Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments

[Steve]

A recent release from O'Reilly / Make, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920017691.do
I'm ordering this immediately. They also have others in the series for Home Forensics, Physics ...

Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments
All Lab, No Lecture
By Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Make
Released: April 2012
Pages: 384

Steve

[Gavin Scott]

Oh cool, thanks. Ordered a copy.

Very nice free excerpt (contents and Chapter 2 on Equipping a home lab, mostly about microscopes, but also Dremelfuge links and other goodness):

http://cdn.oreilly.com/oreilly/booksamplers/9781449396596_sampler.pdf 

G.

[Gavin Scott]

Also worth noting that the book authors have put together a kit of pretty much everything you need to perform the experiments in the book (sans Microscope):

http://www.thehomescientist.com/kits/BK01/bk01-main.html 

Which includes a number of goodies that might otherwise be difficult to obtain, and seems like a very good deal for $170 (to US Addresses, more for Canada, and not available otherwise).

G.

[Gavin Scott]

P.P.S., Those interested in acquiring a copy of the book might find the ebook offering from the publisher at ~$27 more interesting than the Amazon ~$21 price for the paperback, as it includes DRM-free PDF and other ebook formats. I bought it this way and have the PDF version on my iPad which is an exact replica of the book. Amazon also has a Kindle version, but it's not a "book replica" so it's just the text and therefore pretty much useless in this instance.

Oh, and the book is looking really cool btw.

G.

[Avery louie]

good deal on the kit- but i dont know what part is particularly hard to get.

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[john gorman]

This is a great intro book so far and I especially like the practical side. Shame kit not available in Europe. Is there an AdaFruit Equivalent for DIYBIO on kickstarter for Europe yet?