Creator: Eric Bolen
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-02-01
Dewey code: 639.920973
List Price: $50.00
Price: $38.60
Review Wildlife and Habitats in Managed Landscapes / Island Press:Americans are having an increasing impact on the rural landscape as development further encroaches in former wilderness areas. This disruptive land use is causing a decline in wildlife and wildlife habitats. Wildlife and Habitats in Managed Landscapes presents a new strategy for solving this problem by redefining habitats to include the concept of landscape. Employing this strategy, natural resource managers apply tools of planning, management, and design to entire landscapes to meet the needs of both wildlife and humans.
Creator: Peter H. Hackett
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-26
Dewey code: 571
List Price: $159.00
Price: $34.00
Review Hypoxia and the Circulation (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology) / Springer:The hypoxia volumes will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and biomedicine. Hypoxia is a constant threat to the human body and its vital organs throughout life. There are many situations in which the threat is heightened in health and disease, but mechanisms have evolved to lessen its detrimental effects. The International Hypoxia Symposia was founded to enable scientists, clinicians, physiologists, immunologists, mountaineers and other interested individuals to share their experiences of the situations associated with oxygen lack and the adaptations that allow us to survive. The mission of the International Hypoxia Symposia is to present cutting edge, sophisticated research at the very highest levels into the many effects of hypoxia on humans and animals in health and disease.
Authors
- Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $38.00
Price: $34.00
Review Animal Welfare in Islam / The Islamic Foundation:This pioneering modern classic examines the Islamic principles of kindness and compassion toward animals. It compares animal sacrifice as practiced by the world's major religions and highlights the ethical issues that the mass production of meat raises, advocating alternative ways to produce halal meat in an appropriate manner. Basheer Ahmad Masri (19141992) was the first Sunni Imam of the oldest purpose-built mosque in Britain, the Shahjahan Mosque in Woking. For six years he served as a joint editor of the monthly Islamic Review. He was fluent in English, classical Arabic, Urdu, Hindustani, Punjabi, and Kiswahili.
Publication date: 2005-09-08
Dewey code: 570
List Price: $37.99
Price: $34.14
Review Pattern and Process in Host-Parasitoid Interactions / Cambridge University Press:Parasitoids are insects that parasitize and eventually kill other insects. Between one and two million species of parasitoid insect exist on the earth today. This book explores how this staggering diversity is maintained and documents patterns in host-parasitoid interactions, including parasitoid community richness, the importance of parasitoids as mortality factors, and their impact on host densities as determined by the outcomes of parasitoid introductions for biological control. It documents general patterns using data sets generated from the global literature and evaluates potential underlying biological, ecological, and evolutionary mechanisms. A theme running throughout the book is the importance of host refuges as a major constraint on host-parasitoid interactions.
Creator: M. J. Su
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $34.00
Price: $34.00
Review A Special Tribute to Professor C.C. Chang (Journal of Biomedical Science, 6) / Not Avail:
Edition: Large Print
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 551
List Price: $44.95
Price: $34.16
Review The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America / Island Press:In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. Since Native Americans began using menhaden as fertilizer, this amazing fish has greased the wheels of U. S. agriculture and industry. By the mid-1870s, menhaden had replaced whales as a principal source of industrial lubricant, with hundreds of ships and dozens of factories along the eastern seaboard working feverishly to produce fish oil. Since the Civil War, menhaden have provided the largest catch of any American fishery. Today, one company—Omega Protein—has a monopoly on the menhaden “reduction industry. ” Every year it sweeps billions of fish from the sea, grinds them up, and turns them into animal feed, fertilizer, and oil used in everything from linoleum to health-food supplements. The massive harvest wouldn’t be such a problem if menhaden were only good for making lipstick and soap. [+]But they are crucial to the diet of bigger fish and they filter the waters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, playing an essential dual role in marine ecology perhaps unmatched anywhere on the planet. As their numbers have plummeted, fish and birds dependent on them have been decimatedand toxic algae have begun to choke our bays and seas. In Franklin’s vibrant prose, the decline of a once ubiquitous fish becomes an adventure story, an exploration of the U. S. political economy, a groundbreaking history of America’s emerging ecological consciousness, and an inspiring vision of a growing alliance between environmentalists and recreational anglers.
