Girl Genius Volume 6: Agatha Heterodyne And The Golden Trilobite (Girl Genius)

Girl Genius Volume 6: Agatha Heterodyne And The Golden Trilobite (Girl Genius)
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Nothing Compares

Girl Genius Volume 6: Agatha Heterodyne And The Golden Trilobite (Girl Genius)
Phil Foglio
Manufacturer: Studio Foglio
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ASIN: 1890856428

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The climax to the second Girl Genius story-arc. The Wulfenbachs discover that Agatha is still alive and come to get her. Things are complicated by the fact that Agatha is currently possessed by the evil mastermind responsible for the Long War.

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Nothing Compares.......2007-09-27

It is difficult for me to express how much I love this series. Mastery of artwork, plot, humor, and any other element of the comic book medium is defined by Girl Genius. It is an absolute masterpiece.

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Trilobites; 300 million years of success
An arthropod's view of Paleozoic Earth
Nice read
A delightful invitation, a disappointing primer (borrowed from another reviewer)
Brilliant! (from a Trilobite collector)

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0375706216
Release Date: 2001-11-13

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With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, but Trilobite! is sure to receive even greater acclaim. Whereas Life took the reader on a whistle-stop tour of evolution from start to present--a huge undertaking that necessarily granted little space to each time period or taxonomic group--Trilobite! sees Fortey indulging in a whole book about his overriding paleontological passion, the long extinct and enigmatic creatures of the title. The result is a joy.

Trilobites--woodlicelike creatures that dominated the world's oceans long before the time of the dinosaurs--are, arguably, the most beautiful animals that have ever been chipped out of the fossil record. Fortey certainly seems to think so. His enthusiastic, almost loving explanations of the anatomy, ecology, and long evolutionary history of these fascinating vanished creatures carry the reader on an inspirational journey into the Earth's distant past. But the book is much more than a technical treatise on trilobites. We learn about Fortey himself, his formative years as an amateur then professional paleontologist, about his much-loved teachers and colleagues, and above all, about that strange but addictive pastime known as science. You may not find arthropods as charming as Fortey does, but you will not fail to be charmed by the author. A delightful read. --Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk

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With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.

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Trilobites; 300 million years of success.......2006-02-21

Richard Fortey does a good job of describing his lifetime devotion to understanding trilobites and how they fit into the evolution of life. The book is well written and with only minimal technical jargon and Latin names. It does shed light on how the trilobites can be used to trace geological changes and continental shifts over those vast time periods. From reading Fortey's book, I came away with a new interest in trilobites and their role in evolution.

An arthropod's view of Paleozoic Earth.......2005-10-01

Natural history, deep-time may conjure up images of Stephen J. Gould's wondrous creatures of the early Cambrian (530 million years ago), dug out of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. I realize that other paleontologists have had problems with some of his anatomical descriptions and theories of punctuated equilibrium ("Trilobite" spends a chapter defending Gould from some of his more vigorous critics), but the world that he created was strange, beautiful, and compelling.

Fortey creates a similar vision of Earth as it existed for 300 million years, starting like Gould, in the Cambrian. No animal better exemplifies the drama of evolution and extinction than trilobites, except perhaps for the Johnny-come-lately dinosaurs. If you are interested in really deep time, you must travel back before the dinosaurs and peer with the author through the eyes of the trilobites. "'Look into my eyes,' the trilobite seems to say, 'and you will see the vestiges of your own history.'"

And very strange eyes they are. In the chapter, "Crystal Eyes" the author plays an exuberant, complex riff on vision as it first evolved, and most specifically on the uniquely developed eyes of trilobites. I used to think of these creatures as mud-colored tripartite beetles that crawled around in warm, shallow Paleozoic seas--interesting basically because they lasted so long. But according to Fortey, their eyes were made of calcite crystals, which "makes them unique in the animal kingdom...Look into a crystal of Iceland spar and you can see the secret of the trilobyte's vision." The author then goes into quite a bit of detail as to why double vision was not a problem for these amazing arthropods, even though their eyes were made up of six-sided crystals.

Since the trilobite's eyes were part of its exoskeleton and just as hard, it had to shed them with each molt.

Trilobites ranged from dinner-platter-size down to bitty little bugs that were barely a millimeter long. Fortey describes them in loving detail and also defends the need to collect and study them. Lord Rutherford's remark that 'all science is either physics or stamp collecting' is vigorously repudiated (I think Rutherford's aphorism must have really stung, because it gets a good bashing in nearly every natural history book in my library). Just one of the reasons why trilobites are not like stamps is that their distribution helps us determine the outlines of continents and islands that predated not just the modern world, but the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea.

Trilobites managed to squeeze through a couple of evolutionary bottlenecks, surviving and multiplying for over 300 million years. In his heart of hearts, the author admits to hoping that, like the ancient coelacanth, a remnant of this once-vast family of arthropods will be rediscovered, curled up on some unexplored sea bottom, or gazing through crystalline eyes at some newer denizen of the deep.

After reading Fortey's fascinating account, I can only hope the same.

Nice read .......2005-09-25

Truly a joy to read. This book is excellent for beginners. The author's writting style kept my intrest while the many photos and illustrations were visually stunning. Concise and imformative, I think the "average joe" will be very pleased.

A delightful invitation, a disappointing primer (borrowed from another reviewer).......2005-09-18

This was an excellent book and I greatly appreciate the enthusiasm of the author. I would have like to learn more specifics about trilobites, I would have liked more pictures, and mostly I would have liked to understand better how the author (or the scientific community) come to some of the amazing conclusions they have. For example, I didn't think it was explained well enough how they know that a small fossil is a less mature (rather than a completely different) trilobite. Also, I would have appreciated more information on how they came to their conclusions about the eye-structure (some of the pictures look pretty inconclusive to me). On the other hand, the author goes into good detail about how the community has learned about the legs and other fine details of these creatures (features that are not easily preserved nor safely hammered out of the rocks either).

I particularly enjoyed the conversational writing of the author. For me one of the best parts of this book was how he weaved scientific endeavors with history, literature, and other human activities. He talked a lot about the scientific philosophy and people in this small community, the camaraderie and competition, past and present. For sure this is a book written from a perspective, but Richard Fortey never represents it as anything else. To my mind it is a fair and refreshing perspective, so I appreciate this book. The silly reviewer from Helsinki didn't like his perspective because it did not have enough creationism in it, but at least Dr. Fortey has the integrity and intelligence to clearly state his position and process.

So why did it give trilobite three stars? It was a difficult decision, perhaps the book deserves four stars but though I learned a lot, I simply would have liked to learn more about the science. For me the one huge shortcoming of this book was the pictures and illustrations. There are two sections of "plates" printed on higher-quality paper; there are two indexes at the beginning of the book, one for "illustrations" in the text and another for the "plates" in separate sections. Additionally, there is an index in the back of the book that is completely separate from the two previous indexes, and did not seem very complete to me because every time I tried to use it to find something mentioned earlier I was not able to find it. I don't know if this is the common method in scientific publications, but I did not find it helpful. The selection of pictures seemed arbitrary to me and I don't like pictures in separate sections. All the pictures were black and white so I really don't see why they cannot be printed on the same paper. If the paper quality is too poor to keep a picture, then why are there also pictures in the text? If pictures in the text are too disruptive, then again, why are not all the pictures in separate sections? It doesn't make sense to me. There were many references to trilobites and their features (or similar ones) that had pictures but the text did not reference where. Even worse, there are many references to trilobites and their features that the author was obviously very familiar with but I could not make a clear picture in my mind because I could find no illustrations of them at all.

