What's New at Parks Library
June 2005

  1. Test Your Knowledge: Who said this?

  2. New Titles in the Reference Collection

  3. Recent Additions to the General Collection

  4. Hot Topics: Microarrays

  5. Science Education

  6. Interesting Websites

  7. Quiz Answers

  8. Comments or Suggestions?

Test Your Knowledge: Who Said This?

Back to top

New Titles in the Reference Collection

The answers to the above quiz may be found in the following new book:

Oxford dictionary of scientific quotations / edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter ; assistant editors, Sharon Messenger, Caroline Overy. Oxford University Press, 2005. REFERENCE Collection Q173 O94 2005

Other new reference titles include:

Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice. Churchill Livingstone, c2005.
REFERENCE Collection QM23.2 G73 2005

EEOB faculty member, Dennis Lavrov, co-authored an article entitled, "Mitochondrial Genome Evolution" in the Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry / editors, William J. Lennarz, M. Daniel Lane. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier, 2004.
REFERENCE Collection QD415 A25 E53 2004

Back to top

Recent Additions to the Collection: This is just a sampling of the new titles that were received during April and May.

Scientific Writing

Conducting research literature reviews: from the Internet to paper / Arlene Fink.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2005.
PARKS General Collection Q180.55 M4 F56 2005

Make your mark in science: creativity, presenting, publishing, and patents: a guide for young scientists / Claus Ascheron and Angela Kickuth. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, c2005.
PARKS General Collection Q223 A75 2005

Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, Evolution

Bioinformatics technologies / Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (ed.). New York: Springer, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QH324.2 B558 2005

Cereal genomics / edited by P.K. Gupta and R.K. Varshney.: Kluwer Academic, c2004.
PARKS General Collection SB189 C396 2004

The genetic code and the origin of life / [edited by] Lluís Ribas de Pouplana.
Georgetown, Tex.: Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, c2004.
PARKS General Collection QH390 .G445 2004

Genes VIII / Benjamin Lewin. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2004.
PARKS General Collection QH430 L4 2004

The ethics of genetic engineering / Maurya Siedler, book editor.
Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QH438.7 E842 2005

Bioinformatics: sequence and genome analysis / David W. Mount.
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2004.
PARKS General Collection QH441.2 .M68 2004

Informational biopolymers of genes and gene expression: properties and evolution / R.D. Blake. Sausalito, Calif.: University Science Books, c2005
PARKS General Collection QH447 .B57 2005

RNA interference in practice / Ute Schepers. Wiley-VCH, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QH450.25 S34x 2005

RNA interference technology: from basic science to drug development / edited by Krisharao Appasani ; forewords by Andrew Fire and Marshall Nirenberg.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QP623.5 S63 R63 2005

The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought: roots of evo-devo / Ron Amundson. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QH360.5 .A48 2005

Evolution in four dimensions: genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life / Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb; with illustrations by Anna Zeligowski. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QH366.2 .J322 2005

Endless forms most beautiful: the new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom / Sean B. Carroll ; with illustrations by Jamie W. Carroll, Josh P. Klaiss, Leanne M. Olds. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.
PARKS Leisure Collection QH453 .C37 2005

Protein synthesis and ribosome structure: translating the genome / edited by Knud H. Nierhaus and Daniel N. Wilson. Weinheim; [Great Britain]: Wiley-VCH, 2004.
PARKS General Collection QH603.R5 P76x 2004

Structural aspects of protein synthesis / Anders Liljas.
Singapore: World Scientific Pub. Co., c2004.
PARKS General Collection QP551 L55x 2004

Proteomics today: protein assessment and biomarkers using mass spectrometry, 2D electrophoreses, and microaray technology / Mahmoud Hamdan, Pier Giorgio Righetti.
Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP551 P7569 2005

Protein analysis and purification: benchtop techniques / Ian M. Rosenberg. Boston: Birkhäuser, c2005
PARKS General Collection QP551 R785 2005

