A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series)

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This book is the only definitive guide that presents a collection of the state's most common fossils and also shows the most important, noteworthy, and unusual speciments.

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Very informative, shows more than only the best specimens........1999-03-04

I have used this book to refer to numerous times.
It gives a very good perspective of the diversity of the geography of Texas.
Good book, thanks for writing it, Chuck.
Jessy Boedeker
The Texas Fossil Collector

A great guide to texas fossils.......1998-10-01

This book is easy to use, informative and quite helpful to the texas fossil hunter. The pictures cover a very broad range of texas fossils, and though not always in color, are very helpful in identification.

The Collector's Guide to Fossil Sharks and Rays from the Cretaceous of Texas

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The Collector's Guide to Fossil Sharks and Rays from the Cretaceous of Texas
Bruce J. Welton , and Roger F. Farish
Manufacturer: Before Time
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Ice Age Mammals of Northwestern Texas
Gerald E. Schultz
Manufacturer: Midwestern State University Press
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Lokke field guide, teacher workshop series

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Lokke field guide, teacher workshop series
Donald H Lokke
Manufacturer: Southwest Stratigraphic Services
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00072UFUG

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A Thoreau anthology, topically arranged.

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During the late Middle Ages, a considerable number of men in Germany and Switzerland were executed for committing sodomy. Even in the seventeenth century, simply speaking of the act was cause for censorship. Here, in the first history of sodomy in these countries, Helmut Puff argues that accusations of sodomy during this era were actually crucial to the success of the Protestant Reformation. Drawing on both literary and historical evidence, Puff shows that speakers of German associated sodomy with Italy and, increasingly, Catholicism. As the Reformation gained momentum, the formerly unspeakable crime of sodomy gained a voice, as Martin Luther and others deployed accusations of sodomy to discredit the upper ranks of the Church and to create a sense of community among Protestant believers. During the sixteenth century, reactions against this defamatory rhetoric, and fear that mere mention of sodomy would incite sinful acts, combined to repress even court cases of sodomy.

Written with precision and meticulously researched, this revealing study will interest historians of gender, sexuality, and religion, as well as scholars of medieval and early modern history and culture.

The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland

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Great work of the Reformation.

The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland
Steven Ozment
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300024967

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Great work of the Reformation........1998-02-24

Steven Ozment's Reformation in The Cities was a great read that combined the Medieval Concept of traditional theory in studying the Reformation with the modern social contemporary view of humanistic Reformation history. Truly a great piece of work!

Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

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Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
Irena Backus
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0195138856

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In this study, Irene Backus examines the fate of the Apocalypse at the hands of early Protestants in three centers of the Reformation: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg. To do so, Backus systematically investigates sources and methods of the most important reformed and Lutheran commentaries of the Apocalypse from 1528-1584.

Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin Von Gunzburg and the Campaign Against the Friars (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

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Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin Von Gunzburg and the Campaign Against the Friars (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
Geoffrey Dipple
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1859282679

A catalogue of German Reformation pamphlets (1516-1550) in Swiss libraries (Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana)

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A catalogue of German Reformation pamphlets (1516-1550) in Swiss libraries (Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana)
Michael A Pegg
Manufacturer: V. Koerner
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Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Studies in German Histories)

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Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Studies in German Histories)
Peter Blickle
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Continental Reformation: In Germany, France and Switzerland

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The Continental Reformation: In Germany, France and Switzerland
Alfred Plummer
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HEGGCK

D'Aubigné's "History of the Great Reformation in Germany and Switzerland," reviewed: Or, The reformation in Germany examined in its instruments, causes, ... literature and general civilization

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D'AubigneÌ's "History of the Great Reformation in Germany and Switzerland," reviewed: Or, The reformation in Germany examined in its instruments, causes, ... literature and general civilization
M. J Spalding
Manufacturer: John Murphy
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008698LS

HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF LUTHER AND CALVIN COMPRISING GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, GENEVA, ENGLAND, FRANCE, ITALY, ETC.

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HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF LUTHER AND CALVIN COMPRISING GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, GENEVA, ENGLAND, FRANCE, ITALY, ETC.
J. H. Merle D'AUBIGNE
Manufacturer: William Flint & Company/E. Hannaford & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000L6MT8O

History of the great reformation in Europe in the times of Luther and Calvin: Comprising Germany, Switzerland, Geneva, England, France, Italy : through ... Bucer, Myconius, and many other reformers

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History of the great reformation in Europe in the times of Luther and Calvin: Comprising Germany, Switzerland, Geneva, England, France, Italy : through ... Bucer, Myconius, and many other reformers
J. H Merle d'AubigneÌ
Manufacturer: Porter
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Can the structures that animals build--from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef--be said to live? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkins's classic, The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary. Since the structures animals build undoubtedly do physiological work, capturing and channeling chemical and physical energy, Turner argues that such structures are more properly regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animal's phenotype. By challenging dearly held assumptions, a fascinating new view of the living world is opened to us, with implications for our understanding of physiology, the environment, and the remarkable structures animals build.

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Bringing the Outside In.......2001-01-20

In _The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures_ (Harvard University Press), J. Scott Turner gives plenty of surprising examples to show that animals indeed use the environment outside in ways that would qualify the outside as part of their physiology. He intends us to take a broader view that organisms are not just tangible things wrapped up in skin or chitin or scales. An organism is, instead, an ephemeral collection of organized matter and energy. An organism is busy all its life influencing the flow of matter and energy through itself, but also through the environment. He argues that the reductionism of molecular and evolutionary biology may give way to a more holistic view, and winds up with the controversial idea of Gaia, the hypothesis that earth can be viewed as a single living organism. He says he doesn't want to air the arguments pro and con of this idea, but if organisms modify their environments into becoming part of their physiology, then it is not much of a step to saying that the Earth has a physiology of its own.

