Author: Bonnie Brennen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Explores the relations between photo-journalism and history, investigating how photographs shape both, what we remember and how we remember. This book provides insight into how photographs, generate a sense of national community, and reinforce prevailing social, cultural, and political values.
The Amazon
Author: Michael Pollard
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237541173
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Presenting fascinating information about one of the largest rivers in the world, this guide also contains insight on the countries through which it flows. Readers will discover more about the first Amazonians and the European conquest. They will also find out about the people and wildlife that live in the rainforest along its banks, and learn more about the threats to their way of life and to the rainforest itself.
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237541173
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Presenting fascinating information about one of the largest rivers in the world, this guide also contains insight on the countries through which it flows. Readers will discover more about the first Amazonians and the European conquest. They will also find out about the people and wildlife that live in the rainforest along its banks, and learn more about the threats to their way of life and to the rainforest itself.
Picturing the Past
Author: Bonnie Brennen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Explores the relations between photo-journalism and history, investigating how photographs shape both, what we remember and how we remember. This book provides insight into how photographs, generate a sense of national community, and reinforce prevailing social, cultural, and political values.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Explores the relations between photo-journalism and history, investigating how photographs shape both, what we remember and how we remember. This book provides insight into how photographs, generate a sense of national community, and reinforce prevailing social, cultural, and political values.
Illustrated Pollen Terminology
Author: Heidemarie Halbritter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713655
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
This open access book offers a fully illustrated compendium of glossary terms and basic principles in the field of palynology, making it an indispensable tool for all palynologists. It is a revised and extended edition of “Pollen Terminology. An illustrated handbook,” published in 2009. This second edition, titled “Illustrated Pollen Terminology” shares additional insights into new and stunning aspects of palynology. In this context, the general chapters have been critically revised, expanded and restructured. The chapter “Misinterpretations in Palynology” has been extended with new research data and additional ambiguous terms, e.g., polyads vs. massulae; the chapter “Methods in Palynology” has been extensively enhanced with illustrated protocols showing the majority of the methods and techniques used when studying recent and fossil pollen with LM, SEM and TEM. Moreover, additional information about the description and publication of pollen data is provided in the chapter “How to Describe and Illustrate Pollen Grains.” Various other parts of the general chapters have now been updated and/or extended with more comprehensive textual passages and new illustrations. The chapter “Illustrated Pollen Terms” now features new and more appropriate examples of each term, including additional LM micrographs. Where necessary, the entries for selected pollen terms have been refined by rewording or adding definitions, illustrations, and new micrographs. Lastly, new terms are included, such as “suprasculpture” and the prefix “nano-“ for ornamentation features. The chapter “Illustrated Pollen Terms” is the main part of this book and comprises more than 300 widely used terms illustrated with over 1,000 high-quality images. It provides a detailed survey of the manifold ornamentation and structures of pollen, and offers essential insights into their stunning beauty.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713655
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
This open access book offers a fully illustrated compendium of glossary terms and basic principles in the field of palynology, making it an indispensable tool for all palynologists. It is a revised and extended edition of “Pollen Terminology. An illustrated handbook,” published in 2009. This second edition, titled “Illustrated Pollen Terminology” shares additional insights into new and stunning aspects of palynology. In this context, the general chapters have been critically revised, expanded and restructured. The chapter “Misinterpretations in Palynology” has been extended with new research data and additional ambiguous terms, e.g., polyads vs. massulae; the chapter “Methods in Palynology” has been extensively enhanced with illustrated protocols showing the majority of the methods and techniques used when studying recent and fossil pollen with LM, SEM and TEM. Moreover, additional information about the description and publication of pollen data is provided in the chapter “How to Describe and Illustrate Pollen Grains.” Various other parts of the general chapters have now been updated and/or extended with more comprehensive textual passages and new illustrations. The chapter “Illustrated Pollen Terms” now features new and more appropriate examples of each term, including additional LM micrographs. Where necessary, the entries for selected pollen terms have been refined by rewording or adding definitions, illustrations, and new micrographs. Lastly, new terms are included, such as “suprasculpture” and the prefix “nano-“ for ornamentation features. The chapter “Illustrated Pollen Terms” is the main part of this book and comprises more than 300 widely used terms illustrated with over 1,000 high-quality images. It provides a detailed survey of the manifold ornamentation and structures of pollen, and offers essential insights into their stunning beauty.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Author: Susan Hertog
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385720076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea is a perennial favorite. But the woman behind the public person has remained largely unknown. Drawing on five years of exclusive interviews with Anne Morrow Lindbergh as well as countless diaries, letters, and other documents, Susan Hertog now gives us the woman whose triumphs, struggles and elegant perseverance riveted the public for much of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385720076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea is a perennial favorite. But the woman behind the public person has remained largely unknown. Drawing on five years of exclusive interviews with Anne Morrow Lindbergh as well as countless diaries, letters, and other documents, Susan Hertog now gives us the woman whose triumphs, struggles and elegant perseverance riveted the public for much of the twentieth century.
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
Author: Francis Blake Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Nile
Author: Michael Pollard
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237541165
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
For readers eager to discover more about the people and the wildlife that live along the Nile's banks, this guide to the longest river in the world contains a wealth of fascinating information. The Ancient Egyptians and the annual flood are explored here, as well as the Aswan Dam and the debates over the use of the Nile's resources that face the countries along its banks.
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237541165
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
For readers eager to discover more about the people and the wildlife that live along the Nile's banks, this guide to the longest river in the world contains a wealth of fascinating information. The Ancient Egyptians and the annual flood are explored here, as well as the Aswan Dam and the debates over the use of the Nile's resources that face the countries along its banks.
Catalogue Raisonné; or, a List of the pictures (in the apartments shown to the public) in Blenheim Palace, etc
Author: Sir George Scharf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe
Author: Center of Military History
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Motion-picture Films (compulsory Block and Blind Selling)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Teaching Science with Favorite Picture Books
Author: Ann Flagg
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439222716
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Explains how to use fifteen science-based picture books to teach students in grades one through three the basic fundamentals of science; includes reproducibles and easy activities.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439222716
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Explains how to use fifteen science-based picture books to teach students in grades one through three the basic fundamentals of science; includes reproducibles and easy activities.