epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Thor Hanson [Hanson, Thor]

FIGURE 9.2.Chili pepper (Capsicum sp.). The thousands of varieties of domestic chili peppers descend from four species native to South America. In the wild, their pungency repels seed-killing fungi as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Bair, Julene [Bair, Julene]

7 IT TOOK ME A YEAR AND A HALF, BUT I FINALLY GOT MY OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE NIGHT TO OUR FARM. An electrician came out to raise the wire between ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:David R. Montgomery [Montgomery, David R.]

9 Recycled Tales CENTURIES BEFORE GEORGE SMITH discovered that the opening chapters of the Bible were reworked Babylonian tales, controversy over the authorship of the Bible centered on how to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Earl Swift [Swift, Earl]

It didn't take long for the states to jump on the program. Barely a month after the president signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, they had more than $800 ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Smil, Vaclav [Smil, Vaclav]

Twenty Millennia of Phytomass Change Given the lasting uncertainties in quantifying the aboveground phytomass in today’s ecosystems (leaving aside even greater errors in estimating the belowground biomass and its productivity), ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Alex Epstein

CLIMATE MASTERY Even as we are taught to think of ourselves as in mortal climate danger, human beings are progressively becoming masters of climate. There are two components to mastering ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Ginger Strand

Roger Reece Kibbe, the “I-5 Strangler”: a killer so bland even a mother who put her daughter into his car couldn’t remember any details about him to tell police. Courtesy ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Frances Beinecke

A National Risk In 2013, U.S. railroads spilled more crude oil—1.2 million gallons—than they did in the previous four decades combined, McClatchy Newspapers reported. The analysis relied on data provided ...

epub | | 2014-11-11 | Author:Alex Sparrow, William Stanwix [William Stanwix and Alex Sparrow]

Testing the mix 1. Squeeze some hempcrete into a ball. 2. Push a gloved finger into it. 3. If it breaks cleanly, then it is ready. With a pan mixer, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Beder

Television: Promoting Consumerism Although media outlets avoid controversial material, they do not want to bore their audiences. This has brought about an increase in non-news content, or ‘fluff ’, aimed ...

azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:John Vaillant

DESPITE HIS PROPENSITY for envelope-pushing, Hadwin was injured badly in the bush only once—when the pawl on a jack he was using slipped under load, causing the handle to flip ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-18 | Author:Al-Saadiq Banks [Banks, Al-Saadiq]

CHAPTER 44 1:23 A.M. It’s the coldest day of the year by far with the temperature barely reaching seventeen degrees. This is what Wustafa calls hustling weather. He loves the ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-08-29 | Author:G. Randy Slone

An oscillogram showing the hard-clipping action from a typical solid-state audio power amplifier when the amplifier is overdriven. An oscillogram illustrating the soft-clipping action from the Fig. 6-21 L-MOSFET audio ...