So in conclusion, I would recommend reading this very good book, but I would recommend buying a good picture book of trilobites to refer to alongside. Contrary to what some other reviews thought, I believe that to write this book is a very difficult and ambitious proposition. As the author reflects on, the first task of a student is to learn the language; it would be easy to bury me in Latin and technical terms that I could not (and would not want to) remember. The author gives a nice selection of advanced reading so perhaps it is my responsibility to learn the language if I want to learn more.

Brilliant! (from a Trilobite collector).......2005-08-19

I have always loved Trilobites, ever since I found a small fossil on a beach (God knows why it was there, but it felt pretty cool). This book finally helped me understand the animals I had been collecting. Fortey writes with a real passion that any reader can feel. While he doesn't shy away from in-depth science, he invites the reader to join him in understanding geology and paleontology.

I wouldn't necessarily say this book is for a wide audience. However, for those looking for a scientific adventure, this is it!

Fabulous Fossils: 300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites

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Fabulous Fossils: 300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites
Donald G. Mikulic
Manufacturer: New York State Museum
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Release Date: 2007-02-20

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Fabulous Fossils is a timely and significant contribution to evolutionary paleontology. It details humanity s interest and developing understanding of trilobites from the recovery of these fossils at 15,000 year-old Paleolithic sites, to the 18th century appreciation that they were arthropod fossils. This volume details the development of modern trilobite research in Australia and a number of American, European, and Asian countries.

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Trilobites once ruled!
Another reason to love trilobites!
A Super Collection of Great Specimens
Makes a Great Gift for Kids Interested in Science
Fascinating

Trilobites
Riccardo Levi-Setti
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Long before dinosaurs roamed the earth, there were trilobites—one of the most striking animals to populate prehistoric seas and whose fossils are favorites among collectors today. From the giant trilobites of Newfoundland to fascinating new specimens from Morocco, Levi-Setti's magnificent book brings these "butterflies of the sea" to life for everyone curious about our remote past

This second edition features coverage of a greater variety of trilobites, an improved photographic atlas reorganized to present their evolutionary progression, and over 200 photographs.

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Trilobites once ruled!.......2005-10-16

Future buyer,

This book is great for someone just getting into fossil collecting or a true trilobite fanatic,like myself. If you have any interest in trilobites then this book is for you.......ENJOY!

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Fossil Hunter

Another reason to love trilobites!.......2005-07-28

First off, I will admit that I have a strange affinity for trilobites. This book really does these awesome little creatures justice. My knowledge of trilobites was mediocre and this book definitely expanded my knowledge. The photos in this book are amazing and very detailed. Although, I will admit some of the scientific facts are a little obsolete. However, this book just gives me another reason to obsess over these extraordinary 'time capsules'.

A Super Collection of Great Specimens.......2004-09-30

Having seen many of the specimens featured in this book first hand, I would say that great care was taken in accurately capturing these specimens for print.
The details of the book are a great reference source - I am particularly lucky to have an autographed (by one of the principal specimen sources) hard-bound copy of the second edition from 1993 - this book was just recently returned to me after 8 years.

It is a great book to just sit and look at or glean for it's vital information.

Makes a Great Gift for Kids Interested in Science.......2002-12-24

because, like Watson's "Double Helix," it shows the structure of discovery & the passion behind it.

Fascinating.......2002-04-02

If you love trilobite fossils this book is essential and wonderful. The photographs of fossil specimens are presented in chronological order and are simply breathtaking. Time and again I've returned to this classic for review or just to look at the dazzling variety of trilobites that have been carefully photographed. And what I really like about the book is that it makes it easy to share with family and friends just what is fascinating about this ancient creature.

Trilobites: Common Trilobites of North America (A NatureGuide book)

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Nice Drawings

Trilobites: Common Trilobites of North America (A NatureGuide book)
Jasper Burns
Manufacturer: Miller's Fossils
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A survey of representative trilobite species from North America. It includes meticulous line drawings of 42 species, with information for each concerning classification, geologic range, and geographical distribution. Descriptions of probable life style, similar species, interesting features, etc. are also given.

