Michael Crichton - Micro

M ICHAEL C RICHTON has sold over 200 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen of his books have been made into films. His novels include Next , State of Fear , Timeline , Jurassic Park , and The Andromeda Strain . Also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER , he remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show simultaneously. At the time of his death in 2008, Crichton was well into the writing of Micro ; Richard Preston was selected to complete the novel.

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R ICHARD P RESTON is an internationally acclaimed bestselling author of eight books, including The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees. Many of Prestons books have appeared in The New Yorker . He has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award, and he is the only person not a medical doctor ever to receive the Centers for Disease Controls Champion of Prevention Award for public health. He lives with his wife and three children near Princeton, New Jersey.

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The Andromeda Strain

The Terminal Man

The Great Train Robbery

Eaters of the Dead

Congo

Sphere

Jurassic Park

Rising Sun

Disclosure

The Lost World

Airframe

Timeline

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State of Fear

Next

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This field is blessed by some of the best science writing for the general reader, as well as some of the clearest exposition for the college-level reader.

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Chippeaux, Jean-Philippe. Snake Venoms and Envenomations. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing, 2006.

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Eisner, Thomas. Eisners World: Life Through Many Lenses. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, 2009.

. For Love of Insects. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Eisner, Thomas, Maria Eisner, and Melody Siegler. Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Eisner, Thomas, and Jerrold Meinwald, eds. Chemical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic Interaction. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995.

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Gotwald Jr., William H. Army Ants: The Biology of Social Predation. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Gullan, Penny J., and Peter S. Cranston. The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. 4th edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Hillyard, Paul. The Private Life of Spiders. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Hlldobler, Bert, and Edward O. Wilson. The Ants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.

Homer; Robert Fagles, translator. The Odyssey. New York: Viking, 1996.

Howarth, Francis G., and William P. Mull. Hawaiian Insects and Their Kin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

Jones, Richard. Nano Nature: Natures Spectacular Hidden World. New York: Metro Books, 2008.

Kealey, Terence. The Economic Laws of Scientific Research. New York: St. Martins Press, 1996.

Kepler, Angela Kay. Trees of Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Krauss, Beatrice H. Native Plants Used as Medicine in Hawaii. Honolulu: Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, 1981.

Liebherr, James K., and Elwood C. Zimmerman. Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 16: Hawaiian Carabidae (Coleoptera): Part 1: Introduction and Tribe Platynini. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Magnacca, Karl N. Conservation Status of the Endemic Bees of Hawaii, Hylaeus (Nesoprosopis) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Pacific Science . Vol. 61, no. 2, April 2007, pp. 173190.

Marshall, Stephen A. Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity. Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2006.

Martin, Gary J. Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual. Chapman & Hall, 1995; reprint London: Earthscan, 2004.

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