Perhaps. Turner's book is well argued and full of good ideas, and it may presage a neo-holism. Whether it accomplishes that, though, is less important than what it does manage to do. Turner is astonishingly encyclopedic in his explanations of his many surprising examples of out-of-body physiology. He draws upon thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, chemistry, electrical circuits, fractals, acoustics, and much more to put his audacious ideas onto a sound scientific foundation. This does not make for easy reading, but he is a genial guide and he tries his best to explain complicated ideas simply; the book is not for those, however, who can't stand equations mixed with the text. The best parts of the book are the examples of animals that have as good as made their surroundings part of their innards. There are lots of examples. In addition to the beetles that grab a bubble of air to use as scuba gear, there are beetles that not only do that, but if there is a current moving over them, their hydrodynamic form causes a suction, so that if they face into the current (which they of course habitually do), a bubble forms, pulled out of the water itself. They make this their gills, and they never have to go to the surface. Spittlebugs make a frothy white spittle attached to plants. The spittle isn't spittle, of course, but a froth of sap from the plant, processed by the digestive tract, excreted, and inflated with bubbles. Turner makes the case that since the bugs have a diet of protein-rich sap, they have a lot of ammonia as a waste product, and they cannot detoxify it as other animals do. The spittle enables the ammonia to be carried away; in other words, it functions as an exterior kidney. Earthworms, Turner shows, are fundamentally aquatic animals that only manage to get around when the water content of soils is perfectly balanced for them. (Turner reminds us that Darwin got enormous satisfaction for his last great work concerning earthworms and what they do to soils; before Darwin, earthworms were regarded as pests which ate plant roots.) The burrowing activities of the earthworm actually make the soil itself more favorable to the narrow needs of their own survival, and they use the soil as an organ to maintain a proper salt and water balance inside them.

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The present advanced text-cum-reference book is designed not only for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, but also for academic and industrial researchers who work with heterocyclic compounds. It presents a comprehensive account of the syntheses, reactions, properties and applications of all the most significant classes of heterocyclic compounds. Heterocyclic Chemistry has been organised in three volumes. This first volume contains seven chapters: Introduction, Nomenclature,Aromatic Heterocycles,Non-aromatic Heterocycles Heterocyclic Synthesis,Three-membered Heterocycles and Four-membered Heterocycles. Recent developments in hetero- cyclic chemistry are included. The chapter on heterocyclic synthesis presents an account of general synthetic pathways and provides an in-depth guide to synthetic methodology in heterocyclic chemistry. Subject matter is illustrated by a large number of figures and schemes. This book is a valuable tool for advanced students amd researchers alike.

The principles of heterocyclic chemistry

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The principles of heterocyclic chemistry
Alan R Katritzky
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Principles of heterocyclic chemistry (ACS Film Courses)

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Principles of heterocyclic chemistry (ACS Film Courses)
Edward Curtis Taylor
Manufacturer: American Chemical Society
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Principles of Modern Heterocyclic Chemistry

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Principles of Modern Heterocyclic Chemistry
Paquette
Manufacturer: Pearson Benjamin Cummings
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Binding: Textbook Binding
ASIN: 0805377263

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Principles of Modern Heterocyclic Chemistry
leo paquette
Manufacturer: Benjamin
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The Principles Of Heterocyclic Chemistry

Manufacturer: Methuen
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0416663508

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Principles of Modern Heterocyclic Chemistry

Manufacturer: W. A. Benjamin
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ASIN: B000GQN3W0

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Ergodic theory is hard to study because it is based on measure theory, which is a technically difficult subject to master for ordinary students, especially for physics majors. Many of the examples are introduced from a different perspective than in other books and theoretical ideas can be gradually absorbed while doing computer experiments. Theoretically less prepared students can appreciate the deep theorems by doing various simulations. The computer experiments are simple but they have close ties with theoretical implications. Even the researchers in the field can benefit by checking their conjectures, which might have been regarded as unrealistic to be programmed easily, against numerical output using some of the ideas in the book. One last remark: The last chapter explains the relation between entropy and data compression, which belongs to information theory and not to ergodic theory. It will help students to gain an understanding of the digital technology that has shaped the modern information society.

Substitutions in Dynamics, Arithmetics, and Combinatorics (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1794)

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Substitutions in Dynamics, Arithmetics, and Combinatorics (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1794)
N. Pytheas Fogg
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ASIN: 3540441417

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A certain category of infinite strings of letters on a finite alphabet is presented here, chosen among the 'simplest' possible one may build, both because they are very deterministic and because they are built by simple rules (a letter is replaced by a word, a sequence is produced by iteration). These substitutive sequences have a surprisingly rich structure.
The authors describe the concepts of quantity of natural interactions, with combinatorics on words, ergodic theory, linear algebra, spectral theory, geometry of tilings, theoretical computer science, diophantine approximation, trancendence, graph theory. This volume fulfils the need for a reference on the basic definitions and theorems, as well as for a state-of-the-art survey of the more difficult and unsolved problems.

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This digital document is an article from Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, published by Cervantes Society of America on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 2491 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: Don Quijote: nueva traduccion, contextos y critica.(TT: Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds, Contexts and Criticism.)
Author: Steven Wagschal
Publication: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Cervantes Society of America
Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Page: 147

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