Notable new books at the NMNH Libraries, December 2014

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Collated by NMNH/SERC Librarian, Sue Zwicker & NMNH Librarian Martha Rosen

Collection: Natural History

Bilan de 30 ans d'études scientifiques dans le marais de Lavours : (1984-2014). Call #: QH147 .B55 2014 Imprint: Lyon : Société linnéenne de Lyon, 2014. Collection: Natural History

Studying Wisconsin : the life of Increase Lapham, early chronicler of plants, rocks, rivers, mounds and all things Wisconsin / / Martha Bergland & Paul G. Hayes. by Bergland, Martha, 1945- Call #: QK31.L3 B47 2014 Imprint: Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2014] Collection: Natural History

Wallace, Darwin, and the origin of species / / James T. Costa. by Costa, James T., 1963- author. Call #: QH26 .C67 2014 Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014. Collection: Natural History

Wildlife of the Caribbean / / Herbert A. Raffaele and James W. Wiley. by Raffaele, Herbert A., author. Call #: QH109.A1 R34 2014 Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014] Collection: Natural History

The desert islands of Mexico's Sea of Cortez / / Stewart Aitchison. by Aitchison, Stewart W. Call #: QH107 .A523 2010 Imprint: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010. Collection: Natural History

The face of the Earth : natural landscapes, science, and culture / / SueEllen Campbell ; with Alex Hunt ... [et al.]. by Campbell, SueEllen. Call #: CB460 .C36 2011 Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. Collection: Natural History

Epigenetics : linking genotype and phenotype in development and evolution / / edited by Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall. Call #: QH438.5 .E65 2011 Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. Collection: Natural History

Untamed : the wildest woman in America and the fight for Cumberland Island / / Will Harlan. by Harlan, Will, author. Call #: F292.C94 H37 2014 Imprint: New York : Grove Press, [2014] Collection: Natural History

Dinosaurs and dioramas : creating natural history exhibitions / / Sarah J. Chicone and Richard A. Kissel. by Chicone, Sarah J. Call #: QH70.A1 C49 2013 Imprint: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2013] Collection: Natural History

Do species exist? : principles of taxonomic classification / / Werner Kunz. by Kunz, Werner, 1940- Call #: QH83 .K787 2012 Imprint: Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-Blackwell ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], ©2012. Collection: Natural History

The reef : a passionate history / / Iain McCalman. by McCalman, Iain, author. Call #: DU280.G68 M44 2014 Imprint: New York : Scientific American : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Collection: Natural History

The trilobite book : a visual journey / / Riccardo Levi-Setti. by Levi-Setti, Riccardo, author. Call #: QE821 .L455 2014 Imprint: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Collection: Natural History

Collection: Anthropology

Narwhal tusk discoveries = Qaujisanniq qilalugaup quajiniq = Qilalukkat qernertat tuugaavi pillugit paasisat nutaat / / Martin T. Nweeia, DMD, DDS ; illustrations, cover and chapter heading design, Kevin Hand ; original Inuit drawings, James Houston, by permission from Alice Houston ; photography, Joseph Meehan ... [and 6 others]. by Nweeia, Martin Thomas. Call #: QL737.C433 N84 2014 Imprint: [United States?] : [publisher not identified], [2014]. Collection: Anthropology & Kellogg

Collection: Birds

Birds of Kenya's Rift Valley / / Adam Scott Kennedy. by Kennedy, Adam Scott, author. Call #: QL692.K4 K43 2014 Imprint: Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, [2014] Collection: Birds

Albatross / / Graham Barwell. by Barwell, Graham, author. Call #: QL696.P63 B37 2014 Imprint: London : Reaktion Books, 2014. Collection: Birds

Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica / / by the Checklist Committee, Ornithological Society of New Zealand, B.J. Gill (convener) .... [et al.]. Call #: QL693.5 .C44 2010 Imprint: Wellington, N.Z. : Te Papa Press, in association with the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 2010. Collection: Birds

Collection: Entomology

Beetles of eastern North America / / Arthur V. Evans. by Evans, Arthur V. author. Call #: QL581 .E93 2014 Imprint: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2014. Collection: Entomology

Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. by Bousquet, Yves, author. Call #: QL585 .C48 2013 Imprint: Sofia : Pensoft, 2013. Collection: Entomology

Moths of Thailand / / by Amnuay Pinratana, Rudolf E.J. Lampe. by Amnuay Pinratana Call #: QL556.T5 A462 1990 Imprint: [Bangkok?] : Brothers of St. Gabriel, 1990- Collection: Entomology

