Author: Ward's Natural Science Establishment, incPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Catalogue of Systematic Collections and Individual Specimens of Geology & Lithology
Author: Ward's Natural Science Establishment, incPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Wilderness of Rocks
Author: Melanie Schleeter McCalmontPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460271955
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Discover the University of Wisconsin collection of historic relief models, or three-dimensional maps. The University of Wisconsin relief models were crafted from 1875-1943 at the dawn of the analytics age. Relief models are an extremely effective visualization tool. They help us intuitively understand big data sets and to create spatial awareness--the knowledge of relationships between objects, places and ourselves. Each relief model is shown in beautiful color photography. Learn their fascinating stories of expeditions and earthquakes, mountains and museums, bankruptcy and battlefields, governments and glaciers....
A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits
Author: Frank L. HoltPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197694047
Category : Mummies
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
"This book recounts the detective work of the Houston Mummy Research Program as it investigates the mysterious Egyptian mummy of a man named Ankh-Hap. CT-scans reveal that the mummy has wasp nests in its skull, wooden poles within its wrappings, and a suspicious number of missing body parts. Clues inside the coffin take the investigation to a company in Rochester, N.Y. founded by Henry Augustus Ward. This businessman raided the mummy-pits of Egypt and sold whole bodies and body parts to the public. The book investigates mummy trafficking in America and the uses made of these human remains for amusement and the manufacture of medicine, paint, and other products. The trail next leads to Texas, where the mummy spent part of the twentieth century in a veterinarian's classroom before it was lost inside an abandoned campus restroom"--
Catalogue of the Department of Mineralogy
Author: Edwin Eugene HowellPublisher:
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Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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