Author: Denyse Verschuur-Basse
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: speak, women, chinese
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1996-01-30
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0275953939
ISBN-13: 9780275953935

When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law. Over a five-year period she conducted in-depth, non-directed interviews with educated women who were able to analyze and interpret their lives in the context of important formative factors such as the Cultural Revolution, the one-child policy, and other social reforms. The difference between urban and rural expectations f

Author: Denyse Schmidt
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: patchwork, projects, quilt, colorful, schmidt, quilts, denyse
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-07-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0811844420
ISBN-13: 9780811844420

Author: Gerrit L. Verschuur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: asteroids, comets, threat, impact
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-12-18
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195119193
ISBN-13: 9780195119190

In Impact, Gerrit L. Verschuur offers an eye-opening look at the catastrophic collisions of comets and asteroids with our planet. Perhaps more important, he paints an unsettling portrait of the possibility of new collisions with earth, exploring potential threats to our planet and describing what scientists are doing right now to prepare for this frightening possibility. Every day something from space hits our planet, Verschuur reveals. In fact, about 10,000 tons of space debris fall to earth every year, mostly in meteoric form. But meteors are not the greatest threat to life on earth, the

Author: Gerrit L. Verschuur
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: astronomical, discovery, curiosity, essays, matters, interstellar
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-11-14
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0387406069
ISBN-13: 9780387406060

In this provocative new book, radio astronomer and author Gerrit L. Verschuur describes the phenomena of scientific curiosity and discovery by following the exciting story of interstellar matter. The discovery of "stuff between the stars" was the result of decades of work by hundreds of astronomers, and the evolving recognition of its existence has profoundly changed the way we view the Universe. Verschuur begins with E.E. Barnard, who puzzled for a quarter century over the interpretation of photographs of dark patches between the stars. Verschuur then traces the tortuous path to acceptance of