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Laredo College Libraries uses the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System to organize items in their collection.

Subclass QH

QH1-278.5 Natural history (General)

QH1-(199.5) General Including nature conservation, geographical distribution

QH201-278.5 Microscopy

QH301-705.5 Biology (General)

QH359-425 Evolution

QH426-470 Genetics

QH471-489 Reproduction

QH501-531 Life

QH540-549.5 Ecology

QH573-671 Cytology

QH705-705.5 Economic biology

QR1-502 Microbiology

QR1-74.5 General

QR75-99.5 Bacteria

QR99.6-99.8 Cyanobacteria

QR100-130 Microbial ecology

QR171 Microorganisms in the animal body

QR180-189.5 Immunology

QR355-502 Virology

Featured Biology eBooks

Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science

Secret Worlds: The Extraordinary Senses of Animals

Ecology of a Changed World

Cells And Stem Cells: The Myth Of Life Sciences

Spider Evolution: Genetics, Behavior, and Ecological Influences

Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives

The New Biology: A Battle Between Mechanism and Organicism

Elephants: Up Close and Personal

Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice

The Evolutionary Ecology of Invasive Species

Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us

Fifty Years of Evolution in Biological Research : Progress and Decline

Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Threats, Protection, and Management

Climate Change and Microbial Diversity : Advances and Challenges

Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation

Microbiology for Cleaner Production and Environmental Sustainability

Concepts in Biology: A Historical Perspective

Featured Book Reviews

Bits and Pieces: How I Constructed a Life Worth Living
This memoir is a collection of deeply personal essays about the life and work of Elof Axel Carlson.
The Dark Side of Light
THE DARKNESS MANIFESTO: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life.
The Doors of Animal Perception
AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around Us.
Escaping Nature
Organized into five parts addressing the earth, air, fire, water, and space, it is packed with maps, charts, timelines, and other data to illustrate the emerging impacts of climate change. These include droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and rising sea levels as well as less obvious outcomes, like "nutritional collapse" when elevated CO₂ levels reduce plants' nutritional value; methane craters that explode in areas of melting permafrost; and meteorological tsunamis in the Great Lakes.
Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Current Topics in Developmental Biology.
This book contains 12 chapters, collectively intended by the editor to "highlight some of the places where evo-devo meets the unknown"
From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution
I find a book, directed at the general public, of about 400 pages total with nearly as many pages of footnotes as there are text to be out of balance. This volume, by the eminent paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, is a fascinating book, from which all can learn. I can see how Conway Morris needs a chapter such as this to keep his argument flowing, although I am not quite sure how mythological this truly is. I Archaeopteryx i , a bird-reptile, is well represented by the wonderful specimen, discovered in 1874, now in Berlin.
Going with the Flow
WATER ALWAYS WINS: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge.
Insect Diapause
Denlinger's book starts with the environment, then moves on to describe how insects sense the environment, what developmental changes are needed for diapause, and how insects break diapause. This logical flow takes readers through the phenomenon of diapause along a very easy-to-follow, and very well-written, path.
Insights from Data with R: An Introduction for the Life and Environmental Sciences
In our data-rich world, many scientists and science educators feel compelled and excited to introduce our students to the ways of data: what data are, how to use them, and what they tell us about our world. That introduction is, however, fraught, and we often fail to provide students with the kind of beginning we would wish we could deliver. In these situations, Insights from Data with R comes to the rescue. It provides beginning students with a scientific approach to understanding data and how data can help us answer and refine our questions.
Living in an Age of Extremes
THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters. Juliette Kayyem.
New Horizons in Evolution
This collection of 10 essays might be the most remarkable Festschrift any biologist is likely to encounter. The reason is that the collection honors Eviatar Nevo, an evolutionary biologist whose breadth and depth of superb empirical work is without equal. The volume does justice to Nevo's long, remarkable career by including contributions that span the gamut from the sensory systems of subterranean mammals to evolutionary medicine.
Shape-Shifting Animals on an Inhospitable Planet
Hurricane Lizards & Plastic Squid: The Fraught & Fascinating Biology of Climate Change (Book)
Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species, A (Book)
Strangers Among US
THE GUESTS OF ANTS: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts. Bert Holldobler and Christina L. Kwapich.
Vagrancy in Birds
Vagrancy in Birds is a tour de force by two British birding diehards who also happen to be productive academic ornithologists, summarizing our understanding of vagrancy across the world's bird families.
WONDER: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science
WONDER: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science. Frank C. Keil.

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