Notable new books in the Natural History Libraries November 2017

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Natural History

Darwin's bridge : uniting the humanities and sciences / / edited by Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams, and Edward O. Wilson. Call #: HM861 .D37 2016 Imprint: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. Collection: Natural History

Road ecology : science and solutions / / Richard T.T. Forman [and others]. Call #: TD195.R63 R62 2003 Imprint: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2003. Collection: Natural History

Earth history and palaeogeography / / Trond H. Torsvik, University of Oslo, and L. Robin M. Cocks, the Natural History Museum, London. by Torsvik, Trond H., author.Call #: QE501.4.P3 T677 2017 Imprint: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017. Collection: Natural History

Critical animal geographies : politics, intersections, and hierarchies in a multispecies world / / edited by Kathryn Gillespie and Rosemary-Claire Collard. Call #: QL85 .C75 2015 Imprint: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. Collection: Natural History

Animal vocal communication : assessment and management roles / / Eugene S. Morton, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA. by Morton, Eugene S., author.Call #: QL776 .O85 2017 Imprint: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017. Collection: Natural History

Wild soundscapes : discovering the voice of the natural world / / Bernie Krause. by Krause, Bernard L., author.Call #: QH510.5 .K735 2016 Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016. Collection: Natural History

Death on earth : adventures in evolution and mortality / / Jules Howard. by Howard, Jules, author.Call #: QH366.2 .H688 2016 Imprint: London, UK; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016. Collection: Natural History

Imagining extinction : the cultural meanings of endangered species / / Ursula K. Heise. by Heise, Ursula K., author.Call #: QH78 .H45 2016 Imprint: Chicago; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Collection: Natural History

Missing link : the evolution of metaphor and the metaphor of evolution / / Jeffery Donaldson. by Donaldson, Jeffery, 1960- author. Call #: PN228.M4 D65 2015 Imprint: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015] Collection: Natural History

Dance to the tune of life : biological relativity / / Denis Noble, The University of Oxford, UK. by Noble, Denis, 1936- author. Call #: QH325 .N625 2017 Imprint: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Extinction studies : stories of time, death, and generations / / edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew. Call #: QH78 .E96 2017 Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Remote sensing and image interpretation / / Thomas M. Lillesand, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ralph W. Kiefer, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jonathan W. Chipman, Dartmouth College. by Lillesand, Thomas M. Call #: G70.4 .L54 2015 Imprint: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2015] Collection: Natural History

The evolution underground : burrows, bunkers, and the marvelous subterranean world beneath our feet / / Anthony J. Martin. by Martin, Anthony J., 1960- author. Call #: GN755 .M37 2017 Imprint: New York : Pegasus Books, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Evolutionary theory : a hierarchical perspective / / edited by Niles Eldredge, Telmo Pievani, Emanuele Serrelli, and Ilya Tëmkin. Call #: QH360.5 .E97 2016 Imprint: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Macrophotography : capture larger-than-life photographs of nature's smallest subjects / / Dennis Quinn. by Quinn, Dennis P., 1979- author. Call #: TR684 .Q56 2016 Imprint: Buffalo, NY : Amherst Media, Inc., [2016] Collection: Natural History

Messages from islands : a global biodiversity tour / / Ilkka Hanski. by Hanski, Ilkka, author. Call #: QH541.15.B56 H364 2016 Imprint: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Collection: Natural History

A thousand and one fossils : discoveries in the desert at Al Gharbia, United Arab Emirates = Alf aḥfūr wa-aḥfūr : iktishāfāt min al-zaman al-saḥīq fī Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Gharbīyah, Abū Ẓa by, al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah / / Faysal Bibi, Andrew Hill, Mark Beech. by Bibi, Faysal, 1980- author. Call #: QE756.A73 B53 2016 Imprint: New Haven, Connecticut : Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University ; [Abu Dhabi] : Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority, United Arab Emirates, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Do elephants have knees? : and other stories of Darwinian origins / / Charles R. Ault Jr. by Ault, Charles R., Jr., 1950- author. Call #: QH367 .A85 2016 Imprint: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2016. Collection: Natural History

Molecular evolution and population genetics for marine biologists / / Yuri Ph. Kartavtsev, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia ; edited by M.S. Johnson, the University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth. by Kartavtsev, Yuri Ph. Call #: QH455 .K37 2016 Imprint: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean / / Bruno David, Thomas Saucède. by David, Bruno, author. Call #: QH95.58 .D3813 2015 Imprint: London, UK : ISTE Press Ltd ; Oxford, UK : Elsevier Ltd, 2015. Collection: Natural History