Authors
- T. S. Van Dyke
- Theodore Roosevelt
Dewey code: 590
List Price: $49.95
Price: $34.07
Review The Deer Family / Kessinger Publishing, LLC:Also Written By A. J. Stone. Illustrated By Carl Rungius And Others.
Creator: Kelly M. McNagny
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 571
List Price: $34.00
Price: $34.00
Review Somatic Stem Cells and Their Plasticity (Special Issue: Cells Tissues Organs 2002, 1) / Not Avail:To the scientist, stem cells offer a precious source of undifferentiated material for the study of cell maturation and specialization. To the clinician, these cells represent a potential source of material for the cure and replacement of damaged organs and tissues. They hold great promise for future therapy: any disease resulting from genetically or environmentally damaged tissues could, in principle, be repaired through a strategic use of stem cells. "Somatic Stem Cells and Their Plasticity" contains a timely series of review articles which serve as a primer for basic concepts surrounding stem cell biology. A broad range of topics is explored, including a basic definition of 'stem cell-ness', the genetic control of stem cell longevity, transcriptional regulation of stem cell fate and the debate on tissue stem cell plasticity. It aims to provide a conceptual scaffold of our knowledge of stem cell biology.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 591.95957
List Price: $36.00
Price: $34.17
Review Wild Animals of Singapore: A Photographic Guide to Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes / University of Hawaii Press:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 179.3
List Price: $45.00
Price: $34.00
Review Animal Rights (Library in a Book) / Facts on File:The treatment of animals has become a controversial issue over the years, with many questioning an animal's fundamental rights. For some, the issue of animal rights is merely an attempt to improve conditions of animals used for clothing, food, and other products, while others believe animals should be granted the same legal rights afforded to humans. "Animal Rights, Revised Edition" provides an overview of the history of the animal rights movement and reactions to it, as well as the issues of animal experimentation, conditions on factory farms, laboratory animals, animals in entertainment, hunting, and the actions of those involved in the animal rights debate. New content includes such documents as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 and contemporary court cases such as Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Glickman I. These documents provide both past and present perspectives on the issue and plot a course for future debate about animal rights. A comprehensive and up-to-date overview essay, capsule biographies, a large annotated bibliography, a chronology of significant events, organization and agency listings, and a glossary all combine to make this an ideal first-stop reference to animal rights.
Authors
- Evie Witten
- John Gordon
- Kristiina Vogt
- Toral Patel-Weynand
- William S. Keeton
- Heidi J. Clark
- Heidi Asbjornsen
- Peter A. Palmiotto
- Daniel Vogt
- John Wargo
- Jennifer L. O'Hara
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-12-13
Dewey code: 333.95
List Price: $129.00
Price: $101.95
Review Ecosystems: Balancing Science with Management / Springer:Directly proposes approaches for implementing ecosystem management and gives examples of viable tools. Also, discusses the potential implications of implementing an ecosystem approach. DLC: Ecosystem management.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-09-30
Dewey code: 595.701927
List Price: $232.00
Price: $139.50
Review Recent Developments in Insect Neurohormones / Springer:
Creator: Robert L. Brownell Jr.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-01-16
Dewey code: 333.9595
List Price: $54.95
Price: $37.08
Review Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems / University of California Press:This unprecedented volume presents a sweeping picture of what we know about the natural history, biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems. Innovative and comprehensive, the volume encompasses multiple points of view to consider the total ecological impact of industrial whaling on the world's oceans. Combining empirical research, ecological theory and modeling, and historical data, its chapters present perspectives from ecology, population biology, physiology, genetics, evolutionary history, ocean biogeography, economics, culture, and law, among other disiplines. Throughout, contributors investigate how whaling fundamentally disrupted ocean ecosystems, examine the various roles whales play in food webs, and discuss the continuing ecological chain reactions to the depletion of these large animals. In addition to reviewing what is known of the current and historic whale populations, Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems considers how this knowledge will bear on scientific approaches to conservation and whaling in the future and provocatively asks whether it is possible to restore ocean ecosystems to their pre-whaling condition.
