Search Results: Physiology from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Dover, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Illustrations(A. Radcyffe Dugmore, Photographer & Drawings) . Text/NEW & Bright. First 1969 Dover Edition. Laminated softcover /NF w/light edge & surface wear. Vintage, popular guide to fish life in North America, and, now a primary historica, ecologic l resource to a century past. First published 1905; this is the unbridged, 1969, First Edition, 1st Printing Dover reissue, published w/o ISBN, ISBN subsequently assigned. Author David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), an icthyologist, botanist, First Chancellor of Stanford Univ (1891- 1913), also served as President of Indiana Univ.; Barton Warren Evermann (1853 - 1932), also an icthyologist, was with the US Fish Commission, and taught variously at Indiana Univ, Stanford Univ, Cornell and Yale. 574 pgs, some 330 illustrations support text covering 200 families & 12,000 species of fish. Glossary to rear. Fine copy despite flaws.

New York, NY: Scholastic/Harper & Row, 1989. 1st Edition, 10th Printing . Soft Cover/Stapled. Near Fine/None as Issued. Arthur Dorros (author illustrated). Text/As New & Bright. 1989, First Edition, 3rd Printing. Illustrated, stapled softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Gift dedication to front cover verso. Superb discourse on major varieties of ants and their social habits --- covering their nesting & daily ways, ant, how to make ant farms. Written & designed for elementary school children, book is enthralling for adults as well. 32 pgs. That both text & illustrations are by Arthur Dorros, gifted in art & narration, is a real plus. Illustrations & text, mutually supportive, form a coherent whole. writt. Ants--Habits and behavior. Ants as pets. Insects--Nests. Insects--Behavior.Prose is lucid and engaging. Contains basic knowledge that elementary school children need, both as a foundation and stimulant for further study of non-human life around us. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1986. Compact Edition, 6th Printing 6th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Archival Color Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright w/trace soiling (coffee spots?) to 1st & 2nd pgs. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/shelfwear to leading edges. Handy. compact, dictionary & reference to home & garden flowers and plants. First published 1975; this is the Compact Edition (not "truncated") 6th Printing of 1986 from Crown Publishers in conjunction w/The Royal Horticultural Society. 584 pgs w/2048 color plates. 584 pgs. w/photos presented in 6 sectors: 1, Alpine & Rock Garden plants; 2, Annual & Biennial; 3, Greenhouse & House; 4, Hardy Bulbous; 5, Perennial; and 6, Trees & Shrubs w/a sub-section on Climbers & Conifers. Fine copy despite flaws.

Pleasantville, NY: Readers Digest, 1978. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & showing faint discoloration. Stapled softcover/NF, w/trace shelfwear. 1978 review of use of herbs in cooking from Reader's Digest. 32 pgs, 32 herbs with information of specific herbs, how to grow them yourself, and coverage of some other herbal seasonings.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED copy. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/NF. DJ/NF; under library mylar. The world of insects. Fascinating anatomy, behavior & social organization of the dominant African --- or "killer" --- bees. First introduced to Brazil in the 1957 followed by rapid migration north. A species w/hives hunted by native Africans for honey, their source for sugar. Distinguished by aggressive swarming behavior, these feisty bees have impacted North American beekeeping practices, causing consequent agricultural issues. 162 pgs w/line drawings, 9 chapters in 2 parts: Part I, Biology & Habits; and II, Impact & Control.

Paris, France: Museum National D'Historie Naturelle, 1973. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. French Language text). Softcover/VG w/faint creasings to surface. Museum catalogue. 1973 exhibit of "The most beautiful insects of the old and new world", Museum of Natural History, Paris. 43 pgs. Color photos & line drawings.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952. First Edition, First Thus First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Janet Roemhild (Illustrator). Stated First Edition. 1952 First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Olive-green linen boards/NF w/light edge rubs & showing discoloration to spine. DJ/None. The book, written by Associate Curator of Fishes at the American Museum of Natural History Francesca La Monte, is written for anglers in mind. Text augmented with illustrations, some in color. A natural history of fish in the 1950's.

