Authors:Spencer G. Lucas, Spencer G. Lucas, Giuseppe Cassini
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Keywords: special, publication, society, geological, biochronology, marine, permian, biostratigraphy, non
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1862392064
ISBN-13: 9781862392069

During the Permian, the single supercontinent Pangaea stretched from pole to pole. Early Permian glacial deposits are found in southern Gondwana. Along the sutures of Pangaea, mountain ranges towered over vast tropical lowlands. Interior areas included dry deserts where dune sands accumulated. Gypsum and halite beds document the evaporation of hot, shallow seas that formed the most extensive salt deposits known in the geological record. The Permian Period (251 to 299 Ma) encompasses nine ages (stages) arranged into three epochs (series). Most of the Permian marine timescale has been defined by

Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: vertebrates, fossil, chinese
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 023108482X
ISBN-13: 9780231084826

The literature on Chinese fossil vertebrates is extremely difficult for Western scholars to assimilate and interpret. In part, this is because much of that literature is in Chinese, and few useful reviews exist in Western languages. Yet China has an extensive vertebrate fossil record, one that plays a key role in understanding the evolution of vertebrates. Spencer Lucas gives an up-to-date review and synthesis of the Chinese vertebrate fossil record that will greatly facilitate an understanding and further research into this outstanding fossil record. The book provides the reader with a compre

Author: Spencer George Lucas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Keywords: textbook, dinosaurs
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072826959
ISBN-13: 9780072826951

Dinosaurs: The Textbook is a monument to our present understanding of these wonderful creatures. It is a book that takes the student on a journey through nearly every aspect of dinosaur biology, geology, and the history of their discovery. The book presents facts together with current ideas, notions, and controversies. Dr. Lucas presents dinosaurs as successful, living creatures that were merely different in appearance from animals living today. Dr. Lucas has written a comprehensive book that is easily read and understood by students with little scientific background--a book that teache

Authors:Anne Mandy, Kevin Lucas, Janet McInnes, Jodie Lucas,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: approach, psychological, podiatry
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $64.99
ISBN-10: 0470519630
ISBN-13: 9780470519639

Podiatry: Case Based Psychology provides a problem and case-based approach to understanding psychological and social difficulties commonly experienced by clients and presented to practitioners. This book is designed to be an introduction to important applied psychology in clinical practice. The main chapters are organized as individual patient case studies with relevant psychological theory attached. Attention is also given to social-psychological issues pertinent to both newly qualified and experienced podiatric practitioners.

Authors:George B. Lucas, C.L. Campbell, L.T. Lucas,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: management, identification, diseases, plant, introduction
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0442005784
ISBN-13: 9780442005788

This book provides practical, up-to-date information that helps in the successful management of diseases on food, fibre and landscape plants for students who do not have a strong background in the biological sciences. It is largely revised to reflect the recent problems in conventional agriculture with an environmental emphasis and to include the latest techniques in biotechnology and genetic engineering. This edition includes information on the more precise indentification of diseases and the pathogens that cause them, the development of epidermics of plant diseases, the application of biotec

Authors:Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, Stev
Publisher: Intervarsity Pre
Keywords: roles, decision, making, intimacy, gender, discipleship, crossroads, couples, conversation, marriage
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0830828907
ISBN-13: 9780830828906

Have you ever wondered how egalitarian and complementarian marriages play out differently on a day-to-day level? In this unique book A?da and William Spencer and Steve and Celestia Tracy, two couples from the differing perspectives of egalitarianism and soft complementarianism, share a constructive dialogue about marriage in practice. They cover a variety of topics like marriage discipleship, headship and submission, roles and decision-making, and intimacy in marriage. Also included are responses from three additional cultural frameworks: North American Hispanic, Korean American and African Am

Authors:John F. T. Spencer, Alicia L. Ragout de Spencer,
Publisher: Humana Pre
Keywords: methods, biotechnology, protocols, environmental, microbiology
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-07-15
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 1588291162
ISBN-13: 9781588291165

A collection of readily reproducible techniques for determining most of the important factors governing microorganisms and their habitats. Presented in step-by-step detail, these cutting-edge methods range from those for the study of marine organisms, to those for investigating microorganisms occurring in groundwater, to the biodiversity of yeasts found in remote environments. The novel protocols for studying fermented milks are significant for investigators concerned with milk as an item of food for infants, small children, and even adults. Additional methods for the recovery and determinatio