Katalog paukov (Arachnida, Aranei) Urala / / S.L. Es i unin, V.E. Efimik ; otvetstvennyĭ redaktor, K.G. Mikhaĭlov. by Es i unin, S. L. (Catalogue of the Spiders of the Urals (Arachnida, Aranei)) Call #: QL458.4 .E75 1996 Imprint: Moskva : KMK Scientific Press, 1996. Collection: Entomology

Saturniid moths of Southeastern Asia / / by Richard S. Peigler, Hsiau Yue Wang. by Peigler, Richard Steven, 1951- Call #: QL561.S2 P442 1996 Imprint: Taipei : Taiwan Museum, 1996. Collection: Entomology

Atlas of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland / / Paul Lee (British Myriapod and Isopod Study Group) ; with a contribution from Paul T. Harding ; photographs by Steve Hopkin and Paul Richards. by Lee, Paul, 1960- Call #: QL449.6 .L44 2006 Imprint: Sofia : Pensoft, 2006. Collection: Entomology

Research on Chrysomelidae / / edited by Pierre Jolivet, Jorge Santiago-Blay, Michael Schmitt. Call #: QL596.C5 R47 2008 Imprint: v.1-2 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008-2009 v.3-4 Sofia, Bulgaria, Moscow : Pensoft Publishers, 2011-<2013> Collection: Entomology

Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malay Peninsula - Malaysia / / Karol Bucsek by Bucsek, Karol. Call #: QL561.N7 B83 2012 Imprint: Bratislava : Institute of Zoology, SAS, 2012. Collection: Entomology

Cerambycidae sul-americanos (Coleoptera) : taxonomia : subfamília Cerambycinae. Volume 13 / / Ubirajara R. Martins, organizador. Call #: QL596.C4 C47 1997 Imprint: São Paulo : Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia, 1997-<2014> Collection: Entomology

The butterflies of Uzbekistan / / Vadim V. Tshikolovets ; [editor, Yuri P. Nekrutenko]. by Tshikolovets, Vadim V. Call #: QL556.U9 T75 2000 Imprint: Kyiv ; Brno : V.V. Tshikolovets, 2000. Collection: Entomology

The butterflies of Turkmenistan / / by Vadim V. Tshikolovets ; [editor, Yuri P. Nekrutenko]. by Tshikolovets, Vadim V. Call #: QL556.T93 T75 1998 Imprint: Kyiv ; Brno : V.V. Tshikolovets, 1998. Collection: Entomology

The butterflies of Transbaikal, Siberia / / Vadim V. Tshikolovets, Oleksiy V. Bidzilya, Mykhailo I. Golovushkin. by Tshikolovets, Vadim V. Call #: QL555.R8 T74 2002 Imprint: Kyiv ; Brno : V.V. Tshikolovets, 2002. Collection: Entomology

The butterflies of Ladakh (N.-W. India) / / Vadim V. Tshikolovets. by Tshikolovets, Vadim V. Call #: QL556.I4 T74 2005 Imprint: Kyiv ; Brno : V.V. Tshikolovets, 2005. Collection: Entomology

The butterflies of Tajikistan / / Vadim V. Tshikolovets. by Tshikolovets, Vadim V. Call #: QL556.T35 T74 2003 Imprint: Kyiv ; Brno : V.V. Tshikolovets, 2003. Collection: Entomology

The Myriapoda / / edited by Alessandro Minelli. Call #: QL449.M97 2011 Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011- Collection: Entomology

Collection: Fishes

Coldwater fishes of India : an atlas / / W. Vishwanath ... [et al.]. Call #: QL634.I5 C65 2011 Imprint: Bhimtal : Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, 2011. Collection: Fishes

Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

The ecology of deep-sea coral and sponge habitats of the central Aleutian Islands of Alaska / / Robert P. Stone. by Stone, Robert P., creator. Call #: QL377.C5 S79 2014 Imprint: Seattle, Washington : U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, [2014] Collection: Invertebrate Zoology

Collection: Kellogg

War of the whales : a true story / / Joshua Horwitz. by Horwitz, Joshua, author. Call #: QL737.C4 H669 2014 Imprint: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014. Collection: Kellogg Library

The shore whaling stations at South Georgia : a study in Antarctic industrial archaeology / / Bjørn L. Basberg. by Basberg, Bjørn L., 1952- Call #: T31 .B37 2004 Imprint: Oslo : Novus Forlag, 2004. Collection: Kellogg Library

