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The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life
Patricia Vickers Rich ,
Thomas Hewitt Rich ,
Mildred Adams Fenton , and
Carroll Lane Fenton
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Definitive guide provides paleontologists and amateur fossil enthusiasts with invaluable information about finding fossils, caring for samples, and how to study them. Profusely illustrated and expanded edition contains fascinating information about everything from single-celled organisms, arthropods and amphibians, to dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. Includes identification keys, glossary, more. Over 1,500 illustrations.
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Great resource book!!!.......2007-01-10
This was a great resource book! Lots to see and use. Most other books dont have enough detail. This one really takes it up a notch!
The Fossil Book.......2003-07-04
The original version of this book was published in 1958. It is a wonderful introduction to the fossil record. The book is organized by begining with the oldest fossils, and working forward through time to the most recent fossils. There are many excellent drawings and phtographs to help the reader understand not only what the living animal looked like, but what the typical fossil parts look like.
This book does not require the reader to already be a scientist in order to understand and enjoy it's contents. For the amateur fossil collector, this is a valuable reference book that will be used over, and over again.
Many important discoveries have been made in geology since 1958, and the more recent edition(s) incorporate these discoveries. Like all sciences, geology is a growing body of knowledge.
Good.......2001-12-22
It is really good because it is local based for Melbourne, Australia, not America.
What happened to all the transitional forms?.......2001-06-03
We've all heard confident claims about "multitudes" of transitional forms in the fossil record, but what have the evolutionary paleontologists been forced to admit? Are there any transitional forms at all?
"... I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader?
I wrote the text of my book four years ago. If I were to write it now, I think the book would be rather different. Gradualism is a concept I believe in, not just because of Darwin's authority, but because my understanding of genetics seems to demand it. Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a palaeontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least `show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.' I will lay it on the line-there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument." --Personal letter (written 10 April 1979) from Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Palaeontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in London, to Luther D. Sunderland; as quoted in "Darwin's Enigma" by Luther D. Sunderland, Master Books, San Diego, USA, 1984, p. 89.
"I know that, at least in paleoanthropology, data are still so sparse that theory heavily influences interpretations. Theories have, in the past, clearly reflected our current ideologies instead of the actual data." --Dr. David Pilbeam (Physical Anthropologist, Yale University, USA), "Rearranging our family tree". "Human Nature", June 1978, p. 45.
"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution." --Stephen Jay Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University), "Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?" "Paleobiology", vol. 6 (1), January 1980, p. 127.
"All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt." --Stephen Jay Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University), "The return of hopeful monsters". "Natural History", vol. LXXXVI (6), June-July 1977, p. 24.
"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. Yet Darwin was so wedded to gradualism that he wagered his entire theory on a denial of this literal record:
"The geological record is extremely imperfect and this fact will to a large extent explain why we do not find interminable varieties, connecting together all the extinct and existing forms of life by the finest graduated steps. He who rejects these views on the nature of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory."
Darwin's argument still persists as the favored escape of most paleontologists from the embarrassment of a record that seems to show so little of evolution. In exposing its cultural and methodological roots, I wish in no way to impugn the potential validity of gradualism (for all general views have similar roots). I wish only to point out that it was never `seen' in the rocks.
Paleontologists have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study." --Stephen Jay Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University), "Evolution's erratic pace". "Natural History", vol. LXXXVI (5), May 1977, p. 14.
So how important is the fossil record to the evolutionist?
In 1960 the point was still being made...
"Although the comparative study of living animals and plants may give very convincing circumstantial evidence, fossils provide the only historical, documentary evidence that life has evolved from simpler to more and more complex forms." --Carl O. Dunbar, Ph.D. (geology) (Professor Emeritus of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Yale University, and formerly Assistant Editor, "American Journal of Science") in "Historical Geology", John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1960, p. 47.
But more than 20 years later, after concerted creationist exposure of the true nature of the fossil record...
"In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favour of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation." --Mark Ridley (zoologist, Oxford University), "Who doubts evolution?" "New Scientist", vol. 90, 25 June 1981, p. 831.
"Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact." --Dr. T. N. Tahmisian (Atomic Energy Commission, USA) in "The Fresno Bee", August 20, 1959. As quoted by N.J. Mitchell, "Evolution and the Emperor's New Clothes", Roydon publications, UK, 1983, title page.
Books I also strongly recommend reading are: "Bones of Contention" by Marvin Lubenow, "Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!" by Duane Gish, "Icon of Evolution" by Jonathan Wells and "Darwin's Black Box" by Michael Behe.
OK but not up to date.......2000-12-30
This book would have been fine if it had been read by someone nearly fifty years ago. If you like fossils and fossil hunting this book would have been great. But I needed it for basically a resource for research, and it fell on the wayside miserably in that aspect. It was originally copyrighted for 1958, so the publication date on Amazon was a little misleading, no offense. The illustrations that are in it, and there are a lot, are downright pathetic, it looks like a 3 year old drew most of them. There was next to nothing on fossil floras and no descriptions of any paleoecosystems in detail. The classifications of various vertabrate groups are out of date miserably. All in all buy this book, if you're fifty years old and no nothing at all about fossils and paleontology. But if you do no some and you want to learn more, this book is a waste of time, and a waste of the green stuff if you know what I mean.
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Bignoniaceae-Valerianaceae (Flora of the U S S R)
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This digital document is an article from Revista de BiologÃa Tropical, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6305 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Establecimiento y desarrollo de plantulas de Tabebuia rosea (Bignoniaceae) en una selva subcaducifolia manejada de la costa Pacifica de México.
Author: Antonio Mora Santacruz
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Volume: 54
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Bignoniaceae in Taiwan
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The popular Spanish Canary Islands are given the Bradt Travel Guide treatment for the first time.
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...a storehouse of information about all aspects of the presidents' lives. – Oklahoma City Oklahoman. Pledging to deliver captivating, timely reading and great breadth of information, The Handy Presidents Answer Book addresses more than 800 questions relating to the presidency. These range from why presidents refused to act against states’ rights to extraordinary powers taken by presidents during times of war, as well as actions in times of boom and bust, isolationism and expansion. Foreign policy questions address Washington’s controversial neutrality, the Monroe Doctrine (and later expansions), the Cuban Missile Crisis, the War in Iraq, and much more. Arranged in fourteen topical chapters, the questions begin with background on the Executive branch and the official duties of the president. Handy Presidents also answer intriguing questions on personal characteristics, leadership styles, relationships with the people and the press, and, of course, the first ladies. Then the gloves and top hats come off to address presidential candidates, campaigns, and elections—including lively accounts of deals, slogans, and controversies, from smoke-filled rooms to election night surprises … and recounts.
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All things must pass. In an understatement of historic proportions, quite a few things have passed since the end of the last millennium. Some of the history-making events include the election of George W. Bush, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; spectacular images from probes in outer space, medical advances and debate, and many new scientific discoveries on Earth; a devastating earthquake in Iran and the deadly tsunami in Asia; the downfall of Enron and the comeback of Apple, not to mention the dot.com bubble burst and whatever happened to the budget surplus?. Whew! A new era has taken shape, and The Handy History Answer Book records it. A concise guide to all things historical, Handy History addresses people, times, and events in a wide-ranging and comprehensive manner, complemented by nearly 200 illustrations and, for those who like their history instant, a chronology of major events. Beginning with a section on historical eras, this popular reference source tracks history with obsessive zeal and tight editing. The Handy History Answer Book organizes information in thirteen specific subject sections ranging from politics to war to science to religion. It tackles exploration and settlement, technological advances, legal fireworks, financial and business events, social movements, natural and man-made disasters, medicine and disease, and art and culture. Along the way you’ll meet a cast of thousands, including Socrates (an early advocate of the question-and-answer format) and Plato, Elvis Presley, and Thomas Edison, four guys who’d be real fun together at a dinner party. The Handy History Answer Book is a fingertip, time-traveling guide through the pages of history.
