A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology

by Robert L. Carlton
A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology
Author: Robert L. Carlton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 331973055X
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This authored dictionary presents a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts, with focus on the most significant orders, genera, and species in terms of historical turning points such as mass extinctions. The book is an accurate and up-to-date collection of the most important paleontological terms and taxa, and may be used as a resource by students, researchers, libraries, and museums. Though useful to many in professional and academic settings, the book is also aimed at general readers of scientific literature who may enjoy the material without a background in paleontology. While there are many current resources on the subject, few fully encapsulate an accurate representation of the paleontological lexicon. This book attempts to compile such a representation in a moderately comprehensive manner, and includes a list of the most important monographs and articles that have been consulted to put together this essential work.

A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology

by Robert L. Carlton
A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology
Author: Robert L. Carlton
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2019-10-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030255867
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This new and significantly updated authored dictionary is a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts. It focuses primarily on identifying the most significant groups of fossil animals and plants in relation to their evolution and phylogeny. It also focuses on mass extinctions, on taxa that are problematic in some significant way, on the principal fossil-Lagerstätten of the world, and on historical turning points marked by index fossils. Although there are many current resources on the subject, none contains an accurate representation of the paleontological lexicon. Although well aware that the fast-changing field of paleontology will always defy any attempt at complete description, the author has attempted to provide an accurate and comprehensive set of about 4,000 entries that will be useful to professionals as well as to general readers of scientific literature without a background in paleontology.

A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology

by Robert Lloyd Carlton
A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology
Author: Robert Lloyd Carlton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Paleontology
ISBN: 9783319730561
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This authored dictionary presents a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts, with focus on the most significant orders, genera, and species in terms of historical turning points such as mass extinctions. The book is an accurate and up-to-date collection of the most important paleontological terms and taxa, and may be used as a resource by students, researchers, libraries, and museums. Though useful to many in professional and academic settings, the book is also aimed at general readers of scientific literature who may enjoy the material without a background in paleontology. While there are many current resources on the subject, few fully encapsulate an accurate representation of the paleontological lexicon. This book attempts to compile such a representation in a moderately comprehensive manner, and includes a list of the most important monographs and articles that have been consulted to put together this essential work.

A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology

by Robert Lloyd Carlton
A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology
Author: Robert Lloyd Carlton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Dictionaries
ISBN: 9781803161273
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This unique English language dictionary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts focuses on the most common orders, genera, and species, paying careful attention to overall historical significance in termsof turning points such as mass extinctions.

American Reference Books Annual

by Juneal M. Chenoweth
American Reference Books Annual
Author: Juneal M. Chenoweth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2019-06-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440869146
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Read professional, fair reviews by practicing academic, public, and school librarians and subject-area specialists that will enable you to make the best choices from among the latest reference resources. This newest edition of American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) provides librarians with insightful, critical reviews of print and electronic reference resources released or updated in 2017-2018, as well as some from 2019 that were received in time for review in the publication. By using this invaluable guide to consider both the positive and negative aspects of each resource, librarians can make informed decisions about which new reference resources are most appropriate for their collections and their patrons' needs. Collection development librarians who are working with limited budgets—as is the case in practically every library today—will be able to maximize the benefit from their monetary resources by selecting what they need most for their collection, while bypassing materials that bring limited value to their specific environment.

A Concise Dictionary of Theology

by Gerald O'Collins
A Concise Dictionary of Theology
Author: Gerald O'Collins
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587682362
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"This third edition identifies and clarifies a thousand central theological terms, providing necessary information about their origin, the history of their usage, and their place in the story of Christianity. The authors have introduced into many entires findings from the latest scholarship, as well as fresh developoments in the church life and teaching. For easy reference, there are also both a chart of the Catholic Church's twenty-one general councils and a timeline." - back cover.

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences

by Ailsa Allaby
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Author: Ailsa Allaby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780192800794
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This is the most authoritative and wide-ranging dictionary of earth sciences available in a single volume. Compiled with the help of a team of specialist contributors, it has been substantially revised and updated for this new edition. It is essential reference for all students of the subject, especially those on interdisciplinary courses. Over 6,000 entries New material on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy Substantial updating in mineralogy and geophysics Exceptionally broad coverage also includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology New section of appendices includes wind strength scales; material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units; and geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales

Places that the map can’t contain: Poetics in the Anthropocene

by Julia Fiedorczuk
Places that the map can’t contain: Poetics in the Anthropocene
Author: Julia Fiedorczuk
Publisher: V&R unipress
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2023-07-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3737015899
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Inspired by Lynn Keller’s notion of “the self-conscious Anthropocene,” the book sets out to consider poetry as a privileged space for rethinking our basic epistemological assumptions. Poetry does not have the kind of agency a direct political intervention has; in fact, as W. H. Auden famously put it, “poetry makes nothing happen.” On the other hand, poetry is crucial when it comes to awakening our individual and collective imagination. Considering the statement by Lawrence Buell that the current ecological crisis is, in the first place, a crisis of the imagination, this function of poetry comes through as particularly important.

Concise Dictionary Of Science

by EDITORIAL BOARD
Concise Dictionary Of Science
Author: EDITORIAL BOARD
Publisher: V&S Publishers
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2013-01-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9350573326
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The book is designed to provide you with dictionaries of terms in science, physics, chemistry and biology to make science simpler for you. The terms have been arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Suitable explanations of terms that have come into public domain recently also find mention. The standard of explanation has been kept at a level of understanding expected from an average secondary and senior secondary student. Illustrations and examples, at appropriate places, have been given. Readers who have not made a special study of any science subject will have also be able to grasp the definitions. A glossary of Nobel Prize winners and their contributions is an added attraction. #v&spublishers