The Fossil Book by Gary E Parker
Special features you will unearth inside this book: Loaded cover-to-cover with color photos and illustrations Full-color interior Explains how fossils are formed Describes how to build your own fossil collection, including - How to extract fossils - How to identify fossils - How to store and display fossils Includes full-color pull-out poster Includes glossary and index for ease of reference This excellent and informative work has been thousands of years in the making It s the exciting story of fossils: How were they formed? Where are they found? How old are they? How are they extracted? This one-of-a-kind book explains how coal and oil are formed, how the Grand Canyon was created, how to interpret the geologic column from a creationist perspective, and how to identify various fossils. It refutes the horse and whale evolutionary models and explains the four Cs of biblical creation and compares this model with evolution s model of time, chance, struggle, and death. Filled with scores of full-color photos and illustrations, this quality book explains everything about fossils from a creationist perspective while also demonstrating the shortcomings of the evolutionary model of fossils. Dr. Gary Parker relies upon not only a thorough education of paleontology, but also many years of experience in the field to pen this scholarly work. Here are the scientific answers to the puzzling questions about fossils that even non-scientists can understand. 8 1/2 x 11 Casebound 80 pages
Parker, Mary Elizabeth: - MARY ELIZABETH PARKER's poetry collections include THE SEX GIRL, Urthona Press, and 4 chapbooks: MISS HAVISHAM IN WINTER, FutureCycle Press; CAVE-GIRL, Finishing Line Press; BREATHING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, Paradise Press; and THAT STUMBLING RITUAL, Coraddi Publications, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in NOTRE DAME REVIEW, GETTYSBURG REVIEW, NEW LETTERS, ARTS & LETTERS, CONFRONTATION, MARGIE, PASSAGES NORTH, and GREENSBORO REVIEW (nominated for a Pushcart Prize). She has been featured poet on POETRY DAILY and in MARGIN: EXPLORING MODERN MAGICAL REALISM, and has twice been a fellow at Vermont Studio Center. She also writes prose: Her essay Combat Boots was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her short story Papier-Mache was published as part of Papier-Mache Press's anthology Grow Old Along with Me; The Best Is Yet to Be, whose audio version was one of only 5 books-on-tape nominated for a national Grammy Award that year (Hillary Clinton's book-on-tape It Takes A Village won). She is creator and chair of the Dana Awards in the Novel, Short Fiction, and Poetry.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780890514382 |
| ISBN 10 | 0890514380 |
| Title | The Fossil Book |
| Author | Gary E Parker |
| Series | Wonders Of Creation |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Master Books |
| Year published | 2005-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |