The Black Panther party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. From its beginnings as a local, community organization with a handful of members, it expanded into a national and international party. By 1980, however, the Black Panther party was once again mainly an Oakland-based organization, with no more than fifty active members. In 1982, the party came to an official end. Despite its re...

South America" is considerably more general and simply comments on what is known about what had happened in the past and what has been observed in recent expeditions rather than attempting a compilation. Few aspects of medical investigation are untouched by this book and the discussions and references range from the high estrogen levels in African Bushmen to high altitude performance to the gen...

Jane Marion Oppenheimer [5], embryologist and historian of science and medicine, was born on 19 September 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Sylvia Stern and James H. Oppenheimer. After studying zoology at Bryn Mawr College [6], Oppenheimer received her AB degree in 1932. Oppenheimer received her PhD in embryology [7] at Yale University [8] in 1935 and worked as a research fellow from 1935?...

1. Setting up the foundations 3 2. The Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms 4 3. Stable and unstable homotopy groups 5 4. Spectral sequences and calculations in homology and homotopy 6 5. Steenrod operations, K(π, n)’s, and characteristic classes 8 6. The introduction of cobordism 10 7. The route from cobordism towards K-theory 12 8. Bott periodicity and K-theory 14 9. The Adams spectral sequence and Hopf...