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Animals Without Backbones : An Introduction to the Invertebrates
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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Animals Without Backbones : An Introduction to the Invertebrates
- Educational Level
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- Features
- Ex-Library
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- ISBN
- 9780226078731
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226078736
ISBN-13
9780226078731
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74731
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
582 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Animals Without Backbones : an Introduction to the Invertebrates
Subject
Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science
Series
New Plan Texts at the University of Chicago Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
47.9 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.9 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
3
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
86-007046
Reviews
If you had told the ten-year-old me that Animals without Backbones was a classic biology textbook, I would never have picked it up. I struggled to, anyway: the decades-old dog-eared copy that I found at the back of my dad's bookcase had a loose monochrome cover that always wanted to come off in my hands. This was a link to his world as a scientist, and to what he did all day. (Actually, he was a research chemist, but what did I know.) More, the book was a glimpse of a world just as alien as those in the pages of my 2000 AD comic, peopled with warlocks and genetic infantrymen. The pictures looked hand-drawn, and showed features on the outside of the creatures as well as their inner structures. I studied those pages and copied the drawings--the stunning representation of the Hydra especially--into my sketch pad, next to Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. 2000 AD later published one of those drawings, but it was the fantastic stories of the true, hidden world of invertebrates that really fired my imagination.
Dewey Edition
18
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
592
Table Of Content
Preface 1. Introduction: Sorting Out Living Things 2. Life Activities 3. Simple and Complex Protozoans 4. Variations on a One-Celled Theme 5. A Side Issue: Sponges 6. Two Layers of Cells 7. Stinging-Celled Animals 8. Comb Jellies 9. Three Layers of Cells 10. New Parts from Old 11. Messmates and Parasites 12. One-Way Traffic: Proboscis Worms 13. Roundworms 14. Lesser Lights 15. Soft-Bodied Animals 16. Segmented Worms 17. Lobsters and Other Arthropods: Crustaceans 18. Arthropods on Land: Arachnids 19. Airborne Anthropods: Insects 20. Annelid-Arthropod Allies 21. Spiny-Skinned Animals 22. Chordate Beginnings 23. Records of the Invertebrate Past 24. Invertebrate Relationships 25. Further Knowledge Selected Bibliography Appendix: Classification Index
Synopsis
Photographs and illustrations supplement a simplified approach to biological studies and the structure, function, behavior, and life-activities of invertebrates., 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.
LC Classification Number
QL362.B93 1987
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