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Explores the family trees and genealogical identity of twelve remarkable Americans: Stephen Colbert, Louise Erdrich, Eva Longoria, Yo Yo Ma, and others. Since 2007, the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping African Americans find long-buried details about their ancestors by researching their family trees and then, when the paper trail ends, by analyzing their DNA and marrying that information to a wealth of historical data. Now, in Faces of America, Gates explores the family trees of twelve of America’s most recognizable and extraordinary citizens, individuals who learn that they are of Asian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, Latino, Native Amer...
My sister and sister are here to farm, and my sister is here to grow flax.
The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two parts in this book. Part 1 introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the spread of Chinese culinary culture to the world. It also describes how the botanical and cultural information was acquired; what plants have been selected by the Chinese people for food; how these foodstuffs are produced, preserved, and prepared; and what the western societies can learn from Chinese practices. Part 2 provides the botanical identification of the plant kingdom for the esculents used in China as food and/or as beverage. The plants are illustrated with line drawings or composite photographic plates. This book is useful not only as a text for general reading, but also as a work reference. Naturally, it would be a useful addition to the general collection of any library.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of biogeography and biostratigraphy to engineering analysis of dinosaur skulls, and from homeobox genes to cladistics. All the well-known fossil groups are included, including microfossils and invertebrates, but an important feature is the thorough coverage of plants, vertebrates and trace fossils together with discussion of the origins of both life and the metazoans. All key related subjects are introduced, such as systematics, ecology, evolution...
His family was poor and destitute. His mute daughter, Yang Xiaoya, was sold to the Zhang family as a child's bride.Nanny's abuse and scolding, scum man looked down on, Yang Xiaoya's weakness and suffering could not be described with words ...An accident and he actually saw the dirty secret of the scum man. Xiao Ya was scalded to death by boiling water.Waking up again, his soul had been replaced by a top secret service agent ...Battle Granny, punish Little San, whoever dares to come!Poor and destitute people living on the four walls? It doesn't matter! Hunting in the mountains, selling breakfast in the town, Yang Xiaoya was proficient at capturing prey!"Miss, you sure are good at selling things!""Humph!" That's a must! "She had a serious appearance, but her heart was sullen. Elegant Young Master Bai Jianqing, welcome to pick her up ~
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The Chengjiang biota is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries ever made. The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang is the first book in English to provide fossil enthusiasts with an overview of the fauna. 100 superb full color plates. First English language illustrated guide to this important fauna. A must-have for all palaeontologists worldwide. To see a collection of images from the book, click on the following link: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/chengjiang
The two volumes LNCS 11982 and 11983 constitute the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2019. The 61 full papers and 40 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 235 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in the field of cyberspace safety and security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability issues of cyberspace. They are organized in the following topical sections: network security; system security; information security; privacy preservation; machine learning and security; cyberspace safety; big data and security; and cloud and security;
“Addresses an important topic for biologists and zoologists about vertebrates’ place in the ‘grand scheme’ . . . genuinely witty and charming . . . magnificent.” —Neil J. Gostling, University of Southampton Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms. But as longtime Nature editor Henry Gee argues in Across the Bridge, despite these giant strides and our deepening understanding of how vertebrates fit into the tree of life, the morphological chasm between vertebrates and inverte...