Wednesday 28 January 2009

New library books and theses acquisitions

New books:

The ape and the sushi master: cultural reflections by a primatologist, by Frans de Waal. New York, NY: Basic Books; 2001. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (327) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Design for a life: how behaviour develops, by Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin. London: Vintage; 1999. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (253) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Discovering fossil fishes, by John G. Maisey. Boulder, CO: Westview Press; 2000. Balfour Library shelfmark: V.12 (6) (Overnight Loan shelves)

The evolution of artiodactyls, edited by Donald R. Prothero and Scott E. Foss. Baltimore, MA: The John Hopkins University Press; 2007. Balfour Library shelfmark: YG.12 (1) (New Books shelf)

The greater flamingo, by Alan Johnson and Frank Cezilly. London: T. & A. D. Poyser; 2007. Balfour Library shelfmark: KH (9) (New Books shelf)

Insect taste, edited by Philip L. Newland, Matthew Cobb, Frederic Marion-Poll. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (82) (New Books shelf)

The natural history of Madagascar, edited by Steven M. Goodman and Jonathan P. Benstead. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press; 2003. Balfour Library shelfmark: FY (48) (New Books shelf)

New theses:

Parental food calling at passerine nests, by Helen C. Withers. University of Cambridge; 2008. Thesis (455)

Structural homeostasis during dendritic arbor development, by Marco Tripodi. University of Cambridge; 2008. Thesis (453)

Studies of the modulation of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate signalling by presenelins in Caenorhabditis elegans, by Helen Sarah Peterkin. University of Cambridge; 2008. Thesis (454)

Systematics and biogeography of Palearctic avifauna: evolution, hybridisation and secondary contact zones, by Mansour Aliabadian. University of Amsterdam; 2007. Thesis (452)