The River of the Big Canoes is a powerful and sobering exploration of the ecological transformation of the Missouri River and its once-thriving floodplain ecosystems. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience, scientific research, and historical accounts, Lawrence Hesse chronicles the profound environmental cost of human intervention-dams, channelization, levees, and land conversion-that has reshaped one of North America's greatest river systems.Once home to diverse habit...

Never before has a comprehensive history of the pancreas like History of the Pancreas been published. It not only is a historical review of the science of medicine, it is liberally interspersed with anecdotal vignettes of the researchers who have worked on this organ. Much of it, such as the discovery of the duct of Wirsüng, of the islets of Langerhans, of insulin, gastrin and their tumors, reads like the adverture, which it is.This book, divided into 14 chapters, ...