Guides: Biology: Books

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To BROWSE shelves, look in these Library of Congress (LC) call number ranges:

QH: Natural History - Biology

QH1-278.5 General Natural History
QH301-705.5 General Biology

QK: Botany
QL: Zoology
QM: Human anatomy
QP: Physiology
QR:Microbiology

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences by Allaby, Michael.
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2006
Covering all aspects of botany including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and the earthsciences.
A Dictionary of Science by Jonathan Law
Call Number: REF Q123 .D53 2017
Publication Date: 2017
This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, computer science, and astronomy.
A Dictionary of Zoology by Michael Allaby
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2010
Covering all aspects of the study of animals, it includes terms from the areas of ecology, animal behaviour, evolution, earth history, zoogeography ,genetics, and physiology.

Encyclopedia of Life
The purpose of Encyclopedia of Life is to provide Information and pictures of all species known to science

The Physics of Life by Adrian Bejan
Call Number: QH360.5 .B45 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate.
The Story of the World in 100 Species by Christopher Lloyd
Call Number: QH367 .L58 2016
Publication Date: 2016
In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth."
Physics and Biology by Jean-François Allemand
Call Number: QH505 .A4713 2015
Publication Date: 2014
Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links between physics and biology.

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