaos, Edward Lorenz
• How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality, Per Bak
• At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, Stuart Kauffman
• Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell
• The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
• The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
• The Origins of Life, Maynard-Smith & Szathmary
• The Quark and the Jaguar : Adventures in the Simple and the Complex, Murray Gell-Mann
• The Whole Shebang : A State of the Universe(s) Report, Timothy Ferris
• The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
• The Origin and Evolution of Birds, Alan Feduccia
• Ornithology, Frank B. Gill
• Manual of Ornithology : Avian Structure and Function, N.S. Proctor & P.J. Lynch
• Arena Birds, Paul Johnsgard
• The Ostrich Communal Nesting System, Brian C. Bertram
• Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich
• Ravens in Winter, Bernd Heinrich
• Ecology and behavior of the Prairie Warbler, Dendroica discolor, Val Nolan
• The Black-Capped Chickadee: Behavioral Ecology and Natural History, Susan M. Smith
• The Great Blue Heron, Robert Butler
• Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds, Donald Kroodsma and Edward Miller, eds.
• Bird Song : Biological Themes and Variations, C.K. Catchpole & P.J.B. Slater
• The Ecology of Migrant Birds : A Neotropical Perspective, John Rappole
• The Lives of Birds, Lester Short
• Lords of the Air : The Smithsonian Book of Birds, Jake Page & Eugene S. Morton
• One Man's Owl, Bernd Heinrich
• Here Am I -- Where are You? The Behavior of the Greylag Goose, Konrad Lorenz
• Hawks, Eagles, & Falcons of North America, Paul Johnsgard
• The Bald Eagle : Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch, Jon Gerrard & Gary Bortolotti
• Woodpeckers of Easter North America, Lawrence Kilham
• The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Jonathan Weiner
• Next of Kin : My Conversations with Champanzees, Roger Fouts
• Demonic Males : Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, Richard Wrangham
• Herpetology : An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, George R. Zug
• A Natural History of Amphibians, Stebbins and Cohen
• The Wolf : The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, L. David Mech
• Insects and Flowers : The Biology of a Partnership, Friedrich G. Barth
• The Dragons of Eden : Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, Carl Sagan
• The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
• Vertebrate Paleontology, Michael Benton
• Fermat's Last Theorem, Amir D. Aczel
• Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, Hopcroft & Ullman
• The Evolution of Culture in Animals, J. T. Bonner
• A History of Ireland, Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry
• Germany: A New History, Hagen Schulze
• In the Shadow of the Bomb : Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, Silvan Schweber
• Neural, Novel and Hybrid Algorithms for Time Series Prediction, Timothy Masters
• Black Holes and Baby Universes, Stephen Hawking
• Biography of a Germ, Arno Karlen
• Biological Sequence Analysis, Durbin, Eddy, Krogh, Mitchison
• The Abduction Enigma : The truth behind the mass alien abductions of the late twentieth century, Kevin Randle, Russ Estes, and William Cone
• Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
• "Is Our Children Learning?" - The Case Against George W. Bush, Paul Begala
• Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
• The Advantures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
• The Sea Wolf, Jack London

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Bald eagles nesting on Potomac River. Adult on left, juvenile on right.

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Drink shade-grown coffee. Sun coffee plantations eliminate vital bird habitat. By buying shade-grown coffee, you can create an economic force to slow the destruction of bird habitat. Many of the birds outside your window spend the winter in Central and South America, many of them on coffee plantations.
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