Chance in evolution / / edited by Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence. Call #: QH360.5 .C474 2016 Imprint: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] Collection: Natural History

The oldest living things in the world / / Rachel Sussman ; with essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer ; photography editor: Christina Louise Costello ; infographics: Michael Paukner. by Sussman, Rachel, 1975- photographer, author. Call #: QH528.5 .S87 2014 Imprint: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. Collection: Natural History

Growing a revolution : bringing our soil back to life / / David R. Montgomery. by Montgomery, David R., 1961- author. Call #: QH541.5.S6 M66 2017 Imprint: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017] Collection: Natural History

Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays / / Paul Kingsnorth. by Kingsnorth, Paul, 1972- author. Call #: GE195 .K56 2017 Imprint: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2017. Collection: Natural History

The trace-fossil record of major evolutionary events / / M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, editors. Call #: QE720.5 .T65 2016 Imprint: Dordrecht: Springer, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Let there be water : Israel's solution for a water -starved world / / Seth M. Siegel. by Siegel, Seth M., 1953- author. Call #: TD313.I75 S54 2017 Imprint: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2017. Collection: Natural History

Making sense of weather and climate : the science behind the forecasts / / Mark Denny. by Denny, Mark, 1953- author. Call #: QC995 .D42 2017 Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

DNA barcoding in marine perspectives : assessment and conservation of biodiversity / / Subrata Trivedi, Abid Ali Ansari, Sankar K. Ghosh, Hasibur Rehman, editors. Call #: QH91.57.A1 D59 2016 Imprint: [Cham?], Switzerland : Springer, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Evolutionary biology : convergent evolution, evolution of complex traits, concepts and methods / / Pierre Pontarotti, editor. Call #: QH359 .E844 2016 Imprint: [Cham?] Switzerland : Springer, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Wildlife of Ecuador : a photographic field guide to birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians / / Andrés Vásquez Noboa ; photography by Pablo Cervantes Daza. by Vasquez Noboa, Andres, author. Call #: QL245 .V37 2017 Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Dangerous years : climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward / / David W. Orr. by Orr, David W., 1944- author. Call #: GE195.7 .O77 2016 Imprint: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016] Collection: Natural History

Birds

Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks : the how and why of bird names / / Ray Reedman. by Reedman, Ray, author. Call #: QL677 .R44 2016 Imprint: Exeter : Pelagic, 2016. Collection: Birds

Spare the birds! : George Bird Grinnell and the first Audubon Society / / Carolyn Merchant. by Merchant, Carolyn, author. Call #: QL676.55 .M47 2016 Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] Collection: Birds

The sensory ecology of birds / / Graham R. Martin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham. by Martin, Graham, 1948- author. Call #: QL698.3 .M355 2017 Imprint: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2017. Collection: Birds

Entomology

A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of borneo. Volume 2, with new genera and species and featuring phasmids from Mount Trusmadi / / Francis Seow-Choen. by Seow-Choen, Francis, author. Call #: QL509.65.B67 S45 2017 Imprint: Kota Kinabalu : Natural History Publications (Borneo) ; Singapore : Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, 2017. Collection: Entomology

Fireflies, glow-worms, and lightning bugs : identification and natural history of the fireflies of the eastern and central United States and Canada / / Lynn Frierson Faust. by Faust, Lynn Frierson, author. Call #: QL596.L28 F38 2017 Imprint: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] Collection: Entomology

Diving beetles of the world : systematics and biology of the Dytiscidae / / Kelly B. Miller, Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, and Johannes Bergsten, Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden. by Miller, Kelly B. (Kelly Bryce), 1972- author. Call #: QL596.D9 M55 2016 Imprint: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]. Collection: Entomology

The moths of North America. Call #: QL548 .M918 Imprint: Washington : Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 2012- Collection: Entomology

Outstanding birdwing butterflies (Papilionidae, Genus Ornithoptera) / / Gilles Deslisle, Jean-Pierre Sclavo. by Deslisle, Gilles, author. Call #: QL561.P2 D47 2015 Imprint: [Nice] : Ornitho Press, 2015 (Nîmes : Printed by Print Team France) Collection: Entomology

Hu die sheng huo shi tu jian = The life history of butterflies in Taiwan / / Lü Zhijian, Chen Jianren zhu.

by Lü, Zhijian, author., 呂至堅, author. Call #: QL556.T29 L89 2014 Imprint: Taizhong Shi : Chen xing chu ban you xian gong si, 2014. Collection: Entomology

Coleoptera Poloniae : Tenebrionoidea : critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis / / Dariusz Iwan, Daniel Kubisz, Piotr Tykarski. by Iwan, Dariusz. Call #: QL596.T2 I95 2012 Imprint: Warszawa : University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology : Natura optima dux Foundation, 2012-<2015 > Collection: Entomology

