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Biographic Memoirs Volume 88 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Een boek over de ‘andere’ geschiedenis van 175 jaar België, namelijk die van de vrouwenstrijd en van de vrouwenemancipatie. Het boek is chronologisch opgebouwd en geeft korte achtergrondinformatie bij belangrijke gebeurtenissen en verwezenlijkingen. Het bevat een 200-tal levensbeschrijvingen. Een tijdlijn stipt voor elk jaar de cruciale feiten voor vrouwen aan vanaf 1830 tot 2005.
Offers a practical guide for the non-specialist on studying and learning from plant fossils to understand the evolution of vegetation on Earth.
Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley. He is taking his first steps to map the geology of 300 square miles of Baxter State Park. He soon discovers a series of unusually shaped rock outcrops—part of an unknown geologic formation, hundreds of millions of years old, still mystifying today because of its relative lack of change despite nearby volcanic activity and massive land movement. Wading on, he has another surprise. In a thin layer of black shale beside the stream, he finds a small fossil of a plant. Little does he know, but his discovery of Perticaquadrifaria will help scientists unlock the ...
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