Tuesday 12 May 2009

New library books and theses acquisitions

Books purchased / acquired by the Balfour Library:

Essential cell biology, 3rd ed., by Bruce Alberts ... [et al.]. New York, NY: Madison Avenue; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: qEC (21ci-ii) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Molecular biology of the cell, 5th ed., by Bruce Alberts ... [et al.]. New York, NY: Garland Science; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: qEC (16eii) (Overnight Loan shelves)

No way home: the decline of the world's greatest animal migrations, by David S. Wilcove with illustrations by Louise Zemaitis. Washington, D.C.; Island Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHE (11)

Smithsonian at the poles: contributions to International Polar Year Science, [edited by] Igor Krupnik, Michael A. Lang and Scott E. Miller. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHV (3)

Books donated by Cambridge University Press:

Biological physics of the developing embryo, by Gabor Forgacs and Stuart A. Newman. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2005. Balfour Library shelfmark: EE (69)

Bird song: biological themes and variations, 2nd ed., by C. K. Catchpole, P. J. B. Slater. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: K.7 (40b)

Chemical ecology of vertebrates, by Dietland Mueller-Schwarze. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: GG (267)

Natural enemies: a introduction to biological control, by Ann E. Hajek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2004. Balfour Library shelfmark: QZ (26)

Setting conservation targets for managed landscapes, edited by Marc-Andre Villard, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (211)

Books donated by Dr Nancy Lane:

Animal micrology: practical exercises in zoological micro-technique, 5th ed., by Michael F. Guyer. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 1953. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBV (90e)

Basic DNA and RNA protocols, edited by Adrian J. Harwood. Totowa: Humana Press; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: EM (81)

Basic histochemistry, by Barbara E. H. Sumner. Chichester: Wiley; 1988. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBY (45)

Chemical communication, by John Ebling and Kenneth C. Highman. London: Edward Arnold; 1969. Balfour Library shelfmark: GEK (54)

Classic experiments in modern biology, by Melvin H. Green. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Co.; 1991. Balfour Library shelfmark: EB (97)

A colour atlas of microbiology, by R. J. Olds. London: Wolfe Medical Publications; 1975. Balfour Library shelfmark: FV (70)

A colour atlas of the rat; dissection guide, by Ronald J. Olds and Jon R. Olds. London: Wolfe Medical Publications; 1979. Balfour Library shelfmark: YSE.4 (1)

Cell and molecular biology: essential data, by D. Rickwood and D. Patel. Chichester: Wiley; 1995. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (299)

Cell biology, 2nd ed., by C. A. Smith and E. J. Wood. London: Chapman and Hall; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (301b)

Cell biology: essential techniques, edited by D. Rickwood, J. R. Harris. Chichester: Wiley; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: EB (98)

The development and pattern and form in animals, 2nd ed., by L. Wolpert. Burlington, NC: Carolina Biological Supply Co.; 1977. Balfour Library shelfmark: GAB (9b)

Electron microscopy 1978: papers presented at the ninth International Congress on Electron Microscopy held in Toronto, Canada, August 1-9, 1978. Volume 1: Physics, and Volume 2: Biology. Toronto: Microscopical Society of Canada; 1978. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBV (89i-ii)

The extracellular matrix FactsBook, 2nd ed., by Shirley Ayad ... [et al.]. San Diego, CA: Academic Press; 1998. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (303b)

Foundations of biology, 7th ed., by Lorande Loss Woodruff and George Alfred Baitsell. New York, NY: Macmillan; 1951. Balfour Library shelfmark: E (47g)

International symposium. The nucleolus: its structure and function, edited by W. S. Vincent and O. L. Miller. Bethseda MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Cancer Institute; 1966. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (302)

An introduction to centrifugation, by T. C. Ford and Jim Graham. Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers; 1991. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBH (31)

Mammalian cell culture: essential techniques, edited by A. Doyle and J. Bryan Griffiths. Chichester: Wiley; 1997. Balfour Library shelfmark: EB (99)

Mitochondria, by J. B. Chappell and S. C. Rees. London: Oxford University Press; 1972. Balfour Library shelfmark: ECI (5)

Molecular biology of the gene, 2nd ed., by J. D. Watson. New York, NY: W. A. Benjamin; 1970. Balfour Library shelfmark: EM (15bi)

The pattern recognition theory of humour, by Alastair Clarke. Cumbria: Pyrrich House; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (329)

Physics in the life sciences, 2nd ed., by Duncan George. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1990. Balfour Library shelfmark: EA (46b)

Physiology of the insect epidermis, by Keith Binnington and Arthur Retnakaran. East Melbourne: CSIRO Australia; 1991. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (83)

Somatic cell division, by B. John and K. R. Lewis. London: Oxford University Press; 1972. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (300)