Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip (Häftad)
avKirk Johnson, Ray Troll
ISBN: 9781555914516 - UTGIVEN: 2007-10"Would make anyone want to go on a fossil hunt."--"True West ""This is one of a tiny handful of books equally useful to adults and twelve-year olds. It's a funny, stealthily informative account of wandering dinosaur mavens meeting others of their kind, and also discovering ancient creatures and plan[...]
Plants and the K-T Boundary (Häftad)
avDouglas J. Nichols, Kirk R. Johnson
ISBN: 9780521305631 - UTGIVEN: 201106In this 2008 text, two of the world's leading experts in palynology and paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the fate of land plants during the 'great extinction' about 65 million years ago. They describe how the time boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene Periods (the K-T boundary)[...]
To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind (Inbunden)
avKirk W. Johnson
ISBN: 9781476710488 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq.
Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traver[...]