Checklist of dragonfly from Vietnam / / Do Manh Cuong, Dang Thi Thanh Hoa. by Đõ, Mạnh Cương, 1940- Call #: QL520.25.V5 D6 2007 Imprint: Hanoi : Vietnam National University Publisher, ©2007. Collection: Entomology

Han'guk ŭi chamjari = The dragonflies and damselflies of Korea / / kŭl, sajin Chŏng Kwang-su.

by Chŏng, Kwang-su, 1962-, 정 광수, 1962- Imprint: Sŏul : Chayŏn kwa Saengt'ae, 2012. Collection: Entomology

Fishes

Advances in tuna aquaculture : from hatchery to market / / edited by Daniel D. Benetti, Gavin J. Partridge, Alejandro Buentello. Call #: SH351.T8 A38 2016 Imprint: Oxford : Elsevier, [2016] Collection: Fishes

Genetic resources of neotropical fishes / / Alexandre W.S. Hilsdorf, Eric M. Hallerman. by Hilsdorf, Alexandre W. S., author.Call #: QL628.5 .H55 2017 Imprint: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] Collection: Fishes

The Antarctic silverfish : a keystone species in a changing ecosystem / / Marino Vacchi, Eva Pisano, Laura Ghigliotti, editors. Call #: QL638.N6 A58 2017 Imprint: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] Collection: Fishes

Guía práctica de los Peces de Canarias / / textos y debujos: José Manuel Moreno. by Moreno, José Manuel. Call #: QL635.C23 M67 2015 Imprint: Santa Cruz de Tenerife : Publicaciones Turquesa, 2015. Collection: Fishes

Invertebrate Zoology

Spirals in time : the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells / / Helen Scales. by Scales, Helen, author. Call #: QL405 .S33 2015 Imprint: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015. Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Other minds : the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness / / Peter Godfrey-Smith. by Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Call #: QM451 .G58 2016 Imprint: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Razor clams : buried treasure of the Pacific Northwest / / David Berger. by Berger, David (David Alexander), author. Call #: SH400.5.C53 B47 2017 Imprint: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017] Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Kellogg Library (Marine Mammalogy)

Le collezioni di cetacei dei musei italiani. Parte prima. (Cetacei attuali) = The cetacean collections of italian museums. First part. (Living cetaceans) / / a cura di Luigi Cagnolaro, Nicola Maio, Vincenzo Vomero. Call #: QL737.C4 C65 2014 Imprint: Firenze : ANMS, Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientific ; Coll Map, [2014] Collection: Kellogg Library

Mammals

Mammal tracks & sign : a guide to North American species / / Mark Elbroch. by Elbroch, Mark. Call #: QL715 .E43 2003 Imprint: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2003. Collection: Mammals

Moose : crowned giant of the northern wilderness / / Mark Raycroft. by Raycroft, Mark, author. Call #: QL737.U55 R387 2017 Imprint: Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books Ltd., 2017. Collection: Mammals

Mamíferos não voadores do pantanal e entorno / / Wellington Hannibal, Leonardo Avelino Duarte, Cyntia Cavalcante Santos. by Hannibal, Wellington, author. Call #: QL725.B6 H36 2015 Imprint: [Campo Grande, MS] : Natureza em Foco, [2015] Collection: Mammals

The wild mammals of Japan / / edited by Satoshi D. Ohdachi [and four others]. Call #: QL729.J3 W55 2015 Imprint: Kyoto : Shoukadoh Book Sellers : The Mammal Society of Japan, July 2015. Collection: Mammals

Primatas no Brasil : cada macaco no seu galho = Primates in Brazil / / Cristina Rappa, Heloisa Bruhns & Lívia Botár ; fotografias: Lu Panisson & dri+ ; fotografias adicionais por: Fabio Colombini ; versão inglês: Tracy Williams ; ilustrado: Tomas Sigrist. by Rappa, Cristina, author. Call #: QL737.P9 R313 2015 Imprint: Vinhedo, SP : Avis Brasilis Editora, 2015. Collection: Mammals

Evolution of the rodents : advances in phylogeny, functional morphology, and development / / edited by Philip G. Cox, Department of Archaeology, University of York, and the Hull York Medical School, and Lionel Hautier, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Université de Montpellier. Call #: QL737.R6 E934 2015 Imprint: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. Collection: Mammals

Monkeys of Peru : pocket identification guide / / Rolando Aquino Y. [and 8 others]. Call #: QL737.P9 M595 2015 Imprint: Arlington, Va. : Conservation International, c2015. Collection: Mammals

Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen : Latein - Englisch - Deutsch = Dictionary of mammal names / / Theodor C.H. Cole. by Cole, Theodor C. H. Call #: QL701.2 .C65 2015 Imprint: Berlin : Springer Spektrum, [2015] Collection: Mammals Reference

Minerals

Planetary mineralogy : university textbook / / edited by M.R. Lee and H. Leroux. Call #: QB603.G46 P585 2015 Imprint: London : Published by the European Mineralogical Union and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2015. Collection: Minerals

Collector's guide to silicates : orthosilicates / / Robert J. Lauf. by Lauf, R. J. Call #: QE389.62 .L38 2017 Imprint: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, 2017. Collection: Minerals

The Earth's lower mantle : composition and structure / / Felix V. Kaminsky. by Kaminsky, Felix V., author.Call #: QE509.4 .K36 2017 Imprint: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] Collection: Minerals

Cenozoic volcanism in the Tyrrhenian Sea region / / Angelo Peccerillo. by Peccerillo, Angelo, author. Call #: QE526.2.I8 P43 2017 Imprint: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] Collection: Minerals

Introduction to volcanic seismology / / Vyacheslav M. Zobin, Observatorio Vulcanologico, Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico. by Zobin, V. M. (V︠i︡acheslav Moiseevich), author. Call #: QE521 .Z65 2017 Imprint: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, [2017] Collection: Minerals

Museum Studies Research Library

In pursuit of a vision : two centuries of collecting at the American Antiquarian Society. by American Antiquarian Society. Library. Call #: Z733.A465 A44 2012 Imprint: Worcester, Massachusetts : American Antiquarian Society, 2012. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Blind visitor experiences at art museums / / Simon Hayhoe. by Hayhoe, Simon, author. Call #: N435 .H39 2017 Imprint: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Identity and the museum visitor experience / / John H. Falk. by Falk, John H. (John Howard), 1948- Call #: AM7 .F33 2009 Imprint: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2009. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Wildlife tourism, environmental learning and ethical encounters : ecological and conservation aspects / / Ismar Borges de Lima, Ronda J. Green, editors. Call #: G156.5.E26 W55 2017 Imprint: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

The streets of Paris : a guide to the City of Light following in the footsteps of famous Parisians throughout history / / Susan Cahill ; photographs by Marion Ranoux. by Cahill, Susan, 1940- author. Call #: DC708 .C26 2017 Imprint: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2017. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

The animal game : searching for wildness at the American zoo / / Daniel E. Bender. by Bender, Daniel E., author.Call #: QL76.5.U6 B46 2016 Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Secret marvels of the world / / written by Alex Howard and 51 others ; illustrator, Lauren Crow ; editors, Samantha Forge, Nick Mee, Christina Webb. by Howard, Alex (Travel writer), author. Call #: G153.4 .H69 2017 Imprint: Carlton, Victoria : Lonely Planet Global Limited, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Women in the museum : lessons from the workplace / / Joan H. Baldwin and Anne W. Ackerson. by Baldwin, Joan H., 1953- author. Call #: AM7 .B3425 2017 Imprint: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Museums in Arabia : transnational practices and regional processes / / edited by Karen Exell and Sarina Wakefield. Call #: AM79.4 .M885 2016 Imprint: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Reptiles

Origin, evolution and biogeographic history of South American turtles / / Marcelo S. de la Fuente, Juliana Sterli, Ignacio Maniel. by De La Fuente, Marcelo S. Call #: QE862.C5 D4 2014 Imprint: Cham [Switzerland] ; New York : Springer International Pub, 2014. Collection: Reptiles

Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution / / Jonathan B. Losos ; illustrated by Marlin Peterson. by Losos, Jonathan B. Call #: QH366.2 .L664 2017 Imprint: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. Collection: Reptiles

Smithsoniana

Markus Lüpertz : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2017. Call #: ND588.L95 A4 2017b Imprint: Munich : Sieveking Verlag, 2017. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

Vertebrate Paleontology

The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China : the flowering of early animal life / / Hou Xian-guang, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter, Richard J. Aldridge, Cong Pei-yun, Sarah E. Gabbott, Ma Xiao-ya, Mark A. Purnell, Mark Williams. by Hou, Xianguang, author. Call #: QE756.C6 C35 2017 Imprint: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017. Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology

From fish to human : the march of vertebrate life in China / / Corwin Sullivan, Wang Yuan, Brian Choo. by Sullivan, Corwin. Call #: QE841 .S94 2015 Imprint: Beijing : Popular Science Press, 2015. Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology