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The Diaries of a Bonedigger

Author : Harold Rogers Wanless
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031251180
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of a Bonedigger written by Harold Rogers Wanless and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the original writings and photography of renowned geologist Harold Rollin Wanless, this book paints a thorough and engaging picture of the White River Badlands’ landscape, geology, biology, pioneer settlers, and how life was lived 100 years ago in a harsh, challenging, remote setting. In the summer of 1920, Harold Rollin Wanless, fresh from an undergraduate geology degree at Princeton, spent the first of three summers in the Badlands of South Dakota camping, hiking, and collecting fossil vertebrate skulls. Harold produced a fascinating and thorough diary and report, illustrated with over 100 image plates, in which he explains the geology, biology, and climate of this famous area. Wanless became deeply involved with and vividly records the life, hopes, trials and character of the new homesteading pioneers of the area, and the people and livelihoods he encountered are reflected in the diary as well. This is an engaging look at the history, environment, people and geological character of a unique portion of the American West. Combining a first-hand look at the White River Badlands and its people a century ago with the fossil history contained in its Cenozoic sediments gives a well-rounded historical presentation. This diary was found, compiled, and edited by Drs. Harold Rogers Wanless (the diarist’s son and an accomplished geologist himself) and Emmett Evanoff. In the introductory and concluding chapters of this book, they provide a broader perspective of Harold Rollin Wanless’s life and his significant achievements beyond the Badlands venture described here. In addition, this narrative - written “only” a century ago - provides a stark contrast with how we travel, communicate, conduct research and survive today, yet shows that human curiosity and kindnesses have not changed.

The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries

Author : Edwin Harris Colbert
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486247014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries written by Edwin Harris Colbert and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the noted paleontologists who have uncovered and studied dinosaur fossils including information on their findings

Dragon Bone Hill

Author : Noel T. Boaz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288329
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Dragon Bone Hill written by Noel T. Boaz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus. Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey. New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next. Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness. Both a vivid recreation of the unimagined way of life of a prehistoric species, so similar yet so unlike us, and a fascinating exposition of how modern multidisciplinary research can test hypotheses in human evolution, Dragon Bone Hill is science writing at its best.

Time Traveler

Author : Michael Novacek
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528764
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Time Traveler written by Michael Novacek and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating account, a renowned paleontologist relates how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. 25 illustrations. 5 maps.

Popular Mechanics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1927-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

A Companion to the History of American Science

Author : Georgina M. Montgomery
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119072239
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the History of American Science written by Georgina M. Montgomery and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science. Covers topics including astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, eugenics, Big Science, military technology, and more Features contributions by the most accomplished scholars in the field of science history Covers pivotal events in U.S. history that shaped the development of science and science policy such as WWII, the Cold War, and the Women’s Rights movement

Raptor Red

Author : Robert T. Bakker
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553575619
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Raptor Red written by Robert T. Bakker and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. She is an intelligent killer... So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and the eyes belong to an unforgettable heroine. Her name is Raptor Red, and she is a female Raptor dinosaur. Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this exciting tale. From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daring migration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, Raptor Red combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth.

The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush

Author : Paul D. Brinkman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226074730
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush written by Paul D. Brinkman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.

Summer at Little Lava

Author : Charles Fergus
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865475490
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Summer at Little Lava written by Charles Fergus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Iceland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky. In Summer at Little Lava, Charles Fergus tells how he fixed up an abandoned house on the farm and spent a summer there with his wife and their young son-living day to day in great simplicity, without heat, electricity, running water, or other conveniences. Inspired by Henry Beston's classic book, The Outermost House-about a year Beston spent living in a cottage on Cape Cod-Fergus sought a place at the outer limits of civilization, and on the coast of Iceland he found it. As it happened, there was a sudden death in his family-the cruel, pointless murder of his mother at her home in Pennsylvania; and so, in the twilit open spaces of Iceland, Fergus confronted his grief, in the midst of the country's abundant wildlife and distinctive geology, its history and mythology. The little house on the coast became a refuge as he sought to recover himself and the meaning of his life. "Little Lava was a place where I could pass the days in peace," he tells us, "where I could take the first steps into a future that, I hoped, would not be so dimmed with grief and pain." Summer at Little Lava is a wise and vigilant book. It touches on Iceland and Icelanders, birds and nature, tragedy and personal loss; in strong, resonant prose, it evokes the strange and compelling landscape of Iceland.

