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UNINA9910786603303321 |
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Thewissen J. G. M. |
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The walking whales : from land to water in eight million years / / J. G. M. Thewissen ; with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Whales, Fossil - Pakistan |
Whales, Fossil - India |
Whales - Evolution |
Paleontology - Pakistan |
Paleontology - India |
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Front matter -- Contents -- 1. A Wasted Dig -- 2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur? -- 3. A Whale with Legs -- 4. Learning to Swim -- 5. When the Mountains Grew -- 6. Passage to India -- 7. A Trip to the Beach -- 8. The Otter Whale -- 9. The Ocean Is a Desert -- 10. The Skeleton Puzzle -- 11. The River Whales -- 12. Whales Conquer the World -- 13. From Embryos to Evolution -- 14. Before Whales -- 15. The Way Forward -- Notes -- Index |
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Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society. The reader senses the excitement of the digs as well as the rigors faced by scientific researchers, for whom each new insight gives rise to even |
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more questions, and for whom at times the logistics of just staying alive may trump all science. In his search for an understanding of how modern whales live their lives, Thewissen also journeys to Japan and Alaska to study whales and wild dolphins. He finds answers to his questions about fossils by studying the anatomy of otters and porpoises and examining whale embryos under the microscope. In the book's final chapter, Thewissen argues for approaching whale evolution with the most powerful tools we have and for combining all the fields of science in pursuit of knowledge. |
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UNINA9910159441403321 |
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Autore |
Parfitt Steven |
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Knights across the Atlantic : the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland / / Steven Parfitt [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2017 |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016 |
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1-78694-403-0 |
1-78138-353-7 |
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1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Studies in labour history ; ; 7 |
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Labor unions - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Labor unions - Ireland - History - 19th century |
History |
Great Britain |
Ireland |
Grossbritannien |
Irland |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index. |
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The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national movement of the American working class, began in Philadelphia in |
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1869. Millions of Americans, white and black, men and women, became Knights between that date and 1917. But the Knights also spread beyond the borders of the United States and even beyond North America. <i>Knights Across the Atlantic</i> tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources of their vast Order to establish a chain of branches through England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland that numbered more than 10,000 members at its peak. They drew on the fraternal ritual, industrial tactics, organisational models, and political concerns of their American Order and interpreted them in British and Irish conditions. They faced many of the same enemies, including hostile employers and rival trade unions. Unlike their American counterparts they organised only a handful of women at most. But British and Irish Knights left a profound imprint on subsequent British labour history. They helped inspire the British "New Unionists" of the 1890s. They influenced the movement for working-class politics, independent of Liberals and Conservatives alike, that soon led to the British Labour Party. <i>Knights Across the Atlantic </i>brings all these themes together. It provides new insights into relationships between class and gender, and places the Knights of Labor squarely at the heart of British and Irish as well as American history at the end of the nineteenth century. |
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UNINA990004912640403321 |
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Autore |
Martìnez de la Rosa, Francisco <1787-1862> |
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Titolo |
Obras / De D. Francisco Martinez De La Rosa ; edición y estudio preliminar de D. Carlos Seco Serrano |
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Biblioteca de autores españoles : desde la formacion del lenguaje hasta nuestros dias ; 148 |
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YP 1 148-153 |
YP 1 149 |
YP 1 150 |
YP 1 151 |
YP 1 152 |
YP 1 153 |
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UNINA9910149530503321 |
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Autore |
Bord |
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Langue, identite, nation: L'experience norvegienne de 1830 a nos jours |
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Editions L'L'Harmattan, 2015 |
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2-336-39603-3 |
2-336-74614-X |
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1 online resource (137 p.) : ill |
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Norwegian language - History |
Group identity - Norway |
Sociolinguistics - Norway |
Language and culture - Norway |
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Il est bien moins rare que les Francais pourraient le penser de trouver des pays dotes de plus d'une langue officielle, et ce meme en Europe de l'Ouest. Qui sait en revanche, les scandinavistes et les (socio)linguistes mis a part, que la Norvege est egalement un pays bilingue, avec deux varietes distinctes de... norvegien ? C'est a suivre cette assez incroyable saga des temps modernes que nous convions le lecteur. |
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