Protein geometry, classification, topology and symmetry: a computational analysis of structure / William R. Taylor and András Aszódi. Institute of Physics Pub., c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP551 T39x 2005

Modular protein domains / edited by Giovanni Cesareni ... [et al.].
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP551.5 M63x 2005

Zinc finger proteins : from atomic contact to cellular function / [edited by] Shiro Iuchi, Natalie Kuldell.
Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience ; New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP552 Z55 Z56 2005

Bioethics

Being human: core readings in the humanities: readings from the president's Council on Bioethics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
PARKS General Collection QH332 .B44 2004

Botany/Plant Science

The nature of plants: habitats, challenges, and adaptations / John Dawson & Rob Lucas.
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QK45.2 .D39 2005

Plant diversity and evolution: genotypic and phenotypic variation in higher plants / edited by Robert J. Henry. Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2005.
PARKS General Collection QK46.5 D58 P43 2005

Plant structure: function and development: a treatise on anatomy and vegetative development, with special reference to woody plants / J.A. Romberger, Z. Hejnowicz, J.F. Hill. Caldwell, N.J.: Blackburn Press, c2004.
PARKS General Collection QK641 R64 2004

The ecology of seeds / Michael Fenner, Ken Thompson.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QK661 .F45 2005

Membrane transport in plants / edited by Michael R. Blatt.
Oxford: Blackwell; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2004.
PARKS General Collection QK725 M44x 2004

Carnivorous plants / Adrian Slack ; photographs by Jane Gate. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
PARKS General Collection QK917 S58 2000

Molecular biology and biotechnology of plant organelles: chloroplasts and mitochondria / edited by Henry Daniell and Christine Chase. Dordrecht: Springer, 2004
PARKS General Collection QK725 M746x 2004

Plant lipids: biology, utilisation, and manipulation / edited by Denis J. Murphy.
Oxford: Blackwell Pub.: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2005
PARKS General Collection QK898 L56 P63x 2005

The handbook of plant genome mapping: genetic and physical mapping / edited by Khalid Meksem and Günter Kahl. Weinheim ; [Great Britain] : Wiley-VCH, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QK981.45 H36x 2005

Ecology and Zoology

Tropical rain forests : an ecological and biogeographical comparison / Richard Primack and Richard Corlett.
PARKS General Collection QH86 .P75 2005

Nature's keepers : the remarkable story of how the nature conservancy became the largest environmental organization in the world / Bill Birchard. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QH76 .B57 2005

Sampling rare or elusive species: concepts, designs, and techniques for estimating population parameters / edited by William L. Thompson; foreword by Kenneth P. Burnham. Washington, DC: Island Press, c2004.
PARKS General Collection QL82 .S26 2004

Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts : a guide to their identification and ecology / William S. Johnson and Dennis M. Allen ; with illustrations by Marni Fylling. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QL123 .J649 2005

Amphibians and reptiles of Montana / J. Kirwin Werner ... [et al.]. Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub., 2004.
PARKS General Collection QL653 M9 A47 2004

Amphibians and reptiles of Portugal, Madeira and the Azores-Archipelago : distribution and natural history notes / Rudolf Malkmus.
Ruggell [Germany] : A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G. ; Königstein, Germany : Distributed by Koeltz Scientific Books, 2004.
PARKS General Collection QL658 P8 M35x 2004

Audubon North American birdfeeder guide / Robert Burton and Stephen W. Kress. London ; New York : DK Pub., in association with the National Audubon Society : Penguin Group, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QL676.57 N7 B87 2005

Raptors of California / Hans Peters, Pam Peeters ; illustrations and photographs by Hans Peeters. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QL677.78 P44 2005

The singing life of birds: the art and science of listening to birdsong / Donald Kroodsma; drawings by Nancy Haver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QL698.5 K76 2005

Birds of two worlds: the ecology and evolution of migration / edited by Russell Greenberg and Peter P. Marra. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QL698.9 .B575 2005

Avian navigation : pigeon homing as a paradigm / Hans G. Wallraff. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QL698.8 W35x 2005

