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This biography of the author of 13 celebrated novels is also Hugo's search for the writing life of a mother known to her children as a socially correct middle-class doctor's wife rather than as the ambitious novelist she was as well. 14 photos.
Looks at the behavior and physical characteristics of twenty-nine lizard species.
“This international collaboration between air war historians is simply fantastic. . . . a deep-dive on the operations in a vast and very important theater of war.” —Air Classics During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This was despite the steady withdrawal of units to more demanding areas. This fifth volume of the series describes in detail the activities of the Allied tactical air forces in support of the armies on the ground as their opponents were steadily extracted from northern Italy and the Balkans for the final defense of the central European homeland. The book commences with co...
Verzeichnis sämtlicher Rittergüter, Güter und Höfe von ca. 20 ha aufwärts mit Angabe der Gutseigenschaft, der Gesamtfläche und des Flächeninhalts der einzelnen Kulturen, des Viehbestandes, der eigenen industriellen Anlagen und Fernsprechanschlüsse, Angabe der Besitzer, Pächter und Verwalter, der Post, Telegraphen- und Eisenbahnstationen und deren Entfernung vom Gute, der Land- und Amtsgerichte, einem alphabetischen Orts- und Personenregister, einem Verzeichnis der wichtigsten Behörden und Dienststellen, der landwirtschaftlichen Vereine und Körperschaften.
Who was Richard Kemp, after whom the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is named? Is Wake’s Gecko named after Berkeley’s Marvalee Wake? Or perhaps her husband, David? Why do so many snakes and lizards have Werner in their name? This reference book answers these and thousands of other questions about the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of reptiles across the globe. From Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti, the Florida cottonmouth subspecies named for Roger Conant, to Xantusia, the night lizard genera namesake of John Xantus, this dictionary covers everyone after whom an extant or recently extinct reptile has been named. The entries include a brief bio-sketch, a list of the reptiles that...