title: Taking Wing : Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
author:  Pat Shipman 
description: Applying skills honed in the controversial field of paleoanthropology, Shipman (The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science, LJ 6/1/94) draws from a diversity of scientific fields to present a comprehensive analysis of the ideas explaining how adaptations needed for animal flight came about. Using the well-known Archaeopteryx fossils as a keystone, she discusses historical and current hypotheses about bird evolution, along with the provocative debates they spurred. Shipman draws the reader into the debate by providing the science and physical evidence for each point of view, along with rebuttals of its critics. Highly recommended for interested lay readers and science buffs.?Frank Reiser, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  THE WINGED MAN
  
  
  
  
  
  By
  
  
  
  
  
  A.E. VAN VOGT
  
  
  
  
  
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  E. MAYNE HULL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Version 1.0
  
  
  
  
  
  COPYRIGHT © 1966 by A. E. van Vogt
  
  
  
  
  
  COPYRIGHT 1944 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  SBN 425-01946-2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In the darkness, the bird swept the submarine from stem to stern, swooping
  along almost at deck level and about a dozen yards to port. It was an enormous
  shape; and Kenlon, who saw the movement of it against the clouded sky, turned
  and watched it swerve away and vanish, flying strongly, into the northwest.
  
  
  
  
  
  Kenlon glanced questioningly at Quartermaster Reichert, who was busy with the
  electric steering gear. But the man seemed not to have noticed the strange
  bird's passage. Once again, Kenlon faced in the direction the bird had taken.
  He said under his breath:
  
  
  
  
  
  "Wrong direction, birdie! If you want to stay alive, the route is not in the
  direction of Tokyo. In fact—"
  
  
  
  
  
  He stopped, frowning. Fun