The 8 page, illustrated Introduction includes discussions of trilobite anatomy, growth, vision, lifestyles, locomotion, feeding, classification, and extinction. A brief "suggested Reading" list is also offered.

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Nice Drawings.......2007-06-08

Mr. Burns' book is a visual delight. The textual information was not as in-depth as I had hoped, but the drawings are worth at least a few hundred words each.

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The Trilobites are coming! They really are!
Trilobites brought to life
Best book I've read all year!!
Show Me the Movie!!

Trilobites!
Kenneth Gass
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Scientists Keith Parish and Rachel Sanders have found living trilobites in the deep sea, but must now find a way to kill them before they destroy the ecosystem and humanity itself.

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The Trilobites are coming! They really are!.......2007-03-10

K.C. Gass has crammed a lot of scientific information into this novella thriller. Most, if not all of the information about trilobites is accurate so far as can be known at this time. The plot is very believable and well told. I agree with two other reviewers that this book could be made into a movie. The book raises several questions in regards to the environment, its effect on our lives and our effects on it. Everything is interconnected and there are consequences (good and bad, seen and unseen) to all our actions. Most extinctions can be traced back to environmental changes of one kind or another. Are we next?

Trilobites brought to life.......2005-10-20

When you are looking at fossils of trilobites, some of them are so well-preserved, you find yourself imagining that they might get up and crawl away. With 15,000 described species, we know that their ecological niches were widespread, and that there's was a world of evolutionary possibilities. Today, some paleontologists still hold a faint hope that living trilobites might be found, perhaps at abyssal depths. Kenneth "Chris" Gass has taken that fond wish and created a made-for-movie romp that, in the tradition of Jurassic Park, goes wrong; and things quickly go bad, very bad, for the modern denizens of Earth...
Was it a fun read? Sure! Is it a 5-star classic? Maybe not, but if you enjoy trilobites and the names Encrinurus, Paraphillipsia, and Anomalocaris roll effortlessly off the tongue, then this might just be the weekend read you've been looking for!
Respecfully submitted,
Dr. Sam Gon III

Best book I've read all year!!.......2005-10-16

This book is awesome. I didn't know what to expect, due to the unusual way I received it. The author was signing promo copies in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. I'm an avid reader of fiction, but more in the vein of Star Trek and anything by Ray Bradbury, so I was pleasantly surprised that Trilobites! totally drew me in. Gass moves you along the refreshingly simple plot, likable characters and easy-going dialog, while somehow making those little trilobites interesting enough to suck you in the rest of the way. And all along an uneasy feeling is growing inside of you. Could this stuff really happen? The author seems to have the facts to back everything up, although I don't know squat about trilobites myself. Trilobites! is a keeper.

Show Me the Movie!!.......2005-06-26

It has only 110 pages, minimal violence and no adult language. Regardless, Gass was able to captivate my interest and convince me that those innocent looking extinct little bugs could still be alive, they could kill people and destroy the planet! This well-researched, unusual, no nonsense, compelling little book is an enjoyable mixture of science, romance, action and imagination. I highly recommend it and I will never look at a fossilized trilobite the same way again. Show me the movie!!

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A Pair Made in Heaven
This No-Nonsense Presentation of the Universe is Fun
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Eternity to Eternity - A Precise Summary

The Big Bang to Now: A Time Line
Terry Herman Sissons
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The history of the universe in a time line, this is a fun little book about when and what has happened in all of time beginning 13.7 billion years ago when scientists estimate our universe began. Each time entry is just a page, with a facing page bulleting important points and ongoing questions. The great surprise is that this fascinating read is so easy to understand.

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Super Pocketbook Reference.......2007-01-26

I recommend Terry Sissons' The Big Bang To Now: A Time Line as both an interesting read and a handy reference guide. When I first received a copy, I opened it randomly and learned that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago; homo sapiens' migration from Africa took only 10,000 years to reach China and Australia; and Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901. I settled down for an easy, informative read that gave a straightforward perspective on the basic cosmic and historic events of the last 13 billion years.

