Science & Math
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Reiss [Reiss, Diana]

6. Through the Looking Glass THE DANCER IN ME was quite captivated as I watched Presley perform a bizarre sequence of horizontal swirls. He was lying below the water's surface ...
( Category: Marine Life October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen McGarva

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A round this time, I got an e-mail from a woman named Melanie Shapiro in San Juan. Months earlier, Betsy Freedman, the Save a Sato representative in Boston, ...
( Category: Animal Rights October 16,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Michelin Man Many years ago, when I first started to travel in France, a kindly friend pressed a copy of the Guide Michelin into my hands, rather in the ...
( Category: Fauna October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Blehm

CHAPTER NINE GRANITE AND DESIRE Rangers…are no different from other men, with the same problems and burdens, the same urges and conflicts, and the same vices and virtues. In other ...
( Category: Wildlife October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Raffles, Hugh

IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH A FOREST Imagine that you are walking through a forest of interarticulated branches. Some are covered with ice or snow, and the sun melts ...
( Category: Environmental Science October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Tanner [Tanner, Adam]

Kyle Prall at the state capitol in Austin, Texas, in front of portraits of state legislators. Source: Author photo. In late 2012 Prall traveled to Las Vegas. Like so many ...
( Category: Industries October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Andrew Taylor

Walter Ghim almost certainly watched his friend at work on these globes, and later, he described them in admiration. "One [was] of purest blown crystal, and one of wood. On ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Shackleton

CHAPTER X ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA The sun rose in the sky with every appearance of a fine day, and we grew warmer as we toiled through the soft snow. Ahead ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

A Treeful of Bears ‘His form is ungainly – his intellect small –’ (So the Bellman would often remark). Hunting of the Snark The temperature in the cab of the ...
( Category: Zoology October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-17 | Author:Robert Crease

Here the famous equation – energy is equal to the mass times the speed of light squared – appears with the corrective factor ß, which takes into account the effect ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Vernor Vinge

The damage to Mr. Slippery and Erythrina was slight, the risk that the random strokes would seriously damage them small. They ignored occasional slashing losses and concentrated single-mindedly on dismantling ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:C. L. Turnage [Turnage, C. L.]

Moon Craters Giving Off Radiation Tycho, Copernicus, and Aristarchus craters on the moon, may have been created by explosions that took place above the planet’s surface. The “rays” from these ...
( Category: Prophecies October 16,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Fables, Facts and Files ‘This beast has a stone in its eye, also called a Yena, which is believed to make a person able to foresee the future if he ...
( Category: Wildlife October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Sandra Hill

The Big Apple didn’t seem so rosy Valerie had been back in Manhattan for more than a day now, and nothing seemed the same. Her small apartment with its tasteful ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Clifton Crais [CRAIS, CLIFTON]

Dad visited that August 1969, on his way to the Gulf Coast a week after Hurricane Camille. I don’t know who he was going to help, Pat or Dorothy the ...
( Category: Biology October 16,2014 )