Monday, 31 October 2011

New acquisitions

New books

Admiralty Tide Tables. Volume 1, 2012, United Kingdom and Ireland including European Channel Ports. Published by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.13 (10). (Reference shelves).

Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals, and mimcry, by Graeme D. Ruxton, Thomas N. Sherratt, and Michael P. Speed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2004. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGT (20ii). (Overnight Loan shelves).

The biology of lakes and ponds, 2nd ed., by Christer Bronmark and Lars-Anders Hansson. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2005. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHM (115bi-ii). (Overnight Loan shelves).

Elements of evolutionary genetics, by Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth. Greenwood Village, CO: Roberts and Company Publishers; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: EN (185). 

Evolution: the extended synthesis, edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Miller. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (332i-iii). (2 x Overnight Loan shelves). 

Handbook to the construction and use of insect collection and rearing devices: a guide for teachers with suggested classroom applications, by Gregory S. Paulson. Dordrecht: Springer; 2005. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.10 (14).

Important bird areas [in the] Americas: priority sites for biodiversity conservation. Senior editors Christian Devenish ... [et al.]. Quito, Ecuador: BirdLife International; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: qKZ.7 (22) (Quarto, Large Size shelves).

An introduction to behavioral endocrinology, 4th ed., by Randy J. Nelson. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: GEK (53d). (Overnight Loan shelves).

Livestock in a changing landscape. Volume 1: drivers, consequences, and responses, edited by Henning Steinfeld ... [et al.]. Washington, DC: Island Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGZ (38i).

Livestock in a changing landscape. Volume 2: experiences and regional perspectives, edited by Pierre Gerber ... [et al.]. Washington, DC: Island Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGZ (38ii).

Monitoring forest biodiversity: improving conservation through ecologically responsible management, by Toby Gardner. London: Earthscan; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHH (11).

Nature's versatile engine: insect flight muscle inside and out, by Jim O. Vigoreaux. New York, NY: Springer Science and Business Media; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (92).

Population genetics for animal conservation, edited by Giorgio Bertorelle ... [et al.]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (217).

Sensory evolution on the threshold: adaptations in secondarily aquatic vertebrates, edited by J. G. M. Thewissen and Sirpa Nummela. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: UU (32).

Donations

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: understanding the life of giants, edited by Naomi Klein ... [et al.]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: WY (11).

Insect ecology: behaviour, populations and communities, 3rd ed., by Peter W. Price ... [et al.]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.8 (20c).

New flora of the British Isles, 3rd ed., by Clive Stace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: FA (41c).

Spider silk: evolution and 400 million years of spinning, waiting, snagging, and mating, by Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: R (8).

Collins New Naturalist series http://www.newnaturalists.com/Pages/home.aspx

I've been catching up with purchasing the books in this series that are of relevance to zoology and related disciplines:

Badger, by Timothy J. Roper. London: Collins; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: YOM (3).

Bird migration, by Ian Newton. London: Collins; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: K.8 (64).

Climate and weather, by John A. Kington. London: Collins; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GI (28).

Dragonflies, by Philip S. Corbet and Stephen J. Brooks, with many colour photographs by Robert Thompson. London: Collins; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: QC (19).

Grouse: the natural history of British and Irish species, by Adam Watson and Robert Moss. London: Collins; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: KK (17).

Plant pests: a natural history of pests of farms and gardens, by David J. Alford. London: Collins; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: QZ (27).

Wildfowl, by David Cabot. London: Collins; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: KI (12).