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Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology offers a synthesis of the paleontological record of Venezuela, including new discoveries on stratigraphy, paleobotany, fossil invertebrates, and vertebrates. Besides providing a critical summary of the record of decapods, fishes, crocodiles, turtles, rodents, armadillos, and ungulates, several chapters introduce new information on the distribution and paleobiology of groups not previously studied in this part of the world. Given its position in the northern neotropics, close to the Panamanian land bridge, Venezuela is a key location for understanding faunal exchanges between the Americas in the recent geological past. The book reviews the recent paleobotanical and vertebrate fossil record of the region, provides an understanding of Pleistocene climatic change and biogeography for the last few thousand years, and integrates new information with summaries of Spanish language works on Venezuelan geology and paleontology.
ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT In Spring of 1968 a research project concerning the scholastic philosophy in the Iberian Colonies of America was submitted to the Institute of Latin American Studies in the University of Texas by Dr. Ignacio Angelelli, of the Department of Philosophy of the same University. I should like to quote some relevant passages from the proposal by way of historical back ground. In the last decade, leading philosophical historiography has become more and more interested in the "minor" figures and the "traditional" schools which flourished between 1500 and 1800. Historians of philosophy are interested not only in men like Descartes and Kant, but also in the less brilliant and mor...
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
INTRODUCCIÓN Este DICCIONARIO GENERAL DE LA LITERATURA EN EL ZULIA, que sale a la luz pública, se constituye en el primer diccionario general sobre la literatura hecha en la región zuliana, el cual incluye autores, libros publicados, revistas, periódicos, premios, instituciones, eventos, editoriales, grupos, movimientos y generaciones literarias, del cual estamos seguros proporcionará a profesores, estudiantes e interesados en la literatura en general, la información actualizada, científica y rápida de la literatura en el Zulia, a través de reseñas breves e individualizadas de autores zulianos y no zulianos, pero cuya obra fue desarrollada en esta entidad, además de los otros aspe...