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Excerpt from Our American AncestryCounty Court Houses. In these I found the probate rec ords disclosing the ancient wills with their autograph signatures, the inventory of the estates, their details often disclosing personal eccentricities, habits and fancies, the distribution to the children, with enlighten ing side remarks, here and there a ¿ash of illumina tion disclosing the long sought family name of the mother. Then in the Recorder's oth...

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This issue is the first step in the National Civic League's two-year project to review and revise the Model City Charter, a tool developed in 1897 by scholars and civic reforms seeking to create effective models for local government. Last published in 1989, revisions to the Model City Charter will encompass important changes to local government within the last twelve years, including its increasing role in promoting economic development and de...

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductory Pt. 1: Women on the Edge of Science1: Who Can Speak in Nature's Name? 2: Retelling the Story of Science: The Wonders of Nature 3: Cataloging the Natural World: Case Studies of Women Naturalists Pt. 2: Nature's Crusaders4: Nurturing Nature 5: "Tongues of Fire": Womanist Visions of Nature Pt. 3: Storied Nature6: Aestheticizing Nature 7: Hunting and Gathering Writing 8: Storied Animals 9: Kindred N...

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An obsessive, psychopathic Scotland Yard detective and a likable but murderous master criminal square off in this fast moving psychological thriller.|1 woman, 3 men

Perché noi umani esistiamo ancora, quando altre creature si sono trasformate in pietra per sempre? Questo libro scava nel marcio e dissotterra i mostruosi motivi della sopravvivenza di certe specie e dell'estinzione di altre. Scoprirete... che la melma e i batteri governavano la terra, perché le zanzare mutanti sono il peggior nemico dell'uomo, quali dinosauri facevano i peti più assordanti, perché i conigli mangiano la propria cacca. Tornate ...

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From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some--like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits--are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter...