Author: Roger M. Knutson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0307814319
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Are you among the millions of people whose only opportunity to observe wildlife comes after it has been run over and pressed into a patty by big rigs, then desiccated by the elements until even flies don't recognize it? This is the field guide for you! FLATTENED FAUNA fills an important gap in our natural history knowledge and fosters a heightened respect for the ecology of the paved environment.Reviews“Knutson. . . might just be to roadkill what Brett Favre is to football flinging.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Author: Mary Terrall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226793621
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's calculation that the earth was flattened at the poles. He also made significant, and often intentionally controversial, contributions to physics, life science, navigation, astronomy, and metaphysics. Called to Berlin by Frederick the Great, Maupertuis moved to Prussia to preside over the Academy of Sciences there. Equally at home in salons, cafés, scientific academies, and royal courts, Maupertuis used his social connections and his printed works to enhance a carefully constructed reputation as both a man of letters and a man of science. His social and institutional affiliations, in turn, affected how Maupertuis formulated his ideas, how he presented them to his contemporaries, and the reactions they provoked. Terrall not only illuminates the life and work of a colorful and important Enlightenment figure, but also uses his story to delve into many wider issues, including the development of scientific institutions, the impact of print culture on science, and the interactions of science and government. Smart and highly readable, Maupertuis will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century science and culture. “Terrall’s work is scholarship in the best sense. Her explanations of arcane 18th-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language.”—Virginia Dawson, American Historical Review Winner of the 2003 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society

Author: Roy Arthur Axford
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Category : Neutron flux
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New-York
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Category : Obstetrics
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: C. L. Whitmarsh (Jr.)
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Category : Nuclear reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Roger M. Knutson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 9781580087551
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Are you among the millions of people whose only opportunity to observe wildlife comes after it has been run over and pressed into a patty by big rigs, then desiccated by the elements until even flies don't recognize it? This is the field guide for you! FLATTENED FAUNA fills an important gap in our natural history knowledge and fosters a heightened respect for the ecology of the paved environment.Reviews“Knutson. . . might just be to roadkill what Brett Favre is to football flinging.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374292782
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.

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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1600

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Author: F. J. Jankowksi
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Category : Nuclear reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Kansas State Agricultural College. Experiment Station
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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