Caribbean monk seals : lost seals of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea / / John Hairr. by Hairr, John. Call #: QL737.P64 H35 2011 Imprint: Landisville, Penn. ; Coachwhip Publications, c2011. Collection: Kellogg Library

Tōkyō Daigaku Sōgō Kenkyū Hakubutsukan shozō Kuno hyōhon mokuroku. dai1bu, Nihon-san kazangan = Catalogue of Kuno specimens of: Part 1, Volcanic rocks in Japan, in the University Museum, the University of Tokyo / / Kiyota Kaoru, Miyamoto Hideaki, Ozawa Kazuhito.

by Tōkyō Daigaku. Sōgō Kenkyū Hakubutsukan., 東京大学. 総合研究博物館., 久野久, 1910-1969., 清田馨., 宮本英昭, 1970-, 小澤一仁. Call #: QE461 .T58 2011 Imprint: Tōkyō : Tōkyō Daigaku Sōgō Kenkyū Hakubutsukan, 2011. Collection: Kellogg Library

Guide to the UK cetaceans and seals / / text by Mark Peter Simmonds ; illustrations by Lucy Molleson. by Simmonds, Mark P., author. Call #: QL737.C4 S57 2013 Imprint: Telford : FSC Publications, [2013?] Collection: Kellogg Library

Whales' bones of the Nordic countries, Central and Eastern Europe / / Nicholas Redman ; with a foreword by Ingvar Svanberg. by Redman, Nicholas. Call #: TT288 .R444 2013 Imprint: Teddington, England : Redman Publishing, 2013. Collection: Kellogg Library

Sealing in the southern oceans 1788-1833 : twelve articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006 / / by Rhys Richards. by Richards, Rhys. Call #: SH363.P16 R53 2010 Imprint: Porirua, N.Z. : Paremata Press, 2010. Collection: Kellogg Library

The walking whales : from land to water in eight million years / / J.G.M. "Hans" Thewissen with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard. by Thewissen, J. G. M., author. Call #: QE882.C5 T484 2014 Imprint: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014] Collection: Kellogg Library

Out of the blue : a guide to the marine mammals of Sri Lanka, Southern India and the Maldives / / by Howard Martenstyn ; foreword by Hiran Jayewardene. by Martenstyn, Howard, author. Call #: QL713.2 .M395 2013 Imprint: [Colombo] : Howard Martenstyn, 2013. Collection: Kellogg Library

The shore whaling stations at South Georgia : a study in Antarctic industrial archaeology / / Bjørn L. Basberg. by Basberg, Bjørn L., 1952- Call #: T31 .B37 2004 Imprint: Oslo : Novus Forlag, 2004. Collection: Kellogg Library

Narwhal tusk discoveries = Qaujisanniq qilalugaup quajiniq = Qilalukkat qernertat tuugaavi pillugit paasisat nutaat / / Martin T. Nweeia, DMD, DDS ; illustrations, cover and chapter heading design, Kevin Hand ; original Inuit drawings, James Houston, by permission from Alice Houston ; photography, Joseph Meehan ... [and 6 others]. by Nweeia, Martin Thomas. Call #: QL737.C433 N84 2014 Imprint: [United States?] : [publisher not identified], [2014]. Collection: Anthropology & Kellogg

Collection: Mammals

A Naturalist's guide to the mammals of South-East Asia : Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam / / Chris R. Shepherd and Loretta Ann Shepherd, consultant: Will Duckworth. by Shepherd, Chris R. Call #: QL729.A785 S44 2012 Imprint: Oxford : John Beaufoy, 2012. Collection: Mammals

A field guide to the larger mammals of Tanzania / / Charles Foley, Lara Foley, Alex Lobora, Daniela De Luca, Maurus Msuha, Tim R.B. Davenport & Sarah Durant. by Foley, Charles A. H. (Charles Andrew Harold), 1968- Call #: QL731.T35 F65 2014 Imprint: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014] Collection: Mammals

Marmot biology : sociality, individual fitness, and population dynamics / / Kenneth B. Armitage. by Armitage, Kenneth B., 1925- author. Call #: QL737.R68 A757 2014 Imprint: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. Collection: Mammals

