The Annotated Old Four Legs
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The Annotated Old Fourlegs
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Author : Mike Bruton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Annotated Old Fourlegs written by Mike Bruton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs - The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith's dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton's The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith's text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date" - Publisher's website.
The Annotated Old Fourlegs
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Author : Mike Bruton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2018-02-19
The Annotated Old Fourlegs written by Mike Bruton and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
JLB Smith's famous Old Fourlegs (on the discovery of the first and second coelacanths) was a best-selling South African natural history classic that was translated into 16 languages and published in many editions. Mike Bruton's book offers the original publication, but now with extensive annotations in both margins, modelled on Martin Gardener's The Annotated Alice. The new book features insights and discussion about the personalitites behind the original discovery, and the era in which they operated, along with exciting finds and advances made in the field since the first book was published. With a new foreword, detailed introduction and conclusion, it brings the coelacanth story right up to date.
The Annotated Old Four Legs
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Author : Mike Bruton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2017-11-01
The Annotated Old Four Legs written by Mike Bruton and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Science categories.
When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs – The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith’s dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton’s The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith’s text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date.
Science Communication In South Africa
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Author : Weingart, Peter
language : en
Publisher: African Minds
Release Date : 2020-01-18
Science Communication In South Africa written by Weingart, Peter and has been published by African Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-18 with Science categories.
Why do we need to communicate science? Is science, with its highly specialised language and its arcane methods, too distant to be understood by the public? Is it really possible for citizens to participate meaningfully in scientific research projects and debate? Should scientists be mandated to engage with the public to facilitate better understanding of science? How can they best communicate their special knowledge to be intelligible? These and a plethora of related questions are being raised by researchers and politicians alike as they have become convinced that science and society need to draw nearer to one another. Once the persuasion took hold that science should open up to the public and these questions were raised, it became clear that coming up with satisfactory answers would be a complex challenge. The inaccessibility of scientific language and methods, due to ever increasing specialisation, is at the base of its very success. Thus, translating specialised knowledge to become understandable, interesting and relevant to various publics creates particular perils. This is exacerbated by the ongoing disruption of the public discourse through the digitisation of communication platforms. For example, the availability of medical knowledge on the internet and the immense opportunities to inform oneself about health risks via social media are undermined by the manipulable nature of this technology that does not allow its users to distinguish between credible content and misinformation. In countries around the world, scientists, policy-makers and the public have high hopes for science communication: that it may elevate its populations educationally, that it may raise the level of sound decision-making for people in their daily lives, and that it may contribute to innovation and economic well-being. This collection of current reflections gives an insight into the issues that have to be addressed by research to reach these noble goals, for South Africa and by South Africans in particular.
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated
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Author : Wooden Leg
language : en
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Release Date : 2016-02-02
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated written by Wooden Leg and has been published by BIG BYTE BOOKS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with History categories.
One of the most fascinating classics ever written about the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Dr. Thomas Marquis spent many years getting to know and interviewing Native Americans who had fought against General Custer and the 7th Cavalry. This is the narrative of Chief Wooden Leg, given to Marquis late in Wooden Leg's life. Long dismissed by historians, Little Bighorn scholars today believe the Indian accounts to be essential to an understanding of what went wrong at the Little Bighorn (and what went right for the Sioux and Cheyenne). Archaeology at the battlefield has born out the veracity of the Indian accounts and the contribution to history by Wooden Leg and Marquis is invaluable. Included is a great deal of information about the life of the Cheyenne of Wooden Leg's time, his boyhood, his understanding of Indian medicine, a very detailed account of the June 25-26, 1876 battle with Custer, and more. This is a book you'll read more than once. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
The Annotated Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace
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Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2014-09-29
The Annotated Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace written by Alfred Russel Wallace and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-29 with History categories.
Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotated edition in English. This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The content of the book has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers "kill on an average a Chinaman every day" in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes. By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.
The Annotated Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Old And New Arr And Explained By William S Baring Gould Ceil Baring Gould
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Author : William Stuart Baring-Gould
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Annotated Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Old And New Arr And Explained By William S Baring Gould Ceil Baring Gould written by William Stuart Baring-Gould and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Children's poetry categories.
This book contains more than one thousand separate rhymes from the earliest surviving publications to the present day making it the most complete collection ever assembled. The rhymes are usually given in their earlisest published form.
The Annotated Household Shakspeare The Dramatic Works Of William Shakspeare With Explanatory Notes Ed By W H D Adams With 370 Engr From The Orig Designs Of F Howard
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
The Annotated Household Shakspeare The Dramatic Works Of William Shakspeare With Explanatory Notes Ed By W H D Adams With 370 Engr From The Orig Designs Of F Howard written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
The Annotated We
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Author : Vladimir Wozniuk
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-05-12
The Annotated We written by Vladimir Wozniuk and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This new translation is the first and only fully annotated version of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel We in English. The annotations scrutinize Zamiatin’s use of language, suggest many previously unacknowledged sources for his playfulness, and provide commentary about the broad array of diverse allusions in the novel.
Ivanhoe Annotated
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher: Exceller Books
Release Date :
Ivanhoe Annotated written by Walter Scott and has been published by Exceller Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
"Ivanhoe: A Romance" by Walter Scott, published in 1819 as part of the Waverley novels, departed from his usual Scottish and contemporary settings. This influential novel follows Sir Wilfred Ivanhoe, an Anglo-Saxon noble supporting the Norman King Richard and in love with Lady Rowena. Through a series of tumultuous events and with the help of the mysterious Black Knight, revealed to be King Richard, Ivanhoe eventually reunites with his father and wins Rowena's heart. Set in 12th-century England, the novel's vivid depictions of tournaments, outlaws, witch trials, and societal divisions sparked interest in chivalric romance and medievalism.