Dinosaur odyssey [[electronic resource] ] : fossil threads in the web of life / / Scott D. Sampson |
Autore | Sampson Scott D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina | 567.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Dinosaurs
Paleontology |
Soggetto non controllato |
avian dinosaurs
biology creatures dinosauria dinosaurs ecology energy glow environmental history evolution evolutionary history of life extinction fossil records geology global warming historical history natural world nature non avian dinosaurs palaeontology paleontology phenomenon reptiles science scientific study supercontinent pangaea |
ISBN |
1-282-70350-1
9786612703508 0-520-94442-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. TREASURE ISLAND -- 2. STARDUST SAURIANS -- 3. DRAMATIS DINOSAURAE -- 4. DRIFTING CONTINENTS AND GLOBE-TROTTING DINOSAURS -- 5. SOLAR EATING -- 6. THE RIVER OF LIFE -- 7. THE GREEN GRADIENT -- 8. PANOPLY OF PREDATORS -- 9. HIDDEN STRANDS -- 10. OF HORN-HEADS AND DUCK-BILLS -- 11. THE GOLDILOCKS HYPOTHESIS -- 12. CINDERELLASAURUS -- 13. JURASSIC PARK DREAMS -- 14. WEST SIDE STORY -- 15. THE WAY OF ALL CREATURES -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- ART AND PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778403203321 |
Sampson Scott D
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Icons of life : a cultural history of human embryos / / Lynn M. Morgan |
Autore | Morgan Lynn Marie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 612.6/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Embryology, Human - Social aspects
Tissue culture - Social aspects Human reproductive technology - Social aspects Medical anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american history
20th century scientific history baltimore foundling homes biology carnegie institute of washington embryo babies embryo collection embryo production factory embryology fetal politics gertrude stein healthcare icons of life johns hopkins anatomy department maternal politics medial treatment medical care mount holyoke collection ourselves unborn pregnancy pregnant women science scientific study social artifacts specimen collecting united states of america |
ISBN |
1-282-35992-4
9786612359927 0-520-94472-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. A Skeleton in the Closet and Fetuses in the Basement -- 2. Embryo Visions -- 3. Building a Collection -- 4. Inside the Embryo Production Factory -- 5. Traffic in "Embryo Babies" -- 6. Embryo Tales -- 7. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life -- 8. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780435403321 |
Morgan Lynn Marie
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Scale : Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life / / edited by E. Summerson Carr and Michael Lempert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 300.72 |
Collana |
Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
Soggetto topico | Scaling (Social sciences) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
analysis communication crime ethnographic ethnography global labor large local luminos macro macroevents methodology micro microevents opposites practical application practical labor product scale scales scaling scholarly scientific study small social life social science social studies |
ISBN | 0-520-96543-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Projecting presence : aura and oratory in William Jennings Bryan's presidential races / Richard Bauman -- Interaction rescaled : how Buddhist debate became a diasporic pedagogy / Michael Lempert -- Shrinking indigenous language in the Yukon / Barbra Meek -- Scale-making : comparison and perspective as ideological projects / Susan Gal -- Balancing the scales of justice in Tonga / Susan U. Philips -- Interscaling awe, deescalating disaster / E. Summerson Carr and Brooke Fisher -- Scaling red and the horror of trademark / Constantine V. Nakassis -- Semiotic vinification and the scaling of taste / Michael Silverstein -- Going upscale : scales and scale-climbing as ideological projects / Judith T. Irvine. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996328040103316 |
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016] | ||
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What does a black hole look like? / / Charles D. Bailyn |
Autore | Bailyn Charles D. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/875 |
Collana | Princeton Frontiers in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Black holes (Astronomy)
Astrophysics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Bondi-Hoyle accretion
Hawking radiation John Archibald Wheeler Kerr black hole Schwarzschild black hole X-ray astronomy X-ray detectors X-ray sources accretion disk accretion disks accretion energy accretion flows accretion accretor mass active galactic nuclei astronomical literature astronomical objects astronomy binary star system black hole evolution black hole formation black holes celestial sources collimated emission beams event horizon event horizons galaxy gas flow geometry general relativity gravitational physics gravitational potential energy gravitational radiation gravitational waves infalling material innermost stable circular orbit intermediate-mass black holes jets kinetic energy light travel luminosity mass infall rate merging black holes multiverses nonspinning black hole observational astrophysics optical stars outflows quantum mechanics quasars quasi-stellar objects radiation relativity scientific study singularities spinning black hole star stellar evolution stellar-mass black holes supermassive black holes supernova explosions supernovae theoretical physics wormholes |
ISBN | 1-4008-5056-8 |
Classificazione | US 2200 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introducing Black Holes: Event Horizons and Singularities -- 2. Accretion onto a Black Hole -- 3. Outflows and Jets -- 4. Stellar-Mass Black Holes -- 5. Supermassive Black Holes -- 6. Formation and Evolution of Black Holes -- 7. Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist? -- 8. Black Hole Spin -- 9. Detecting Black Holes through -- 10. Black Hole Exotica -- Glossary -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786656903321 |
Bailyn Charles D.
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Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 | ||
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What does a black hole look like? / / Charles D. Bailyn |
Autore | Bailyn Charles D. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/875 |
Collana | Princeton Frontiers in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Black holes (Astronomy)
Astrophysics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Bondi-Hoyle accretion
Hawking radiation John Archibald Wheeler Kerr black hole Schwarzschild black hole X-ray astronomy X-ray detectors X-ray sources accretion disk accretion disks accretion energy accretion flows accretion accretor mass active galactic nuclei astronomical literature astronomical objects astronomy binary star system black hole evolution black hole formation black holes celestial sources collimated emission beams event horizon event horizons galaxy gas flow geometry general relativity gravitational physics gravitational potential energy gravitational radiation gravitational waves infalling material innermost stable circular orbit intermediate-mass black holes jets kinetic energy light travel luminosity mass infall rate merging black holes multiverses nonspinning black hole observational astrophysics optical stars outflows quantum mechanics quasars quasi-stellar objects radiation relativity scientific study singularities spinning black hole star stellar evolution stellar-mass black holes supermassive black holes supernova explosions supernovae theoretical physics wormholes |
ISBN | 1-4008-5056-8 |
Classificazione | US 2200 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introducing Black Holes: Event Horizons and Singularities -- 2. Accretion onto a Black Hole -- 3. Outflows and Jets -- 4. Stellar-Mass Black Holes -- 5. Supermassive Black Holes -- 6. Formation and Evolution of Black Holes -- 7. Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist? -- 8. Black Hole Spin -- 9. Detecting Black Holes through -- 10. Black Hole Exotica -- Glossary -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817229703321 |
Bailyn Charles D.
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