Chicago, IL: Univ of Chicago Press, 1962. First Edition, 2nd Impression . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. PAPERBACK. Text/BRAND NEW, and Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace rubs to leading edges. A scientific adventure first published 1961 in hardcover; this is the 1962 2nd Printing in paperback format. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Search to understand how the bottlenose dolphin (or porpoise; a small toothed whale sporting a low triangular dorsal fin and a blunt rounded snout) navigates in the ocean in darkess, and sometimes turbid waters, without the use of vision, smell, taste, or touch and yet be able to circumvent submerged obstacles and locate fish for food. Sponsored & supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Nat'l Science Foundation, the study is an excellent example of coordination between many differing arms of research. Supported by photos, text in 11 chapters: 1, Whales & Porpoises; 2, The Amazing Dolphin; 3, Sounds Beneath the Sea; 4,… Read More

New York, NY: Outdoor Life/Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition, 2nd Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Leonard Lee Rue, III (Author-photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/small puncture wound to front hinge. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Burnt orange linen boards w/gilt lettering/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF w/faint creasings, nips & rubs to edges. Detailed field guide to behavior patterns of North American game species by conservationist & nature photographer Leonard Lee Rue, III. Contents are: 1, Pouched Animals; 2, Carnivores; 3, Seals & Walrus; 4, Rodents; 5, Hares & Rabbits; and, 6, Hoofed Mammals, followed by Appendix.

Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1963 First Edition, First Thus. Green linen boards/NF w/light edge & surface wear. DJ/None. PO name strike-out to fEP. Textbook. Synaptic transmission processes. Experimental investigations in the morphology of synaptic regions; the electrical consequences of synaptic activation; & the nature of the chemical transmitter substances involved. 134 pages. 7 chapters.

London, UK: Henry Kimpton, 1961. Reprint of 1971 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/Near New, printed on high-gloss paper with 842 illustrations & 3 coloured plates. Maroon linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. Grey dust jacket/NF; price-clipped w/closed edge tears. Loss to upper corner of fEP (PO name removal?) First published 1961; this is a reprint of 1971. Volume 2 of a 15 volume series, this book forms a new edition of the anatomy section of Sir Duke-Elder's Textbook of Ophthalmology. Contents in 4 sections: Section I, Historical Development; II, The Eye; III, The Ocular Adnexa; and, IV, The Central Nervous Organization of Vision.

Minneapolis, MI: Carolrhoda Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. Richard R. Hewett (Photographer); CA Dept of Fish & Game (Archival Photos). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY; no loan-pocket. 1989 First Edition, 1st Printing. Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/NF; under library mylar. Prepared for grades 3 to 6. Biography of the tule elk of California. Elk is a common name alternately used with "moose" in English speech, and in America, sometimes as "wapiti" (Shawnee & Cree word for "white rump"), belong to the deer family. The small tule elk is now only found in California. 47 pgs, w/color photos explores the life of this beautiful mammal named for the tule reeds, or cattails, native to freshwater marshlands, upon which it feeds.

New York, NY: Basic Books, 1962. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace soiling to front cover verso. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF; loss to upper front & upper spines edges; showing discoloration; under mylar. First published 1958 in Dutch under the title: Walvissen. Whale biology by Professir Everhard Johannes Slijper (1907 - 1968) of the Univ of Amsterdam. 14 chapters w/illustrations: 1, Historical Introduction; 2, Evolution & External Appearances; 3, Locomotion & Locomotive Organs; 4, Respiration; 5, Heart, Circulation, & Blood; 6, Behavior; 7, Hearing; 8, The Production of Sounds; 9, Senses & the Central Nervous System; 10, Feeding; 11, Metabolism; 12, Distribution & Migration; 13, Reproduction; and, 14, The Future of Whales & Whaling, followed by two appendices.