Author : John Holt
- How Children Learn
- How Children Fail
- Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children
- Instead of Education
- Learning All the Time
- Growing without Schooling
All of the above books will help teachers understand students, and help become better teacher-learners.
Author: Edward de Bono
- Six Thinking Hats
- Lateral thinking
- I am Right, You are Wrong
- Teache Your Child How to think
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Jacobson’s Organs and the Remarkable nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
Author : Oliver Sacks ( Highly recommended)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seeing Voices -A journey into the world of Deaf
Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis
Guide to Gaia by Michael Allaby
A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F.Schumacher
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
- The Panda’s Thumb
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History
- Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History ( A good book to know about fossils from Cambrian times)
Author: Richard Dawkins
- The Selfish Gene
- The Blind Watchmaker- Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Ernst Mayr
- Towards a New Philosophy of Biology. Observation of an Evolutionist [ Must read book for a biology teacher]
- What Evolution is.
On Growth and Function: D’arcy Wentworth Thompson
Jonathan Weiner: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
David Quammen : The Song of the Dodo
Another comprehensive book list is available on Arvind Gupta’s website ( see url under website list)