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Biophysics Texts

General

Russell K. Hobbie, Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, 3rd Ed. (Springer, 1997). 

George B. Benedek and Felix M. H. Villars, Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology, 2nd Ed: Vol. 1: Mechanics; Vol. 2: Statistical Physics; Vol. 3: Electricity and Magnetism (Springer, 2000).

C. J. Pennycuick, Newton Rules Biology: A physical approach to biological problems (Oxford U. Press, 1992).

Kenneth R. Koehler, College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry (online, 2003). 

Jay Newman, Physics of the Life Sciences (Springer, 2008). 

Ahmed H. Zewail, Physical Biology (Imperial College Press, 2008). 

Bio-mechanics (organismal)

Nihat Ozkawa and Margareta Nordin, Fundamentals of Biomechanics: Equilibrium, Motion, and Deformation, 2nd Ed (Springer, 1999). 

Steven Vogel, Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World (Princeton U. Press, 2003). 

Steven Vogel, Glimpses of Creatures in their Physical Worlds: Twelve Episodes (Princeton U. Press, 2009). 

R. McNeill Alexander, Principles of Animal Locomotion (Princeton U. Press, 2006).

Steven Vogel, Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants (Princeton U. Press, 1988). 

Steven Vogel, Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow (Princeton U. Press, 1996). 

Mark W. Denny, Air and Water (Princeton U. Press, 1995). 

Denny, M.W. (1988). Biology and the Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment.  

Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wuse, & Margaret Anderson, Animal Physiology, 4th Ed. (Sinauer 2016).

Bio-mechanics (cellular)

Jonathon Howard, Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton (Sinauer Associates, 2001).  

R. Phillips, J. Kondev, & J. Theriot, Physical Biology of the Cell (Garland Science, 2008). 

R. Bergethon, The Physical Basis of Biochemistry: The foundations of molecular biophysics (Springer, 2010).

Thermodynamics/Energy

Philip Nelson, Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life (Freeman, 2008). 

Ken A. Dill & Sarina Bromberg, Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology (Garland Science, 2003). 

R. Phillips, J. Kondev, & J. Theriot, Physical Biology of the Cell (Garland Science, 2008). 

R. Bergethon, The Physical Basis of Biochemistry: The foundations of molecular biophysics (Springer, 2010). [Link is to full text available as PDF to UMd faculty and students -- 112 MB]

Akira Okubo and Simon Levin. Diffusion and ecological problems: modern perspectives. (Springer, 2001) 

Medicine

Richard P. McCall, Physics of the Human Body (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2010). 

Willem Klip, Theoretical Foundations of Medical Physics, in 2 volumes (U. of Alabama Press, 1969 - out of print?).  

Steve Webb, Ed., The Physics of Medical Imaging (Taylor & Francis, 1988). 

John R. Cameron and James G. Skofronick, Medical Physics (Wiley Interscience, 1978 - out of print?).

Suzanne A. Kane, Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine (CRC Press, 2009). 

Mathematical

Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., Adaptation and Diversity: Natural History and the Mathematics of Evolution (Freeman, Cooper, & Co., 1971 - out of print?).

Howard C. Berg, Random Walks in Biology (Princeton U. Press, 1993).  

Stephen A. Wainwright, Mechanical Design in Organisms (Princeton U. Press, 1982). 

Reference Biology and Medical Texts 

1. Joel Michael, Ed., based on work by S. Sircar, Fundamentals of Medical Physiology (Thieme, 2010).
2. F. Rieke, D. Warland, R de Ruyter van Steveninck, & W. Bialek, Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code (MIT Press, 1999).
3. E. R. Kandel, J. H. Schwartz, & T. M. Jessell, Principles of Neural Science, 4th Ed. (McGraw Hill, 2000). 
4. Scott Freeman, Biological Science, 4th Edition (Benjamin Cummings, 2011).