Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Background Notes
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Series of short, factual pamphlets on the countries of the world.
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Series of short, factual pamphlets on the countries of the world.
Background Notes, Equatorial Guinea
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Category : Equatorial Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Equatorial Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Area Handbook for Guinea
Author: Harold D. Nelson
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Category : Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Provides basic yet comprehensive facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.
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Category : Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Provides basic yet comprehensive facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.
Background Notes, Papua New Guinea
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Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
Author: Jim Endersby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674027138
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved," Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to...the guinea pig? How this curious creature and others as humble (and as fast-breeding) have helped unlock the mystery of inheritance is the unlikely story Jim Endersby tells in this book. Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself. Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here--and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had which great ideas, this story of passionflowers and hawkweeds, of zebra fish and viruses, offers a bird's (or rodent's) eye view of the work that makes science possible. Mixing the celebrities of genetics, like the fruit fly, with forgotten players such as the evening primrose, the book follows the unfolding history of biological inheritance from Aristotle's search for the "universal, absolute truth of fishiness" to the apparently absurd speculations of eighteenth-century natural philosophers to the spectacular findings of our day--which may prove to be the absurdities of tomorrow. The result is a quirky, enlightening, and thoroughly engaging perspective on the history of heredity and genetics, tracing the slow, uncertain path--complete with entertaining diversions and dead ends--that led us from the ancient world's understanding of inheritance to modern genetics.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674027138
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved," Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to...the guinea pig? How this curious creature and others as humble (and as fast-breeding) have helped unlock the mystery of inheritance is the unlikely story Jim Endersby tells in this book. Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself. Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here--and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had which great ideas, this story of passionflowers and hawkweeds, of zebra fish and viruses, offers a bird's (or rodent's) eye view of the work that makes science possible. Mixing the celebrities of genetics, like the fruit fly, with forgotten players such as the evening primrose, the book follows the unfolding history of biological inheritance from Aristotle's search for the "universal, absolute truth of fishiness" to the apparently absurd speculations of eighteenth-century natural philosophers to the spectacular findings of our day--which may prove to be the absurdities of tomorrow. The result is a quirky, enlightening, and thoroughly engaging perspective on the history of heredity and genetics, tracing the slow, uncertain path--complete with entertaining diversions and dead ends--that led us from the ancient world's understanding of inheritance to modern genetics.
History of the Upper Guinea Coast
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853455465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Walter Rodney is revered throughout the Caribbean as a teacher, a hero, and a martyr. This book remains the foremost work on the region.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853455465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Walter Rodney is revered throughout the Caribbean as a teacher, a hero, and a martyr. This book remains the foremost work on the region.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Africa
Author: Army Library (U.S.)
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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