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Biology

Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources in Biology

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Library Guide for Biology     

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eBook Collection by EBSCOhost

Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.

Recent Titles in Print

Find these books and many more on the shelves in the reference and circulating collections of Montgomery Library: 

NATURAL HISTORY    
QH 31 .B36 M87 2021   The Multifarious Mr. Banks : From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World
QH 31 .H9 B37 2022   The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
QH 305 .M6713 2021   A History of Biology
QH 331 .L5288 2021   Levels of Organization in the Biological Science
QH 366.2 .D865 2021   The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
QH 380 .M57 2021   What, If Anything, Are Species?
QH 438.5 .P478 2021   Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution: Causes, Consequences, Controversies
QH 438.7 .B38 2019   Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing
QH 447 .G74 2021   CRISPR: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
QH 506 .G768 2019   Membranes to Molecular Machines: Active Matter and Remaking of Life
QH 541 .M3865 2022   Coexistence in Ecology: A Mechanistic Perspective
QH 541.15 .B56 A754 2022   The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
QH 545 .R62 J66 2022   A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking about Roads, People, and Wildlife
QH 549.5 .W6413 2019   The Secret Wisdom of Nature
     
BOTANY    
QK 45.2 .H845 2019   The Nature of Plants
QK 604.2 .M92 A45 2022    Mycorrhizal Dynamics in Ecological Systems
QK 926 .O55 2021   Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society
     
ZOOLOGY    
QL 83.4 .R49 2019   Rewilding
QL 568 .A6 C465 2023   The Mind of a Bee
QL 698.9 .L44 2022   Vagrancy in Birds
QL 737 .C22 Y46 2020   Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park
QL 751 .P454 2021   Understanding Animal Behavior: What to Measure and Why
QL 719 .Y45 Y45 2023   Yellowstone's Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World's First National Park
QL 791 .L335 2019   Superlative
     
PHYSIOLOGY    
QP 34.5 .F72 2018   Shapeshifters: A Journey through the Changing Human Body 
QP 84.6 .F668 2022   Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep
     
MICROBIOLOGY    
QR 100 .M532 2020   Microbiomes of Soils, Plants and Animals: An Integrated Approach
QR 351 .E52 2019   Endophytes for a Growing World
QR 360 .S26 2021   A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses
QP 624 .T738 2022   Why DNA? From DNA Sequence to Biological Complexity
QZ 201 .H584u 2022   Understanding Cancer
     
MEDICINE    
R 726.8 .P764 2021   Challenges and Choices for Patient, Carer and Professional at the End of Life
RA 649 .C47 2021   The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics: From Prehistory to COVID-19
RA 651 .S58 2022     A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics
RA 790.75 .G37 2022   Pursuing a Career in Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide for Aspiring Professionals
RA 395 .A3 K45 2021     Exploring American Healthcare Through 50 Historic Treasures
RA 448.5 .N4 V55 2022     Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America
RA 563 .M56 M28 2022   Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America
RA 638 .H38 2019   Anti / Vax
RA 649 .H274 2021   Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
RA 988 .L82 S56 2019   Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology
RC 386 .P475 2023   A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
RC 523.2 .H47 2022     Diary of an Alzheimer's Caregiver
RM 666 .C266 C47 2022     Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis
RT 4 .T63 2022     Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
     
AGRICULTURE    
S 561.6 .I8 H64 2023   Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
SB 1233.57 .G65 2019   Good Enough to Eat: Next Generation GM Crops
SD 411.52.S56 A3 2021   Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
SH 167 .H5 T46 2021   Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species
SK 355 .H28 2021   Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management
     
PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS    
BD 553 .I53 2022    Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics?
BJ 1031 .F88 2021     Future Morality
     
SOCIAL SCIENCE    
HD 75.6 .N657 2021     The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
HD 9675 .V334 M645 2022     The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble that Changed the World
     
HUMAN ECOLOGY / GEOGRAPHY    
GB 661.2 .G58 2023     The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
GF 75 .F68 2022     Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution
     
LINGUISTICS    
P 120 .V37 M58 2024    The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
     
SCIENCE (GENERAL)    
Q 175 .A485 2022    The Joy of Science
Q 175.32 .K45 M328 2022    Understanding How Science Explains the World
Q 175.52 .U6 S56 2021   Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
Q 183.3 .A1 R828 2019   How We Teach Science: What's Changed, and Why It Matters
     
PHYSICS    
QC 6 .S243 2022   More than the Sum of the Parts: Complexity in Physics and Beyond
     
PALEONTOLOGY    
QE 705 .A1 B35 2022   Paleontology: An Illustrated History
QE 721.2 .E97 H36 2021    Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
     
WRITING    
Z 286 .s4 h7275 2019   An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science

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Browse the Collection

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

Library of Congress Classification Guide for Biology, Chemistry and Physics:

Q 1-390                Science (General)      
QH 1-278.5 Natural history (General)
QH 301-705.5 Biology (General)
QK 1-989 Botany
QL 1-991 Zoology
QM 1-695 Human anatomy
QP 1-801    Physiology
QR 1-502 Microbiology


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