Radcliffe

Despite advances in modeling, such as graphical user interfaces, the use of GIS layers, and databases for developing input files, the approaches to modeling phosphorus (P) have not changed since their initial development in the 1980s.

Charismatic and controversial, Louis Agassiz is our least known revolutionary—some fifty years after American independence, he became a founding father of American science. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The book’s potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution.

Als Lord Baskerville bei Ausgrabungen in Luxor auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben kommt, machen alle den legendären Fluch des Pharaos dafür verantwortlich. Doch Amelia Peabody und ihr Mann Radcliffe Emerson glauben nicht an diese Spuk geschichten und beschließen, den Vorkommnissen auf den Grund zu gehen…