Tuesday 21 February 2012

New acquisitions


New books purchased 

Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 16: tanagers to New World blackbirds, edited by Josep del Hoyo ... [et al.]. Balfour Library shelfmark: q K (64) (Quatro, large-sized book shelves). 

Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros. The IUCN Red Data Book. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, by Caroline Harcourt and with assistance from Jane Thornback. Gland: Cambridge: IUCN-the World Conservation Union; 1990. Balfour Library shelfmark: YW (39). 

The neurobiology of an insect brain, by Malcolm Burrows. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (94i-ii) (Overnight Loan shelves). 

Neuroscience, 5th ed., edited by Dale Purves ... [et al.]. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: q GF (13ei-ii) (Overnight Loan shelves). 

Reaping the benefits: science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture. London: The Royal Society; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: q GGZ (2) (Quarto, large-size shelves). 

Seabird islands: ecology, invasion, and restoration, edited by Christa P. H. Mulder ... [et al.].  Balfour Library shelfmark: K.8 (65i-iii) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves, 1 x Open Shelves). 

New theses 

Mechanisms that induce, promote and restrict nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells by nuclear transfer to the Xenopus oocycte, by Vincent Pasque. Cambridge; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (509) (Library Office). 

The primate brain: evolutionary history and genetics, by Stephen H. Montgomery.  Cambridge; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (510) (Library Office). 

Qualitative transcriptional reprogramming of somatic cell nuclei with Xenopus laevis oocyctes, by Richard Paul Halley-Stott. Cambridge; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (508) (Library Office). 

Donations 

The evolution of anisogamy: a fundamental phenomonen underlying sexual selection, edited by Tatsuya Togashi, Paul Alan Cox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: ENE (3). 

The insects: structure and function, 4th ed., by R. F. Chapman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1998. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q (45div) (Overnight Loan shelves). 

Metal contamination in aquatic environments: science and lateral management, by Samuel N. Luoma, Philip S. Rainbow. Illustrations by Jeanne Di Leo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (218i-iii).