Skeleton Keys

Author : Riley Black (Brian Switek)
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184910
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Keys written by Riley Black (Brian Switek) and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you, an undeniable document of who you are and how you lived. Arguably, no other part of the human anatomy has such rich scientific and cultural significance, both brimming with life and a potent symbol of death. In this delightful natural and cultural history of bone, Brian Switek explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these artifacts of mineral and protein are all we've left behind. Bone is as embedded in our culture as it is in our bodies. Our species has made instruments and jewelry from bone, treated the dead like collectors' items, put our faith in skull bumps as guides to human behavior, and arranged skeletons into macabre tributes to the afterlife. Switek makes a compelling case for getting better acquainted with our skeletons, in all their surprising roles. Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and forensics, Skeleton Keys illuminates the complex life of bones inside our bodies and out.

Author : Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195188592
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Keys written by Jeffrey H. Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Skeleton Keys: An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology, Development, and Analysis, Second Edition, Jeffrey H. Schwartz presents a detailed yet highly accessible introduction to the study of the human skeleton. This unique volume examines the skeleton from its developmental basis to the expression of individual variation. It reviews a variety of different approaches used to determine an individual's sex, age, and pathological history and challenges readers to think critically about how to analyze a human skeleton rather than learning formulas for quick results. An ideal text for courses in human osteology, skeletal analysis, and bioarchaeology, this book is also a helpful reference for professionals. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of Skeleton Keys features: * A unique CD-ROM containing hundreds of color images of skeletons and skeletal elements--demonstrating morphology, pathology, and nonmetric variation--that can be used as classroom projections or for individual study * Coverage of the most recent developments in the field, including the molecular regulation of bone and tooth formation * Expanded studies in each area of analysis: sex, age, nonmetric variation, pathology, biodistance and bioarchaeology, and stable isotope analysis * Additional photographic images, especially in the pathology and sexing chapters * Two separate and extensively illustrated chapters on the skull, one dealing with articulated elements and one with isolated bones (these topics were covered in one chapter in the first edition) * Integration of material--such as anthropometric landmarks--from appendices in the previous edition into relevant chapters as tables * More accessible language throughout and an extensive glossary

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101158247
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Key written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Rider is now an IMDBtv original series! Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author! Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first... Uniting forces with America's own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia. From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty.

Author : Guy Bass
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1623703840
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stitch Head written by Guy Bass and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2015 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stitch Head, the Mad Professor's first creation, has long hidden in the shadows of Castle Grotteskew--but now that the newest monster, the Creature, has decided that they are best friends, and the evil Freakfinder wants to kidnap the monsters for his freak show, Stitch Head finds himself cast in the role of hero.

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577314050
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.

Author : Guy Bass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781867538295
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Keys written by Guy Bass and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Riley Black (Brian Switek)
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525539123
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Keys written by Riley Black (Brian Switek) and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you, an undeniable document of who you are and how you lived. Arguably, no other part of the human anatomy has such rich scientific and cultural significance, both brimming with life and a potent symbol of death. In this delightful natural and cultural history of bone, Brian Switek explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these artifacts of mineral and protein are all we've left behind. Bone is as embedded in our culture as it is in our bodies. Our species has made instruments and jewelry from bone, treated the dead like collectors' items, put our faith in skull bumps as guides to human behavior, and arranged skeletons into macabre tributes to the afterlife. Switek makes a compelling case for getting better acquainted with our skeletons, in all their surprising roles. Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and forensics, Skeleton Keys illuminates the complex life of bones inside our bodies and out.

Author : George S. Haines
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665567643
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Three Skeleton Keys written by George S. Haines and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enjoying the successful conclusion of the exciting adventure saga entitled: “THE FOUR POETIC CLUES MYSTERY, detectives Sam Hames, Howie Newbald and Ginny Hames sat smiling at their office conference table. They had a feeling of confidence they were ready for their next challenge. As they discussed their future as detectives, Sam became serious. He stood up and announced: “Recently I discovered a large, soiled, envelope, yellowed with age, in my father's World War One trunk or footlocker. After my father's recent death I became the owner of the footlocker and contents.” Looking at his partners with a serious demeanor he continued, “Inside, among many items, including his army uniform, I discovered this soiled envelope stuck to the lower inside wall. Inside this envelope I found these three old, large, skeleton keys.” He tossed the three keys on the table top. Sam hesitated, then suggested, “These Three Skeleton Keys could be the focus of our next adventure; What secret objects, closed containers, doors or unknown places could these keys open?” Do detectives Sam, Howie and Ginny need to investigate and discover the answers to these intriguing questions? Follow along, engage and participate in this drama as dangerous and exciting events unfold.

Author : Richard Westbrook
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041207674
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets written by Richard Westbrook and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Justine Manzano
Publisher : Sword and Silk Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Key written by Justine Manzano and published by Sword and Silk Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to the award-winning Order of the Key Kyp Franklin can't move on. One year after his mother officially declared war against him, Kyp is still struggling to find his feet as the Order of the Key's new leader. He's far too concerned about tracking her down before she causes even more damage than she already has. In fact, that's all he's been doing. Until one day, after a particularly reckless mission, he returns to find a surprising visitor on his doorstep... Jacklyn Madison can't move on. One year after she left the Order, she has a new team, and a new mission. She's determined to close all the interdimensional rifts between our world and the Dusk, before more people die trying to stop the creatures that pass through them. But a vision she had while on the edge of death leads her to the one place she never intended to return … Forced to work together, Jacklyn, Kyp, and their respective teams uncover Lavinia's next plan: an alarming mix of magic and science the likes of which has never been seen before. Jacklyn and Kyp must learn to work together again and confront the demons of their past if they're going to stop Lavinia and those assisting her before their larger plan is put into action--a plan that could bring the monsters of the Dusk to our world...forever.