New Books

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Since Apr 19, 2013

Subject: Biology

Items on the New Bookshelf

This listing shows the books in alphabetical order by the author's last name. On the second line of each listing you will find the date the resource was added and imprint information. Click on the title to find the book's record in the MnPALS catalog.

• Accessing uncultivated microorganisms : from the environment to organisms and genomes and back
  May 23, 2013 — Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2008. xii, 308 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
• Climate and conservation : landscape and seascape science, planning, and action
  Apr 24, 2013 — Washington, DC : Island Press, c2012. xviii, 373 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
• Fundamentals of geobiology
  May 7, 2013 — Oxford, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xii, 443 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
• Land use and the carbon cycle : advances in integrated science, management, and policy
  May 15, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvi, 564 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
• Manual of environmental microbiology
  May 29, 2013 — Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2007. xxi, 1293 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
• Marine ecology
  May 17, 2013 — South Melbourne, Victoria ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 xxxiii, 630 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Marine protected areas : a multidisciplinary approach
  May 8, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
• Phytonutrients
  May 8, 2013 — Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xviii, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Phytoplankton pigments : characterization, chemotaxonomy, and applications in oceanography
  May 16, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxvii, 845 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Plant stress physiology
  May 16, 2013 — Cambridge, MA : CABI, c2012. x, 318 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Respiration in aquatic ecosystems
  May 20, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
• RNA worlds : from life's origins to diversity in gene regulation
  May 10, 2013 — Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2011. xv, 361 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
• Sea turtles of the eastern Pacific : advances in research and conservation
  May 20, 2013 — Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012. xxiii, 376 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
• Stem cells : new frontiers in science & ethics
  May 20, 2013 — Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2012. xiv, 282 p. ; 24 cm.
• Waxcap mushrooms of eastern North America
  May 8, 2013 — Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012. ix, 179 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
• Ashwell, Ken W. S. / The brain book : development, function, disorder, health
  May 17, 2013 — Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2012. 352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
• Barrett, Louise. / Beyond the brain : how body and environment shape animal and human minds
  May 20, 2013 — Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. x, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Canfield, Donald E. / Aquatic geomicrobiology
  May 16, 2013 — San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, c2005. xii, 640 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Churchland, Patricia Smith. / Braintrust : what neuroscience tells us about morality
  May 9, 2013 — Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Dillon, Patrick F., 1951- / Biophysics : a physiological approach
  May 8, 2013 — Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi, 298 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Fortey, Richard A. / Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind
  May 8, 2013 — New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. xv, 332 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
• Glover, Timothy D. / Mating males : an evolutionary perspective on mammalian reproduction
  May 15, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. xviii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Goldman, David, M.D. / Our genes, our choices : how genotype and gene interactions affect behavior
  May 2, 2013 — London ; Waltham, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, 2012. xvii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Gracie, Carol. / Spring wildflowers of the Northeast : a natural history
  May 8, 2013 — Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. xvi, 272 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
• Gunn, Alan. / Parasitology : an integrated approach
  May 7, 2013 — Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2012. xiv, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
• Hannibal, Mary Ellen. / The spine of the continent : the most ambitious wildlife conservation project ever undertaken
  May 1, 2013 — Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2012. xv, 272 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
• Hoyt, Erich. / Marine protected areas for whales, dolphins, and porpoises : a world handbook for cetacean habitat c
  May 3, 2013 — London ; New York : Earthscan, 2011. xiii, 464 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
• Johnsen, Sönke. / The optics of life : a biologist's guide to light in nature
  May 20, 2013 — Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2012. x, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
• Johnson, Kristin, 1973- / Ordering life : Karl Jordan and the naturalist tradition
  May 8, 2013 — Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii, 376 p. : [8] p. of plates ; 24 cm.
• Johnson, Paul, 1928- / Darwin : portrait of a genius
  May 15, 2013 — New York : Viking, 2012. 164 p. ; 24 cm.
• Lewis, Daniel, 1959- / The feathery tribe : Robert Ridgway and the modern study of birds
  May 17, 2013 — New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2012. xxi, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Little, Colin, 1939- / The biology of rocky shores
  May 20, 2013 — Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Lovitch, Derek, 1977- / How to be a better birder
  May 15, 2013 — Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. x, 192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, (some col.) ; 23 cm.
• Lynch, J. M. (James Michael) / Environmental biomonitoring : the biotechnology ecotoxicology interface
  May 21, 2013 — Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Manetas, Giannēs, 1947- / Alice in the land of plants : biology of plants and their importance for planet earth
  May 7, 2013 — Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2012. xvii, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Marshall, S. A. (Steven A.) / Flies : the natural history & diversity of Diptera
  May 10, 2013 — Richmond Hill, Ont. Buffalo, NY : Firefly Books, 2012. 616 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 map ; 29 cm.
• Montville, Thomas J. / Food microbiology : an introduction
  May 10, 2013 — Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2012. xxii, 547 p. : ill., ports ; 29 cm..
• Moore, D. (David), 1942- / 21st century guidebook to fungi
  May 7, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. xii, 627 p., [62] p. of col. plates : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
• Nielsen, Claus. / Animal evolution : interrelationships of the living phyla
  May 6, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. x, 402 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
• Orenstein, Ronald I. (Ronald Isaac), 1946- / Turtles, tortoises and terrapins : a natural history
  May 13, 2013 — [Richmond Hill, Ont.] : Firefly Books, 2012. 448 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
• Parish, Jolyon C., 1977- / The dodo and the solitaire : a natural history
  May 7, 2013 — Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013. xxii, 406 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
• Peterson, Dale. / The moral lives of animals
  May 17, 2013 — New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011. viii, 342 p. ; 25 cm.
• Pittman, Craig. / The scent of scandal : greed, betrayal, and the world's most beautiful orchid
  May 7, 2013 — Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Rieser, Alison. / The case of the green turtle : an uncensored history of a conservation icon
  May 9, 2013 — Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
• Sagarin, Rafe. / Observation and ecology : broadening the scope of science to understand a complex world
  May 28, 2013 — Washington : Island Press, c2012. xiv, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Sasselov, Dimitar D. / The life of super-Earths : how the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize lif
  May 14, 2013 — New York : Basic Books, c2012. xvi, 202 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
• Schlesinger, William H. / Biogeochemistry : an analysis of global change
  May 16, 2013 — xi, 672 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
• Shepherd, Gordon M., 1933- / Neurogastronomy : how the brain creates flavor and why it matters
  May 14, 2013 — New York : Columbia University Press, c2012. xiii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Souder, William, 1949- / On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson
  May 7, 2013 — New York : Crown Publishers, c2012. 496 p. : ill., [8] p. of plates ; 25 cm.
• Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton), 1956- / Planet without apes
  May 20, 2013 — Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 262 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
• Strausfeld, Nicholas James, 1942- / Arthropod brains : evolution, functional elegance, and historical significance
  May 16, 2013 — Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. xvi, 830 p. : ill., (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
• Taylor, Marianne, 1972- / Owls
  May 17, 2013 — Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012. 224 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
• Valk, Arnoud van der. / The biology of freshwater wetlands
  May 15, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii, 280 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
• Walker, Timothy, 1958- / Plants : a very short introduction
  May 15, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. 129 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
• Williams, Tony D. / Physiological adaptations for breeding in birds
  Apr 25, 2013 — Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012. xviii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Wilson, Therese, 1925- / Bioluminescence : living lights, lights for living
  May 2, 2013 — Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. vi, 185 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.