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Tropische Wälder in der Antarktis. Ein Wasserfall von unvorstellbarer Größe, der das trockene Mittelmeerbecken mit Leben füllt. Eine Python, die in der kenianischen Savanne frühe Verwandte des Menschen auf Bäume jagt. Die Vergangenheit ist lebendig - und sie hinterlässt Spuren. Der Paläontologe Thomas Halliday entziffert sie origineller denn je. Anschaulich lässt er verlorene Welten wiederaufleben, erklärt, wie Ökosysteme entstehen und verschwinden, wie alte Spezies durch neue verdrängt werden, wie Lebewesen wandern, sich anpassen und entwickeln. In bester...

The Klondike Gold Rush is over and Yukon kids are adjusting to normal life. But life is never normal in the Yukon.

It's the summer of 1903. School is almost out... and Canada, Britain and the United States are on the brink of war over the Alaskan border. This doesn't mean much to Kip and Aurore, until a deadly explosion at the Star Mine throws them into a swirling adventure involving coded telegrams, burgled hotel rooms and President Teddy Roosevelt ... and a mysterious German naval captain named Oskar von Neidling.

Can Kip and...

Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests. Often, foetal and the woman s interests will be aligned, though in legal and medical discourses the two patients are frequently framed as antagonists with conflicting interests.

This book focuses upon the permissibility of encroachment on the pregnant woman s autonomy in the interests of the foetus. Drawing on the law in England...

Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character--famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for 30 years, aristocrat yet fervent advocate of government by the people. E. M. Halliday's absorbing and lucid portrait recognizes these and other puzzles about this great founder, but shows us how understandable they can be in light of his personal and social circumstances.

Halliday takes readers deep into Jefferson's private life--exploring his childhood, his literary taste,...