Title: The English universities in the North American review: an essay.Author: William Alexander RichPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02925400CollectionID: CTRG99-B758PublicationDate: 18540101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Authorship attributed to William Alexander Rich by Sabin.Collation: iv, 34 p.; 23 cm

'This book brings back memories of the great Alex Rich, a pioneer in molecular biology. He was friend, a mentor and a colleague who contributed greatly to the understanding of living processes and molecular structures.'David Baltimore1975 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or MedicineThis book is intended for students and general readers who are interested in the structures of biological molecules and history of science. The center of gravity of Alexander Rich's work is on nucleic acids and their structures and their roles in biology, but the breadth of his work is nearly unparalleled. Alex Rich published important early discoveries on the structure and activity of RNA, information transfer (translation) from RNA to protein, the structure of ribosomes with insights into polyribosome functions, the first atomic-resolution structure of nucleic acid base pairings, and the discovery of a hitherto-unknown conformation of DNA. Many of Rich's articles also have a focus on the structure of proteins in general as well as specific proteins and some are concerned with the structure of viruses. Some of Rich's early experimental work is based on scattering of X-rays from fibers but X-ray diffraction from crystals became the dominating technique of the Cold War.This is a book full of rich history of early days of modern biology and many fundamental discoveries. Alex Rich's main focus throughout his long career was on nucleic acids. His first paper on nucleic acids, was published together with JD Watson. Two years later, Rich reported creating fibers of poly-Uracil and poly-Adenine and studied their structures by diffraction.Alex Rich's laboratory determined the high resolution crystal structures of the ApU and GpC fragments of double helical RNA from Rich's group is considered a landmark in the detailed understanding of nucleic acid structure.

Alexander Rich hat seinen Jugendtraum verwirklicht. Anfang der 1960er Jahre erlebte er als Mitglied einer Freiburger Jugendgruppe, wie seine alteren Gruppenleiter mit dem Fahrrad nach Rom fuhren. Gerne ware er einmal dabei gewesen, aber Alter, Zeit und Geldmangel liessen dies nicht zu. Damals fasste er den festen Vorsatz, einmal zu Fuss nach Rom zu pilgern. Jetzt ist sein Wunsch in Erfullung gegangen. Von Feldberg - Falkau brach er nach einer vorausgegangenen Pilgersegnung am 10. Mai 2010 auf. Sein Weg ging den Schwarzwald hinunter in die Schweiz. Dort auf dem schweizerischen Jakobsweg bis nach Lausanne, wo sich der Jakobsweg mit der Via Francigena, einem Pilgerweg von Canterbury nach Rom, kreuzt. Nun der Via Francigena folgend ging sein Pilgerweg weiter uber den Pass des grossen St. Bernhard, ins Aostatal. Dann durch die Po-Ebene, uber den Apennin, durch die Toskana und das Latium bis nach Rom. Am 7. Juli 2010 erreichte er nach 1481 Kilometern die heilige Stadt. Seine Pilgerreise beendete er mit einem Besuch des Petersdomes, der Apostelgraber des hl. Petrus und des hl. Paulus, der heiligen Messfeier und einer Papstaudienz. Seine Pilgereise wurde fur ihn zu einer tiefen und unersetzlichen Erfahrung und zu einem spirituellen und sportlichen Abenteuer auf der Suche nach sich selbst und nach Gott. Heiter, aber auch anruhrend erzahlt er in seinem Buch von seinen wunderbaren Begegnungen mit Gott, Menschen, Landschaften und Geschich