Best of
Biology

1963

The Living Sea


Jacques-Yves Cousteau - 1963
    They roam afar to investigate other wrecks, from one sunk in the Bronze Age to a freighter which went down before their eyes. Captain Cousteau goes down to the bottom of the sea in the bathyscaph and starts an undersea avalanche which engulfs the vessel. He drinks wine that has lain on the sea bottom for two thousand years; he is entrapped at night by twenty-five-foot seaweeds in the Gibraltar current. In THE LIVING SEA you'll meet creatures never before seen or classified: abyssal sharks with shovel snouts and white protruding eyes; a sliver fish shaped like a triangle; a fish whose skin is marked off into perfect checkerboard squares. you will encounter "the Truckfish", an animal unaccountably grown to fifty times the normal weight of its species, and Ulysses, the giant grouper which became the divers' pet.

Tree Finder: A Manual for the Identification of Trees by Their Leaves


May Theilgaard Watts - 1963
    They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.

Invertebrate Zoology


Robert D. Barnes - 1963
    This thorough revision provides a survey by groups, emphasizing adaptive morphology and physiology, while covering anatomical ground plans and basic developmental patterns. New co-author Richard Fox brings to the revision his expertise as an ecologist, offering a good balance to Ruppert's background as a functional morphologist. Rich illustrations and extensive citations make the book extremely valuable as a teaching tool and reference source.

The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation


Isaac Asimov - 1963
    Isaac Asimov explains the structure and operation of the human body from the basic skeleton to the mysterious and awesome reproductive system. The Human Body is a superbly up-to-date and informative study of our anatomy and physiology - a work that makes science understandable and exciting to the layman.

On Aggression


Konrad Lorenz - 1963
    

Pioneer Germ Fighters


Navin Sullivan - 1963
    

Langman's Medical Embryology


Jan Langman - 1963
    Widely acclaimed for its scientific authority, pedagogy, clinical relevance, and clear, concise writing, this classic text covers all aspects of embryology of interest to medical, nursing, and health professions students.It features outstanding full-color illustrations and clinical images and photographs, end-of-chapter summaries and Problems to Solve, and Clinical Correlates boxes that provide information on birth defects and other clinical entities directly related to embryologic concepts.