12 books found
by William Joseph Farma
1930 · HarperCollins Publishers
"Blends the scientific issues, the commercial and legal factors, and the personalities involved into a sure-footed narrative that never fails to hold the reader's interest. . . . it is difficult to imagine a more carefully documented and sensibly reasoned account of the way in which ideas on impact theory evolved. . . . of considerable, and probably lasting, value."ÑNature "This meticulously prepared and lucidly written work will surely prove the definitive account of one of the most stimulating intellectual confrontations in the whole history of the earth and planetary sciences. I can recommend it without reservation."ÑWilliam A. S. Sarjeant,Geoscience Canada "An important book by an extraordinary author, of interest to anyone fascinated by the ways in which unorthodox science becomes part of conventional wisdom."ÑEarth Sciences History
He points out places in New Jersey and nearby where specimens characteristic of each era can be found. He shows how fossil evidence discovered in the state is helping paleontologists reconstruct the ecological interactions and behavior of dinosaurs, and discusses such continuing scientific controversies as the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Max K. Hecht, William C. Steere
2012 · Springer Science & Business Media
by David Starr Jordan, John Arthur Thomson, Herbert Spencer Jennings, George Howard Parker, Ernest William MacBride, Edwin Grant Conklin, William Berryman Scott, Francis Arthur Bather, John Walter Gregory, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Stuart Gager, Edward Wilber Berry, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, William Morton Wheeler, Frederic Brewster Loomis, David Meredith Seares Watson, Richard Swann Lull, William King Gregory, Grafton Elliot Smith, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Julian Huxley
1928