Biology Books FY08
- The Facts on File dictionary of marine science
- Location: Reference
Call Number: GC9 .F28 2008
Author: Charton, Barbara
Publication information: New York : Facts on File, c2008
Physical description: x, 468 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
- An introduction to the world's oceans
- Location: General
Call Number: GC11.2 .D89 2008
Author: Sverdrup, Keith A
Publication information: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008
Physical description: xx, 521 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
- Oceans: a Scientific American reader
- Location: General
Call Number: GC21 .O28 2007
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Physical description: 315 p. : ill., maps 23 cm
- The human, the orchid, and the octopus: exploring and conserving our natural world
- Location: New Books
Call Number: GC30.C68 A3 2007
Author: Cousteau, Jacques Yves
Publication information: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007
Physical description: xi, 305 p. 25 cm
Description: Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous expeditions all over the planet, he discovered firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea--and watched the toll taken by human activity. In his last book, written over the last ten years of his life and finally available in the United States, Cousteau describes his philosophy about protecting our world for future generations. Weaving stories of his adventures throughout, he and collaborator Susan Schiefelbein address the risks we take with human health, the overfishing and sacking of the world's oceans, the hazards of nuclear proliferation, and the environmental responsibility of scientists, politicians, and people of faith. Cousteau's lyrical, passionate call for action is even more relevant today than when this book was completed in 1996.--From publisher description
Contents: The drive to explore -- Personal risk -- Public risk -- Irreplaceable water, irreplaceable air -- The Holy Scriptures and the environment -- Saccage -- Catch as catch can -- Science and human values -- The hot peace : nuclear weapons and nuclear energy -- Life in a billion years -- The miracle of life : the human, the orchid, and the octopus -- Epilogue: An update since the writing of this book
- Careers for aquatic types & others who want to make a splash
- Location: College and Career Information Center
Call Number: GC30.5 .C36 2008
Author: Camenson, Blythe
Publication information: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008
Physical description: xii, 137 p. 22 cm
- An ocean blueprint for the 21st century
- Location: General
Call Number: GC58 .U48 2004
Author: United States. Commission on Ocean Policy
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, [2004]-
Physical description: v. : ill. 28 cm. + 2 CD-ROMs (4 3/4 in.)
- Ocean odyssey
- Location: General
Call Number: GC65 .O343 2006
Publication information: Burbank, CA : Distibuted by Warner Home Video, c2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Blending state-of-the-art digital graphics with real footage, Ocean Odyssey is a breathtaking underwater adventure that fully immerses you in the beauty and dangers of the deep
- To follow the water: exploring the sea to discover climate from the Gulf Stream to the blue beyond
- Location: General
Call Number: GC190.2 .M87 2007
Author: Murphy, Dallas
Publication information: New York : Basic Books, c2007
Physical description: 278 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps 22 cm
- Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: GC232 .B87 2007
Author: Burns, Loree Griffin
Publication information: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Physical description: [58 p]. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 24 x 29 cm
Description: Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents
Contents: A spill of opportunity -- Longitude and latitude -- The science of ocean motion -- Waves, tides, currents, and gyres -- Another day, another spill -- Current events -- The garbage patch -- What you can do -- Monster debris
- El Nino: fact and fiction
- Location: General
Call Number: GC296.8.E4 V613 2000
Author: Voituriez, Bruno
Publication information: Paris : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2000
Physical description: 128 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 24 cm
- Ebb and flow: tides and life on our once and future planet
- Location: General
Call Number: GC301.2 .K67 2007
Author: Koppel, Tom
Publication information: Toronto : Dundurn, c2007
Physical description: 292 p. : ill., maps, port. 23 cm
- Encyclopedia of environment and society
- Location: Reference
Call Number: GE10 .E485 2007
Publication information: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2007
Physical description: 5 v. (xlix, 2105 p.) : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
- Our changing planet: the view from space
- Location: New Books
Call Number: GE45.R44 O97 2007
Publication information: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: xvii, 390 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) 32 cm
Description: Examines what orbital imagery tells us about the atmosphere, land, ocean, and polar ice caps of our planet and the ways that it changes naturally, and in response to human activity
Contents: The dynamic atmosphere -- The vital land -- The restless ocean -- The frozen caps -- Evidence of our tenure
- Environment: the science behind the stories
- Location: General
Call Number: GE105 .B74 2008
Author: Withgott, Jay
Publication information: San Francisco : Pearson Benjamin Cummings, c2008
Physical description: xxvii, 681, [74] p. : col. ill., col. maps 28 cm
- Essential environmental science
- Location: General
Call Number: GE105 .K45 2008
Author: Keller, Edward A
Publication information: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, c2008
Physical description: xxvi, 454 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 28 cm
- Sources: notable selections in environmental studies
- Location: General
Call Number: GE105 .S67 2000
Publication information: Guilford, Ct : Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000
Physical description: xiii, 390 p. : ill. 24 cm
- Ignoring the apocalypse: why planning to prevent environmental catastrophe goes astray
- Location: General
Call Number: GE140 .D382 2007
Author: Davis, David Howard
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007
Physical description: xviii, 228 p. 25 cm
Contents: Introduction -- The golden age of statistics : planning as prediction -- The energy crisis : planning as central management -- Overpopulation : the absence of planning -- Nuclear war : secret planning -- Global warming : international scientific planning -- Conclusion
- Eco-freaks: environmentalism is hazardous to your health!
- Location: General
Call Number: GE195 .B468 2006
Author: Berlau, John, 1971-
Publication information: Nashville : Nelson Current, c2006
Physical description: 250 p. 25 cm
Contents: What I learned about environmentalism from Chuck D -- Rachel Carson kills birds : how the banning of DDT and other pesticides endangers humans, wildlife, and trees -- The anti-asbestos inferno : asbestos ban sets buildings ablaze -- Smashing the engine of public health : anti-auto acts endanger health, safety, and freedom -- Reagan was right : forests cause pollution : fires and animal attacks in the rewilding of America -- Hurricane Katrina, blame it on dam environmentalists : or, rather, anti-dam environmentalists -- Our unhealthy future under environmentalism : the growing threat of eco-terrorism, answers to eco-clichés, and a few bumper sticker slogans of our own
- Blessed unrest: how the largest movement in the world came into being, and why no one saw it coming
- Location: General
Call Number: GE195 .H388 2007
Author: Hawken, Paul
Publication information: New York : Viking, 2007
Physical description: 342 p. 25 cm
Contents: The beginning -- Blessed unrest -- The long green -- The rights of business -- Emerson's savants -- Indigene -- We interrupt this empire -- Immunity -- Restoration
- True green: 100 everyday ways you can contribute to a healthier planet
- Location: General
Call Number: GE195 .M45 2006
Author: McKay, Kim
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2006
Physical description: 127 p. : col. ill. 20 x. 22 cm
Description: Presents 100 strategies for safeguarding the environment
- Historical dictionary of the green movement
- Location: Reference
Call Number: GE195 .P36 2007
Author: Schreurs, Miranda A. (Miranda Alice), 1963-
Publication information: Lanham, Md. : The Scarecrow Press, 2007
Physical description: lxxiv, 316 p. 23 cm
- A contract with the Earth
- Location: New Books
Call Number: GE195.7 .G56 2007
Author: Gingrich, Newt
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Physical description: xix, 222 p. 21 cm
Contents: Framing the contract -- A contract with the Earth -- A matter of respect -- Missed opportunities -- Partnering for the Earth -- Entrepreneurial environmentalism -- Environmental philanthropy -- Renewing the natural world -- Leading the way to a better world -- From many, one
- The complete idiot's guide to green living
- Location: New Books
Call Number: GE195.7 .R55 2007
Author: Riley, Trish
Publication information: New York : Alpha, c2007
Physical description: xviii, 316 p. : ill. 23 cm
- Break through: from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility
- Location: New Books
Call Number: GE197 .N67 2007
Author: Nordhaus, Ted
Publication information: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Physical description: 344 p. 22 cm
Contents: The birth of environmentalism -- The forest for the trees -- Interests within interests -- The prejudice of place -- The pollution paradigm -- The death of environmentalism -- Status and security -- Belonging and fulfillment -- Pragmatism -- Greatness
- Avoid boring people: lessons from a life in science
- Location: General
Call Number: QH3.W34 A3 2007
Author: Watson, James D., 1928-
Publication information: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Physical description: 347 p. : ill. 25 cm
Description: From a living legend--James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for revealing the structure of DNA--comes a personal account of the making of a scientist. Watson shares the less revolutionary secrets he has found to getting along and getting ahead in a competitive world. Each phase of his experience yields age-specific practical advice. A believer in the intellectual promise of youth, Watson offers pointers to beginning scientists about choosing the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution, even one who is a former mentor. Later he addresses the role and needs of science at large universities. Scorning political correctness, this irreverent romp through Watson's life and learning is a guide to anyone plotting a career in science (or most anything else), addressed both to the next generation and those who are entrusted with their minds.--From publisher description
- All things Darwin: an encyclopedia of Darwin's world
- Location: ebook
Call Number: QH31.D2
Author: Armstrong, Patrick, 1941-
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007
Physical description: 2 v. (xxiv, 564 p.) : ill., maps
Contents: v. 1. A-I -- v. 2. J-Z
- Aldo Leopold's odyssey
- Location: General
Call Number: QH31.L618 N49 2006
Author: Newton, Julianne Lutz
Publication information: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2006
Physical description: xvii, 483 p. : ill. 24 cm
Description: A household icon of the environmental movement, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) may be the most quoted conservationist in history. A Sand County Almanac has sold millions of copies and Leopoldʼs writings are venerated for their perceptions about land and how people might live in concert with the whole community of life. But who is the man behind the words? How did he arrive at his profound and poetic insights, inspiring generations of environmentalists? Building on past scholarship and a fresh study of Leopoldʼs unpublished archival materials, Julianne Lutz Newton retraces the intellectual journey generated by such passion and intelligence. Aldo Leopoldʼs Odyssey illuminates his lifelong quest for answers to a fundamental issue: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too? Leopoldʼs journey took him from Iowa to Yale to the Southwest to Wisconsin, with fascinating stops along the way to probe the causes of early land settlement failures, contribute to the emerging science of ecology, and craft a new vision for land use. More than a biography, this articulate volume is a guide to one manʼs intellectual growth, and an inspirational resource for anyone pondering the relationships between people and the land;Includes information on agriculture, biotic community, biotic pyramid, community-based idea of good land use, biological cycle, deforestation, diversity of plant and animal species, Dust Bowl, ecology, Charles Elton, dynamic community organization and energy flows, erosion, evolution, forests, grazing, Great Depression, William T. Hornaday, hunting, land capacity for self-renewal, land ethic, land health, land pyramid, land use planning, New Deal, nutrient (energy) cycling, predators, private ownership issues, soil, water shortages, wildlife conservation, etc
Contents: Seed plots -- Written on the hills -- The middle border -- Interpreting Pharaoh's dream -- An American system -- A common concept of land -- Ecological poetry -- The germ and the juggernaut -- Wildlife and the new man -- Knowing nature -- A new kind of conservation
- A life decoded: my genome, my life
- Location: General
Call Number: QH31.V385 A3 2007
Author: Venter, J. Craig
Publication information: New York : Viking, 2007
Physical description: 390 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm
Description: The story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he announced that he would successfully sequence the human genome years sooner, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would--a prediction he kept in 2001. The tale involves as much politics (personal and political) as science. He also describes the other startling projects he has conducted since.--From publisher description
Contents: Writing my code -- University of death -- Adrenaline junkie -- Starting over in Buffalo -- Scientific heaven, bureaucratic hell -- Big biology -- TIGR cub -- Gene wars -- Shotgun sequencing -- Institutional divorce -- Sequencing the human -- Mad magazine and destructive businessmen -- Flying forward -- The first human genome -- The White House, June 26, 2000 -- Publish and be damned -- Blue planet and new life
- Endangered species
- Location: General
Call Number: QH75 .E665 2008
Publication information: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008
Physical description: 230 p. : map 24 cm
Contents: Is species extinction a serious threat? Mass species extinction is imminent / Julia Whitty Hundreds of endangered species are on the road to recovery / Environment News Service Mass species extinction will have disastrous consequences for mankind / Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Humans can withstand biodiversity loss / Martin Jenkins -- Is global warming endangering plant and animal species? Global warming will accelerate species decline / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Global warming is good for plants and animals / World Climate Report Global warming triggers invasive species to spread and wipe out native species / Rhett Butler Non-native species are not necessarily a threat to biodiversity / Dana Joel Gattuso -- Are international efforts to preserve endangered species effective? The Endangered Species Act is effective and should be strengthened / Environment News Service The Endangered Species Act is ineffective and proposed reforms are no better / Peyton Knight CITES is slowing the trade in endangered species / Peter Thomas CITES is not slowing the trade in endangered species / Robert H. Nelson et al. More species should be declared endangered / D. Noah Greenwald and Kieran F. Suckling Declaring a species endangered actually hastens its decline / Franck Courchamp et al -- How should humans respond to species decline? Rewilding North America is a good conservation strategy / C. Josh Donlan Eradicating invasive species can preserve endangered ecosystems / Jane Braxton Little Assisted migration may be necessary to save endangered species / Carl Zimmer Freezing and storing DNA could make extinction reversible / Ian Sample
- Endangered: wildlife on the brink of extinction
- Location: General
Call Number: QH75 .M3827 2006
Author: McGavin, George
Publication information: Buffalo, N.Y. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2006
Physical description: 192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), ports. 29 cm
- The Nature Conservancy's guide to Indiana preserves
- Location: General
Call Number: QH76.5.I6 J67 2006
Author: Jordan, Christopher, 1964-
Publication information: Bloomington : Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press, c2006
Physical description: xviii, 311 p. : col. ill., col. maps 23 cm.+ 1 map key (inserted on front cover)
Contents: Visitor guidelines -- Key Conservancy terms and acronyms -- About the Nature Conservancy -- Healing hoosier landscapes -- Stewardship -- Indiana preserve map -- Indiana preserves -- Anderson Falls -- Barker Woods -- Beanblossom Bottoms -- Bicentennial Woods -- Big Walnut -- Black Rock Barrens -- Bluffs of Beaver Bend -- Cedar Bluffs -- Chelsea Flatwoods -- Cline Lake Fen -- Conrad Station Savanna -- Douglas Woods -- Fall Creek gorge -- Fawn River Fen -- Fern Cliff -- German Methodist cemetery prairie -- Goose Pond Cypress Slough -- Green's Bluff -- Guthrie Woods -- Hall Woods -- Hardin Ridge and Brock-Sampson -- Harrison County glades -- Hitz-Rhodehamel -- Holley Savanna -- Hoosier Prairie -- Kankakee Sands project -- Kramer original woods -- Manitou Island wetlands -- Marsh Lake complex -- Merry Lea -- Moraine Nature Preserve -- Mossy Point -- NIPSCO Savanna -- Ober sand Savanna -- Olin Lake -- Orangeville rise and Wesley Chapel Gulf of the lost river -- Pennywort Cliffs -- Pine Hills -- Pipewort Pond (William L. Lieber Memorial Preserve) -- Point township complex -- Portland Arch -- Ritchey Woods -- Saunders Woods -- Shooting Star Cliffs -- Shrader-Weaver Woods -- Spinn Prairie -- Swamp Angel -- Tefft Savanna complex -- Thousand Acre Woods -- Tolleston Strand Plain -- Trail Creek Fen -- Twin Creek Valley and Henderson Park -- Whip-poor-Will Woods -- Zeigler Woods -- Common species and corresponding Latin names
- After the storm: restoring America's Gulf Coast wetlands
- Location: General
Call Number: QH76.5.L8 A3 2006
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Environmental Law Institute, c2006
Physical description: 62 p. : ill., maps 28 cm
- Life after people
- Location: General
Call Number: QH78 .L544 2008
Publication information: [New York, N.Y.] : A&E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, 2008
Physical description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: What will the world be like when mankind is extinct? The pyramids may stand forever, but the cities will disappear. Our greatest masterpieces will fade and crumble. Experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology, and archeology provide insights to demonstrate how the very landscape of our planet will change in our absence
- Tropical forests
- Location: General
Call Number: QH84.5 .M66 2008
Author: Moore, Peter D
Publication information: New York : Facts On File, c2008
Physical description: xx, 246 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
- Life in the soil: a guide for naturalists and gardeners
- Location: General
Call Number: QH84.8 .N36 2007
Author: Nardi, James B., 1948-
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Physical description: xxi, 293 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) 22 cm
- Soil biology
- Location: Circulation Desk
Call Number: QH84.8 .S655 2002
Publication information: Los Osos, CA : San Luis Video Pub., 2002
Physical description: 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Looks at invertebrates, microbes, and other soil life forms, and explains how their biology affects the physical and chemical properties of soil. Also discusses how these soil life forms affect human daily life and the conservation of soil
Contents: pt. 1. The full spectrum of life (24 min.) -- pt. 2. Death dung and decay (26 min.)
- Deserts
- Location: General
Call Number: QH88 .A45 2008
Author: Allaby, Michael
Publication information: New York : Facts On File, c2008
Physical description: xv, 320 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
- The Great Lakes: the natural history of a changing region
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QH104.5.G7 G723 2007
Author: Grady, Wayne
Publication information: Vancouver Berkeley : Greystone Books : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, c2007
Physical description: 351 p. : col. ill., col. maps 26 cm
Contents: The freshwater seas -- Foundation stones -- The Boreal Forest -- The Great Lakes--St. Lawrence Forest -- The Carolinian Forest -- Life in the margins -- Water world -- Invasions -- The future of the Great Lakes
- Introduction to California chaparral
- Location: General
Call Number: QH105.C2 Q56 2006
Author: Quinn, Ronald D. (Ronald Dean), 1943-
Publication information: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006
Physical description: xiv, 322 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps 19 cm
Contents: 1. The California chaparral -- Fire and chaparral -- Where is chaparral found? -- Chaparral is found with other vegetation types -- Coastal sage scrub is not chaparral -- How organisms are named -- 2. Mediterranean climate -- The Pacific high -- Rainfall, always unpredictable -- Winds that carry water or take it away -- Temperature -- Microclimates -- Convergence -- Rain beetles mate only when there is rain -- 3. Fire -- The fire cycle -- The fire regime -- Sources of ignition -- Aboriginal burning -- Nineteenth-century fire -- Fire patterns in the twentieth century -- Modern fires -- Natural responses of plants and animals to fire -- 4. Plants -- An evergreen, shrubby vegetation -- Common shrubs and shrub families -- The rose family (Roseaceae) -- The buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae) -- The heath family (Ericaceae) -- The oak family (Fagaceae) -- The sumac family (Anacardiaceae) -- Other chaparral shrubs -- Conifers : cypresses, pines, and bigcone Douglas fir -- Common herb and subshrub families -- The waterleaf family (Hydrophyllaceae) -- The poppy family (Papaveraceae) -- The lily family (Liliaceae) -- The legume family (Fabaceae) -- The snapdragon or figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) -- Other chaparral herbs and subshrubs -- Introduced weeds -- 5. Animals -- Mammals -- Rodents (Order Rodentia) -- Rabbits and hares (Order Lagomorpha) -- Deer and bighorn sheep (Order Artiodactyla) -- Carnivorous mammals (Order Carnivora) -- Birds -- Perching birds (Order Passeriformes) -- Hawks (Order Falconiformes) -- Owls (Order Strigiformes) -- Reptiles -- Snakes (Order Squamata, Suborder Serpentes) -- Lizards (Order Squamata, Suborder Lacertilia) -- Amphibians -- Insects and arachnids -- Insects (Class Insecta) -- Trap door spiders, ticks, and scorpions (Class Arachnida) -- Other chaparral insects -- 6. Living with the chaparral -- Prescribed fire -- Fuel reduction and fuel breaks -- Artificial seeding of burns -- Fire creates its own weather -- Geographic risk -- Floods -- Threats to chaparral -- Options for wise growth -- T
- Biology
- Location: General
Call Number: QH308.7 .B5 2007
Publication information: New York : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, c2007
Physical description: xli, 1206 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 29 cm
- The Chicago guide to landing a job in academic biology
- Location: College and Career Information Center
Call Number: QH314 .C43 2007
Author: Chandler, C. Ray
Publication information: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2007
Physical description: x,150 p. : ill. 23 cm
- Essential bioinformatics
- Location: General
Call Number: QH324.2 .X56 2006
Author: Xiong, Jin
Publication information: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
Physical description: xi, 339 p. : ill. (some col.) 27 cm
Contents: Introduction to biological databases -- Pairwise sequence alignment -- Database similarity searching -- Multiple sequence alignment -- Profiles and hidden Markov models -- Protein motifs and domain prediction -- Gene prediction -- Promoter and regulatory element prediction -- Phylogenetics basics -- Phylogenetic tree construction methods and programs -- Protein structure basics -- Protein structure visualization, comparision, and classification -- Protein secondary structure prediction -- Protein tertiary structure prediction -- RNA structure prediction -- Genome mapping, assembly, and comparison -- Functional genomics -- Proteomics
- Origins of life
- Location: General
Call Number: QH325 .H394 2005a
Author: Hazen, Robert M., 1948-
Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2005
Physical description: 4 videodiscs in 2 pts. (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks
Contents: Pt. 1. Lecture 1. The Grand Question of Life's Origins Lecture 2. The Historical Setting of Origins Research Lecture 3. What is Life? Lecture 4. Is There Life on Mars? Lecture 5. Earth's Oldest Fossils Lecture 6. Fossil Isotopes Lecture 7. Molecular Biosignatures Lecture 8. Emergence Lecture 9. The Miller-Urey Experiment Lecture 10. Life from the Bottom of the Sea Lecture 11. The Deep, Hot Biosphere Lecture 12. Experiments at High Pressure;Pt. 2. Lecture 13. More Experiments Under Pressure Lecture 14. Deep Space Dust, Molten Rock, and Zeolite Lecture 15. Macromolecules and the Tree of Life Lecture 16. Lipids and Membrane Self-Organization Lecture 17. Life on Clay, Clay as Life Lecture 18. Life's Curious Handedness Lecture 19. Self-Replicating Molecular Systems Lecture 20. Günter Wächtershäuser's Grand Hypothesis Lecture 21. The RNA World Lecture 22. The Pre-RNA World Lecture 23. Natural Selection and Competition Lecture 24. Three Scenarios for the Origin of Life
- Life in the universe: a beginner's guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QH326 .D37 2007
Author: Dartnell, Lewis
Publication information: Oxford : Oneworld, 2007
Physical description: xviii, 202 p. : ill. 20 cm
- The living cosmos: our search for life in the universe
- Location: General
Call Number: QH327 .I47 2007
Author: Impey, Chris
Publication information: New York : Random House, c2007
Physical description: xvi, 393 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
Description: Astrobiology, the study of life in space, is one of today's fastest growing fields of science. In this accessible and elegantly reasoned book, scholar and researcher Impey explores the foundations of this rapidly developing discipline, where it's going, and what it's likely to find. If Earth is not the only planet, it is so far the only living one that we know of. Impey reveals the incredible proliferation and variety of life on Earth, paying special tribute to some of its hardiest life forms, extremophiles, a dizzying array of microscopic organisms that can survive extreme heat and cold, live deep within rocks, or thrive in pure acid. From there, Impey investigates the potential for life beyond our own world, providing portraits of the individuals who have devoted their lives to the search.--From publisher description
Contents: The unfinished revolution -- Life's origins -- Extreme life -- Shaping evolution -- Living in the solar system -- Distant worlds -- Are we alone?
