Author: T. A. Lamke
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: George Spindler
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Gale Group
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787659158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1622

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Each new edition of this respected resource is a comprehensive recording the scope of African American achievement. Who's Who Among African Americans provides biographical and career details on more than 20,000 notable African American individuals, including leaders from sports, the arts, business, religion and more. Includes geographic and occupational indexes as well as an obituary section updating entries for listees who have died since the previous edition.

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: Deborah Osterberg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467142956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Visiting the redwoods in nineteenth-century California meant coming to Big Trees Grove, now part of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. This forest of giants in the Santa Cruz Mountains attained fame through the 1846 exploits of explorer John Charles Frémont, whose namesake tree still stands. Saved from the logger's axe by Joseph Warren Welch in 1867, these were the first coastal redwoods preserved for public recreation. As a world-renowned resort for sixty years, Big Trees Grove hosted thousands of visitors--from picnickers to presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt. Join author Deborah Osterberg as she recounts the stories of those first visitors and the awe-inspiring landscape they preserved for future generations.

Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Richard Gordon Lillard
Publisher: UPA
ISBN: 1461752566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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A rich, fresh, anecdotal, and thoughtful account. Beautifully written, the book tells the story of modern families in technological Los Angeles who live compatibly amid chaparral with the scores of wild species on the hillsides and in the canyon. For students of ecology, conservation, and the environment.

Author: George Harold Powell
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Powell was a pomologist who influenced fruit growers to better pack their fruit to prevent spoilage. He worked both in government and in industry. Afterword by his son.

Author: Richard Hilton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520928458
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of dinosaurs under water. While most of the fossils found in the state are those of reptiles that lived in the sea (thalattosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and turtles), some are those of birds and pterosaurs that soared above it. Other fossils come from terrestrial animals that died and were washed into the ocean. These include turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and dinosaurs such as armored ankylosaurs, duck-billed hadrosaurs, and a variety of carnivorous dinosaurs. Richard Hilton is the first to tell the unsung story of the dinosaurs and reptiles of land, sea, and sky that lived in California and Baja California during the Mesozoic era (245 million-65 million years ago), in addition to the history of their discovery. Vibrantly illustrated with more than three hundred photographs, paintings, and drawings, this book provides geological and environmental details, describes the significance of the major fossils, and chronicles the adventures involved in the discovery, preparation, and publishing of the finds. Hilton also includes accounts of the scientists, teachers, students, ranchers, and weekend fossil hunters who endured (and continue to endure) harsh weather, fires, wild animals, and the usual challenges of fieldwork to collect fossil remains and make major discoveries. These enthusiasts managed to safeguard an abundance of fossil resources, some of which would otherwise have been destroyed by quarrying, paving, and housing developments. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California takes this legacy one step further by documenting information about the fossils and their finders in accessible prose and vivid artistic renderings, creating a valuable contribution to our understanding of California’s prehistoric past.

Author: Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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