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The Mandibles
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Author : Lionel Shriver
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-06-21
The Mandibles written by Lionel Shriver and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with Fiction categories.
With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction. In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the “almighty dollar” plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the “bancor.” In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. “Deadbeat Nation” being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their ninety-seven-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also—as the U.S. economy spirals into dysfunction—the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can’t buy olive oil, while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. An expat author, their aunt, Nollie, returns from abroad at seventy-three to a country that’s unrecognizable. Her brother, Carter, fumes at caring for their demented stepmother, now that an assisted living facility isn’t affordable. Only Florence’s oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets. The Mandibles is about money. Thus it is necessarily about bitterness, rivalry, and selfishness—but also about surreal generosity, sacrifice, and transformative adaptation to changing circumstances.
Function Phylogeny And Fossils
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Author : David R. Begun
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Function Phylogeny And Fossils written by David R. Begun and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Social Science categories.
An insightful new work, Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated - functional and phylogenetic analysis. The book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil record. The contributors present the most up-to-date statements on the functional anatomy and likely behavior of the best known hominoids of this crucial period of ape and human evolution. A key feature is a comprehensive table listing 240 characteristics among 13 genera of living and extinct hominoids.
Biogeography Of The West Indies
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Author : Charles A. Woods
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2001-06-27
Biogeography Of The West Indies written by Charles A. Woods and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-27 with Nature categories.
As a review of the status of biogeography in the West Indies in the 1980s, the first edition of Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future provided a synthesis of our current knowledge of the systematics and distribution of major plant and animal groups in the Caribbean basin. The totally new and revised Second Edition, Biogeography
The Origins Of Modern Humans
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Author : Fred H. Smith
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-07-09
The Origins Of Modern Humans written by Fred H. Smith and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Science categories.
This update to the award-winning The Origins of ModernHumans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the mostaccepted common theories concerning the emergence of modern Homosapiens—adding fresh insight from top young scholars onthe key new discoveries of the past 25 years. The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered allowsfield leaders to discuss and assess the assemblage of hominidfossil material in each region of the world during the Pleistoceneepoch. It features new fossil and molecular evidence, such as theevolutionary inferences drawn from assessments of modern humans andlarge segments of the Neandertal genome. It also addresses theimpact of digital imagery and the more sophisticated morphometricsthat have entered the analytical fray since 1984. Beginning with a thoughtful introduction by the authors onmodern human origins, the book offers such insightful chaptercontributions as: Africa: The Cradle of Modern People Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in WesternAsia A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians Modern Human Origins in Central Europe The Makers of the Early Upper Paleolithic in WesternEurasia Neandertal Craniofacial Growth and Development and ItsRelevance for Modern Human Origins Energetics and the Origin of Modern Humans Understanding Human Cranial Variation in Light of Modern HumanOrigins The Relevance of Archaic Genomes to Modern Human Origins The Process of Modern Human Origins: The Evolutionary andDemographic Changes Giving Rise to Modern Humans The Paleobiology of Modern Human Emergence Elegant and thought provoking, The Origins of Modern Humans:Biology Reconsidered is an ideal read for students, gradstudents, and professionals in human evolution andpaleoanthropology.
Morphometrics
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Author : Ashraf M.T. Elewa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2004-05-25
Morphometrics written by Ashraf M.T. Elewa and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-25 with Nature categories.
This book offers a thorough and up-to-date treatment of the use of morphometric procedures in a wide variety of contexts. As one of the most dynamic and popular fields on the contemporary biological scene, morphometrics is gaining notice among researchers and students as a necessary complement to molecular studies in the understanding and maintenance of biodiversity. This is the first reference to meet that growing need.
A Monograph Of The Free And Semi Parasitic Copepoda Of The British Islands
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Author : George Stewardson Brady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
A Monograph Of The Free And Semi Parasitic Copepoda Of The British Islands written by George Stewardson Brady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
Ray Society
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Ray Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Biology categories.
Embryogeny And Phylogeny Of The Human Posture 2
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Author : Anne Dambricourt Malasse
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-12-21
Embryogeny And Phylogeny Of The Human Posture 2 written by Anne Dambricourt Malasse and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-21 with Science categories.
The future of the human posture is in the spotlight. The 200-year-old locomotion paradigm can no longer resist the advancement of knowledge, yet 2,500 years of thinking on the place of verticalized human anatomy and its reflexive consciousness in the natural history of life and the Earth, is more relevant than ever. This book retraces these reflections from pre-Socratic philosophers, focusing on the link between verticality and the most complex and consciously reflexive nervous system on the top rung of the ladder of living beings. The origin of animated forms, or animals, was considered metaphysical until the 19th century but reflection on their inception, from fertilization, paved the way for mathematics of infinitesimal geometry and dynamics. The simian filiation was inconceivable until Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck bridged the gap in 1802 with the locomotion postulate to explain the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal posture, sustained by the hypothesis of inheritance of acquired characteristics. This doctrine was overturned in 1987 by the discovery of the embryonic origins of the straightening – specific dynamics linked to neurogenesis – confirming the natural place of human verticality and nervous system complexity with its psychomotor and cognitive consequences. Sapiens find themselves at the physical limit of the straightening while mechanisms of gametogenesis have never ceased in making neurogenesis exponentially more complex. Is the future exclusively terrestrial or does intrauterine hominization open up new perspectives for space exploration? Posturologists, occlusodontics, osteopaths, cognisciences – all anthropological sciences exposed to human verticality are concerned with this discovery, which allows Sapiens to face their natural destiny.
De Mandibles
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Author : Lionel Shriver
language : nl
Publisher: Atlas Contact
Release Date : 2016-07-02
De Mandibles written by Lionel Shriver and has been published by Atlas Contact this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-02 with Fiction categories.
Het geld is nu écht op We schrijven 2029. In een speciale tv-uitzending deelt de Amerikaanse president zijn staatsburgers mee wat niemand ooit voor mogelijk had gehouden: het land kan zijn torenhoge schulden niet meer afbetalen. De tikkende tijdbom is afgegaan, de almachtige dollar is niets meer waard. Dit nieuws is in eerste instantie een ver-van-mijn-bedshow voor Florence Mandible, die met haar vriend en dertienjarige zoon in Brooklyn woont. In korte tijd echter zet de nationale financiële crisis zich onverbiddelijk om in een persoonlijke. Grootvaders fortuin, waarop Florence, haar ouders en haar broers en zussen al jaren zinspelen, gaat in rook op. Er is geen tijd voor teleurstelling: Florence moet zorgen dat zij, en met haar de hele familie, deze grootste financiële crisis aller tijden overleeft.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Or A Dictionary Of Arts Sciences And Miscellaneous Literature Enlarged And Improved
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1797
Encyclopaedia Britannica Or A Dictionary Of Arts Sciences And Miscellaneous Literature Enlarged And Improved written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1797 with categories.