Indian mammals : checklist with comments on type locality, distribution, conservation status, and taxonomy / / M.S. Pradhan and S.S. Talmale. by Pradhan, M. S., author. Call #: QL729.I4 P64 2012 Imprint: Kolkata : Nature Books India, 2012. Collection: Mammals

Mammals of Mexico / / edited by Gerardo Ceballos. Call #: QL722 .M36 2014 Imprint: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Collection: Mammals

Collection: Minerals

Common Rocks and minerals of Nunavut / / Jurate Gertzbein. by Gertzbein, Jurate. Call #: QE446.N9 G47 2013 Imprint: Iqaluit, Nunavut : Inhabit Media, c2013. Collection: Minerals

The Coral Triangle : the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / / arranged and edited by Gary C. Williams and Terrence M. Gosliner, California Academy of Sciences. Call #: QH187 .C77 2014 Imprint: San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences, [2014] Collection: Minerals

Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library (MSRL)

Manual of museum exhibitions / / edited by Barry Lord and Maria Piacente. Call #: AM151 .M34 2014 Imprint: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, c2014. Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library

The care and keeping of cultural facilities : a best practice guidebook for museum facility management / / Angela Person-Harm and Judie Cooper. by Person-Harm, Angela. Call #: AM121 .P473 2014 Imprint: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library

Organizing exhibitions : a handbook for museums, libraries and archives / / Freda Matassa. by Matassa, Freda. Call #: AM151 .M38 2014 Imprint: London : Facet Publishing, [2014] Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library

Testimony : the legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation / / USC Shoah Foundation ; introduction by Steven Spielberg ; preface by Stephen D. Smith. Call #: PN1997.S3133 T47 2014 Imprint: New York, NY : Newmarket Press for It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014] Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library

Communicating science : a primer for working with the media / / Holly Menninger, Robert Gropp. by Menninger, Holly. Call #: Q225 .M46 2008 Imprint: Washington, DC : American Institute of Biological Sciences, c2008. Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library

San Lorenzo Valley Chinese : a San Lorenzo Valley Museum exhibition / / Lisa Robinson. by Robinson, Lisa, author. Call #: E184.C5 R63 2012 Imprint: [California?] : [Lisa Robinson?], [2012] Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library

Collection: Reptiles

Reproduction of amphibians / / editor, Maria Ogielska. Call #: QL669.3 .R47 2009 Imprint: Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, ©2009. Collection: Reptiles

Les urodèles du monde / / Jean Raffaëlli. by Raffaëlli, Jean, author. Call #: QL668.C2 R34 2013 Imprint: [Plumelec] : Penclen édition, 2013. Collection: Reptiles

The Texas tortoise : a natural history / / Francis L. Rose and Frank W. Judd. by Rose, Francis L. Call #: QL666.C584 R675 2014 Imprint: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014] Collection: Reptiles

Zhongguo liang qi dong wu ji qi fen bu cai se tu jian / / Fei Liang, Ye Changyuan, Jiang Jianping bian zhu ; Zhongguo ke xue yuan Chengdu sheng wu yan jiu suo.

by Fei, Liang, 1936- author., 费梁, 1936-, 叶昌媛,, 江建平, 1967-,

成都生物研究所, Call #: QL661.C6 Z476 2012 Imprint: Chengdu Shi : Sichuan chu ban ji tuan : Sichuan ke xue ji shu chu ban she, 2012. Collection: Reptiles

Collection: Smithsoniana

The American vice presidency : from irrelevance to power / / Jules Witcover. by Witcover, Jules. Call #: E176.49 .W58 2014 Imprint: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2014] Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

The mask of Lincoln : an educational portfolio marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth / / developed by the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Call #: f E457.6 .M37 2009 Imprint: [Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, 2009] Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

A grizzly in the mail and other adventures in American history / / Tim Grove. by Grove, Tim, 1967- Call #: E179 .G84 2014 Imprint: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

1000 inventions and discoveries / / written by Roger Bridgman. by Bridgman, Roger Francis, 1940- author. Call #: T15 .B682 2014 Imprint: New York, NY : DK Publishing, Inc., 2014. Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

Discovery : champion of the space shuttle fleet / / Valerie Neal. by Neal, Valerie. Call #: TL795.5 .N45 2014 Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in association with Zenith Press, 2014. Collection: Museum Studies Reference Library Smithsoniana (non-circulating)

Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology

Dinosaurs of Utah / / Frank DeCourten. by DeCourten, Frank. Call #: QE862.D5 D42 2013 Imprint: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2013] Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology