Our Face from Fish to Man
Author : William King Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Craniology
ISBN :
Author : William King Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Craniology
ISBN :
Author : William King Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Evolution
ISBN :
Author : Neil Shubin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307377164
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
Author : Lulu Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501160346
Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
Author : Paul Greenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1101442298
“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace. Four Fish offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.
Author : Norbert Wu
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805053470
The author-photographer, a marine biologist, uses his own photographs to introduce readers to some of the more amusing characteristics of the creatures he's encountered on his dives.
Author : WILLIAM KING. GREGORY
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033162941
Author : Robert Hoge
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0733634346
A beaut story about one very ugly kid. Robert Hoge was born with a tumour in the middle of his face, and legs that weren't much use. There wasn't another baby like him in the whole of Australia, let alone Brisbane. But the rest of his life wasn't so unusual: he had a mum and a dad, brothers and sisters, friends at school and in his street. He had childhood scrapes and days at the beach; fights with his family and trouble with his teachers. He had doctors, too: lots of doctors who, when he was still very young, removed that tumour from his face and operated on his legs, then stitched him back together. He still looked different, though. He still looked ... ugly. UGLY is the true story of how an extraordinary boy grew up to have an ordinary life, and how that became his greatest achievement of all.
Author : J. A. Rogers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0819575542
In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called "the bran of history"—the uncollected, unexamined history of black people—in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race—humanity—precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. The books are presented here in their original editions.
Author : Daniel Wallace
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616201649
When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions.