Origins

  • Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions
    By William W. Hallo

    "Origins" documents that debt in specific terms, covering a variety of topics from the alphabet and its order to the system of dating by eras, and including many of the institutions most essential to contemporary life and most often taken ...

  • Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
    By Annie Murphy Paul

    228 those who had been circumcised soon after birth reacted more strongly and cried for longer: Anna Taddio and others, “Effect of Neonatal Circumcision on Pain Responses During Vaccination in Boys,” Lancet (1995), vol. 345, no. 8945.

  • Origins: Canadian History to Confederation
    By Richard Jones, Donald B. Smith, R. Douglas Francis

    For a review of France's wars with the Fox see R. David Edmunds and Joseph L. Peyser , The Fox Wars : The Mesquakie Challenge to New France ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1993 ) . Marcel Fourier has made an inventory of the ...

  • Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
    By Jim Baggott

    ... 319, 327 Oligocene Epoch 308,317 Paleocene Epoch 308,310 Photon Epoch 61–87 Planck Epoch 27–31 Pleistocene Epoch 327, 328f Pliocene Epoch 311 Quark Epoch 56–8 equivalence principle 19 Erwin, Douglas 296 Euclidean geometry 19 Eukarya ...

  • Origins: From the Beginning of All Things
    By David Harper

    Written by experts, Origins charts the progress of earth and life history through these critical events and many more that formed the foundations for the rich diversity of our planet today.

  • Origins: Early-life Solutions to the Modern Health Crisis
    By Susan Prescott

    Adair LS , Popkin BM , Akin JS , Guilkey DK , Gultiano S , Borja J , et al . Cohort profile : the Cebu longitudinal health and nutrition survey . Int J Epidemiol 2011 ; 40 : 619-25 . 105. Moe CL , Sobsey MD , Samsa GP , Mesolo V.

  • Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality
    By Jon Mills

    2007. “The Case against Neuropsychoanalysis.” International Journal ofPsychoanalysis 88, 1: 19–40. Boehme, Jacob. 1963–66. Die Urschriften. 2 vols. Ed. Werner ... Bromberg, Philip M. 1998. Standing in the Spaces.

  • Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
    By Eric Partridge

    See ELF, para2. oak,whence oaken (cfMEoken,from ok or oke), comes—through ME oke,ok,varak—from OEāc: cfOFris and OS ēk, OHG eih, MHG eich,GEiche,MD eike, Deik,an oak;ON eik, a tree; cf, further off, theL aesculus (for *aeg sculus), ...

  • Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
    By Jim Baggott

    But it is thought that Coriolis forces acting on the convecting fluid form rotating columns of molten iron within the outer core, called Taylor columns (named for British physicist Geoffrey Ingram Taylor). These columns are aligned with ...

  • Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
    By Annie Murphy Paul

    133 “They imagined he might be sympathetic to their longings”: Landrum Brewer Shettles and David M. Rorvik, How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby: The Method Best Supported by Scientific Evidence (New York: Random House, 1996), p. 7.

  • Origins
    By S.e. Meyer

    James remove it. “OK, come back to my med room.” John followed James in a smaller room leading off from the computer room. There was an exam table there and several glass door cabinets with medical supplies and tools.

  • Origins
    By Michael I. Hartman

    F.M. Damuzi, takes this time to be a little selfish and yearning for female companionship, He starts Dance lesions and going out to nightclubs to have fun. He has a string of girlfriends. He notices many times how many of them have ...

  • Origins: A Dryden Universe Collection
    By Daniel B. Hunt

    He straightened up and looked across the table at Captain Cole. The young captain did not look very pleased. “Stay for a moment, Captain Cole,” he said. “Everyone else, dismissed.” The officers began to ply their way out of the briefing ...

  • Origins
    By Marc Andreyko, Javier Pina

    Learn the origin of Manhunter's costume and weapons, plus her startling connection to a hero of the Golden Age!

  • Origins: Canadian History to Confederation
    By Richard Jones, Donald B. Smith, R. Douglas Francis

    Common schools also came under greater centralized control as a result of Superintendent of Education Egerton Ryerson's efforts . By means of his Common School Act of 1846 , he established a board of education ( later the Council of ...

  • Origins
    By Christopher Laird

    Anybody would.” “It's the thousands of miles of uncharted territory,” Klein said. “These caverns are like a never-ending maze. You'll never find anything in here.” “This area is uncharted, right?” Evans asked. “Yeah,” Klein replied.

  • Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
    By Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith

    Careful comparison of these relatively enormous and complex molecules has allowed biologists, among whom the great pioneer has been Carl Woese, to create an evolutionary tree of life that records the “evolution- ary distances” between ...

  • Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind
    By Hubert Reeves, Yves Coppens, Joel de Rosney

    An astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist discuss some of mankind's most basic questions about the creation of the universe, the first particles, and the evolution that led to contemporary life forms.

  • Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind
    By Hubert Reeves, Yves Coppens, Dominique Simonnet

    Three eminent scientists - an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, & an anthropologist - trace the evolution of the cosmos from the first atoms & molecules to the arrival of Homo erectus & Homo sapiens & offer compelling insights into how ...

  • Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions
    By William W. Hallo

    Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions