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Building an ark for Texas : the evolution of a natural history museum /
Recounted through the eyes of a major participant, this book tells the story of the Dallas Museum of Natural History from its beginning in 1922 as a collection of specimens celebrating the plants and animals of Texas to its metamorphosis in 2012 as the gleaming Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series ;
no. 54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Misadventure underground
- War of extermination: A war of extermination
- The woodsman and the judge
- Building the ark: The man from Denver
- Centennial celebration
- Art and science merge
- Masters of illusion
- The man from Dallas
- The bird man and the hunter
- In pursuit of the Holy Grail
- The man from Virginia
- Paleontology takes center stage
- Upstairs, downstairs, good news, and bad
- Becoming the Perot: Duel on the Nile
- A pharaoh comes to town
- The man from New York
- The woman from Dallas
- Becoming the Perot
- Opening day.