biology

Written by a professional zookeeper, this is an invaluable book for all those who keep reptiles, including zookeepers and private owners. It uses a practical, hands-on approach. Illustrated in black-and-white, it opens with helpful taxonomy, nomenclature, and physical descriptions. There are chapters of practical advice on selecting, handling, transporting, hygiene, feeding, housing, breeding, disorders, and health maintenance. The appendixes provide details on each species (its origin, habits, habitats, average adult size), diet, and therapies, as well as a glossary and bibliography.   

This fascicle has detailed, thorough descriptions and explanatory notes of the various nervous system tumors, cross-referenced to high-quality photomicrographs of each (some slides in color, some black-and-white). It is highly referenced to related publications. This is one of a valuable, and very well-used, series on tumor classification of the different organ systems.

This fascicle has detailed descriptions and explanatory notes of various endocrine system tumors, cross-referenced to corresponding high-quality color photomicrographs. It is highly referenced to related publications, very well laid-out, and systematic.  The material is exhaustive, thoroughly covering all of the major tumors, by system, and detailing how to distinguish between them for diagnosis.  This is one of a valuable, and very well-used, series on tumor classification of the different organ systems.  

This rare second edition of Journal of researches... is the final definitive text of Darwin's "first literary child," revised to reflect his developing ideas on evolution. It chronicles his historic five-year voyage on the Beagle to Brazil, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries and islands along the way. This journey was the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life.

Despite dying at only 28, Edward M. Haight (1863-1891) established a busy career as an enthusiastic naturalist, collector, taxidermist, and publisher. The Golden State Scientist is one of three serials that he edited in the late 1880s, and it is by far the scarcest. This was the only issue ever published, and only 450 copies made it into print, owing to “the many blunders made in the advertisements." Only about a dozen copies survive in libraries today.

Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs)—a socio-biological term—are large (≥200,000 km²) regions of the world's oceans tied to coastal areas and related to “Exclusive Economic Zones” (EEZs). LMEs include the river basins and estuaries that feed into a coastal area and extend out to the continental shelf and beyond, to the edges of deep open water. Ninety-five percent of the biomass yields from oceans are produced within or near EEZs. To keep our oceans healthy, it is important to manage and conserve these areas of our planet properly.

“The basic premise of this book is that mathematical procedures are useful, and sometimes necessary, for the description and understanding of biological systems,” writes author Harvey J. Gold. Biological systems are among the most complex systems studied by scientists. Models are used to explain systems and to study different variables in an objective way. Today most mathematical models are run on computers, but when this book was published in the 1970s, computer information systems were relatively new and most equations were calculated manually.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), the creator of Animals in Motion, was an English photographer who pioneered photographic studies of motion and early works in motion-picture projection. His massive portfolio was the culmination of 15 years of work that contributed to developments in the science of biomechanics and athletics. Muybridge’s experiments developed new visual technologies that produced objective and accurate movements of humans and animals. Each movement is presented as a measurable phenomenon.

This is a first edition of an important pattern book containing 31 chromolithographics designed by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852) and inspired by design forms found in nature. Pugin, best known as the designer of the interiors of Houses of Parliament (1836-1868) in collaboration with Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860), was a proponent of Neo-Gothic as a national style for England.