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All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
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Medicare & You 2008
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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) was a British artist and naturalist who significantly changed the way society thought about the world and its pre-human inhabitants. As one of the most versatile and prolific natural history artists of the Victorian age, Hawkins played a central role in the popularization of 19th century science. His knowledge of comparative anatomy and versatility at painting enabled him to create beautiful and scientifically accurate illustrations of fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and fossils for such important figures as Richard Owen, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Henry Huxley early in his career. Hawkins went on to make the first life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures anywhere in the world. Through a series of public displays in Great Britain and the U.S., Hawkins almost single-handedly ignited a popular interest in dinosaurs that continues to the present day. This is the first full-length biography of Waterhouse Hawkins. It is based on years of meticulous research in libraries, archives and museums in England and the U.S., including family papers, letters, sketch books and private records never available to scholars before. Includes a detailed time-line of Hawkins’ professional career. Illus.
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The official government handbook with important information on the Medicare health & prescription drug plan choices in your area, tips on what to consider when comparing plans, & resources where you can get detailed information & personalized help. Contents: List of Topics/Index; Section 1: Medicare Basics; Medicare’s Covered Services (Part A & Part B); Section 2: Your Plan Choices: Decide How to Get Your Medicare Benefits; Original Medicare Plan; Medicare Advantage Plans (Part C); Other Medicare Health Plans. The information in this handbook is good from Jan. 1, 2008, through Dec. 31, 2008.
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Elin’s Amerika (rev., 3rd ed.)
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Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck’s “Italia und Germania” (Transaction 97-5)
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Award-winning children’s author Marguerite de Angeli tells the story of Elin, a young girl who has come to live in the New Sweden Colony. She helps us envision how these many different peoples -- Swedes, Finns, Lenape, Minquas (Susquehannock), Dutch and British related to one another. Elin’s search for friendship, love of family, and anticipation of celebrations seem familiar. Her isolation from other children, lack of basic things, and the daily routine of chores may seem quite unfamiliar. New Sweden was established in 1638, under the guidance of Peter Minuit, when Swedish colonists were sent to the New World to claim lands in the area around the Delaware River in southeastern PA and south NJ. For ages 8-12. Illustrations.
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Transaction 97 No. 5
In this original & thought-provoking book, Lionel Gossman, Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures at Princeton University, focuses on Overbeck’s “Italia and Germania” to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. He has an impressive knowledge of the historical situation & philosophical background of the time. Gossman gives excellent translations from original German sources that are not only accurate but may enable the Anglophone reader to truly grasp the spirit of the sources. This book serves as a thoughtful & elegantly written introduction to the way of thinking of one of the most important of the Nazerene painters.It treats the evolution of the Nazarene artists’ preoccupation with religious issues in an engaging manner & offers a social-historical & theological context to Overbeck’s painting by looking interestingly at a wide range of issues & contacts in his early Nazarene period. Illus.
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Dear Doctor Franklin: Emails to a Founding Father about Science, Medicine and Technology
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Celebrations!: A Personal Memoir Commemorating America’s Bicentennial Era: 1971-1991
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In this unique book on the history of science, Green writes emails to Benjamin Franklin, who died in 1790 but whom Green imagines coming back to life, about developments over the past two centuries: “I have written these emails assuming that you carried out the wish you described in 1773: ‘I should prefer to any ordinary death, being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine . . . to be later recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country’. These emails inform Franklin of progress in science, medicine and technology from his time until now. Includes more than seventy portraits of Franklin’s friends and relatives, and of those researchers who have led medical and scientific advances during the past two centuries. Illustrations.
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Hobie Cawood served as superintendent of Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia during the greatest public celebrations of U.S. history ever undertaken. For 20 years he was the steward of the historic buildings & grounds that mark the birthplace of our most cherished founding documents, the Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution. During Cawood’s tenure the nation and the world beat a path to his door. He hosted presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, foreign dignitaries, heads of state, & thousands of Americans & visitors from other countries who came to the place where the U.S. was born. He has written a personal memoir of those years in which he recounts the major celebrations he planned or took part in. This wonderful book is a record of Cawood’s years as one of the most visible Park Service employees in the entire system. Photos.
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Memoir 240
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volume series, reviews the discoveries of copepods to 1832, the year that the two distinct branches, the free-living copepods (long-known as insects) and the parasitic copepods (thought to be molluscs or worms) were finally acknowledged as members of the same Class Crustacea. The narrative includes the biographies of 90 early copepodologists and recounts their most important contributions to science. Portraits are included for two-thirds of the subjects, with considerable new material as well as information and illustrations from obscure sources. Milestones include the first description of copepods (ca. 350 B.C.), the first illustration (1554), the first free-living freshwater copepod (1688), the first explanation of a free-living copepod's metamorphosis (1756), the first permanently named copepod (1758), the first free-living marine copepod (1770), and the first description of a parasitic copepod's metamorphosis (1819). The work ends with a transition to the mid-19th century, previewing numerous personal connections that pointed toward copepodology's Golden Age in the 1890s, to be covered in Volume 2. A final volume will take the history of the study of copepods to ca. 1950.
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