Publication date: 2000-03-15
Dewey code: 571.31
List Price: $65.00
Price: $59.93
Review Symmorphosis: On Form and Function in Shaping Life (John M. Prather Lectures) / Harvard University Press:This book addresses a simple question: Are animals designed economically? The pronghorn can run at speeds of up to 60 kilometers an hour and can maintain this speed for nearly a full hour. Clearly, the form of this elegant animal is beautifully matched to the function it needs to perform. This is symmorphosis. The theory of symmorphosis predicts that the size of the parts in a system must be matched to the overall functional demand. Moreover, it predicts that animals must provide their complex systems with a functional capacity that can cope with the highest expected functional demands, possibly including some safety margin to prevent the system from failing when it is overloaded. In Symmorphosis, Ewald Weibel tests these predictions by working out the quantitative relations between form and function. Physiologists will value this book because Weibel shows them that morphological information can be as quantitative as physiological data. Anatomists will value the book for its demonstration that advanced integrative physiology crucially depends on adequate but rigorously quantitative and testable information on structural design. Finally, anyone interested in the origins of the diverse forms of animals will be fascinated by Weibel's demonstrations that show how animals as different as shrews, pronghorns, dogs, goats-even humans-all develop from essentially the same blueprint by variation of design. This is a hidden beauty of the animal kingdom, which can be uncovered by a rigorous investigation of the quantitative relations of form and function.
Authors
- Günther Theischinger; John Hawking
Publication date: 2006-10-23
Dewey code: 595
List Price: $43.95
Price: $34.04
Review The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia / CSIRO Publishing:A full-colour, comprehensive guide to the dragonflies of Australia.
Creator: G. W. Lu
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 571
List Price: $34.00
Price: $34.00
Review Hypoxia and Its Preconditioning (Biological Signals and Receptors) / Not Avail:A study of hypoxia and its preconditioning. An exclusive animal model of hypoxic preconditioning is introduced. Upregulation of SOD, GSH-Px and adenosine and downregulation of glutamate, phospholipids, free fatty acids and LPO are demonstrated in the brain during repetitive exposure of animals to hypoxia. The protective effects of these changes against hypoxia-induced damage and the damage induced at the cellular and molecular levels by ischemia are also presented. This volume should be useful to researchers and clinicians who are working in fields related to neuroscience, the respiratory system, physiology and molecular biology, as a strategy for fighting against hypoxia/ischemia is shown in it and an insight into the mechanisms underlying the preconditioning is explored at the molecular level.
Creator: Roy A. Grout
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 595
List Price: $49.95
Price: $34.08
Review The Hive And The Honeybee: A New Book On Beekeeping To Succeed The Book Langstroth On The Hive And The Honeybee / Kessinger Publishing, LLC:
Authors
- Ross A. Layberry
- J. Donald Lafontaine
- Peter W. Hall
Publication date: 1998-05-09
Dewey code: 595.7890971
List Price: $43.00
Price: $34.03
Review The Butterflies of Canada / University of Toronto Press:Beautifully illustrated and clearly presented, The Butterflies of Canada is an indispensable guide to all aspects of butterfly study. Butterfly collecting has long been a popular summer activity, and as the growing popularity of butterfly watching and conservatories in Ontario and British Columbia shows, butterflies are a continuing source of delight and interest to Canadians. The Butterflies of Canada is the first comprehensive guide to all the butterflies found in Canada. Based on the national butterfly collection maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, it contains descriptive individual accounts for the close to three hundred butterfly species recorded in Canada, including descriptions of early stages, subspecies, and key features that help distinguish similar species. Each species of butterfly has an individual distribution map, generated from a database of more than 90,000 location records. More than just a field guide to identifying Canadian butterflies, however, The Butterflies of Canada includes chapters on Canadian geography and butterfly distribution, conservation, gardening, photography, and the history of butterfly study in Canada. It also contains new and unpublished information on the classification of butterflies, their ranges, larval food plants, abundance, flight seasons, and noteworthy habits. Thirty two colour plates provide diagnostic details for each species, and also feature butterflies in their natural habitats. There is an extensive bibliography.