Though that first read would have been plenty to rationalize the cost of The Big Bang to Now, I continue to find it a valuable reference. My college bound daughter has absconded with my first copy because she wants it at school to answer a multitude of questions that come up from friendly discussions to writing papers. I have obtained copies for both home and the office because it is so easily helpful in answering "When was that?" whether the query is about astronomy, anthropology, science, or western civilization. I have a friend who carries a pocket atlas in her handbag. Now that I have a copy of The Big Bang to Now with me, an understanding of the world we live in and how we got here is always at our fingertips.

A Pair Made in Heaven.......2006-12-29

The Big Bang to Now: A Time Line is a penetrating but easy-to-understand overview of the current scientific history of the universe. Reading it along with more detailed books like Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything or Dawkins' The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life makes both books more rewarding.

But there is one question I have heard asked more often than any other. It is whether it is possible to live a life committed to religious values and at the same time to accept most of what science says today about the world. For anyone asking this question, I cannot recommend a better book to read alongside The Big Bang to Now than Edward O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. It demonstrates that it is possible to embrace a scientific world view and be at the same time a deeply religious and committed believer. In fact, science can deepen one's awe of the world God has created, and make our guardianship of it more effective and caring.

Sissons' The Big Bang to Now and Wilson's The Creation each deserve five stars for what they tell us about the world and our place in it. Put together, they deserve six.

This No-Nonsense Presentation of the Universe is Fun .......2006-11-12

This exciting version of the whole of time divides time into about 100 eras and gives a one page, wrily factual account of each.
The opposite page of each section, has a thought-provoking commentary on the era.
It is an inviting, easy read suitable for anyone from early teens to ancient.
But, no, it is not trivial. The brief summaries of each era are soundly based on the up-to-date knowledge of 2006- with a clear reminder that science is what we know now and will surely change as time goes by. That is a good lesson for anyone to learn, and this book is an easy way to learn it.
A compulsive book for the dipper-in, there are plenty of pointers to further reading on any age that grabs.

Meditations for an Agnostic.......2006-11-09

I have now read this book twice - small paperback, easily tucked in to one's bag with print that is easy on old eyes. Reminds me somewhat of Karl Rahner's "Prayers for Meditation" `62 and might be a rich jumping off point for self-centering. I read it first from the perspective of a person who believes in God and the second time as someone who believes that there is no God... I found the latter approach more terrifying. If God is not our parachute... She states that "whether you think our past can help us make better decisions for our future, or want to decide if the discoveries of science reflect a creative design that deepens or contradicts religious belief, it's a book that reveals a sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal, always amazing universe."
The book often brings one up short "Earth may be unique in the Universe. If there are other planets where we could survive, they are thousands of light years away, we haven't found them yet, and if they exist, we won't have the means of reaching them for a considerable time. IF we do manage the trip and somebody is there before us, we might not be welcome. So if we want to survive, we had better take care of our Earth. Living somewhere else that doesn't depend on support from Earth isn't going to be possible any time soon." (page 29). She ends by saying that "In about 4 billion years, our sun will run out of energy. Earth, our solar system, and some day our galaxy will burn out. Ultimately, even the entire Universe may end. Bleak as this may sound, neither science nor religion assume this is the end of the story. We live in mystery." (pg 211)
This treatise on time, on life, on relationships, on personal responsibility is thought-provoking, inspiring, and humbling. I found myself oscillating between determination and despair, and between anxiety and inspiration as to my role (infinitely small and seemingly inconsequential) for the survival of our universe. But it is profoundly important for my own life, my own development, my own sense of peace.

