Animals Without Backbones : An Introduction to the Invertebrates

Buchsbaum, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0226078698 / ISBN 13: 9780226078694

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 1948

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Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

N° de réf. du vendeur 19158738-75

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Animals Without Backbones : An Introduction to the Invertebrates
• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date de parution: 1948
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226078698
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226078694
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

1948. Revised edition. 405 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have moderate to heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Spine noticeably rubbed and tanned. Boards are slightly bowed.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Animals Without Backbones has been considered a classic among biology textbooks since it was first published to great acclaim in 1938. It was the first biology textbook ever reviewed by Time and was also featured with illustrations in Life. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and more than eighty other colleges and universities adopted it for use in courses. Since then, its clear explanations and ample illustrations have continued to introduce hundreds of thousands of students and general readers around the world to jellyfishes, corals, flatworms, squids, starfishes, spiders, grasshoppers, and the other invertebrates that make up ninety-seven percent of the animal kingdom.

This new edition has been completely rewritten and redesigned, but it retains the same clarity and careful scholarship that have earned this book its continuing readership for half a century. It is even more lavishly illustrated than earlier editions, incorporating many new drawings and photographs. Informative, concise legends that form an integral part of the text accompany the illustrations. The text has been updated to include findings from recent research. Eschewing pure morphology, the authors use each group of animals to introduce one or more biological principles.

In recent decades, courses and texts on invertebrate zoology at many universities have been available only for advanced biology majors specializing in this area. The Third Edition of Animals Without Backbones remains an ideal introduction to invertebrates for lower-level biology majors, nonmajors, students in paleontology and other related fields, junior college and advanced high school students, and the general reader who pursues the rewarding study of the natural world.