- The Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology
- Location: General
Call Number: QH331 .C285 2007
Publication information: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: xxvii, 513 p. : ill. 23 cm
Contents: Adaptation / Tim Lewens -- Population genetics / Roberta L. Millstein, Robert A. Skipper Jr. -- Units and levels of selection / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- What's wrong with the emergentist statistical interpretation of natural selection and random drift / Robert N. Brandon, Grant Ramsey -- Gene / Paul E. Griffiths, Karola Stotz -- Information in biology / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Reductionism (and antireductionism) in biology / Alexander Rosenberg -- Mechanisms and models / Lindley Darden -- Teleology / André Ariew -- Macroevolution, minimalism, and the radiation of the animals / Kim Sterelny -- Philosophy and phylogenetics: historical and current connections / Maureen Kearney -- Human evolution: the three grand challenges of human biology / Francisco J. Ayala -- Varieties of evolutionary psychology / David J. Buller -- Neurobiology / Valerie Gray Hardcastle -- Biological explanations of human sexuality: the genetic basis of sexual orientation / Christopher Horvath -- Game theory in evolutionary biology / Zachary Ernst -- What is an 'embryo' and how do we know? / Jane Maienschein -- Evolutionary developmental biology / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Molecular and systems biology and bioethics / Jason Scott Robert -- Ecology / Gregory M. Mikkelson -- From ecological diversity to biodiversity / Sahotra Sarkar -- Biology and religion / Robert T. Pennock -- The moral grammar of narratives in history of biology: the case of Haeckel and Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards
- Ever since Darwin: reflections in natural history
- Location: General
Call Number: QH361 .G65 2007
Author: Gould, Stephen Jay
Publication information: New York : Norton, 2007, c1977
Physical description: 285 p. : ill. 18 cm
Contents: Darwiniana -- Human evolution -- Odd organisms and evolutionary exemplars -- Patterns and punctuations in the history of life -- Theories of the earth -- Size and shape, from churches to brains to planets -- Science in society-Historical view -- Science and politics of human nature -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
- The origin of species
- Location: General
Call Number: QH365 .O2 2004
Author: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Publication information: [Whitefish, MT] : Kessinger Pub., [2004]
Physical description: 552 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. 23 cm
Contents: Editor's introduction -- Historical sketch (Of the progress of opinion on the origin of species) -- Introduction -- Variation under domestication -- Variation under nature -- Struggle for existence -- Natural selection or the survival of the fittest -- Laws of variation -- Difficulties of the theory -- Miscellaneous objections to the theory of natural selection -- Instinct -- Hybridism -- On the imperfection of the geological record -- On the geological succession of organic beings -- Geographical distribution -- Geographical distribution-continued -- Mutual affinities of organic beings: Morphology-embryology-rudimentary organs -- Recapitulation and conclusion -- Glossary -- Index
- Evolution
- Location: Circulation Desk
Call Number: QH366.2 .E856 2006
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, [2006], c1991
Physical description: 1 videodisc (23 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Discusses theories scientists have advanced on the emergence and evolution of the species. It begins with a segment on fossils, then retraces the major steps of evolution as they were uncovered by science
- Evolution and creationism: a documentary and reference guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QH366.2 .Y68 2007
Author: Young, Christian C
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007
Physical description: xviii, 298 p. : ill. 29 cm
- Evolution 101
- Location: General
Call Number: QH367 .M81 2006
Author: Moore, Janice
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006
Physical description: xiv, 219 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
- The edge of evolution: the search for the limits of Darwinism
- Location: General
Call Number: QH367.3 .B44 2007
Author: Behe, Michael J., 1952-
Publication information: New York : Free Press, c2007
Physical description: ix, 320 p. : ill. 24 cm
Description: Draws on new findings in genetics to pose an argument for intelligent design that refutes Darwinian beliefs about evolution while offering alternative analyses of such factors as disease, random mutations, and the human struggle for survival
Contents: The elements of Darwinism -- Arms race or trench warfare? -- The mathematical limits of Darwinism -- What Darwinism can do -- What Darwinism can't do -- Benchmarks -- The two-binding-sites rule -- Objections to the edge -- The cathedral and the spandrels -- All the world's a stage
- Relics of Eden: the powerful evidence of evolution in human DNA
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QH390 .F35 2007
Author: Fairbanks, Daniel J
Publication information: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007
Physical description: 281 p. : ill., map 24 cm
Contents: Fusion -- McClintock's masterpiece -- Bogus genes -- Solving the trichotomy -- Darwinian DNA -- A spectacular confirmation -- Diversity -- The tree of life -- When faith and reason clash -- Abandoning the dichotomy
- Darwinian detectives: revealing the natural history of genes and genomes
- Location: General
Call Number: QH390 .J64 2007
Author: Johnson, Norman A., 1966-
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Physical description: xviii, 220 p. : ill. 25 cm
Contents: The baby with the baboon heart: why evolution still matters -- Why intelligent design is not science -- Negative selection and the neutral theory of molecular evolution -- Detecting positive selection -- Balancing selection and disease -- Finding our roots: did Eve know Adam ? -- Who were the neanderthals? -- Are we the third chimpanzee? -- What are the genetic differences that made us human? -- Clicks, genes, and languages -- Who let the dogs in? the domestication of animals and plants -- Size matters: toward understanding the natural history of genomes
- Punctuated equilibrium
- Location: General
Call Number: QH398 .G68 2007
Author: Gould, Stephen Jay
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
Physical description: viii, 396 p. : ill. 23 cm
- Discovering DNA
- Location: Circulation Desk
Call Number: QH431 .D573 2002
Publication information: Mt. Kisco, NY : Human Relations Media, c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (22 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (11 p. 22 cm.)
Description: Takes an in-depth look at DNA its structure how replication, transcription and translation occur where DNA is found and how technologies like genetic engineering and DNA sequencing are impacting us
- A guinea pig's history of biology
- Location: General
Call Number: QH431 .E615 2007
Author: Endersby, Jim
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007
Physical description: xii, 499 p. : ill. 24 cm
- Health news and interviews.
- Location: General
Call Number: QH431 .H435 2007
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (28 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: This collection of 18 video clips takes a close look at genetics. --Container
Contents: Junk DNA -- Living longer -- Secrets of the Y chromosome -- Tiny genes, big role -- Genome ABCs -- Custom cures -- SIDS test -- Blame your mother -- Mom's genes -- Exercise gene -- Dying to be thin -- Maternal separation -- Models of health --Age accelerator -- Redefining race -- Egg regs -- Sex cells
- Human genetics: concepts and applications
- Location: General
Call Number: QH431 .L41855 2008
Author: Lewis, Ricki
Publication information: Boston : McGraw-Hill/Higher Education, c2008
Physical description: xxi, 442 p. : col. ill., map 28 cm
- The genomic revolution: unveiling the unity of life
- Location: General
Call Number: QH437 .G46 2002
Publication information: Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, with the American Museum of Natural History, c2002
Physical description: xv, 249 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: Making the genome public : the American Museum of Natural History and the coming age of genomics / Michael Yudell and Rob DeSalle -- Genome science and the new frontier -- Introduction / Nicholas Wade -- What does knowing about genomes mean for science and society? / Harold Varmus -- Sequencing the human genome : elucidating our genetic blueprint / Eric Green -- Whole-genome shotgun sequencing / J. Craig Venter -- After the genome: where should we go? / Leroy Hood -- Applications of genomics to medicine and agriculture -- Introduction / Robert Bazell -- Genomics : a rapid road from gene to patient / William Haseltine -- The origins of cancer and the human genome / Arnold J. Levine -- Gene diversity in the endorphin system: SNPs, chips, and possible implications / Mary Jeanne Kreek -- Genomics and biotechnology in agriculture / Barbara A. Schaal -- Exploring human variation : understanding identity in the genomic era -- Introduction / Rob DeSalle -- Using maternal and paternal genes to unlock human history;/ Douglas C. Wallace -- Eugenics, the genome, and human rights / Daniel J. Kevles -- Redesigning the self: the promise and perils of genetic enhancement / David J. Rothman -- Financial, legal, and ethical issues and the new genomics -- Introduction / Michael Waldholz -- Investing in the biotechnology sector / Kris H. Jenner -- The role of patents in exploiting the genome / Rebecca Eisenberg -- Social side effects of the new human molecular genetic diagnostics / Troy Duster -- Mapping morality : the rights and wrongs of genomics / Arthur l. Caplan -- Summing up : finding our way through the revolution / Kathi E. Hanna
- Genetics 101
- Location: General
Call Number: QH437 .W56 2007
Author: Windelspecht, Michael, 1963-
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007
Physical description: xvi, 195 p. : ill. 25 cm
- The case against perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering
- Location: General
Call Number: QH438.7 .S2634 2007
Author: Sandel, Michael J
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
Physical description: x, 162 p. 19 cm
Contents: The ethics of enhancement -- Bionic athletes -- Designer children, designing parents -- The old eugenics and the new -- Mastery and gift -- Epilogue. Embryo ethics : the stem cell debate
- Cloning: a beginner's guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QH442.2 .L49 2007
Author: Levine, Aaron D
Publication information: Oxford : Oneworld, 2007
Physical description: x, 193 p. : ill. 20 cm
- Understanding genes and GMOs
- Location: General
Call Number: QH442.6 .S26 2007
Author: Sanderson, Colin J., 1940-
Publication information: Singapore Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 345 p. : ill. (some col.) 23 cm
- Genome: the secret of how life works teacher's resource guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QH447 .G466 2006
Publication information: Arlington, Va. : The Institute, c2006
Physical description: vii, 111 p. : ill. 28 cm
Description: Genome is an initiative of Pfizer to educate the public about the genome and the discoveries associated with the mapping of the human genome. This guide provides resources (field-tested nationally in elementary, middle, and high schools, and science and museum centers) for the traveling exhibit: Genome: the secret of how life works. Accompanying Web site: http://genome.pfizer.com contains other resources, links, and where to visit the exhibit
- First the egg
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QH491 .S43 2007
Author: Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Publication information: New Milford, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, 2007
Physical description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 23 cm
Description: A picture book about transformations
- In the beat of a heart: life, energy, and the unity of nature
- Location: General
Call Number: QH501 .W48 2006
Author: Whitfield, John, 1970-
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2006
Physical description: vii, 270 p. : ill. 24 cm
Description: Visionary biologists have advanced a theory that explains how all the living creatures of the world--from the tiny amoeba to the vast rain forest--are constructed, providing a fresh perspective on the essential interconnectivity of living systems. This revolutionary theory explains a variety of phenomena--why a shrew eats its body weight in food each day, why a mammal's heart beats about 1 billion times in its lifetime, why there are no trees as tall as the Eiffel Tower, and why more species live at the Earth's equator than at its poles. By looking at how living things use energy, we can answer these and a myriad of other intriguing questions. This book combines biography, history, science, and nature writing to capture the exciting advances--and the people who are making them--that are triggering a revolution as potentially important to biology as Newton's insights were to physics.--From publisher description
Contents: Prologue: I have taken to mathematics -- The slow fire -- Moving the line -- Searching for similarity -- Networking -- The pace of life -- Seeing the forest for the trees -- The cult of Santa Rosalia -- Humboldt's gifts -- A Newton of the grass blade? -- Epilogue: The great desideratum.
- Molecular biology and biotechnology: a guide for teachers
- Location: General
Call Number: QH506 .K748 2008
Author: Kreuzer, Helen
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2008
Physical description: xiii, 704 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- The living end: the future of death, aging, and immortality
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QH530 .B76 2008
Author: Brown, Guy C
Publication information: London New York : Macmillan, 2008
Physical description: vi, 278 p. : ill. 21 cm
Contents: 1. Beginnings and endings -- Interlude 1 : A brief history of death and damnation -- 2. The changing face of death -- Interlude 2 : The meaning of death -- 3. Kicking the bucket -- Interlude 3 : The search for immortality -- 4. Death is falling apart -- Interlude 4 : The immortals of Luggnagg -- 5. Losing your marbles -- Interlude 5 : The mortal soul -- 6. Digital self -- Interlude 6 : The fear of death -- 7. Cellular death -- Interlude 7 : When do we become old? -- 8. Aging -- Interlude 8 : Should death be resisted? -- 9. Immortality -- Postscript : And how should we die? -- References -- Index
- Strange days on planet Earth
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541 .S773 2005
Publication information: [United States] : Warner Home Video (distributor), 2005
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. They suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? Can we alter this course of events?