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given as a gift.......2007-01-18
book was recommended by my nephew as a great resource for crossword puzzles, among other things. it was purchased as a gift for my daughter's boyfriend. recipient said he enjoyed it.
History Made Easy.......2006-11-10
This really is a handy reference that reads easily. I reccommend it as a must have for all households and especially for ones with students.
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"Anyone – student, news junkie or bet-settler – who needs quick access to information about a major religion would do well to have this...book nearby." – New York Daily News. The spiritual world we live in today is a diverse and sometimes highly individual mix of religious practices and beliefs. The physical world is a much smaller place, often secular in appearance but still very much fueled by religious beliefs and conflict in the name of God. The Handy Religion Answer Book provides solid descriptions of major beliefs and rituals worldwide, affording the reader an understanding of contemporary religion. Clearly and eloquently written by a scholar with 30 years of study and teaching experience, Handy Religion is an easy-to-use comparative guide for anyone seeking basic religious literacy and intellectual history. The Handy Religion Answer Book looks specifically at the world’s religious traditions that trace their origins to the Middle East (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), South East Asia (Buddhism, Hinduism), and East Asia (Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto). Is there such a thing as a Muslim saint? What is the significance of the Star of David? How did so many different Christian churches come into being? What is the importance of the month of Ramadan? Do Hindus really believe in and worship many gods? Who was the Buddha and what does tradition say about his early life? Dr. John Renard examines each religion for history and sources, religious beliefs, signs and symbols, membership, community, diversity, leadership, authority, organization, personalities, and powers, holidays and regular observances, and customs and rituals. Handy Religion includes 125 illustrations, suggestions for further reading, and a global timeline of the history of religion.
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Very Useful for Sorting Through Relgions.......2006-02-25
Great book that answers most of the questions rationale people have about religion. Great reference for settling disputes about religious practices. It's the "bible" of relgious FAQs.
Poorly researched.......2006-01-24
I like the question-and-answer format, but too many of the answers are wrong.
The brief section "What about Baha'i and Ahmadiyya" is an example. The author has a sentence or so about the origin of the Baha'i faith, about its founder Baha'u'llah and his claims to be a Prophet. OK so far, though not too detailed. Then he goes on to say that after Baha'u'llah's death in 1892, "his followers took on the mantle" -- this is absolutely wrong and there is no credible source where the author could have gotten that idea. After Baha'u'llah's death, Baha'i leadership fell to his son Abdul-Baha and today Baha'is are governed by elected assemblies. But none of them ever "took on the mantle" of prophethood, because Baha'u'llah was very explicit that the next prophet would be only after 1000 years. It states that Baha'is are considered as non-Moslems -- this is obvious. No Baha'i or Moslem would ever claim otherwise, Baha'i beliefs and practices are far outside of Islam, and most Baha'is today are in non-Islamic countries.
The same section also discusses the Ahmadiyya movement, because both originated from Islamic backgrounds in the 19th century, though otherwise they have little in common. The author said that Ahmadiyya members are considered as "non-Moslems" but fails to point out that this is only the opinion of some mainstream Moslems. Ahmadiyya members -- unlike Baha'is -- claim to be within Islam and deny that their founder claimed a station equal to Muhammed. The author mentions that the Ahmadiyya movement has about 500,000 to 1 million members, but fails to mention that Baha'is have 5 million to 6 million members in over 300 countries, including over 100,000 in the US.
There is not a word about the beliefs and practices of either religion.
So, in summary, the author has only three facts about an important world religion; and of those three facts one is flat wrong and another is obvious.
Sections about Chinese religion and about Islam are little better.
A Bit Short on Extreme Islamic Views.......2004-07-26
I like the idea of sort of a summary of the major religions. It is pretty informative. Unfortunately, no mention is made of the Wahabi movement in Islam which is responsible for at least some of the terrorism attributed to the midle east region. While I agree with the author that the vast majority of Muslims view their faith peacefully readers need to know what is expected under the most extreme practices and the relationship of those practices with the law in an Islamic nation ruled by the law of Sharia.
