Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World
Barry Bolton
Gary Alpert
Philip S. Ward
Piotr Naskrecki
Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World, published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. The new edition incorporates all taxonomic papers--from 1758 through 2005--on 14,550 species and subspecies of ants.
CD-ROM 2007
The Fire Ants
Walter R. Tschinkel
In The Fire Ants, Walter Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of Solenopsis invicta but a lively account of how research is done, how science establishes facts, and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. The reader learns much about ants, the practice of science, and humans' role in the fire ant's North American success.
Hardcover 2006
A Glossary of Mycology
Walter Snell
Esther A. Dick
Nearly 7000 terms--technical terms and their derivations; common or popular, vernacular, and obsolete terms; terms used in the field of medical mycology and antibiotics; names of the originators of terms; folklore terms; and color terms--were covered by the original edition. Also included were terms which, though not strictly mycological, occur frequently in literature of particular interest to mycologists.
Hardcover 1971
Harvestmen
Edited by Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
Edited by Glauco Machado
Edited by Gonzalo Giribet
This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a broad taxonomic and ecological background for understanding this major arachnid group, the book should give field biologists worldwide the means to identify specimens and provide an invaluable reference for understanding harvestmen diversity and biology.
Hardcover 2007
The Tree of Life
Guillaume Lecointre
Hervé Le Guyader
Illustrated by Dominique Visset
Translated by Karen McCoy
Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish" and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification, whose methods have been totally revisited over the last thirty years. This book diagrams the tree of life according to the most recent methods of classification.
Hardcover 2007