Rebecca Sue Mayer

Mountain Voices: Stories Of Life And Adventure In The White Mountains And Beyond

Through interviews with New Hampshire notables at their homes and offices and in important places in nature, authors Doug Mayer and Rebecca Oreskes capture the truly human stories of pioneering people of the North Country. With humor, wit, and unforgettable personal style, the accounts—recorded from...

With a Doll in One Pocket and a Pistol in the Other: Rebecca Cohen Mayer, 1837-1930 A Memoir

In 1852, Rebecca Cohen Mayer, a newly-married, 15-year old, Jewish girl, embarked on a journey across the Santa Fe Trail. Although Rebecca's husband, Henry Mayer, had made the trip many times, few women traveled this journey, and perhaps no other female traveled across the Santa Fe Trail without fem...

Africa's ICT Infrastructure: Building on the Mobile Revolution (Directions in Development)

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 years―dating from the end of the 1990s―mobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban population and by 2009 nearly half of Africa’s rural population was also living within...

Mountain Voices: Stories Of Life And Adventure In The White Mountains And Beyond First edition by Mayer, Doug, Oreskes, Rebecca (2012) Paperback

Mountain Voices: Stories of Life and Adventure in the White Mountains and Beyond [Paperback] [2012] (Author) Doug Mayer, Rebecca Oreskes

The feeding behaviour of beetles living in alpine glacier forelands: A special focus on carabids colonizing early and late successional stages

The retreat of glaciers, one of the evident signs of climate change in alpine landscapes, leads to the exposure of terrain and creates new habitats for organisms. Due to their relative simplicity, glacier forelands are model systems to study colonization and primary succession. Previous studies show...