Inherited Family

Author : Robert Barlow Fox
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865344884
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Inherited Family written by Robert Barlow Fox and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the sudden death of his parents, fourteen year old Mark Talbot's comfortable and sheltered world crashes around him. His uncle, following instructions in his father's will, sends Mark to New Zealand to live with a colony of Maori people that his father knew and loved as a young man. Among these brown skinned Polynesians, Mark begins to grow to manhood, not just in body but in mind and spirit. His inherited family teaches him love, truth, beauty, and the satisfaction of hard work. Mark finally faces doubts, fears, and anxieties that have haunted him since his parents' deaths when he encounters a deadly shark in the ocean's dark waters. Here he confronts himself as well as the shark.

Crusin' the Fossil Freeway

Author : Kirk Johnson
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1682752798
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Crusin' the Fossil Freeway written by Kirk Johnson and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The travels of a paleontologist and an artist as they drive across the American West in search of fossils. Throughout their journey, they encounter "paleonerds" like themselves, people dedicated to finding everything from suburban T. rexes to ancient fossilized forests.

The Trials of Uwe

Author : Steven L. Masia
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1644261685
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Uwe written by Steven L. Masia and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trials of Uwe By: Steven L. Masia The Trials of Uwe is about a wizard who has been trained since birth to take his role. Even with all his preparation, he finds himself lacking. Unlike other coming-of-age stories, this tale teaches us that no matter how well prepared you are, the challenges of life can overwhelm you. Only by sharing your skills with others can you overcome such situations. Emotional loss can cloud our judgment and can result in conceit. The Trials of Uwe reflects on loss and redemption, how friendships can be formed with your enemies, universal issues relating to life and death, ego, murder, slavery, lies and deception. We are reminded that with the help of friends and teamwork, all obstacles can be overcome.

Blues for Cannibals

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316892
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Blues for Cannibals written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Murder City and Down by the River reflects on the destructive nature of American culture. Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity’s own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways in which we destroy ourselves and whether there is any way to survive. Here he confronts a murderer facing execution, sex offenders of the most heinous crimes, a suicidal artist, a prisoner obsessed with painting portraits of presidents, and other people and places that constitute our worst impulses and our worst truths. Painful, heartbreaking, and forewarning, Bowden at once tears us apart and yearns for us to find ourselves back together again. “A thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice.” —Ron Hansen, The New York Times Book Review “A major literary work of profound social consciousness . . . [Bowden] writes with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey . . . This is gutsy, soulful, pyrotechnic, significant. And transformative writing.” —Donna Seaman, Chicago Tribune “A vivid, lyrical journey through the American Southwest . . . [but] this book is no travelogue. Rather, it is a visceral exploration of a much darker landscape, that of the human psyche.” —Debra Ginsberg, The San Diego Union-Tribune “A book of absolutely furious beauty . . . At the height of [Bowden’s] rapturous indignation, with majestic lamentations stretching out almost to the snapping point, he sounds like Walt Whitman in a very bad mood . . . Sweet bloody Jerusalem, when he’s cooking, who can touch him?” —David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle

The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia

Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521545822
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia written by Michael J. Benton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique reference volume covering major vertebrate fossil finds in former Soviet Union never before described in English.

Digging For Trouble

Author : Linda Fairstein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399186484
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Digging For Trouble written by Linda Fairstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old supersleuth Devlin Quick heads to Montana to dig out dinosaur bones, but instead she uncovers a mystery in this second book in the thrilling series from New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein After successfully apprehending a map thief at the beginning of summer, Dev is going to spend the second half of her summer vacation in Montana with her best friend, Katie, exploring the outdoors and NOT getting into trouble. But after participating in a dinosaur dig, Katie and Dev suspect that someone bad is in the Badlands when Katie's found fossils are switched out for old rocks. The good news? With Mom back in New York, no one can stop Devlin from investigating! But the fossil thief isn’t the only danger here, as snakes, scorpions, and bears abound, making Montana a treacherous place for finding answers. And when the mystery takes Dev and Katie back to Manhattan—to the Museum of Natural History—the case gets even more complicated, even with Dev’s friend Booker there to help. Dev has to use her brains, brawn, and yes, okay, the lessons learned from her police commissioner mother if she wants to dig up the truth once and for all. This is the perfect read for fans of Nancy Drew and Theodore Boone.

Travels in Egypt

Author : Charles Edwin Wilbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Travels in Egypt written by Charles Edwin Wilbour and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burying Ground

Author : Janet Kellough
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459724720
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Burying Ground written by Janet Kellough and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed. The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned to preaching on the Yonge Street Circuit. The graveyard’s secrets lead Lewis and his son Luke into the hidden heart of 1851 Toronto where they discover a trail of corruption and blackmail tied to an old sexual scandal and a dangerous enemy intent on vengeance.