Contents: Volume 1: episode 1. Invaders -- episode 2. The one degree factor -- Volume 2: episode 3. Predators -- episode 4. Troubled waters
- Biodiversity
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.15.B56 B565 2008
Publication information: Detroit : Greenhaven Press/Gale, c2008
Physical description: 196 p. 24 cm
Contents: CHAPTER 1 : Is biodiversity loss a serious problem? Biodiversity: an overview / Environmental Literacy Council -- Yes, biodiversity loss is a serious problem : The earth is on the verge of a global biodiversity catastrophe / Steve Connor -- Biodiversity is essential to every aspect of human life / U.S. Agency for International Development -- Biodiversity is important to medicine, bioengineering, and health care / Julie Majeres -- Marine biodiversity just as important as land diversity / The Economist -- No, biodiversity loss is not a serious problem -- Scientific study of biodiversity decline is still in the early stages / Shahid Naeem -- Dire predictions of a biodiversity crisis may be overstated / Rhett A. Butler -- Biodiversity may rise and decline as part of a natural earth cycle / Space Daily -- CHAPTER 2 : What plant and animal species are going extinct? Without action, many plant and animal species will likely be extinct in fifty years / Philip Seaton -- All wild fisheries may be extinct by 2050 / Environment News Service -- 200-year-old tropical rainforests are disappearing at a rate never seen before / Geographical -- Acid oceans may kill off the the world's coral reefs / Juliet Eilperin -- America's wild bird populations are declining / National Audubon Society -- The risk of species extinction is increasing due to global warming / John Roach --;CHAPTER 3 : Are food production activities harming the earth's biodiversity? Yes, food production activities are harming the earth's biodiversity : Industrial agriculture is one of the main threats to biodiversity / Miguel A. Altieri -- Biotechnology is a threat to biodiversity / David Kennell -- Overfishing is the biggest threat to marine biodiversity / United Nations Environment Programme -- No, food production activities are not harming the earth's biodiversity : High-yield, industrial agriculture protects biodiversity / Center for Global Food Issues -- Biotechnology is not a threat to biodiversity / Michael Howie -- Commercial fishing is not significantly affecting the oceans' biodiversity / Jerry Fraser -- CHAPTER 4 : How can the earth's biodiversity be preserved? Conservation efforts should target biodiversity hotspots / Peter A. Seligmann -- Green development offers a way to save biodiversity / Noel Castree -- The convention on biological diversity is helping to preserve biodiversity / Secretariat of the convention on Biological Diversity -- The rainforests can be saved with sustainable logging and agriculture / The Economist -- Following natural design principles can protect biodiversity / William McDonough -- Smarter management of the oceans would allow sea life to rebound / Ben Carmichael -- Reducing the human population while expanding conservation practices provides the best chances for reversing biodiversity loss / Tatiana Siegel -- Stabilizing the human population by empowering women can help protect biodiversity / Mia MacDonald and Danielle Nierenberg
- Ecological restoration: principles, values, and structure of an emerging profession
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.15.R45 C54 2007
Author: Clewell, Andre F
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2007
Physical description: xii, 216 p. : ill., map 26 cm
- The silent deep: the discovery, ecology and conservation of the deep sea
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.5.D35 K67 2007
Author: Koslow, J. Anthony (Julian Anthony), 1947-
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Physical description: 270 p. : ill. (some col.), maps 25 cm
Contents: The rise of deep-sea exploration : early paradigms -- On the shoulders of giants: the Challenger expedition -- Life in the twilight zone and beyond -- Bugs in the mud : the Lilliputian fauna of the deep seafloor -- Vents, seeps, and whale falls : alternative energy sources in the deep sea -- Seamounts and deepwater coral reefs -- Dumping and pollution -- Mining the deep sea -- Climate change -- Deepwater fisheries : no more an oxymoron -- The way forward : conservation and policy options / written with Kristina Gjerde
- Temperate forests
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.5.F6 A46 2008
Author: Allaby, Michael
Publication information: New York : Facts on File, c2008
Physical description: xv, 336 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 29 cm
- Liquid assets: the critical need to safeguard freshwater ecosystems
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.5.F7 P65 2005
Author: Postel, Sandra
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, c2005
Physical description: 78 p. : ill. 22 cm
Contents: Assessing the damage, and how we got where we are -- Healthy watersheds for safe drinking water -- Food security with ecosystem security -- Reducing risks, preserving resilience -- Bringing water policies into the 21st century
- Wetlands
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.5.M3 M664 2007
Author: Moore, Peter D
Publication information: New York : Facts on File, c2008
Physical description: xviii, 270 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
Contents: Geography of wetlands -- Geology and chemistry of wetlands -- The wetland ecosystem -- Different kinds of wetlands -- Biology and biodiversity of wetlands -- Wetlands in history -- The value of wetlands -- The future of wetlands -- General conclusions -- Glossary
- Altered oceans: a five-part series on the crisis in the seas
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.5.S3 A484 2007
Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Los Angeles Times, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (35 min) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Part 1: Crucial habitats are falling victim to the changing chemistry of oceans. Part 2: Toxic algae and bacteria are poisoning marine mammals, other sea life. Part 3: Red tides multiply and worsen, and the winds carry their toxins ashore. Part 4: Seaborne plastic debris poses a lethal hazard to wildlife. Part 5: Seawater is turning acidic, threatening fish, coral and other marine life
Contents: pt. 1. A primeval tide of toxins -- pt. 2. Sentinels under attack -- pt. 3. Dark tides, ill winds -- pt. 4. Sea preserves a plastic plague -- pt. 5. A chemical imbalance
- Planet ocean: voyage to the heart of the marine realm
- Location: General
Call Number: QH541.5.S3 B3313 2007
Author: Ballesta, Laurent, 1974-
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2007?]
Physical description: 366 p. : chiefly col. ill. 34 cm
- Should drilling be permitted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
- Location: General
Call Number: QH545.O57 S46 2008
Publication information: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008
Physical description: 92 p. 24 cm
- Molecular cell biology
- Location: General
Call Number: QH581.2 .M655 2008
Publication information: New York : W.H. Freeman, c2008
Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) 29 cm
Contents: Life begins with cells -- Chemical foundations -- Protein structure and function -- Basic molecular genetic mechanisms -- Molecular genetic techniques -- Genes, genomics, and chromosomes -- Transcriptional control of gene expression -- Post-transcriptional gene control -- Visualizing, fractionating, and culturing cells -- Biomembrane structure -- Transmembrane transport of ions and small molecules -- Cellular energetics -- Moving proteins into membranes and organelles -- Vesicular traffic, secretion, and endocytosis -- Cell signaling I : signal transduction and short-term cellular responses -- Cell signaling II : signaling pathways that control gene activity -- Cell organization and movement I : microfilaments -- Cell organization and movement II : microtubules and intermediate filaments -- Integrating cells into tissues -- Regulating the eukaryotic cell cycle -- Cell birth, lineage, and death -- The molecular cell biology of development -- Nerve cells -- Immunology -- Cancer
- Embryo: a defense of human life
- Location: General
Call Number: QH588.S83 G46 2008
Author: George, Robert P
Publication information: New York : Doubleday, c2008
Physical description: xi, 242 p. 22 cm
Contents: What is at stake in the embryo experimentation debate -- The facts of embryology -- Dualism and persons -- Moral philosophy and the early human being -- Moral dualism -- New objections to the humanity of the early embryo -- Further challenges
- The stem cell debate
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QH588.S83 P472 2007
Author: Peters, Ted, 1941-
Publication information: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007
Physical description: xv, 133 p. : ill. 18 cm
- Plant identification terminology: an illustrated glossary
- Location: Reference
Call Number: QK9 .H37 2001
Author: Harris, James G., 1954-
Publication information: Spring Lake, Utah : Spring Lake Pub., c2001
Physical description: x, 206 p. : ill. 26 cm
- Cultivating women, cultivating science: Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860
- Location: ebook
Call Number: QK21.G7
Author: Shteir, Ann B., 1941-
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996
Physical description: xi, 301 p. : ill. 24 cm
- I wonder what a rainforest is: and other facts about plants
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QK49 .D635 1992
Author: Donati, Annabelle
Publication information: Racine, Wis. : Western Pub. Co., c1992
Physical description: 32 p. : col. ill. 28 cm
Description: Amazing but true facts about the wide variety of plants, seeds, and the rain forests
- Weeds of the Northeast
- Location: General
Call Number: QK118 .U93 1997
Author: Uva, Richard H. (Richard Hart), 1969-
Publication information: Ithaca : Comstock Pub. Associates, 1997
Physical description: viii, 397 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
Description: This book is a lavishly illustrated manual for ready identification of 299 common and economically important weeds in the region south to Virginia, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Wisconsin. Based on vegetative rather than floral characteristics, this guide gives anyone who works with plants the ability to identify weeds before they flower. A dichotomous key to all the species described in the book is designed to narrow the choices to a few possible species. Identification can then be confirmed by reading the descriptions of the species and comparing a specimen with the drawings and photographs. A fold-out grass identification table provides diagnostic information for weedy grasses in an easy-to-use tabular key. Specimens with unusual vegetative characteristics, such as thorns, square stems, whorled leaves, or milky sap, can be rapidly identified using the shortcut identification table. This book will facilitate appropriate weed management strategy in any horticultural or agronomic cropping system and will also serve home gardeners and landscape managers, as well as pest management specialists and allergists
- Trees of Illinois
- Location: General
Call Number: QK157 .K47 2007
Author: Kershaw, Linda, 1951-
Publication information: Auburn, WA : Lone Pine Publishing International, c2007
Physical description: 304 p. : ill. (some col.), maps 22 cm
- Tropical plants of Costa Rica: a guide to native and exotic flora
- Location: General
Call Number: QK217 .Z82 2007
Author: Zuchowski, Willow
Publication information: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2007
Physical description: 529 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 23 cm
- Trees: a visual guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QK475 .R63 2008
Author: Rodd, Tony
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008
Physical description: 304 p. : col. ill., col. maps 24 cm
- Flowering plant families of the world
- Location: General
Call Number: QK495.A1 F58 2007
Publication information: Buffalo, N.Y. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2007
Physical description: 424 p. : ill., maps 32 cm
- Big yellow sunflower
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QK495.C74 B37 2008
Author: Barry, Frances
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008
Physical description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 23 cm
Description: Describes how a little seed grows into a sunflower, in a book where the pages fold out to form a large sunflower
- Field guide to Wisconsin sedges: an introduction to the genus Carex (Cyperaceae)
- Location: General
Call Number: QK495.C997 H57 2008
Author: Hipp, Andrew
Publication information: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008
Physical description: xi, 265 p. : col. ill., maps 23 cm
- Beans: a history
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QK495.L52 A567 2007
Author: Albala, Ken, 1964-
Publication information: Oxford New York : Berg, 2007
Physical description: xv, 261 p. 20 cm
Contents: Lentils: fertile crescent -- Lupines: Europe and Andes -- Fava beans: Europe -- Peas, chickpeas and pigeon peas -- Oddballs and villains -- Mung and the Vignas: India -- Black-eyed peas: Africa, soul food -- Phaseolus vulgaris: Mexico and the world -- Limas and the lesser phaseoli: Andes -- Tepary beans: native Americans -- Soy: China, Japan and the world
- All that the rain promises and more--: a hip pocket guide to Western mushrooms
- Location: General
Call Number: QK617 .A688 1991
Author: Arora, David
Publication information: Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, c1991
Physical description: xxii, 261 p. : col. ill. 19 cm
Contents: Introduction: How to use this book Format and terminology Spore color and spore prints Collecting gear Seasonal occurrence Eating mushrooms Medicinal mushrooms Consciousness-altering mushrooms Poisonous mushrooms Growing mushrooms at home Dyeing with mushrooms Mushrooms and kids -- Chanterelles -- Milk caps and Russulas -- Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms without a ring -- Amanita -- Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms with a ring -- Agaricus -- Miscellaneous dark-spored gilled mushrooms -- Boletes -- Polypores -- Teeth fungi -- Coral and club fungi -- Puffballs and earthstars -- Morels and false morels -- Other mushrooms -- Toward a mushroom hunting ethic -- Checklist and index to common names -- Index to scientific names -- Photo credits and acknowledgments
