American Animals: Set 2 (American Animals, #6) (American Animals (Powerkids))
by Meryl Magby
A superb series that highlights the plight of animals that are endangered or threatened by extinction. Each book examines the lifestyle of the animal and why it is considered endangered or threatened. The human involvement in the threat to these animals or their habitat is discussed, and the conservation efforts being made to avoid extinction are detailed. There is also further information on sustainable development and how the reader can become involved in saving the animals. Including a world...
Presynaptic Receptors (Advances in the Biosciences S.)
Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild
by Renee Askins
Ecologia y Manejo de Venado Cola Blanca (Perspectives on South Texas)
by Dr Timothy Edward Fulbright and Jos Ortega-Santos
Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the northern elephant seal.
Wonders of Prairie Dogs (Dodd, Mead Wonders Books)
by G Earl Chace
Discusses the prairie dog and its distribution, classification, society, burrow, behavior, and the controversy over its control.
Molecular Evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (NATO ASI Subseries H, #59)
From molecules to populations and back In biology, the most vigorous organisms often ensue from a union of two disparate, pure lines. In science, too, laws of hybrid vigor seem to operate at the interface between two disciplines, an interface that often proves to be fertile ground for germinating concepts and new outlooks. The fringes of research into the major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) have provided such an interface several times in the past and the encounters have invigorated fields su...