Eternity to Eternity - A Precise Summary.......2006-09-06

THE BIG BANG TO NOW: A TIME LINE

By Terry Herman Sissons

Is pithy a too quotidian a descriptive for the way that Terry Herman Sissons has constructed her narrative of the history of not just the earth but the universe? Perhaps, but it is apt. In a short, 228 page book Dr. Sissons has telescoped the story of the important eras of the history of the world. First, is the time before the `Big Bang,' that event of 13.7 billion years ago, followed by the galaxies and stars, the planets, the onset of life, and at nearly half the book's length begins the history of man. This is done by a clever strategy. The left hand page has a crisp description of the event (e.g., the beginning of stars.) But, nicely on the right hand page is a more nuanced and fuller description.
One of the pleasanter aspects is that Dr. Sissons recognizes that much of the story of how the earth, life, and man developed is not known for certain but is speculative. By being candid her story is the more believable. We don't know what came before the `Big Bang.' We do not know what will be the final disposition of the earth. And, there is no conflict between religion and science in her story. Religion has its authority and science speaks from its knowledge. They are not in competition.
What are the major events detailed in Dr. Sisson's book? The `Big Bang', of course, is the start and the development of stars and planets. But, also are the beginning of life and the manufacture of atmospheric oxygen by primitive life forms which became the means of their self-destruction; the coming of larger life forms - dinosaurs, their extinction; the development of higher forms of life - mammals; and, finally man. The `great extinctions' of the early microbes and dinosaurs are noted by again candidly acknowledging that their true causes is not known but can only be surmised, whether by meteors from outer space, or massive epidemics, or other factors.
The history of man, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon and finally us, Homo sapiens, are discussed. The development of abstract thought, farming, tool-making, cities, nationhood, the Renaissance and modern life are delineated.
This book is a delight to read. Science and especially its sub-field, geology, are forever in a state of flux. New hypotheses and concepts come up inevitably. Sometimes, as with plate tectonics theory, come up more than once but understanding depends on knowing the past. Dr. Sissons's well written book offers a succinct means of providing this background.

Tom Stuart
August 2006

Dwight and the Trilobite (Get Ready, Get Set, Read!/Set 4)

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Gina Erickson M.A. , and Kelli C. Foster Ph.D.
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A unique look at fossils through creative eyes
Trilobite poems review

Trilobite Poems
Kenneth C. Gass
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A unique look at fossils through creative eyes.......2001-07-17

Now here is an interesting book sure to please those of us interested in fossils, particularly trilobites. Kenneth has crossed new boundaries in both poetry and science. This blend is sure to please those who are looking for something other than the traditional, and often dry, literature on fossils. Insightful, often humorous, and enjoyable. Kenneth, you really did open a new door!

Trilobite poems review.......2001-07-16

The poems of K.C. Gass are sweet and sure, a melding of fact and fancy from the life of the author as paleontologist. His obvious love of art and life along with a clever imagination, shines throughout this slim volume. The language of paleontology evolves into the language of the heart as science and art become one in this ode to the trilobites!

Trilobites of New York: An Illustrated Guide (Comstock Books)

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Trilobites of New York: An Illustrated Guide (Comstock Books)
Thomas E. Whiteley , Gerald J. Kloc , Carlton E. Brett , and Rolf (FWD) Ludvigsen
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0801439698

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Trilobites of New York.......2006-12-14

If you like trilobites you'll LOVE this book. In addition to great information the photgraphy is astounding!! The content is beautiful and the quality of book (cover,binding and pages) is as good as it gets! It's something to be proud of! At full price it's a great value,at the sale price it's a steal!!

Outstanding.......2002-11-06

For anyone interested in trilobites, this is a fantastic book. The photography is superb, many of the specimens pictured are incredibly complete and masterfully prepared. It is amazing how many species of this extinct creature are preserved in New York. Not only are there wonderful photos, but excellent background and stratigraphic information to make the treatise complete. These authors know their subject. Clearly a lot of effort went into this book, and it shows. And the glorious photo on the front cover makes it a book you want to leave out on the coffee table.

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