- 100 edible mushrooms
- Location: General
Call Number: QK617 .K96 2007
Author: Kuo, Michael, 1963-
Publication information: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, c2007
Physical description: xi, 329 p. : col. ill. 26 cm
- Anatomy of flowering plants: an introduction to structure and development
- Location: General
Call Number: QK641 .R84 2007
Author: Rudall, Paula
Publication information: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: xii, 145 p. : ill. 21 cm
- Nature's palette: the science of plant color
- Location: General
Call Number: QK669 .L44 2007
Author: Lee, David Webster, 1942-
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Physical description: xvi, 409 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 24 cm
Contents: Coloring Our Bodies with Plants -- Light, Vision, and Color -- Nature's Palette -- The Canvas -- Patterns -- Leaves -- Flowers -- Fruits and Seeds -- Stems and Roots -- Iridescent Plants -- Why Leaves Turn Red -- Chlorophilia
- The curious world of carnivorous plants: a comprehensive guide to their biology and cultivation
- Location: General
Call Number: QK917 .K2813 2007
Publication information: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2007
Physical description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps 27 cm
Contents: The flowers of evil: an introduction -- Habitats -- Biogeography and diversity -- Attracting and trapping mechanisms -- Digestion of prey and nutrient uptake -- Prey -- Guests at the carnivores' table: the commensals -- Noncarnivorous animal-trapping plants -- The evolution of carnivory -- Growing carnivorous plants -- Nature conservation -- Bromeliaceae: pineapple family (bromeliads) -- Byblidaceae: rainbow plant family -- Cephalotaceae: Australian pitcher plant family -- Dioncophyllaceae: hookleaf family -- Droseraceae: sundew family -- Drosophyllaceae: Portuguese sundew family -- Lentibulariaceae: bladderwort family -- Nepenthaceae: Asian pitcher plant family -- Roridulaceae: bug plant family -- Sarraceniaceae: American pitcher plant family -- Animal-trapping liverworts -- Animal-trapping fungi -- The carnivorous plants of the world: a comprehensive listing from A to Z
- Thought to exist in the wild: awakening from the nightmare of zoos
- Location: General
Call Number: QL76 .J46 2007
Author: Jensen, Derrick, 1960-
Publication information: Santa Cruz, CA : No Voice Unheard, 2007
Physical description: 143 p. : ill. 23 x 26 cm
- Invasive terrestrial animals
- Location: General
Call Number: QL86 .M39 2007
Author: May, Suellen
Publication information: New York : Chelsea House, c2007
Physical description: 110 p. : col. ill. 25 cm
- Lake monster mysteries: investigating the world's most elusive creatures
- Location: General
Call Number: QL89 .R33 2006
Author: Radford, Benjamin, 1970-
Publication information: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006
Physical description: xvii, 190 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
Contents: Loch Ness / Joe Nickell -- Lake Champlain / Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford -- Lake Memphremagog / Joe Nickell -- Silver Lake / Joe Nickell -- Lake Crescent / Benjamin Radford -- Lake George / Joe Nickell -- Lake Okanagan / Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford -- Other notable lake monsters / Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford -- Appendixes / Benjamin Radford. Mysteries and misinformation : how cryptozoologists created a monster. Eyewitness (un)reliability. Animating the Champ photograph. Ogopogo film and video analysis
- Venomous animals of the world
- Location: General
Call Number: QL100 .B32 2008
Author: Backshall, Stephen
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, c2007
Physical description: 160 p. : col. ill. 33 cm
- Arctic tale
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: ZD 2674;QL105 .A785 2007
Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Filmed over the span of fifteen years, Arctic tale follows a polar bear cub and a walrus pup as they learn to survive in the wild and face increasing challenges posed by global warming
Contents: Special features: Making of Arctic tale -- Are we there yet? world adventure : polar bear spotting -- Theatrical trailer -- Previews
- Invasive aquatic and wetland animals
- Location: General
Call Number: QL122.2 .M376 2007
Author: May, Suellen
Publication information: New York : Chelsea House, c2007
Physical description: 103 p. : col. ill. 25 cm
Contents: Natural world of aquatic and wetland animals -- Threat of invasive aquatic and wetland animals -- Nutria: Rodent that likes to eat out -- Round goby: Fish in rocky waters -- Northern snakehead: Predator that travels over land -- Sea lamprey: Marine parasite with teeth -- Digging deep: Chinese mitten crab -- Managing invasive aquatic and wetland animals -- Putting it all together: Saving the San Francisco Bay from invaders -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Further reading -- Index
- Southern Mexico: the Cancún Region, Yucatán Peninsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco
- Location: General
Call Number: QL225 .B45 2007
Author: Beletsky, Les, 1956-
Publication information: Northampton, Mass. : Interlink Books, 2007
Physical description: x, 487 p. : ill. (some col.), maps 23 cm
- Spiders: biology, ecology, natural history, and behaviour
- Location: General
Call Number: QL452 .P86 2007
Author: Punzo, Fred, 1945-
Publication information: Leiden : Brill Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007
Physical description: 428 p. : ill. 25 cm
- Spiders
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL458.4 .B58 2007
Author: Bishop, Nic, 1955-
Publication information: New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2007
Physical description: 48 p. : col. ill. 29 cm
Description: Text and photographs introduce readers to different types of spiders and their behavior
- Kaufman field guide to insects of North America
- Location: General
Call Number: QL473 .E28 2007
Author: Eaton, Eric R
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2007
Physical description: 391 p. : col. ill. 20 cm
Contents: Non-insect vertebrates -- Primitive insects and minor orders -- Dragonflies and damselflies -- Mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies -- Roaches, mantids, walkingsticks -- Grasshoppers, katydids, crickets -- Cicadas, aphids, and their relatives -- Typical true bugs -- Beetles -- Lacewings, antlions, Dobsonflies -- Butterflies and moths -- True flies -- Wasps, bees, ants
- Cockroaches: ecology, behavior, and natural history
- Location: General
Call Number: QL505.5 .B43 2007
Author: Bell, William J
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Physical description: xiii, 230 p. : ill. 29 cm
- In the company of wild butterflies
- Location: General
Call Number: QL544 .I584 2005
Publication information: Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: This study of several species of wild butterflies describes the parts of a butterfly, their life cycle, and details of their lives and strategies for survival
- Ants of North America: a guide to the genera
- Location: General
Call Number: QL568.F7 F48 2007
Author: Fisher, Brian L., 1964-
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 194 p. : ill. (some col.) 19 cm
- The ecology and evolution of ant-plant interactions
- Location: General
Call Number: QL568.F7 R53 2007
Author: Rico-Gray, Victor
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Physical description: xiii, 331 p. : ill. 23 cm
Contents: Ant-plant interactions -- Antagonistic interactions : Leaf-cutting and seed-harvesting ants -- Mutualism from antagonism : Ants as primary seed-dispersers -- Mutualism from opportunism : Ants as secondary seed-dispersers -- Mutualism from antagonism : Ants and flowers -- Antagonism and mutualism : Direct interactions -- Antagonism and mutualism : Indirect interactions -- Nutrition of plants by ant mutualists : Life history of ant-fed plants and ant-garden systems -- Canopy-dwelling ants, plant and insect exudates, and ant mosaics -- Variation in ant-plant interactions -- Ant-plant interactions in agriculture -- Overview and perspectives
- Major transitions in vertebrate evolution
- Location: General
Call Number: QL607.5 .M348 2007
Publication information: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007
Physical description: ix, 417 p. : ill. (some col.), map 26 cm
Contents: Introduction : Studying evolutionary transitions among vertebrates / Hans-Dieter Sues and Jason S. Anderson -- Plasticity of and transitions between skeletal tissues in vertebrate evolution and development / Brian K. Hall and P. Eckhard Witten -- Homologies and evolutionary transitions in early vertebrate history / Philippe Janvier -- Paired fins of jawless vertebrates and their homologies across the agnathan -gnathostome transition / Mark V.H. Wilson, Gavin F. Hanke and Tiiu Märss -- MODEs of developmental evolution : an example with the origin and definition of the autopodium / Hans C.E. Larsson -- Incorporating ontogeny into the matrix : a phylogenetic evaluation of developmental evidence for the origin of modern amphibians / Jason S. Anderson -- The cranial anatomy of basal diadectomorphs and the origin of amniotes / Robert R. Reisz -- Snake phylogeny, origins, and evolution : the role, impact, and importance of fossils (1869-2006) / Michael W. Caldwell -- The beginnings of birds : recent discoveries, ongoing arguments, and new directions / Luis M. Chiappe and Gareth J. Dyke -- Successive diversifications in early mammalian evolution / Zhe-Xi Luo -- The terrestrial to aquatic transition in Cetacea / Mark D. Uhen
- Turtles: an extraordinary natural history 245 million years in the making
- Location: General
Call Number: QL666.C5 F64 2007
Author: Franklin, Carl J
Publication information: St. Paul, MN : Voyageur Press, 2007
Physical description: 160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps 29 cm
- The life cycle of a sea turtle
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL666.C536 K35 2002
Author: Kalman, Bobbie
Publication information: New York : Crabtree Pub. Co., c2002
Physical description: 32 p. : col. ill. 25 cm
Description: Describes how sea turtles develop from eggs to hatchlings to adult turtles, and tells why they are endangered and what individuals can do to help protect them
Contents: Sea turtles are reptiles -- Different sea turtles -- What is a life cycle? -- Finding that beach! -- Laying her eggs -- Leaving her babies -- Inside the egg -- Journey to the ocean -- Far out at sea -- Floating in weeds -- Eating adult food -- Back to the beach -- Sea turtles in danger -- How you can help -- Glossary and index
- Crocodile: evolution's greatest survivor
- Location: General
Call Number: QL666.C925 K45 2006
Author: Kelly, Lynne
Publication information: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2006
Physical description: xv, 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps 21 cm
Contents: Encountering the crocodile -- Around the world, in life and legend -- The crocodilian, in form and function -- Studying the crocodilian -- In search of the ancient -- Hunting the crocodile -- Crocodile attacks -- Farming crocodiles -- Showing them off -- Crocodiles in popular culture
- The new encyclopedia of snakes
- Location: General
Call Number: QL666.O6 M3383 2007
Author: Mattison, Christopher
Publication information: Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, c2007
Physical description: 272 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
Description: The subject of this narrative is the generic snake. Intended for amateur herpetologists and general naturalists the work treats the origin, evolution and classification of snakes and then discusses morphology and function, how and where snakes live (habitat, adaptations and world patterns), feeding, defense, and reproduction. A chapter deals with the relationships of snakes and humans, and there are sections on taxonomy and classification with minimum information on individual species
Contents: The origin and evolution of snakes -- Morphology and function -- How snakes live -- Where snakes live -- Feeding -- Defence -- Reproduction -- Snakes and humans -- Taxonomy -- The classification of snakes
- Frogs
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL668.E2 B47 2008
Author: Bishop, Nic, 1955-
Publication information: New York, NY : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2008
Physical description: 48 p. : col. ill. 29 cm
Description: Nic Bishop's photographs show all different kinds of frogs, big ones, very tiny ones, frogs with beautiful colors of skin, and one frog you can see inside of
- Birds: a visual guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QL673 .B96 2006
Author: Burger, Joanna
Publication information: Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2006
Physical description: 304 p. : col. ill. 24 cm
- Bird: the definitive visual guide
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QL673 .N28 2007
Publication information: New York : DK Pub., 2007
Physical description: 512 p. : col. ill., col. maps 31 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Description: This visual guide to every bird order and family profiles more than 1,500 species, photographed in their native environment by photographers around the globe. Authoritative, comprehensive, and completely up to date, this reference volume of the world's birds illustrates the full range of birds, bird behavior, and bird-watching locations organized in taxonomic order with detailed introductions to every bird order. Features special double-pages on the most spectacular birds and an audio CD of bird songs and calls
- Birdhouses and feeders
- Location: General
Call Number: QL676.5 .B266 2007
Author: Barquest, G
Publication information: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, Inc., 2007
Physical description: 45 p. : ill., plans 28 cm
- The art of pishing: how to attract birds by mimicking their calls
- Location: General
Call Number: QL676.5 .D86 2006
Author: Dunne, Pete, 1951-
Publication information: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2006
Physical description: 92 p. : ill. 21 cm. + 1 CD (digital 4 3/4 in.)