Authors
- Paul Zborowski; Ted Edwards
Publication date: 2007-05-23
Dewey code: 595
List Price: $44.00
Price: $34.08
Review Guide to Australian Moths / CSIRO Publishing:Moths are often thought of as the ugly cousins of butterflies, yet their colours can be just as remarkable and, with over 20,000 species in Australia, their biology and lifestyles are far more diverse. With striking colour photographs of live moths in their natural habitat, this guide illustrates all the major moth families in Australia, including some rarely seen species. It provides many curious facts about the unusual aspects of moth biology, including details on day-flying species, camouflage, moths that mimic wasps, larvae with stinging hairs, and larvae that have gills. This easy-to-read book includes sections on the iconic Witjuti grubs, Bogong moths, the giant-tailed Hercules moths of northern Queensland (one of the largest moths in the world, with a wingspan of over 25 cm), moths that release hydrocyanic acid in their defence, and moths that produce ultrasonic calls that bats learn to associate with a bad taste. A Guide to Australian Moths highlights the environmental role of moths, their relationships with other animals and plants, and their importance to humans. It provides a unique introduction to the extraordinary diversity of moths found in Australia.
Authors
- Professor Ronaldo Barthem
- Professor Michael Goulding
Publication date: 1997-05-15
Dewey code: 597.49
List Price: $64.50
Price: $36.50
Review The Catfish Connection (Biology and Resource Management Series) / Columbia University Press:Offers a groundbreaking ecological view of the Amazon as seen through the large predatory catfish that dominate the river channels and estuary. Bartham and Goulding detail the various methods employed by small-scale and commercial fishing operations in their exploitation of the commercially valuable resource and propose the first realistic measures for the management of the commercial fisheries based on the large catfish.
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Wildlife and Habitats in Managed Landscapes, Hypoxia and the Circulation (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology), Animal Welfare in Islam, Pattern and Process in Host-Parasitoid Interactions, A Special Tribute to Professor C.C. Chang (Journal of Biomedical Science, 6), The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America, The Deer Family, Somatic Stem Cells and Their Plasticity (Special Issue: Cells Tissues Organs 2002, 1), Wild Animals of Singapore: A Photographic Guide to Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes, Animal Rights (Library in a Book), Ecosystems: Balancing Science with Management, Recent Developments in Insect Neurohormones, Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, Symmorphosis: On Form and Function in Shaping Life (John M. Prather Lectures), The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia, Hypoxia and Its Preconditioning (Biological Signals and Receptors), The Hive And The Honeybee: A New Book On Beekeeping To Succeed The Book Langstroth On The Hive And The Honeybee, The Butterflies of Canada, Guide to Australian Moths, The Catfish Connection (Biology and Resource Management Series)Top headlines: Funeral for Billy Mays draws hundreds: Television product pitchman Billy Mays is remembered as a pop culture icon at his funeral near Pittsburgh. ›17:58 3 Jul, Fri Slumdog child star moves into new home: a shanty. ›19:13 Biden to meet with Iraq leaders: Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Iraq to visit U.S. troops and meet with Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. ›17:49 2 Jul, Thu Key Senate Dems trim cost of health care bill: Determined to advance President Barack Obama's health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees. ›19:21 2 Jul, Thu Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case: Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website. ›15:34 2 Jul, Thu Natures fireworks on display: In honor of July 4, we've cobbled together a collection of nature's best fireworks displays. 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