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The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity greenhouse world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, icehouse conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and...

DOES YOUR HUSBAND MISBEHAVE GRUNT AND GRUMBLE RANT AND RAVE SHOOT THE BRUTE SOME BURMA-SHAVE When Lizzie Weavill is put into the backseat of a 1930 Oldsmobile Princess in the middle of the night, she begins a gypsy existence childhood among prohibition speakeasies and the Salvation Army's Hallelujah Kids shock troops. Guilty secrets set in motion a desparate journey among the Burma Shave road signs of the Great Depression. Her Daddy, a talented musician, is running from the police and a man with a shotgun.

In Fairlee Winfield's fascinating novel BUFFALOed, we follow the daily skirmishes of young Norwegian immigrant Ovidia Odegard as she inches her way into the home and life of a real American hero, artist Charlie Russell. It is through Ovidia's wise-beyond-her-years voice that Winfield brings to life the early 20th Century American West. Revealed as a time when Montana's cattle industry was suffering and one artist took on a monumental project that nearly buried him alive, Winfield weaves a compelling mixture of fact and fiction, and paints images with her words that carry the reader into a...