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Occasional Paper #155. Darwin: A Reader's Guide
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Author: Michael T. Ghiselin. 2009. 185 pages. Paperback $16.00. ISSN 0068-5461 This book is a tribute to Dr. Ghiselin's exhaustive studies on Darwin since the 1960s and is an invaluable resource not only for seasoned scholars but also those just beginning to delve into Darwin. Included is a thoughtful overview of Darwin's life and literature - including a bibliography of his work, a secondary resource bibliography, a biographical timeline, as well as a biographical dictionary. |
Occasional Paper #156. Catalogue of Diatom Names: Part I: Introduction and Bibliography
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Authors: Elisabeth Fourtanier and Patrick Kociolek. 2009. 168 pages. Paperback $16.00. ISSN 0068-5461 This book is a comprehensive resource guide for scientists who study diatoms. Part I, includes an extensive bibliography on scientific literature that relates to the study of Diatoms. |
Occasional Paper #156. Catalogue of Diatom Names: Part II: Abas through Bruniopsis
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Authors: Elisabeth Fourtanier and Patrick Kociolek. 2009. 231 pages. Paperback $16.00. ISSN 0068-5461 This book is a comprehensive resource guide for scientists who study diatoms. It is a complilation of names of diatom genera, species and taxa at infraspecific ranks. |
Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs: A field guide to the World's most diverse fauna
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Authors: Terrence M. Gosliner, David W. Behrens, and Angel Valdes. 2008. 426 pages. $79.95. ISBN 0-97000574-3-3 This guide, prepared in collaboration with Sea Challengers and Academy scientists, is absolutely the most accurate and comprehensive guide to tropical Indo-Pacific nudibranchs and sea slugs. This work is a culmination of twelve years of scientific investigation that includes information on 1,397 species complete with numerous illustrations from over 113 photographers and descriptions of characteristics, natural history, size, and geographic distribution. An ideal guide for occasional recreational divers, as well as experienced underwater photographers interested in common animals or the rarest and most difficult to identify species. |
William Dampier: Science, Exploration, and Literacy Influence, including his Hydrographic Treatise of 1699
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Author: Gary C. Williams. 2008. 128 pages. $20.00. ISBN 0-940228-78-8 This book examines the often overlooked contributions to science of Captain William H. Dampier. Although infamously known as a privateer and buccaneer, Dampier not only inspired novelists such as Swift (Gulliver's Travels) and Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe), he made significant contributions to navigation, mapmaking, oceanography, and natural history. Dampier predated the exploits of James Cook by more than eight years, published on natural history 61 years before Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, and wrote about his observations at the Galapagos Islands, a century and a half before Darwin's visit. |
Scientific Exploration in the Mediterranean Region
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Editors: Claudia Corti, Fausto Barbagli, Michael T. Ghiselin and Alan E. Leviton. 2008. 231 pages. $35.00. ISBN 0-940228-77-1 A collection of articles based on talks given at an international colloquium on the history of science in the Mediterranean Region on 9-11 November 2006 at the Aula Magna and the Tribuna di Galileo of the Universitŕ di Firenze and the Accademia dei Fishiocritici, Siena. Click here for the table of contents. |
Handbook to the Dangerously Venomous Snakes of Myanmar
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Authors: Alan E. Leviton, George R. Zug, Jens V. Vindum, and Guinevere O.U. Wogan. 2008. 122 pages. $14.00. ISBN 0-940228-76-4 This guide, prepared in collaboration with the Division of Nature and Conservation of the Ministry of Forestry, Myanmar and Academy scientists, includes a key and descriptions to all of the venomous snakes known from Myanmar. After a decade of Academy led scientific expeditions in Myanmar, a country with extraordinary biodiversity, we are just now beginning to learn how rich in species it really is. No fewer than 44 species of dangerously venomous snakes inhabit Myanmar and the surrounding coastal waters. It is hoped that this contribution will enable those engaged in the study of snakes in the field and the laboratory to recognize more readily the most dangerous components of that fauna. |
Marin Flora: An Illustrated Manual of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Conifers of Marin County, California
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Authors: John Thomas Howell, Frank Almeda, Wilma Follette, and Catherine Best. 2007. 510 pages. $45.00 (hardcover); $35.00 (softcover). ISBN 0-940228-71-8 This is a new definitive manual to the vascular plants of one of the Bay Area's most diverse and much-loved local floras. This extensively rewritten and redesigned edition of the Marin Flora includes improved dichotomous identification keys, illustrations, color photographs of all the major plant communities, and detailed maps and satellite images of the county's major topographic features. With extensive nomenclatural updates and detailed appendices of rare, endangered, and invasive species, this classic local flora will continue to be the only comprehensive identification guide to the county's native and naturalized plants. |
SF Bay 2K: Animals of San Francisco Bay. A Field Guide to the Common Benthic Species
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Authors: Rich Mooi, Victor G. Smith, Margaret Gould Burke, Terrence M. Gosliner, Christina N. Piotrowski, and Rebecca K. Ritger. 2007. $20.00. ISBN: 0-940228-69-6 This book is a product of the SFBay:2K Project, the California Academy of Sciences' biotic survey of the bottom-dwelling animals in San Francisco Bay. The survey took place between 2000 and 2004, and involved Academy scientists and educators, as well as local high school teachers and students. The results of these collaborative efforts have added to our knowledge of Bay animals and illuminated many research questions. The field guide is intended for amateur and professional naturalists, teachers, college students, scientists, and anyone else who would like to "dig a little deeper" towards understanding the animals inhabiting San Francisco Bay. |
Koobi Fora Research Project: Volume 6: The Fossil Monkeys
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Editors: Nina G. Jablonski and Meave G. Leakey, 2008. 469 pages. $87.00 (hardcover with DVD), $25.00 (DVD only). ISBN 0-940228-73-4 The sixth volume in the Koobi Fora Research Project monograph series, The Fossil Monkeys describes the non-human primate collection of fossils recovered from the Omo-Turkana Basin. The extensive collection of monkey fossils represents eight genera of small and large colobines and cercopithecines, including Colobus, Rhinocolobus, Cercopithecoides, Paracolobus, Cercopithecus, Lophocebus, Parapapio, and Theropithecus. This publication presents a complete systematic paleontology of the Koobi Fora Cercopithecoidea up to and including collections from the 2004 field season. In addition, the volume includes discussion of natural language descriptions and keys, ecomorphological implications of molar shape and microwear, geological background, and the importance of Cercopithecoidea in the context of primate and mammalian evolution. The Fossil Monkeys is well illustrated with more than 200 figures - multiple views of key fossils and species reconstructions by Mauricio Antón of Rhinocolobus turkanaensis, Cercopithecoides williamsi, and Theropithecus oswaldi, as well as interpretive graphs. Nearly 85 tables provide detailed measurement data to complement the text, while the Appendix includes an exhaustive compilation of all available measurement data for the Koobi Fora fossil monkeys. Contributions to this book have been made by Nina G. Jablonski, Meave G. Leakey, Carol V. Ward, Mauricio Antón, George Chaplin, Mark F. Teaford, Richard F. Kay, Peter S. Ungar, and Patrick Gathogo. |
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