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  • The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

    Learn the origins of over 2,000 mammal species names with this informative reference guide.Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one ... Read more

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  • The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians

    New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to any common, vernacular name. In either case the species may be named after a person, often the discoverer but sometimes an individual they wished to honour or perhaps were staying with at the time the discovery was made. Species names related ... Read more

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  • The Eponym Dictionary of Birds

    A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds.Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were ... Read more

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  • The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians

    New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to any common, vernacular name. In either case the species may be named after a person, often the discoverer but sometimes an individual they wished to honour or perhaps were staying with at the time the discovery was made. Species names related ... Read more

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  • The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles

    Who was Richard Kemp, after whom the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is named? Is Wake’s Gecko named after Berkeley’s Marvalee Wake? Or perhaps her husband, David? Why do so many snakes and lizards have Werner in their name? This reference book answers these and thousands of other questions about the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of reptiles across the globe.From Agkistrodon piscivorus ... Read more

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  • The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

    Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one encounters in field guides, textbooks, journal articles, and other scholarly works.Arranged to ... Read more

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  • Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa

    Shifting Mobilization

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    Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization, edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin, questions whether identity is providing and sustaining power for elites, or fueling oppression and conflicts, being mobilized for exclusionary movements versus inclusive societal changes, or educating in ways that foster progress and development. Do aspects of African ... Read more

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  • Whispers in the Hallway

    Brooklyn Calloway has recently taken a job within the confines of a small town that is nestled deep within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Looking for a change in scenery from her last job as a high rolling detective in Las Vegas she looks forward to a slower, almost slack water environment to continue her career. However, after being assigned her first case at the 'Whispering Pines Funeral Home' ... Read more

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  • OceanView: Short stories of rescue

    Not everyone can say that their job has the same thing happen twice. Nor can anyone say that with their job they saved someone's life today. For the brave Firefighters, EMS, and Police of OceanView, California they can attest to this very fact. The brave men and women of this city plunge into the absolute chaos of 30,000 people everyday they put their badge on in the morning until they take it off ... Read more

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  • Exquisite Corpses #4

    Series Book 4 - EXQUISITE CORPSES
    Audrey is desperate to make it home to take her son trick-or-treating, but she'll be lucky to make it out alive when Big Bruce's car lot becomes the battleground for a long-simmering grudge match. The game gets brutally personal as breakout talent CHE GRAYSON (Dark Spaces: Good Deeds) and fan-favorite artist ADAM GORHAM (Hellhunters) join JAMES TYNION IV and MICHAEL WALSH for the next chapter of ... Read more

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  • A Single Shot

    This book is about search and rescue stories that happened in the Bering Sea of Alaska and off the Coast of California. I think you will find it exciting reading. I lived it. ... Read more

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  • In With The Pack

    Malakai had always been a lone wolf. His past and the events leading up to absolving of his pack had always been shrouded in mystery. He'd never been able to readjust back into a pack, or a pack hierarchy due to the personal struggles with the ghosts of his past. One fateful night, due to an unfortunate hunting tragedy he finds himself in the wake of something that he is not sure he can get out of ... Read more

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