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Charles Darwin and the question of evolution : a brief history with documents / / Sandra Herbert. by Herbert, Sandra, author. Call #: QH375 .H437 2011 Imprint: Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, [2011] Collection: Natural History

Houston, we have a narrative : why science needs story / / Randy Olson. by Olson, Randy, 1955- author. Call #: Q223 .O47 2015 Imprint: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Collection: Natural History

Being a beast : adventures across the species divide / / Charles Foster. by Foster, Charles, 1962- , author. Call #: QP431 .F67 2016 Imprint: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2016. Collection: Natural History

Stepping in the same river twice : replication in biological research / / edited by Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison ; with a foreword by W. John Kress. Call #: QH315 .S8147 2017 Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

A crack in creation : gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution / / Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg. by Doudna, Jennifer A., author. Call #: QH440 .D68 2017 Imprint: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Collection: Natural History

Sacred bovines : the ironies of misplaced assumptions in biology / / Douglas Allchin. by Allchin, Douglas, 1956- author. Call #: QH324 .A45 2017 Imprint: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Darwin's first theory : exploring Darwin's quest to find a theory of the earth / / Rob Wesson. by Wesson, R. L. (Robert L.), author. Call #: QE28.3 .W47 2017 Imprint: New York, NY : Pegasus Books Ltd., [2017] Collection: Natural History

Marine genomics : methods and protocols / / edited by Sarah J. Bourlat, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Call #: QH91.57.A1 M37 2016 Imprint: New York : Humana Press/Springer Science+Business Media LLC, [2016] Collection: Natural History

H is for Hawk / / Helen Macdonald. by Macdonald, Helen, 1970- author. Call #: QL696.F32 M33 2014 Imprint: New York : Grove Press, [2014] Collection: Natural History

Science in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist / / Richard Dawkins ; edited by Gillian Somerscales. by Dawkins, Richard, 1941- author. Call #: Q175 .D325 2017 Imprint: New York : Random House, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Strange science : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age / / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors. Call #: Q127.G5 S77 2017 Imprint: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand / / Michael Heads. by Heads, Michael J. Call #: QH197.5 .H43 2017 Imprint: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017] Collection: Natural History

Arts of living on a damaged planet. Ghosts of the anthropocene ; Monsters of the anthropocene / / Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, editors. Call #: GF75 .A65 2017 Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota 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

Evolutionary biomechanics : selection, phylogeny, and constraint / / Graham K. Taylor, University of Oxford, UK, Adrian L.R. Thomas, University of Oxford, UK. by Taylor, Graham K., author. Call #: QH513 .T39 2014 Imprint: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. Collection: Birds

The extended specimen : emerging frontiers in collections-based ornithological research / / edited by, Michael S. Webster, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Call #: QL677.7 .E88 2017 Imprint: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017] Collection: Birds

Los Bupréstidos de Chile / / Tomás Moore & Pedro Vidal G-H. by Moore, Tomás, author. Call #: QL596.B8 M655 2015 Imprint: Santiago : Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2015. Collection: Entomology

A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of borneo : including new genera and species / / Francis Seow-Choen. by Seow-Choen, Francis, author. Call #: QL509.65.B67 S44 2017 Imprint: Kota Kinabalu : Natural History Publications (Borneo) ; Singapore : Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, 2016. Collection: Entomology

The Great White shark scientist / / written by Sy Montgomery. by Montgomery, Sy, author. Call #: QH91.3 .S575 2016 Imprint: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016] Collection: Fishes

Conspectus cobitidum : an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cyrpiniformes: Cobitoidei) / / by Maurice Kottelat. by Kottelat, Maurice, author. Call #: QL638.C647 K688 2012 Imprint: Singapore : Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2012. Collection: Fishes

