Featured 9th Floor Book

One interesting thing about the 9th floor of the Houston Cole Library is the variety of subjects and viewpoints that are included in the science and medicine subject areas in the Library of Congress Q and R classifications housed here.

A recently arrived title is Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat:
Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog, a Western Carolina University professor of psychology.  The call number is QL 85 .H47 2010.

See more about Herzog  and the book at the author’s website, the publisher’s website, or the professor’s Facebook page.

For more information, consult books in the LC subject area of Human-animal relationships, which encompasses other subject areas such as animal rights and animal welfare. To conduct  a subject search in our online catalog, select Subject from the Search By: menu to the right of the search box.

Filed under: alerts, biology, books, science, zoology

Butterflies of Alabama

Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives, a book published by the University of Alabama Press, has been added to the circulating collection on  the 9th floor. More information about the book may be found here.

Ogard, Paulette Haywood
Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives
QL 551 .A2 O33 2010

 

Filed under: alerts, biology, books, Library, zoology

New Books

A selection of new books that have arrived recently on 9th floor:

Brownlee, Shannon, Overtreated : why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer.
RA 395 .A3 B785 2007

Foerstner, Abigail, James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles
QB 36 .V357 F64 2007

Wells, Jeffrey V.,  Birder’s Conservation Handbook : 100 North American birds at risk.
QL 676.57 .N7 W45 2007

Filed under: Medicine, science, zoology

New Books

We are getting new books in on 9th floor, but I wanted to highlight a new set of reference works that arrived recently. We have a new edition of Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, REF QL 7 .G7813 2003. This comprehensive set covers the animal world from invertebrates and insects through birds, reptiles and mammals.

To see what new books are available in the Houston Cole Library, use the New Books tab in the online catalog. You may limit searches by date, select from subject areas, including Biology or the more general Science, or search on specific call numbers.

Filed under: reference, zoology