Life's Defining Edge: The Origins of Life
- Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
- by Robert Hazen (Joseph Henry Press, 2005)
Life's Extreme Edge: The Limits of Organic Life on Earth and Other Planets
- Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology
- by Woodruff T. Sullivan and John Baross (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach
- by Jonathan Lunine (Addison Wesley/Benjamin Cummings, 2004)
- What Does a Martian Look Like: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life
- by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart (Wiley, 2002)
Life's Final Edge? The Origin and Extinction of Species in a Human-Dominated Earth
- The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise
- by Dale D. Goble, Michael J. Scott and Frank W. Davis, eds. (Island Press, 2005)
- Win-Win Ecology, How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise
- by Michael L. Rosenzweig (Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
- by J. A. McNeely, J. A. and S.J. Scherr (Island Press, 2002)
- The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
- by G. C. Daily and K. Ellison (Island Press, 2002)
- The Return of the Unicorns: A Success Story in the Conservation of Asian Rhinoceros
- by Eric Dinerstein (Columbia University Press, 2002)
Life's Cognitive Edge: The Role of the Mind and What it Means to be Human
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- by Jared M. Diamond (Harper Perennial, 2006)
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- by Steven Pinker (Penguin, 2003)
- Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals
- by Clive D. L. Wynne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
- Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
- by Donald R. Griffin (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
- Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
- by Marc D. Hauser (Owl Books, 2001)
- How the Mind Works
- by Steven Pinker (Penguin Books, 1999)
- Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior
- by Sara J. Shettleworth (Oxford University Press, 1998)
- Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
- by Daniel C. Dennett (Basic Books, 1997)
- Consciousness Explained
- by Daniel C. Dennett (Penguin, 1993)
Life's Human Edge: Changing Perspectives on the End of Life
- The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies
- by Stuart J. Youngner, Robert M. Arnold, and Renie Schapiro (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
- Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies
- by Kenneth V. Iserson (Galen Press, 2001)
- Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
- by Margaret Lock (University of California Press, 2001)
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
- by Sherwin B. Nuland (Vintage, 1995)
Life's Technological Edge: The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
- by Ray Kurzweil (Penguin, 2006)
- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
- by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman (Plume, 2005)
- Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
- by George F. Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, and Jay W. Richards (Discovery Institute, 2001)
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- by Ray Kurzweil (Penguin, 2000)
- The Age of Intelligent Machines
- by Ray Kurzweil (The MIT Press, 1992)