- 101 ways to help birds
- Location: General
Call Number: QL676.5 .E75 2006
Author: Erickson, Laura, 1951-
Publication information: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2006
Physical description: xx, 284 p. : ill. 23 cm
- The backyard bird lover's field guide: secrets to attracting, identifying, and enjoying birds of your region
- Location: General
Call Number: QL682 .R68 2007
Author: Roth, Sally
Publication information: New York, NY : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2007
Physical description: xiii, 336 p. : col. ill., col. maps 24 cm
- Fifty uncommon birds of the upper Midwest
- Location: General
Call Number: QL683.M55 G37 2007
Author: Gardner, Dana
Publication information: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 112 p. : col. ill. 26 cm
- The birds of Costa Rica: a field guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QL687.C8 G37 2007
Author: Garrigues, Richard
Publication information: New York : Comstock Publishing Associates, 2007
Physical description: xxvi, 387 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) 20 cm
- Guide to ducks and geese
- Location: General
Call Number: QL696.A52 H325 2006
Author: Hagner, Chuck
Publication information: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2006
Physical description: 108 p. : col. ill. 23 cm
Contents: Dabbling ducks. Mallard -- American black duck -- Mottled duck -- Gadwall -- Northern pintail -- American wigeon -- Eurasian wigeon -- Northern shoveler -- Garganey -- Cinnamon teal -- Blue-winged teal -- Green-winged teal -- Fulvous whistling-duck -- Black-bellied whistling-duck -- Muscovy duck -- Wood duck -- Diving ducks. Canvasback -- Redhead -- Tufted duck -- Ring-necked duck -- Greater scaup -- Lesser scaup -- Common eider -- King eider -- Spectacled eider -- Steller's eider -- Harlequin duck -- Long-tailed duck -- Surf scoter -- Black scoter -- White-winged scoter -- Common goldeneye -- Barrow's goldeneye -- Bufflehead -- Hooded merganser -- Common merganser -- Red-breasted merganser -- Masked duck -- Ruddy duck -- Loons, grebes, and other waterbirds. Red-throated loon -- Pacific loon -- Common loon -- Yellow-billed loon -- Red-necked grebe -- Horned grebe -- Eared grebe -- Pied-billed grebe -- Least grebe -- Western grebe -- Clark's grebe -- Double-crested cormorant -- Purple gallinule -- Common moorhen -- American coot -- Geese -- Barnacle goose -- Canada goose -- Brant -- Greater white-fronted goose -- Greylag goose -- Emperor goose -- Snow goose -- Ross's goose
- Enjoying hummingbirds: in the wild & in your yard
- Location: General
Call Number: QL696.A558 G38 2008
Author: Gates, Larry, 1942-
Publication information: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2008
Physical description: iii, 196 p. : col. ill., col. maps 23 cm
- Penguins of the world
- Location: General
Call Number: QL696.S473 L96 2007
Author: Lynch, Wayne
Publication information: Buffalo, NY : Firefly Books, c2007
Physical description: 175 p. : col. ill., maps 29 cm
- Owls of the United States and Canada: a complete guide to their biology and behavior
- Location: General
Call Number: QL696.S8 L96 2007
Author: Lynch, Wayne
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Physical description: xx, 242 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
- The mammals of Costa Rica: a natural history and field guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QL723.C8 W34 2007
Author: Wainwright, Mark
Publication information: Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock, 2007
Physical description: xxxii, 454 p. : ill. (some col.), maps 20 cm
- Giant pandas
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.C214 S45 2007
Author: Seidensticker, John
Publication information: New York : Collins, 2007
Physical description: 186 p. : col. ill. 25 cm
- Living with wolves
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.C22 W659 2007
Publication information: [United States] : Discovery Communications : Discovery Channel Video Chatsworth, CA. : Distributed by Image Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 2 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Filmmaker Jim Dutcher and his wife Jamie lived with gray wolves for three years to make this documentary, and their work reveals complex social behavior never before captured on film. You'll observe the dominance of the pack's alpha male and the submissiveness of the omega wolf. You'll see the pack initiate new members, and witness the critical moment when the alpha selects a mate. Perhaps most incredible is the bond developed between the wolves and the Dutchers, who ultimately must move the pack to another reserve in order to keep them alive
Contents: Living with wolves -- Wolves at our door
- Listening to cougar
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.C23 L57 2007
Publication information: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2007
Physical description: xxi, 200 p. : ill., maps 23 cm
- Life in the valley of death: the fight to save tigers in a land of guns, gold, and greed
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.C23 R33 2008
Author: Rabinowitz, Alan, 1953-
Publication information: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2008
Physical description: xiii, 230 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps 24 cm
Contents: Road to nowhere -- Paradise lost -- The valley of death -- Into the Naga hills -- Rolling the dice -- Into the darkness -- Letting go -- Hungry ghosts -- Where there be tigers -- Conservation warfare -- Jungle politics -- Shaping a miracle -- A question of balance -- Burning bright -- Return to the Naga hills -- Spots of time -- Reaching Mr. Analogue
- A life among whales
- Location: Circulation Desk
Call Number: QL737.C4 L544 2005
Publication information: Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales is a fascinating exploration of whale biologist and MacArthur fellowship winner, Dr. Roger Payne. For four decades, Payne has advanced the boundaries of science and activism - beginning with his pioneering work on whale songs in the 1970's, to his study of ocean pollution today
- Hello, bumblebee bat
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL737.C513 L86 2007
Author: Lunde, Darrin P
Publication information: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2007
Physical description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 23 cm
Description: Simple text and illustrations introduce the endangered bumblebee bat of Thailand
- Rat: how the world's most notorious rodent clawed its way to the top
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.R666 L345 2007
Author: Langton, Jerry, 1965-
Publication information: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007
Physical description: 207 p. 22 cm
- Manatees
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL737.S63 P35 2001
Author: Palazzo-Craig, Janet
Publication information: [Mahwah, NJ] : Troll, 2001
Physical description: 46, [1] p. : col. ill. 18 x 23 cm
Description: Explores the world of the manatee, including adaptation, habitat, dangers, and protection
- The Florida manatee: biology and conservation
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.S63 R44 2006
Author: Reep, Roger
Publication information: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006
Physical description: xvi, 189 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 24 cm
Contents: Manatees in Florida -- Origins -- The Manatee lifestyle -- Endangered! -- How many are there? -- Where do they go? -- Brains -- Perception and behavior --Rehabilitation and release -- The future
- Being caribou
- Location: General
Call Number: QL737.U55 B456 2006
Publication information: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Mill Creek Entertainment, c2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer followed a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometers of rugged Arctic tundra, from Canada's central Yukon to coastal Alaska (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and back again. They wanted to raise awareness of threats to the caribou's survival if proposed oil and gas development goes ahead in the herd's calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- No way home: the decline of the world's great animal migrations
- Location: General
Call Number: QL754 .W55 2008
Author: Wilcove, David Samuel
Publication information: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2008
Physical description: ix, 245 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
Contents: In the air -- On land -- In the water
- Built by animals: the natural history of animal architecture
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QL756 .H357 2007
Author: Hansell, Michael H. (Michael Henry), 1940-
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Physical description: viii, 268 p. : ill. 23 cm
- Animal parents
- Location: General
Call Number: QL762 .R66 2007
Author: Roots, Clive, 1935-
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007
Physical description: xxiii, 204 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) 27 cm
- The natural-history background of camouflage,
- Location: General
Call Number: QL767 .F732 1942
Author: Friedmann, Herbert, 1900-1987
Publication information: Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1942
Physical description: 17 p. 16 plates on 8 l. 23 cm
- Living color
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL767 .J46 2007
Author: Jenkins, Steve, 1952-
Publication information: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Physical description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 31 cm
Description: Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink -- animals can be amazingly colorful. Why are they found in so many hues? How do their brilliant feathers, scales, shells, and skin help them survive? Find out ... how animals use color to warn predators, signal friends, attract a mate, or hide from their enemies --Front dust jacket flap
- Animal skulls: a guide to North American species
- Location: General
Call Number: QL822 .E43 2006
Author: Elbroch, Mark
Publication information: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2006
Physical description: xi, 727 p. : ill. (some col.) 23 cm
- The hair book
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QL942 .T46 1979
Author: Tether, Graham
Publication information: New York : Beginner Books, c1979
Physical description: [29] p. : col. ill. 24 cm
Description: An easy-to-read, rhyming introduction to hair
- Human anatomy
- Location: General
Call Number: QM23.2 .M356 2009
Author: Martini, Frederic
Publication information: San Francisco : Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2008
Physical description: xxxiii, 869 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 31 cm
- Anatomy & pathology: the world's best anatomical charts
- Location: General
Call Number: QM25 .A582 2008
Publication information: Skokie, IL : Anatomical Chart Co., c2008
Physical description: 63 leaves of plates : ill
- The human body book
- Location: General
Call Number: QM26 .P37 2007
Author: Parker, Steve, 1952-
Publication information: New York : DK Pub., 2007
Physical description: 256 p. : col. ill. 31 cm. + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QM26 .S58 2008
Author: Shubin, Neil
Publication information: New York : Pantheon Books, c2008
Physical description: 229 p. : ill., maps 22 cm
Description: Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the missing link that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.--From piblisher description
Contents: Finding an inner fish -- Getting a grip -- Handy genes -- Teeth everywhere -- Getting ahead -- The best-laid (body) plans -- Adventures in bodybuilding -- Making scents -- Vision -- Ears -- The meaning of it all -- Epilogue
- Anatomy & physiology revealed
- Location: General
Call Number: QP34.5 .A538 2008
Publication information: [New York] : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008
Description: Cadaver photos blended with a layering technique reveal more than 5,000 anatomical structures. Program includes dissection, animation of anatomical structures and physiological processes, histology, imaging, and quizzes and simulated practical exams. Includes all body systems: integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervious, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, lymphatic, digestive, urinary, and reproductive
- The human body: how we fail, how we heal
- Location: General
Call Number: QP34.5 .G664 2007
Author: Goodman, Anthony A
Publication information: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2007
Physical description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description: Dr. Anthony Goodman presents a systematic survey of what can go wrong in the human body, why it goes wrong and how the body itself responds, as well as what doctors can do to intervene
Contents: Part 1. [Disc 1] 1. How we fail -- 2. Cell biology - - introduction and definitions -- 3. Inflammation - - basic principles -- 4. The inflammatory response -- 5. Inflammation - - clinical manifestations -- 6. The immune response -- [Disc 2] 7. The immune response continued -- 8. Hypersensitivity and the allergic response -- 9. Infectious diseases - - general introduction -- 10. Bacteria -- 11. Viruses -- 12. Spirochetes, Rickettsiae, Chlamydiae, Prions;Part 2. [Disc 3] 13. Malaria -- 14. Schistosomiasis, Filariasis, tapeworms -- 15. Infectious diseases--treatment -- 16. Infectious diseases--triumph and failure -- 17. Shock--principles and hypovolemic shock -- 18. Categories of shock -- [Disc 4] 19. Cancer--the enemy within -- 20. Environmental carcinogens -- 21. Mechanisms of carcinogenesis -- 22. Invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis -- 23. Treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy -- 24. How we heal
- Vander's human physiology: the mechanisms of body function
- Location: General
Call Number: QP34.5 .W47 2008
Author: Widmaier, Eric P
Publication information: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008
Physical description: xxviii, 770 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 29 cm
- The human body: an amazing inside look at you!
