Title	ISBN	R-required,  S-suggested
This will be the course textbook. --->	Osborne, P. L. 2000.  Tropical Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts, Cambridge U. Press	0-521-64526-9	R
Consider the following for general interest and information prior to reaching Costa Rica.	Beletsky, L. 1998.  The ecotraveller's wildlife guide: Costa Rica. AP Natural World.	0-12-084810-4	S
	McNeil, J. 1999.  Costa Rica: The Rough Guide (with updates on line @ www.roughguides.com).  Penguin Group.	1-85828-337-X	S
	Kohnstamm, T.B. 2000. Lonely Planet Costa Rican Spanish Phrasebook	1-864501057	S
	Allen, W. 2001.  Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Oxford University Press	0-19-510893-0	S
	Kircher, J. 1997. A Neotropical Companion.  Princeton University Press	0-691-04433-3	S
If you are a serious biologist who wants to  work in the Neotropics, you should consider the following:	Gentry, A.H.  A field guide to the families and genera of woody Plants of NW South America. 1993.  Chicago U. Press	0-226-28944-3	S
	Janzen, D.H. , Editor.  1983.  Costa Rican Natural History.  Chicago U. Press.	0-226-39334-8	S
	McDade, L.A., Bawa, K.S., Hespenheide, H.A. and Hartshorn, G.S. 1994. La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest. U. Chicago Press	0-226-03952-8	S
	Savage, J.M, Fogden, M and Fogden, P. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between two continents, between two seas. U. of Chicago Press.	0226735370	S
	Stiles, G.F., Skutch, A.F. and Gardner, D.  1990.  A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica.  Cornell U. Press.	0801496004	S

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