The rise of placental mammals: origins and relationships of the Major Extant Clades / edited by Kenneth D. Rose and J. David Archibald. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QL708.5 .R57 2005

Mammalian genomics / edited by A. Ruvinsky and J.A. Marshall Graves.
Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2005.
PARKS General Collection QL738.5 M3593 2005

Microbiology

Microbial phylogeny and evolution: concepts and controversies / edited by Jan Sapp.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
PARKS General Collection QR13 .M527 2005

Biochemistry and molecular biology of antimicrobial drug action / T.J. Franklin and G.A. Snow. New York : Springer, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QR97 A57 F73 2005

Life in ancient ice / edited by John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QR100.9 .L54 2005

Microorganisms in soils: roles in genesis and functions / François Buscot, Ajit Varma, eds. Berlin; New York: Springer, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QR111 M53 2005

Microbial toxins: molecular and cellular biology / edited by Thomas Proft.
Norfolk, England: Horizon Bioscience, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP632 M52 M53x 2005

Back to top

Hot Topics: Microarrays

Due to the overwhelming popularity of books about microarrays, I have ordered additional copies for the collection. At one point during the spring semester, ALL of the books about microarrays were checked out!

A beginner's guide to microarrays / edited by Eric M. Blalock. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003.
PARKS General Collection QP624.5 D726 B456 2003

Design and analysis of DNA microarray investigations / Richard M. Simon ... [et al.].
New York: Springer, [2003?]
PARKS General Collection QP624.5 D726 D475 2003

Guide to analysis of DNA microarray data / Steen Knudsen. Wiley-Liss, c2004.
PARKS General Collection QP624.5 D726 K68 2004

Microarrays for an integrative genomics / Isaac S. Kohane, Alvin T. Kho, and Atul J. Butte. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2003.
PARKS General Collection QP624.5 D726 K686 2003

Microarray technology and its applications / U.R. Müller, D.V. Nicolau (eds.).
Springer, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP624.5 D726 M5 2005

Unraveling lipid metabolism with microarrays / edited by Alvin Berger, Matthew A. Roberts. New York: Marcel Dekker, c2005
PARKS General Collection QP751 U57x 2005

Protein microarrays / edited by Mark Schena. Jones and Bartlett, c2005.
PARKS General Collection QP551 P69722 2005

Back to top

Science Education

Check out this article in Peer Review, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Engaged and Engaging Science: A Component of a Good Liberal Education, by Judith A. Ramaley and Rosemary R. Haggett

Back to top

Interesting Websites

Whatever Happened to Polio? - "The new Web site, which accompanies an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, marks the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine. It offers period photos, audio clips from polio survivors, and other resources that chart the disease's wrenching impact on society and families. For instance, newly diagnosed children were often quarantined for up to 14 days, followed by several weeks of limited contact with their parents. Technologies of the day included cumbersome iron lungs that helped paralyzed patients breathe. You can also learn about Jonas Salk's and Albert Sabin's vaccines. Salk introduced his vaccine first, but Sabin's, which relied on a weakened virus rather than an inactive one, was more widely used. A final section looks at current efforts to eradicate polio from the few countries where it remains." (Science, vol. 308, issue 5724, 933, 13 May 2005)

Audubon's Birds of America - "Online version of John James Audubon's Birds of America ... from an 1840 'First Octavo Edition' of Audubon's complete seven volume text." Includes Audubon's images and original text descriptions. "Bird species can be found listed alphabetically, or categorized by family. Audubon's drawings of some species' anatomical features are also included in the 'figures' section." The online edition includes a list of species that have become extinct since Audubon's time and a list of state birds. (Librarian's Index to the Internet www.lii.org)

Back to top

Answers to the Quiz!

Back to top

Comments or Suggestions?

I am always interested in your comments or suggestions for ways to improve the library's collections or services. Please feel free to contact me via phone (294-6943) or e-mail (adinkelm@iastate.edu). --Andrea Dinkelman, Science & Technology Librarian

Back to top