- Location: Juvenile
Call Number: QP37 .P2693 1996
Author: Parker, Steve, 1952-
Publication information: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996
Physical description: 128 p. : col. ill. 29 cm
Description: Examines the workings of the separate systems that make up the human body
Contents: Shape and structure -- Movement -- Food and energy -- Keeping constant -- The senses -- Communication and control -- Reproduction
- Body: the complete human how it grows, how it works, and how to keep it healthy and strong
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QP38 .B597 2007
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007
Physical description: 416 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 29 cm
- The ultimate guide: the human body
- Location: General
Call Number: QP38 .U585 2007
Publication information: [United States] : Discovery Communications c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Examines the human body by using internal photography and advanced computer graphics
- Acclimatization in the Andes: historical confirmation of climatic aggression in the development of Andean man
- Location: ebook
Call Number: QP82
Author: Monge M., Carlos (Monge Medrano), 1884-
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1948
Physical description: xix, 130 p. : 22 cm
- The longevity revolution: the benefits and challenges of living a long life
- Location: General
Call Number: QP85 .B88 2008
Author: Butler, Robert N., 1927-
Publication information: New York : PublicAffairs, c2008
Physical description: xv, 553 p. : ill. 25 cm
Contents: What is the longevity revolution? -- The new longevity is the biggest challenge -- The greedy geezer : the manufactured clash of the generations -- Ageism: another form of bigotry -- The changing family and longevity -- The disorders of longevity -- Human interest in longevity: the power of research -- Alzheimer's: the epidemic of the twenty-first century -- The biology of extended time : evolution and longevity -- Cycles, clocks, and power plants: longevity science and aging research -- Toward a prescription for longevity and quality of life: health promotion and disease prevention -- Redesigning health care for an older America -- Live longer, work longer: productive engagement -- Social Security: self-responsibility, and the state -- The private sector: providence and risk--the role of the marketplace -- The politics of aging and longevity -- Population solutions to longevity: transition to stable populations -- Worldwide democratization of longevity: overcoming famine, war, and pestilence -- Threats to longevity: could we lose the longevity revolution? -- The good life: quality of life in the era of longevity -- Imagining longevity: challenges of the future
- Aging: the paradox of life why we age
- Location: General
Call Number: QP86 .H648 2007
Author: Holliday, R. (Robin), 1932-
Publication information: Dordrecht : Springer, c2007
Physical description: ix, 132 p. : ill., ports
Contents: Longevity -- Body architecture -- Maintenance of the body -- Multiple causes -- The ancient origins of ageing -- Mice and men -- How many genes? -- The evolution of human longevity -- Myths of life extension -- Doctors' dilemma -- The modulation of longevity -- Ageing and the angels -- Longevity, population pressure and warfare -- Dialogue between life and death -- The road discovery -- Resolution of the paradox
- Cardiopulmonary anatomy & physiology: essentials for respiratory care
- Location: General
Call Number: QP121 .D47 2008
Author: Des Jardins, Terry R
Publication information: Clifton Park, NY : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2008
Physical description: xxvii, 628 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- The dental hygienist's guide to nutritional care
- Location: General
Call Number: QP141 .D365 2005
Author: Stegeman, Cynthia A
Publication information: St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Saunders, c2005
Physical description: xix, 540 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
Contents: Orientation to basic nutrition -- Considerations of clinical nutrition -- Nutritional aspects of oral health -- Appendix -- Index
- Nutrition: science and applications
- Location: General
Call Number: QP141 .S5375 2008
Author: Smolin, Lori A
Publication information: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2008
Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill. 29 cm
- Nutrition: an applied approach
- Location: General
Call Number: QP141 .T467 2009
Author: Thompson, Janice, 1962-
Publication information: San Francisco, Calif. : Pearson/Benjamin Cummings, c2009
Physical description: xl, 689, [137] p. : col. ill. 28 cm
- Nutrition: concepts and controversies
- Location: General
Call Number: QP 141 .W392 2008
Author: Webb, Frances Sizer
Publication information: Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, c2008
Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map 28 cm
- The genotype diet: [change your genetic destiny to live the longest, fullest, and healthiest life possible]
- Location: General
Call Number: QP144.G45 D36 2007
Author: D'Adamo, Peter
Publication information: New York : Broadway Books, c2007
Physical description: xxvii, 317 p. : ill. 25 cm
Description: With Eat Right 4 Your Type, Dr. d'Adamo proved that one diet plan does not fit all. Here, he provides a customized program that works with your genetic makeup to maximize health and weight loss, as well as prevent or even reverse disease. According to Dr. d'Adamo, a host of environmental factors, including diet and lifestyle, dictate how your genes express themselves. With the right tools, you can turn on the good genes and shut down the bad ones. Using family history and blood type as well as simple diagnostic tools, Dr. d'Adamo shows you how to map out your genetic makeup to discover which of the twelve GenoType plans is right for you. Without expensive tests or a visit to the doctor, The GenoType Diet reveals previously hidden genetic strengths and weaknesses, and provides a precise diet and lifestyle plan for every individual.--From publisher description
- Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QP251 .R568 2008
Author: Roach, Mary
Publication information: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008
Physical description: 319 p. : ill. 22 cm
Description: Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place
- Should parents be allowed to choose the gender of their children?
- Location: General
Call Number: QP279 .S56 2008
Publication information: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008
Physical description: 96 p. 23 cm
- Spark: the revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QP301 .R38 2008
Author: Ratey, John J., 1948-
Publication information: New York : Little, Brown, 2008
Physical description: ix, 294 p. 25 cm
Description: Explores the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's
Contents: Introduction: making the connection -- Welcome to the revolution: a case study on exercise and the brain -- Learning: grow your brain cells -- Stress: the greatest challenge -- Anxiety: nothing to panic about -- Depression: move your mood -- Attention deficit: running from distraction -- Addiction: reclaiming the biology of self-control -- Hormonal changes: the impact on women's brain health -- Aging: the wise way -- The regimen: build your brain -- Afterword: fanning the flames
- Voice science, acoustics and recording
- Location: General
Call Number: QP306 .H77 2008
Author: Howard, David M. (David Martin), 1956-
Publication information: San Diegon CA : Plural Pub., c2008
Physical description: ix, 206 p. : ill. 27 cm
- The neuroscience of fair play: why we (usually) follow the Golden Rule
- Location: General
Call Number: QP360 .P4625 2007
Author: Pfaff, Donald W., 1939-
Publication information: New York : Dana Press, c2007
Physical description: xi, 234 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: Subway story -- The golden rule -- Being afraid -- Memory of fear -- Losing oneself -- Sex and parental love -- Sociability -- The urge to harm -- Murder and other mayhem -- Balancing act -- Temperament in the making -- A new science of social behavior
- Biology and human behavior: the neurological origins of individuality
- Location: General
Call Number: QP360 .S366 2005a
Author: Sapolsky, Robert M
Publication information: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, c2005
Physical description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks
Description: Examines behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave. Investigates how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal
Contents: Part I: Lecture 1. Biology and behavior-an introduction Lecture 2. The basic cells of the nervous system Lecture 3. How two neurons communicate Lecture 4. Learning and synaptic plasticity Lecture 5. The dynamics of interacting neurons Lecture 6. The limbic system Lecture 7. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) Lecture 8. The regulation of hormones by the brain Lecture 9. The regulation of the brain by hormones Lecture 10. The evolution of behavior Lecture 11. The evolution of behavior-some examples Lecture 12. Cooperation, competition, and neuroeconomics;Part II: Lecture 13. What do genes do? microevolution of genes Lecture 14. What do genes do? macroevolution of genes Lecture 15. Behavior genetics Lecture 16. Behavior Genetics and prenatal environment Lecture 17. An introduction to ethology Lecture 18. Neuroethology Lecture 19. The neurobiology of aggression I Lecture 20. The neurobiology of aggression II Lecture 21. Hormones and aggression Lecture 22. Early experience and evolution Lecture 23. Evolution, aggression and cooperation Lecture 24. A summary
- Social neuroscience: integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior
- Location: General
Call Number: QP360 .S594 2007
Publication information: New York : Guilford Press, c2007
Physical description: xiii, 512 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: A brief overview of social neuroscience / Eddie Harmon-Jones and Piotr Winkielman -- The importance of emotion--social cognition interactions for social functioning : insights from orbitofrontal cortex / Jennifer S. Beer -- Neurobiology of emotion recognition : current evidence for shared substrates / Andrea S. Heberlein and Ralph Adolphs -- Ten years of research with the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) revisited / Brigitte M. Kudielka, Dirk H. Hellhammer, and Clemens Kirschbaum -- I know how you feel : social and emotional information processing in the brain / Catherine J. Norris and John T. Cacioppo -- How thinking controls feeling : a social cognitive neuroscience approach / Kevin N. Ochsner -- Asymmetrical frontal cortical activity, affective valence, and motivational direction / Eddie Harmon-Jones -- Reward : neural circuitry for social valuation / Brian Knutson and G. Elliott Wimmer -- A biobehavioral model of implicit power motivation arousal, reward, and frustration / Oliver C. Schultheiss -- Vigilant and avoidant responses to angry facial expressions : dominance and submission motives / Jack van Honk and Dennis J.L.G. Schutter --;Attitudes and evaluation : toward a component process framework / William A. Cunningham and Marcia K. Johnson -- A social cognitive neuroscience model of human empathy / Jean Decety -- How dynamics of thinking create affective and cognitive feelings : psychology and neuroscience of the connection between fluency, liking, and memory / Tedra A. Fazendeiro, Troy Chenier, and Piotr Winkielman -- The X- and C-systems : the neural basis of automatic and controlled social cognition / Matthew D. Lieberman -- An evolutionary perspective on domain specificity in social intelligence / Valerie E. Stone -- Mechanisms for the regulation of intergroup responses : insights from a social neuroscience approach / David M. Amodio, Patricia G. Devine, and Eddie Harmon-Jones -- Social cognitive neuroscience of person perception : a selective review focused on the event-related brain potential / Bruce D. Bartholow and Cheryl L. Dickter -- Social neuroscience and social perception : new perspectives on categorization, prejudice, and stereotyping / Tiffany A. Ito, Eve Willadsen-Jensen, and Joshua Correll -- Neuropeptides and the protective effects of social bonds / C. Sue Carter -- The quiet revolution of existential neuroscience / Marco Iacoboni -- Affiliative responses to stress : a social neuroscience model / Shelley E. Taylor and Gian C. Gonzaga -- The social neuroscience of relationships : an examination of health-relevant pathways / Bert N. Uchino ... [et al.]
- Best of the brain from Scientific American
- Location: General
Call Number: QP360.5 .B52 2007
Publication information: New York : Dana Press, c2007
Physical description: vi, 270 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 24 cm
Contents: Mind. Unleashing creativity / Ulrich Kraft -- Stimulating the brain / Mark S. George -- Freud returns / Mark Solms -- The neurobiology of the self / Carl Zimmer -- How the brain creates the mind / Antonio R. Damasio -- The new science of mind / Eric R. Kandel;Matter. Vision : a window on consciousness / Nikos K. Logothetis -- Rethinking the lesser brain /.James M. Bower and Lawrence M. Parsons -- Sign language in the brain / Gregory Hickok, Ursula Bellugi, and Edward S. Klima -- Hunting for answers / Juergen Andrich and Joerg T. Epplen -- Brain, repair yourself / Fred H. Gage -- Diagnosing disorders / Steven E. Hyman -- The addicted brain / Eric J. Nestler and Robert C. Malenka -- Decoding schizophrenia / Daniel C. Javitt and Joseph T. Coyle -- Turning off depression / David Dobbs;Tomorrow's brain. Treating depression : pills or talk / Steven D. Hollon, Michael E. Thase, and John C. Markowitz -- The coming merging of mind and machine / Ray Kurzweil -- Controlling robots with the mind / Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin -- Thinking out loud / Nicola Neumann and Niels Birbaumer -- Neuromorphic microchips / Kwabena Boahen -- The quest for a smart pill / Stephen S. Hall
- Human brain development: nature and nurture
- Location: Circulation Desk
Call Number: QP376 .H863 2007
Publication information: San Luis Obispo, CA : Distributed by Davidson Films, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (27 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
Description: Examines the interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth in this film produced at the Brain Development Laboratory at the University of Oregon
Contents: Introduction -- Plasticity. Definition Three profiles Pruning Sensitive methods -- Lab research. ERP's MRI's Vision in deaf Visual pathways Language studies Focalization -- Intervention. Six groups Attention -- Conclusion
- The accidental mind
- Location: General
Call Number: QP376 .L577 2007
Author: Linden, David J., 1961-
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
Physical description: 276 p. : ill. 22 cm
Contents: Brain, explained -- The inelegant design of the brain -- Building a brain with yesterday's parts -- Some assembly required -- Sensation and emotion -- Learning, memory, and human individuality -- Love and sex -- Sleeping and dreaming -- The religious impulse -- The unintelligent design of the brain -- That middle thing
- Understanding the brain
- Location: General
Call Number: QP376 .N674 2007
Author: Norden, Jeanette
Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2007
Physical description: 6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd. col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 174 p. : ill. 19 cm.)
