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Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery
Manson Publishing Ltd 1998; US$ 44.95Compiled by an international group of authors using clinical case presentations, this book covers all aspects of soft tissue surgery including perioperative patient management, and surgical preparation and technique. The cases are presented to test the reader with surgical problems and to discuss common complications and sources of error in clinical... more...
A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 29.99This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, featuring 187 beautifully drawn full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each species. The volume contains information on bird features, habitat, calls, and species distribution, and pays special attention to the species endemic to Brazil.... more...
Antarctic Seals
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 48.00A comprehensive and detailed account of accepted techniques for the study of this important group of mammals. more...
Medieval Pets
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 45.00Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners. It offers a full survey of pets and pet-keeping: how they were acquired, kept, fed, exercised,... more...
A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 62.95Covers all 52 species of Euastacus Crayfish found in Australia, the largest of the 10 genera of Australian freshwater crayfish. more...
Klima
Wiley 2013; US$ 12.95Panikmache oder sicheres Weltende? Was vom "Klimawandel" wirklich zu halten ist Kaum ein Thema erregt die Gemüter so wie die Frage, ob der Klimawandel uns alle ins Verderben stürzt oder wir nur einer Angst fördernden Kampagne hysterischer Umweltaktivisten aufsitzen. Die Diskussionen werden heiß geführt und münden oft... more...
The Biology of Echinostomes
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99Echinostomes are medically- and veterinary-important parasitic flatworms that invade humans, domestic animals and wildlife and also parasitize in their larval stages numerous invertebrate and cold-blooded vertebrate hosts. The interest in echinostomes in parasitology and general biology comes from several areas: (1) Human infections; (2) Experimental... more...
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands
University of California Press 2013; US$ 34.95The Pacific is not only the world?s largest body of water; its vast expanse also includes an extraordinary number and diversity of oceanic islands, from Palau and the Marianas east of the Philippines to Cocos Island and the Galápagos west of the Americas. The isolation of these islands and the extreme distances between them long prevented scientists... more...
The Lung-Air Sac System of Birds
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 129.99Summarizing and building on earlier observations and ideas, this book provides details on the development, structure, function, and the evolutionary design of the avian respiratory system. It outlines the mechanisms and principles through which biological complexity and functional novelty have been crafted in a unique gas exchanger. more...
Regulation of Sertoli Cell and Germ Cell Differentation
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 129.99Describes the regulation of Sertoli cell and germ cell differentiation. Involving knockout and transgenic mouse models, the authors focus on male factor infertility that might be related to altered maturation of Sertoli cells, male factor infertility that might be due to incorrect histone-to-protamine exchange in haploid spermatids, and more. more...









