Thursday 27 September 2012

New acquisitions


New books purchased:

Animal cognition: the mental lives of animals, by Clive D. L. Wynne. Basingstoke: Plagrave Macmillan; 2001.  Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (277iv).

Anthropoid origins: new visions, edited by Callum F. Ross and Richard F. Kay. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; 2004.  Balfour Library shelfmark: YW (40).

Applied urban ecology: a global framework, edited by Matthias Richter and Ulrike Weiland. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GG (273).

Arthropod brains: evolution, functional elegance, and historical significance, by Nicholas James Strausfeld. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: P.5 (13i-iii).

Behavioral neurobiology: an integrative approach, 2nd ed., by Gunther K. H. Zupanc. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (341b).

Bioinformatics, 2nd ed., by T. Charlie Hodgman, Andrew French and David R. Westhead. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: EPA (39b).

Biological oceanography, 2nd ed., by Charles B. Miller and Patricia A. Wheeler. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHN (175bi-iii).

Biomeasurement: a student's guide to biological statistics, 2nd ed., by Dawn Hawkins.  Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (90b).

Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research, 4th ed., by Robert R. Sokal and F. James Rohlf. New Tork, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (21di-iii).

Bird sense: what it's like to be a bird, by Tim Birkhead. London: bloomsbury Publishing; 2012.  Balfour Library shelfmark: K.7 (42ii-iii).

Dirt: the erosion of civilization, by David R. Montgomery. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 2007.  Balfour Library shelfmark: GHY (11ii-iii).

Earth before the dinosaurs, by Sebastian Steyer. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: UU.12 (6i-iii).

Epigenetics, edited by C. David Allis ... [et al.]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2007. Balfour Library shelfmark: EN (187).

Evolution, by Nicholas H. Barton ... [et al.]. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2007.  Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (315iii).

The evolution of plants, by K. J. Wilis and J. C. McElwain. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2002.  Balfour Library shelfmark: FA (56ii).

Field guide to the micro moths of Great Britain & Ireland, general editor Phil Sterling, main contributor Mark Parsons. Illustrated by Richard Lewington. Gillingham, Dorset: British Wildlife Publishing; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: QNA (24).

From neuron to brain, 5th ed., by John G. Nicholls ... [et al.]. Balfour Library shelfmark: GF (90ei-iii).

Functional anatomy of the vertebrates: an evolutionary perspective, 3rd ed., by Karel F. Liem ... [et al.]. Belmont, CA: Brooks / Cole Cengage Learning; 2001. Balfour Library shelfmark: UU (29civ).

Gaining ground: the origin and evolution of tetrapods, 2nd ed., by Jennifer A. Clack. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: W.12 (3bi-iv).

A genetic switch: phage lambda revisited, 3rd ed., by Mark Ptashne. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2004. EN (145cii-iii).

Getting started with R: an introduction for biologists, by Andrew P. Beckerman and Owen L. Petchey. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (91).

Grasshoppers & crickets, by Ted Benton. London: Collins; 2012.  Balfour Library shelfmark: QF (18).

Guide to security considerations and practices for rare book, manuscript, and special collection libraries, edited by Everett C. Wilkie. Chicago, IL: Association of College & Research Libraries; 2011.  Balfour Library shelfmark: D.11 (60).

Miller's Anatomy of the dog, 4th ed., by Howard E. Evans and Alexander de Lahunta. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: qYOW.4 (1d).

Molecular biology, 4th ed., by Alexander McLennan ... [et al.]. New York, NY: Garland Science; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: EM (82di-ii).

Neurophysiology: a conceptual approach, 5th ed., bu Roger Carpenter and Benjamin Reddi. London: Hodder Arnold; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GF (221ei-iii).

Phylogenetic trees made easy: a how-to manual, 4th ed., by Barry G. Hall. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates Inc.; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: GK (47d).

Principles of biochemistry, 4th ed., by Donald Voet, Judith G. voet and Charlotte W. Pratt. John Wiley & Sons; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: qEH (8di-iii).

Principles of brain evolution, by Georg F. Striedter. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2005.  Balfour Library shelfmark: GFE (55ii-iii).

Principles of development, 4th ed., by Lewis Wolpert ... [et al.]. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2011.  Balfour Library shelfmark: qEEB (2div).

Raven biology of plants, 8th ed., by Ray F. Evert and Susan E. Eichorn. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: qFA (5hi-iii).

Rediscover grammar, 3rd ed., by David Crystal. Harlow: Pearson; 2004.  Balfour Library shelfmark: D.14 (36c).

Science research writing for non-native speakers of English, by Hilary Glasman-Deal. London: Imperial College Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.14 (33).

A scientist's guide to talking with the media: practical advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists, by Richard Hayes and Daniel Grossman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.14 (35).

The special collections handbook, by Alison Cullingford. London: Facet Publishing; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.11 (61).

Speciation, by Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr. Sunderland, MA: Sincauer Associates, Inc.: 2004.  Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (311ii-iii).

Spikes: exploring the neural code, by Fred Rieke ... [et al.]. Cambridge, MA: the MIT Press; 1997. GF (206ii).

Wild hope: on the front lines of conservation success, by Andrew Balmford. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (221i-iv).

A world without bees, by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum. London: Guardian Books; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: QJG (40).

Writing science: how to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded, by Joshua Schimel. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.14 (32).

Donations from Cambridge University Press:

Biodiversity and environmental philosophy: an introduction, by Sahotra Sarkar. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2005. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (220).

Evolution and belief: confessions of a religious paleontologist, By Robert J. Asher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2012. Insect species conservation, by T. R. New. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (366).

How to write and illustrate scientific papers, 2nd ed., by Bjorn Gustavii. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.14 (31b).

How to write and publish a scientific paper, 7th ed., by Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.14 (34g).

Insect species conservation, by T. R. New. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.8 (55).

Introduction to animal behaviour, 6th ed., by Aubrey Manning and Marian Stamp Dawkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (69fi-iii).

Book donations:

Field guide to the birds of East Africa. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe. London: Christopher Helm; 2002.  Balfour Library shelfmark: KZ.6 (77).

Gaining ground: the origin and evolution of tetrapods, 2nd ed., by Jennifer A. Clack. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: W.12 (3b).

The scientific results of the Oman Flora and Fauna Survey 1977 (Dhofar), by the Oman Government. Oman: Office of the Government Adviser for Conservation of the Environment: 1980.  Balfour Library shelfmark: qFY (10).

Wild hope: on the front lines of conservation success, by Andrew Balmford. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (221).

Theses:

Analysis of Kinesin-1 function in vivo, by Lucy Suzanne Williams. Cambridge; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (517).

The evolution of colour, pattern and structure in avian eggs, by Mary Caswell Stoddard. Cambridge; 2012.  Balfour Library shelfmark:  Thesis (516).

Incorporating costs and processes into systematic conservation planning in a biodiversity hotspot, by Jonathan Michael Halsey Green. Cambridge; 2012.  Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (515).