Author: Henry Rowland Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Beauties of Lyme Regis, Charmouth, the Land-slip, and Their Vicinities
Author: Henry Rowland Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis
Author: Charles Herbert Mayo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Jurassic Mary
Author: Patricia Pierce
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils. Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary learned to collect fossils with her cabinet-maker father. The unstable cliffs and stealthy sea made the task dangerous but after her father died the sale of fossils sustained her family. Mary's fame started as an infant when she survived a lightning strike that killed the three adults around her. Then, aged twelve, she caught the public's attention when she unearthed the skeleton of a 'fish lizard' or Ichthyosaurus. She later found the first Plesiosaurus giganteus, with its extraordinary long neck associated with the Loch Ness monster, and, dramatically, she unearthed the first, still rare, Dimorphodon macronyx, a frightening 'flying dragon' with hand claws and teeth. Yet her many discoveries were announced to the world by male geologists like the irrepressible William Buckland and Sir Henry De La Beche and they often received the credit. In Jurassic Mary Patricia Pierce redresses this imbalance, bringing to life the extraordinary, little-known story of this determined and pioneering woman.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils. Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary learned to collect fossils with her cabinet-maker father. The unstable cliffs and stealthy sea made the task dangerous but after her father died the sale of fossils sustained her family. Mary's fame started as an infant when she survived a lightning strike that killed the three adults around her. Then, aged twelve, she caught the public's attention when she unearthed the skeleton of a 'fish lizard' or Ichthyosaurus. She later found the first Plesiosaurus giganteus, with its extraordinary long neck associated with the Loch Ness monster, and, dramatically, she unearthed the first, still rare, Dimorphodon macronyx, a frightening 'flying dragon' with hand claws and teeth. Yet her many discoveries were announced to the world by male geologists like the irrepressible William Buckland and Sir Henry De La Beche and they often received the credit. In Jurassic Mary Patricia Pierce redresses this imbalance, bringing to life the extraordinary, little-known story of this determined and pioneering woman.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society
Author: Law Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
John Fowles and Nature
Author: James R. Aubrey
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
That John Fowles is a nature writer as well as a novel writer is evident in various ways from the essays in this volume. Each one, in its way, explores an aspect of Fowles's complex awareness of the world around him and the uniquely protective attitude toward wild nature that has informed Fowles's fiction and nonfiction from the onset of his writing career.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
That John Fowles is a nature writer as well as a novel writer is evident in various ways from the essays in this volume. Each one, in its way, explores an aspect of Fowles's complex awareness of the world around him and the uniquely protective attitude toward wild nature that has informed Fowles's fiction and nonfiction from the onset of his writing career.
Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Author: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Fossil Hunter
Author: Thomas W. Goodhue
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Description: This is the first modern biography of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis (England) the first woman and one of the very first professional paleontologists. Goodhue's research fills in the personal and professional accomplishments of this eminent Victorian.
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Description: This is the first modern biography of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis (England) the first woman and one of the very first professional paleontologists. Goodhue's research fills in the personal and professional accomplishments of this eminent Victorian.
The Devon Union List (DUL)
Author: Allan Brockett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice
Author: Stefano Aversa
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498788076
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2160
Book Description
Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice contains the invited lectures and all papers presented at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides, (Naples, Italy, 12-19 June 2016). The book aims to emphasize the relationship between landslides and other natural hazards. Hence, three of the main sessions focus on Volcanic-induced landslides, Earthquake-induced landslides and Weather-induced landslides respectively, while the fourth main session deals with Human-induced landslides. Some papers presented in a special session devoted to "Subareal and submarine landslide processes and hazard” and in a “Young Session” complete the books. Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice underlines the importance of the classic approach of modern science, which moves from experience to theory, as the basic instrument to study landslides. Experience is the key to understand the natural phenomena focusing on all the factors that play a major role. Theory is the instrument to manage the data provided by experience following a mathematical approach; this allows not only to clarify the nature and the deep causes of phenomena but mostly, to predict future and, if required, manage similar events. Practical benefits from the results of theory to protect people and man-made works. Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice is useful to scientists and practitioners working in the areas of rock and soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, engineering geology and geology.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498788076
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2160
Book Description
Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice contains the invited lectures and all papers presented at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides, (Naples, Italy, 12-19 June 2016). The book aims to emphasize the relationship between landslides and other natural hazards. Hence, three of the main sessions focus on Volcanic-induced landslides, Earthquake-induced landslides and Weather-induced landslides respectively, while the fourth main session deals with Human-induced landslides. Some papers presented in a special session devoted to "Subareal and submarine landslide processes and hazard” and in a “Young Session” complete the books. Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice underlines the importance of the classic approach of modern science, which moves from experience to theory, as the basic instrument to study landslides. Experience is the key to understand the natural phenomena focusing on all the factors that play a major role. Theory is the instrument to manage the data provided by experience following a mathematical approach; this allows not only to clarify the nature and the deep causes of phenomena but mostly, to predict future and, if required, manage similar events. Practical benefits from the results of theory to protect people and man-made works. Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice is useful to scientists and practitioners working in the areas of rock and soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, engineering geology and geology.