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Biosciences: Books

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The University of Manchester Library is home to a significant collection of books for Biosciences.

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Front cover of The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Palaeontology in the Long Nineteenth Century

The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Palaeontology in the Long Nineteenth Century

When people today hear "paleontology," they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of the history of life focused on the developmental history of mammals. The Age of Mammals examines how nineteenth-century scholars, writers, artists, and public audiences understood the animals they regarded as being at the summit of life. For them, mammals were crucial for understanding the formation (and possibly the future) of the natural world. Yet, as Chris Manias reveals, this combined with more troubling notions: that seemingly promising creatures had been swept aside in the "struggle for life," or that modern biodiversity was impoverished compared to previous eras. Why some prehistoric creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and ground sloth, had become extinct, while others seemed to have been the ancestors of familiar animals like elephants and horses, was a question loaded with cultural assumptions, ambiguity, and trepidation. How humans related to deep developmental processes, and whether "the Age of Man" was qualitatively different from the Age of Mammals, led to reflections on humanity's place within the natural world. With this book, Manias considers the cultural resonance of mammal paleontology from an international perspective--how reconstructions of the deep past of fossil mammals across the world conditioned new understandings of nature and the current environment (Provided by Publisher).

This title was acquired through the Library's Order a Book service.

Locating and borrowing books

You can use Library Search to search for both print and eBooks as well as a range of other resources including articles, journals, and databases.

Guide to printed collections

The Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (Dewey for short) to arrange books and other resources on the shelves so you can locate them easily.

The vast majority of books relating to Biosciences and related subjects can be found in Main Library and Stopford Library.

 

Subject Areas Classmark(s) Location
Biology 570 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Physiology and related subjects 571 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Biochemistry 572 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Specific physiology systems in animals 573 (and 591) Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Specific parts of and systems in plants 575 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Genetics and evolution 576 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Ecology 577 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Natural history and organisms 578 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Microorganisms, fungi and algae 579 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Plants 580-9 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Animals (Zoology) 590-9 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Human Physiology 612 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Pharmacology and therapeutics 615 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Diseases 616 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
Biotechnology 663.1 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3

More information: Locating books on shelves

For help with finding your way around the Main Library, please use our new Interactive Map.

Course reading lists

You can access your course reading lists in Blackboard: 

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E-book Collections

The Library provides access to numerous e-book collections that host many titles relating to Biosciences and related subjects. Follow this link to browse different collections you can explore to find e-books relating to your studies. 

E-book collections

E-book collections

Order a Book

If the Library doesn't already hold a copy of the book you need, fill in the Order a Book form and we will get it for you.

University staff should use the Order a Book (Staff) form.

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Theses and dissertations

Theses can be a valuable source of information for your research and are very useful points of reference for when you come to write your own thesis.

For detailed information on how to access theses from the University of Manchester, and from other universities in the UK and internationally, please visit our Theses Library Guide

 

Theses

 

 

Doctoral/Research Theses

  • Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Research Explorer, the University of Manchester’s research database.

 

Theses from other UK/International Institutions

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global)

    A searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.

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