Description: This course examines how the brain works. Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does. Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight where pressure waves that reach the ear are processed into sound where fear originates which nuclei are involved in language and the ability to read where the ineffable chemistry of love is kindled
Contents: Part I : Lecture 1. Historical underpinnings of neuroscience -- Lecture 2. Central nervouse system--gross organization -- Lecture 3. Central nervous system... internal organization -- Lecture 4. Central nervous system... subdivisions -- Lecture 5. Cortex... lobes and areas -- Lecture 6. Cortex... sensory, motor, and association areas -- Lecture 7. Central nervous system... -development -- Lecture 8. Central nervous system... cellular organization -- Lecture 9. Pathways and synapses -- Lecture 10. Neurotransmitters -- Lecture 11. Stroke -- Lecture 12. The visual system--the eye --;Part II : Lecture 13. The visual system... the cortex -- Lecture 14. The auditory system -- Lecture 15. The somatosensory system -- Lecture 16. Agnosias -- Lecture 17. The motor system... voluntary movement -- Lecture 18. The motor system... coordinated movement -- Lecture 19. Parkinson's disease -- Lecture 20. Language -- Lecture 21. The limbic system--anatomy -- Lecture 22. The limbic system... biochemistry -- Lecture 23. Depression -- Lecture 24. The reward system--anatomy --;Part III : Lecture 25. The reward system--drugs -- Lecture 26. Brain plasticity -- Lecture 27. Emotion and executive function -- Lecture 28. Processing of negative emotions--fear -- Lecture 29. Music and the brain -- Lecture 30. Sexual dimorphism of the brain -- Lecture 31. Sleep and dreaming --Lecture 32. Consciousness and the self -- Lecture 33. Alzheimer's disease -- Lecture 34. Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease -- Lecture 35. Wellness and the brain--effects of stress -- Lecture 36. Neuroscience--looking back and looking ahead
- Educating the human brain
- Location: General
Call Number: QP376 .P67 2007
Author: Posner, Michael I
Publication information: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2007
Physical description: xiii, 263 p. : ill. 27 cm
Contents: Education, psychology, and the brain -- Relating brain and mind -- Learning to look -- A mind of one's own -- Genes and environment -- Temperament and learning -- Literacy -- Numeracy -- Expertise -- Preparing for school
- The creating brain: the neuroscience of genius
- Location: General
Call Number: QP398 .A53 2005
Author: Andreasen, Nancy C
Publication information: New York : Dana Press, c2005
Physical description: xiii, 197 p. : ill., ports. 24 cm
Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. The nature of creativity : the ingenious human brain -- 2. In search of Xanadu : understanding the creative person and the creative process -- 3. Reaching Xanadu : how does the brain create? -- 4. Genius and insanity : creativity and the brain disease -- 5. What creates the creative brain? -- 6. Building better brains : creativity and brain plasticity -- Bibliography -- Index
- The limits of dream: a scientific exploration of the mind/brain interface
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QP426 .P342 2008
Author: Pagel, J. F
Publication information: London Boston : ElsevierAcademic, 2008
Physical description: xvi, 234 p. : ill. 27 cm
Contents: Section 1. Definitions and the search for the truth. -- Section 2. Biological substrate of dream. -- Section 3. Studying the cognitive substrate of dreaming. -- Section 4. Cognitive process of dreaming. -- Section 5.Cognitive organization of dreaming. -- Section 6. Functional uses for dreaming. -- Section 7. Models of mind and brain
- Sensation, perception, and the aging process
- Location: General
Call Number: QP431 .C659 2006
Author: Colavita, Francis B
Publication information: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, c2006
Physical description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description: Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us as we age
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. Sensation, perception, and behavior -- Lecture 2. Sensation and perception--a distinction -- Lecture 3. Vision--stimulus and the optical system -- Lecture 4. Vision--the retina -- Lecture 5. Vision--beyond the optic nerve -- Lecture 6. Vision--age-related changes -- Lecture 7. Hearing--stimulus and supporting structures -- Lecture 8. Hearing--the inner ear -- Lecture 9. Hearing--age-related changes -- Lecture 10. The cutaneous system--receptors, pathways -- Lecture 11. The cutaneous system--early development -- Lecture 12. The cutaneous system--age-related changes;Part 2. Lecture 13. Pain--early history -- Lecture 14. Pain--acupuncture, endorphines, and aging -- Lecture 15. Taste--stimulus, structures, and receptors -- Lecture 16. Taste--factors influencing preferences -- Lecture 17. Smell--the unappreciated sense -- Lecture 18. Smell--consequences of anosmia -- Lecture 19. The vestibular system--body orientation -- Lecture 20. The kinesthetic sense--motor memory -- Lecture 21. Brain mechanisms and perception -- Lecture 22. Perception of language -- Lecture 23. The visual agnosias -- Lecture 24. Perception of other people/course summary
- Spaces speak, are you listening?: experiencing aural architecture
- Location: General
Call Number: QP443 .B585 2007
Author: Blesser, Barry
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
Physical description: xi, 437 p. : ill., music 24 cm
- Balance: in search of the lost sense
- Location: General
Call Number: QP471 .M42 2007
Author: McCredie, Scott
Publication information: New York : Little, Brown, 2007
Physical description: viii, 296 p. : ill. 22 cm
- Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres: deciphering the ends of DNA
- Location: General
Call Number: QP511.8.B53 B73 2007
Author: Brady, Catherine, 1955-
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
Physical description: 392 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: A certain sense of self -- Shedding encumbrances -- One of Gall's gals -- Revelations -- Opportunism -- Gold rush -- Entering the fray -- An interlocking system -- Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde? -- Members of a guild -- Citizen scientist -- Political fallout -- You have to think it's fun -- Notes -- Bibliography
- Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology
- Location: Reference
Call Number: QP512 .O94 2006
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
Physical description: xv, 720 p. : ill. 26 cm
- The vitamin D cure
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QP772.V53 D69 2008
Author: Dowd, James, 1962-
Publication information: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008
Physical description: xi, 260 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
- The science of marijuana
- Location: General
Call Number: QP801.C27 I94 2008
Author: Iversen, Leslie L
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Physical description: xvi, 273 p. : ill. 21 cm
Contents: Introduction -- The pharmacology of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) : the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis -- Endocannabinoids -- The effects of cannabis on the central nervous system -- Medical uses of marijuana : fact or fantasy? -- Is cannabis safe? -- The recreational use of cannabis -- What next?
- Alcamo's fundamentals of microbiology
- Location: General
Call Number: QR41.2 .A43 2007
Author: Pommerville, Jeffrey C
Publication information: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2007
Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 29 cm
Contents: Foundations of microbiology -- The bacteria and archaea -- Bacterial diseases of humans -- Viruses and eukaryotic microorganisms -- Disease and resistance -- Control of microorganisms -- Microbiology and public health
- The five-second rule and other myths about germs: what everyone should know about bacteria, viruses, mold, and mildew
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QR56 .M27 2007
Author: Maczulak, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1954-
Publication information: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2007
Physical description: viii, 296 p. : ill. 21 cm
Contents: What is microbiology? A few basics -- Microbes in the news -- We all live in a microbial world -- Eat, drink, and be microbial -- Clean it like you mean it -- Infections and disease -- These are microbial times -- On the horizon
- Germ proof your kids: the complete guide to protecting (without overprotecting) your family from infections
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QR56 .R598 2008
Author: Rotbart, Harley A
Publication information: Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2008
Physical description: xiii, 380 p. 26 cm
Contents: Introduction: The germ theory versus my mom's theory -- Worthy enemies -- Weapons in the war -- Wear your boots in the rain -- Wisdom of the ages
- Good germs, bad germs: health and survival in a bacterial world
- Location: General
Call Number: QR57 .S24 2007
Author: Sachs, Jessica Snyder
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 2007
Physical description: x, 290 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: The war on germs -- Life on man -- Too clean? -- Bugs on drugs -- Fighting smarter, not harder -- Beyond lethal force: defang, deflect, and deploy -- Fixing the patient -- Coda: embracing the microbiome;The war on germs -- Life on man -- Too clean? -- Bugs on drugs -- Fighting smarter not harder -- Beyond lethal force -- Fixing the patient -- Coda: embracing the microbiome
- The third domain: the untold story of archaea and the future of biotechnology
- Location: General
Call Number: QR82.A69 F75 2007
Author: Friend, Tim
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2007
Physical description: vii, 296 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
- Escherichia coli infections
- Location: General
Call Number: QR82.E6 M36 2005
Author: Manning, Shannon D., 1971-
Publication information: Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2005
Physical description: 136 p. : col. ill. 23 cm
Contents: Tainted food -- What is e. coli? -- A plethora of diseases -- Epidemiology of e. coli infections -- Clinical diagnosis and treatment -- How does e. coli cause disease? -- Tracking e. coli -- Perspectives on prevention -- Future possibilities and concerns
- The wonder of probiotics: a 30-day plan to boost energy, enhance weight loss, heal GI problems, prevent disease, and slow aging
- Location: General
Call Number: QR171.I6 T39 2007
Author: Taylor, John R
Publication information: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007
Physical description: xiii, 242 p. 24 cm
- In defense of self: how the immune system really works
- Location: General
Call Number: QR181.7 .C5532 2008
Author: Clark, William R., 1938-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Physical description: vi. 265 p. : ill. 22 cm
Contents: What is an immune system? -- Antibodies -- How do antibodies work? -- T cells: the second arm of adaptive immunity -- The immune response to infectious disease: all out war! -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: microbial immunopatholgoy -- Vaccines: how they work, why sometimes they don't, and what we can do about it --When the walls come tumbling down: HIV/AIDS -- When the walls come tumbling down: primary immune deficiencies -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: hypersensitivity and allergy -- The immune system and cancer -- Autoimmunity -- Organ transplantation -- First defense: the immune system and bioterrorism
- Streptococcus (group A)
- Location: General
Call Number: QR201.S7 S63 2004
Author: Smith, Tara C., 1976-
Publication information: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004
Physical description: 112 p. : col. ill. 24 cm
Contents: One bacterium, many different diseases -- Basic microbiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the group A streptococcus -- Superficial infections: streptococcal pharyngitis and impetigo -- Scarlet fever -- Resurgence of an old pathogen: invasive streptococcal diseases -- Post-streptococcal complications -- Virulence factors of group A streptococci -- Vaccine prospects and the future of the group A streptococcus
- Virology: principles and applications
- Location: General
Call Number: QR360 .C36 2007
Author: Carter, John B., 1944-
Publication information: Chichester, England Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007
Physical description: xix, 358 p. : col. ill. 27 cm
- Welcome to BioTech nation: my unexpected odyssey into the land of small molecules, lean genes, and big ideas
- Location: General
Call Number: TP248.215 .G86 2007
Author: Gunn, Moira Anne, 1949-
Publication information: New York : AMACOM, c2007
Physical description: 258 p. 24 cm
Contents: Down the biotech rabbit hole -- Shy beyond words -- The genetically modified food fight -- On a roll -- And baby makes three--four--and then some-- -- Washington, D.C.! Here we come! -- The amazing Chakrabarty -- This is dedicated to the one I love -- More than one way to skin a cancer -- Dead ends--or new beginnings? -- The skinny on genes -- A sheep in sheep's clothing -- Presidential by any other name -- Destined for diabetes? -- Monkey business -- Another world -- Lessons learned
- Biotechnology 101
- Location: genrl,ebook
Call Number: TP248.215 .S56 2006
Author: Shmaefsky, Brian
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006
Physical description: xiv, 251 p. : ill. 25 cm
Contents: The definition of biotechnology -- Basic science of biotechnology -- The tools of biotechnology -- Biotechnology innovations -- Principal people of biotechnology
- Biotechnology and the human good
- Location: General
Call Number: TP248.23 .B566 2007
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 210 p. 22 cm
Contents: The rapidly changing world of biotechnology -- Humanity and the technological narrative -- Biotechnology and competing worldviews -- Biotechnology and human dignity -- Biotechnology and the quest for control -- Biotechnology, human enhancement, and the ends of medicine -- Conclusion : toward a foundation for biotechnology
- Crossing over: genomics in the public arena
- Location: General
Call Number: TP248.23 .C765 2005
Publication information: Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, c2005
Physical description: 261 p. 23 cm
- Tomorrow's table: organic farming, genetics, and the future of food
- Location: New Books
Call Number: TP248.65.F66 R66 2008
Author: Ronald, Pamela C
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Physical description: xviii, 208 p. : ill., map 25 cm
Contents: Cultivating sacred rice in Nihe, China and Davis, California -- Why organic agriculture? -- The tools of organic agriculture -- The tools of genetic engineering -- Legislating lunch -- Who can we trust? -- Is GE food risky to eat? -- Conserving wildlands -- Weeds, gene flow, and the environment -- Who owns the seed? -- Who owns the genes? -- Deconstructing dinner: genetically engineered, organically grown;Cultivating sacred rice in Nihe, China and Davis, California -- Why organic agriculture? -- The tools of organic agriculture -- The tools of genetic engineering -- Legislating lunch -- Who can we trust? -- Is GE food risky to eat? -- Conserving wildlands -- Pollen flow and the environment -- Who owns the seed? -- Who owns the genes? -- Deconstructing dinner: genetically engineered, organically grown
- Arctic tale
- Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: ZD 2674;QL105 .A785 2007
Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Filmed over the span of fifteen years, Arctic tale follows a polar bear cub and a walrus pup as they learn to survive in the wild and face increasing challenges posed by global warming
Contents: Special features: Making of Arctic tale -- Are we there yet? world adventure : polar bear spotting -- Theatrical trailer -- Previews
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