“…This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural History Museums in 11 European countries, to establish a collaborative learning network and expand their understanding of inquiry based science teaching (IBST). …”

“…The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. …”

“…The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. …”

“…Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. …”

“…This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural History Museums in 11 European countries, to establish a collaborative learning network and expand their understanding of inquiry based science teaching (IBST). …”

“…Pichi Sermolli's work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Museum (Natural History), UK. It resulted in preliminary accounts of the vegetation published 1938-40 and a taxonomically arranged account in 1951, all in Italian. …”

“…Rodada en los siete mares y más de 200 lugares de la geografía del planeta, su principal responsable, Alastair Fothergill, es un experto documentalista y directivo de la BBC Natural History Unit. La bella y espectacular banda musical de George Fenton está interpretada por la Orquesta Filarmónica de Berlín…”

“…Examples of companies featured include Saks Fifth Avenue, Google, Aol, The Natural History Museum, the BBC 2 and Channel 4 Idents and The Tate. …”

“…Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Caroline Gonda in Conversation with Helena Whitbread -- Part I 'Nature was in an odd freak when she made me': Lister, Sexuality, Gender and Natural History -- Chapter 2 A Regular Oddity: Natural History and Anne Lister's Queer Theory of Tradition -- The Past, On Time -- It Was All Nature -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Anne Lister's Search for the Anatomy of Sex -- Notes -- Part II 'My spirit's oil': Lister Reading, Lister Writing -- Chapter 4 'My Use of the Word Love': Lister, Language and the Dictionary -- Lister's Lookups -- Novel Denominations -- A Legacy in Words -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Self-Conscious Closeting and Paradoxical Writing in Anne Lister's Diaries -- Spatial Tropes -- Self-Conscious and Unconscious Closets -- Domestic and Physical Closets -- Thresholds and Risk-Taking -- Diary Code as Split Paratext? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SECTION 3: PARALLELS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH PRIVATE BUSINESS3.1 Strategic Planning and Action for Success in a University Museum of Natural History; 3.2 A Public-Oriented and Educational Museum; 3.3 Funding and Public Access Through Partnership with Business; SECTION 4: NEW PROJECTS; 4.1 New University Museums: An Opportunity for a New Strategic Vision - The Brooking Collection, University of Greenwich; 4.2 Public Understanding of Science: Universities and Science Centres; 4.3 Funding and Museum Ownership…”

“…Much has been learned about the natural history, the relative lack of significance of microalbuminuria in reflecting underlying pathological change, questionable effects of ACEs and ARBs on the progression of nephropathy, the emergence of new biomarkers such as Cystatin and the role of cytokines, inflammatory molecules and adhesion molecules. …”

“…Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, many of the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. …”

“…Despite being one of the most common cancers in Western men, its natural history, prognosis, and treatment are poorly understood. …”

“…In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, natural history of the region as well as the business and social interactions between people. …”

“…Chicago is the home of Willis Tower, Cloud Gate and Millennium Park, Navy Pier, Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, Magnificent Mile, and Wrigley Field. …”

“…It contains sources to the imperial collections of art and natural history from 1750 to 1800. Das Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien ist eines der ältesten, bis heute kontinuierlich erscheinenden kunst- und kulturgeschichtlichen Periodika eines Museums. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: TIS & Partners : Vivienda del guarda del parque y aseos publicos, Shungu-cho, prefectura de Hyogo (Shuhei Endo Institute) ; Buro Happold : Millennium Dome, Grrenwich, Londres (Richard Rogers Partnership e Imagination Ltd) ; Buro Happold : Pabellón de Japón, Expo 2000, Hannover (Shigeru Ban Fisrt Step con Frei Otto) ; Anthony Hunt Associates, Proyecto Edén, Boldeva, Cornualles (Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) ; Anthony Hunt Associates, Great Glasshouse, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire (Foster & Partners) ; Ove Arup & Partners : William Hutton Younger Dynamic Earth Centre, Edimburgo (Michael Hopkins & Partners) ; Weidlinger Associates, Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, Nueva York (Polshek & Partners) ; Kunio Watanabe Structural Design Group : Foro Internacional de Tokio, Tokio (Rafael Vignoli); Ove Arup & Partners con Braschel & Partner : Centro de diseño de Mercedes Benz, Sindelfingen (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) ; Ove Arup & Partners : Lords Media Centre, Londres (Future Systems) ; Schlaich, Bergermann & Partners : Estación de Spandau, Berlín (Von Gerkan, Marg & Partner) ; Neil Thomas de Atelier One : Torre de Babel, Millennium Dome, Greenwich, Londres (Mark Fisher) ; Dewhurst McFarlan : Pabellón, Broadfield House Glass Museum, West Midlands (Design Antenna) ; Matthew Wells de Techniker : Invernadero, Castillo de Praga (Eva Jiricna Architects) ; Santiago Calatrava : Ciudad de la Ciencia, Valencia ; Ingenieursbureau Zonneveldt : Waterland, Burgh-Haamstede (Lars Spuibroek [NOXArchitekten] y Kaas Oosterhuis Associates) ; Skidmore Owings & Merrill (oficina de Chicago) : Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao (Frank O. …”

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