1 Table of Contents: “...Introduction: The importance of desert margins as indicators of global climatic flucutations...”

2 Table of Contents: “... Limits of Temperature and Pressure -- Endolithic Microbial Life in Hot and Cold Deserts -- Purification...”

3 Table of Contents: “... in the context of Paleoecology; A case study from North Wadi Qena, Eastern Desert, Egypt -- K-Pg mass extinction...”

4 “... of the Caribbean? Much of Florida at that time was almost desert. Fresh water – for both man and beast – was hard...”

5 Table of Contents: “... of Northern Libya over the Last ~200 kyr -- Part II Deserts -- Chapter 6 Climate Change and Modern Human...”

6 “... latitudinal distribution in between the warm and wet subtropical areas and the cold deserts of Patagonia...”