AN OUTSTANDING OVERVIEW.......2004-06-05
__ THE HANDY RELIGION ANSWER BOOK __ is broken down in such a way that it makes finding specific information about various aspects of the religions covered very accessible. Overall it is structured as follows:
RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MIDDLE EASTERN ORIGIN
. . . . . Judaism
. . . . . Christianity
. . . . . Islam
RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF SOUTH ASIAN ORIGINS
. . . . . Hinduism
. . . . . Buddhism
RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF EAST ASIAN ORIGIN
. . . . . Daoism and Chinease Community Traditions
. . . . . Confucianism, The Literati, and Chinese Imperial Tradition
. . . . . Shinto
Under each religion, several questions are posed, having answers that serve to explain the traditions, philosophies, and religious practices of each. A few typical questions are: How does Jewish tradition interpret history? What is Christian Fundamentalism? and Do Muslims believe in miracles. These are just a sampling of the hundreds of subjects covered.
In addition to the information given for each of the various religions, there is a General Information section which includes a CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR EVENTS covering a period of from 4000 BCE to 2001 AD and a section of DEFINITIONS AND METHODS
If you want a good overview of the major religious traditions of our world, you can't go wrong with __ THE HANDY RELIGION ANSWER BOOK __. Of course if you want to go into any subject more deeply, there is a list of resources included which will lead you to more in depth information.
Not nearly as good as the other Handy Guides.......2003-11-01
I love this series but this one was rather disappointing didn't go into enough detail about the "minor" religions and was overkill on the "major" ones.
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How Cool!.......2002-01-02
This book is perfect for anyone who has a lot of questions about history! Everything is here including a break down of world history from the beginning to present day! It is fun to read and a great reference book. A college student must have (especially if you are a history major) and for anyone who is interested in history at all!
Very Informative.......2001-05-13
This book gives you all the answers about almost anything you can imagine. From Drouts in the United States to who the ForeFathers of the United States were. I am always looking for new information, and always wanting my mind to grow, so this was a great book.
In the very beginning it has a Timeline of World events which is very "Handy." It has information on wars I had never heard of, and plenty of information on Adolf Hitler, certaintly not my favorite person, but for writing a report on World War II, it was very nice to have around.
I got this for Christmas, and started reading it that night, so you go out and get this book tonight.
If you are a student, read on..........2000-07-18
As a student, this book has been frequently helpful as a basic reference for any unusual questions I have. It is also excellent as a fun read, and I highly recommend it.
Handy, dandy book.......2000-03-12
Great combination of little known and popular history. I kept it by the bed as late night reading and often stayed up for hours since the next page always held something interesting. Don't even think of putting this in the bathroom as your family and guests will disappear. Only criticism - and it's a minor one - is that I got tired of all the (born and died) dates which were repeated every time someone was mentioned. A superficial - but super - reference book.
History in a nutshell.......2000-01-10
If you have a short attention span and an interest in history like I do, then this book is for you. Everything is concise and to the point. Very interesting, brief descriptions of most major questions on history: people, events, places, etc...
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The Handy History Answer Book
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Open the pages of this historical guide and get ready for an exciting adventure. From the exavation of the Neanderthal Man to the creation of MTV, this easy to read question and answer book will change your attitude about history forever. Enjoy more than 50 photos and illustrations of famous historical moments and individuals.
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Handy History Answer Book
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From the origins of the court to modern practical matters—including the federal judiciary system, the Supreme Court’s session schedule, and the argument, decision, and appeal process—this resource provides detailed answers on all aspects of the Supreme Court. Exploring the social, cultural, and political atmosphere in which judges are nominated and serve, this guide book answers questions such as When did the tradition of nine justices on the bench begin? When did the practice of hiring law clerks to assist with legal research and writing begin? and How do cases reach the Supreme Court? Details on historic decisions—including Marbury v. Madison, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, and Bush v. Gore—accompany a thorough history of all 17 Supreme Court Chief Justices.
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