Diseases of coral / / edited by Cheryl M. Woodley, Craig A. Downs, Andrew W. Bruckner, James W. Porter, Sylvia B Galloway. Call #: QL377.C5 D46 2016 Imprint: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, [2016] Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Invertebrados marinos del noroeste de México : guía de campo, usos por los indígenas y ética de conservación / / prefacio por Richard C. Brusca ; ensayos por José Luis Carballo, Donald Potts, Jesús Ángel de León-González, Michel E. Hendrickx, Paul Valentich-Scott & Francisco A. Solís-Marín ; por Hans Bertsch & Luis E. Aguilar Rosas = Marine invertebrates of Northwest Mexico : field guide, indigenous uses and conservation ethic / foreward by Richard C. Brusca ; essays by José Luis Carballo, Donald Potts, Jesús Ángel de León-González, Michel E. Hendrickx, Paul Valentich-Scott & Francisco A. Solís-Marín ; by Hans Bertsch & Luis E. Aguilar Rosas. by Bertsch, Hans, author. Call #: QL365.44.M6 B47 2016 Imprint: Ensenada, Baja California, México : Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, UABC, 2016. Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Marine plankton : a practical guide to ecology, methodology, and taxonomy / / edited by Claudia Castellani, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK, and Martin Edwards, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK. Call #: QH91.8.P5 M35 2017 Imprint: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Plankton : wonders of the drifting world / / Christian Sardet ; edited by Rafael D. Rosengarten and Theodore Rosengarten ; translated from the French by Christian Sardet and Dana Sardet ; prologue by Mark Ohman. by Sardet, Christian, author, translator. Call #: QH90.8.P5 S2713 2015 Imprint: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015] Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Approaches to understanding the cumulative effects of stressors on marine mammals / / Committee on the Assessment of the Cumulative Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors on Marine Mammals, Ocean Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies ; a report of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine. by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of the Cumulative Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors on Marine Mammals, author. Call #: QL713.2 .N35 2017 Imprint: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2017] Collection: Kellogg Library

Hairy hippies and bloody butchers : the Greenpeace anti-whaling campaign in Norway / / Juliane Riese. by Riese, Juliane, author. Call #: QL737.C4 R53 2017 Imprint: New York : Berghahn, 2017. Collection: Kellogg Library

Enciclopédia dos minerais do Brasil / / Paulo Cesar Pereira das Neves, Daniel Atencio. by Neves, Paulo César Pereira das, author. Call #: QE379.B8 N487 2013 Imprint: Canoas, RS : Editora da ULBRA, 2013-<2015> Collection: Minerals

Science museums in transition : cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America / / edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman. Call #: Q105.G7 S35 2017 Imprint: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Practical evaluation guide : tools for museums and other informal educational settings / / Judy Diamond, Michael Horn, and David H. Uttal. by Diamond, Judy, author. Call #: AM151 .D5 2016 Imprint: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Contemporary curating and museum education / / Carmen Mörsch, Angeli Sachs, Thomas Sieber (eds.) ; translations: Nora Landkammer [and 6 others]. Call #: N408 .C66 2017 Imprint: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Managing people and projects in museums : strategies that work / / Martha Morris. by Morris, Martha (Assistant Director of Museum Studies), author. Call #: AM121 .M67 2017 Imprint: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Inside the lost museum : curating, past and present / / Steven Lubar. by Lubar, Steven D., author. Call #: AM111 .L83 2017 Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : Harvard University Press, [2017] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum / / James Delbourgo. by Delbourgo, James, 1972- author. Call #: AM401.S58 D45 2017 Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

The National Mall : no ordinary public space / / Lisa Benton-Short. by Benton-Short, Lisa, author. Call #: F203.5.M2 B45 2016 Imprint: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Teaching the museum : careers in museum education / / edited by Leah M. Melber, Ph. D. Call #: AM7 .T43 2014 Imprint: Washington, DC : The AAM Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, [2014] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Teaching history with museums : strategies for K-12 social studies / / Alan S. Marcus, Jeremy D. Stoddard, Walter W. Woodward. by Marcus, Alan S., author. Call #: AM7 .M364 2017 Imprint: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Learning and behavior / / Paul Chance. by Chance, Paul. Call #: BF319 .C45 2014 Imprint: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, [2014] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library

Metamorphosis : Ontario's amphibians at all stages of development / / Peter B. Mills. by Mills, Peter B., 1991- author. Call #: QL654.2.O57 M54 2016 Imprint: [Barrie, Ontario] : Peter B. Mills, [2016] Collection: Reptiles

Celebration : photographs of the Guna chicha = Celebración : fotografías de la chicha guna / / texto y fotografías de James Howe ; fotografías editadas por William Morse ; traducido por Ana Ríos Guardia ; colaboración en investigaciones de Bernal Castillo, Gonzalo Salcedo y June Howe. by Howe, James, 1944- photographer, author. Call #: F1565.2.C8 H685 2016 Imprint: Panama City, Panama : Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute : Congreso General de la Cultura Guna, [2016] Collection: Museum Studies Research Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

Discovering the mammoth : a tale of giants, unicorns, ivory, and the birth of a new science / / John J. McKay. by McKay, John J., author. Call #: QE882.P8 M425 2017 Imprint: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2017. Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology

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