Download or read book Saurian Summer written by William Kyle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saurians built new outposts under the guise of increasing security of their border, however, the large staging areas discovered hidden in the woods behind them caused the Races of Order concern about a possible invasion. A Saurian Invasion would also cause problems for the Demon and the Bursh. It would have a major impact on the Master Plan they had been working on for many years. The major key to the Plan was the Races of Order did not have a united front and the humans were unorganized, but an invasion could change that. If the unallied races and the Races of Order united, working together they could defeat the Master Plan. The Plan was designed for world conquest by the Races of Chaos to happen so quickly that the Elden would arrive too late to help. Now had to be modified because the Elden returned to their strongholds after five hundred years due to the invasion threat. The Saurians had to be stopped or defeated quickly. Unbeknownst to the Elden and the other Races of Order they had allies in the Demon and the Bursh who were taking their own steps.
Download or read book The Beneficiary written by Janny Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on—but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film The Philadelphia Story. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex. Bringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?
Download or read book Return from Legend written by William N. Kyle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enden has been peaceful for many years except for the few border raids by the Races of Chaos, mostly by the Saurians. In the background are the Elden, a race of warriors who opposed Chaos on rare occasions. So rare that the Elden have been considered just a legend. The Elden Warlord, Cahan MacHaimheirgin, is given information about the new Saurian Outposts that are being built. Although the Saurians give the appearance of just fortifying their border there are strong indications the outposts are much more than they appear. At a meeting of the leaders of the Races of Order, the Elden are requested to reoccupy their old Holds, vacant for five hundred years, and reestablish a presence that could deter a Saurian invasion that would plunge Enden into war. The Bursh, a race of sorcerers, allied with the Races of Chaos, are concerned about a Saurian invasion as well for it could endanger the future Master Plan of World Conquest, a plan that is sponsored by the Race of Demons, leaders of Chaos. The plan could fail if the Elden reestablish a presence. The Bursh need to find the Holds and a way to neutralize them and the Elden.
Download or read book Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians written by Richard Moody and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.
Download or read book Geology Remarks on Bishop Summer s Appendix to his work entitled The Records of Creation written by Robert FENNELL and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zoologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Zoologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Earth Sciences History written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs written by Dennis R. Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin, and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand.
Download or read book Introductory Text book of Geology written by David Page and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elementary Geology written by Edward Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Geological Explorations written by New Zealand Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diseases of Amphibians and Reptiles written by Gerald Hoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While diseases of free-ranging and captive mammalian and avian wildlife species have received considerable interest in the past 25 years, those of amphibians and reptiles (collectively, the herptiles) generally have been assigned lesser importance. The literature concern ing disease in herptiles is widely scattered, consisting chiefly of case reports and prevalence surveys, and with heavy emphasis on captive reptiles. The dynamics of the host-agent-environment relationship have been studied for only a few diseases. This diverse data base is primarily a function of the paucity of investigators whose chief interest is in diseases of herptiles. This first edition represents an effort to bring together some of the diffuse knowledge on infectious and non-infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive herp tiles. Issue may be taken with the choice of topics; how ever, predominant diseases, as well as some diseases of lesser prominence, are presented. The editors were forced to accept certain omissions, particularly with amphibian diseases, simply for lack of contributors. The resulting text, however, we hope will be of value to veterinarians, herpetolo,gists, wildlife disease investigators, wildlife managers, zoo curators, and university students. G.L. Hoff F.L. Frye E.R. Jacobson v CONTENTS Mycobacteriosis 1 D.G. Brownstein Pasteurella in Reptiles 25 K.P. Snipes Pseudomonas 37 E.R. Jacobson Areomonas 49 E.B. Shotts, Jr.
Download or read book Prehistoric Monsters written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.
Download or read book Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture to the Legislature of Kansas written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture to the Legislature of the State of Kansas written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Embracing statistical exhibits, with diagrams of the agricultural, industrial, mercantile, and other interests of the state, together with ... water powers, etc., etc." (varies).
