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Altered States of Consciousness by Wittmann Marc; Hurd Philippa;
epub |eng | 2018-09-13 | Author:Wittmann, Marc; Hurd, Philippa;

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard by Jenna Butler
epub |eng | 2018-07-20 | Author:Jenna Butler [Jenna Butler]

2 I wake into thrumming noise, the porthole cover clanging, Maggie tangled in blankets in the top berth. Our cabin a welter of night breath and damp wool. Antigua is ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
The Serengeti Rules by Sean B. Carroll
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

FIGURE 7.3 The real drama of the Serengeti. The elimination of the rinderpest virus and increased consumption of grass by the exploding wildebeest population unleashed trophic cascades that increased the ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved by Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg [Pierotti, Raymond & Fogg, Brandy R.]

HUMANS AS WOLF’S STUDENTS Stories told by Indigenous American peoples about their relationships with wolves suggest that through much of the early stages of the evolution of human hunting practices, ...
( Category: Mammals January 19,2020 )
American Lucifers by Zallen Jeremy;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Zallen, Jeremy;

Filling and dipping a frame. Children filled these frames layer by layer at incredible speeds, slotting splint after splint into grooves cut in the wooden strips strung and stacked across ...
( Category: History of Technology January 19,2020 )
Death and Money in the Afternoon by Shubert Adrian;
epub |eng | 1999-01-15 | Author:Shubert, Adrian;

Partisans, “Real Fans,” and Others To talk about the “crowd” as if it were a single entity is misleading. Top bullfighters all had their fans, and this partisanship could be ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness by Dale Peterson
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Dale Peterson [Peterson, Dale]

2. Once, during the summer, Geza heard one of the FWI short-term volunteers talk about her physical attraction for the male chimps. She wondered aloud: “Which one of them would ...
( Category: Zoology January 19,2020 )
The Vicarious Brain, Creator of Worlds by Alain Berthoz & Giselle Weiss
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Alain Berthoz & Giselle Weiss

The Bottleneck Hypothesis A paradoxical consequence of cerebral vicariance may be bottlenecks in certain areas. For example, damage to the language region on the left side may be compensated for ...
( Category: Biology January 19,2020 )
Petrified Forest National Park by George M. Lubick
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:George M. Lubick

Painted Desert Inn, 1940, following the renovation by the Civilian Conservation Corps (Photograph courtesy of Petrified Forest National Park) By the end of the following year, renovation was nearly finished. ...
( Category: Natural Resources January 19,2020 )
Brave New Arctic by Serreze Mark C
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Serreze, Mark C. [Serreze, Mark C.]

EPIPHANY The new century dawned. Arctic changes became ever more obvious and now clearly included the Greenland ice sheet, ice caps, and glaciers. Even the landscape was changing, with areas ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
Fossils by Thomson Keith;
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Thomson, Keith; [Thomson, Keith;]

Chapter 6 Bringing fossils to life Palaeontology is rarely a glamorous saga of digging up whole skeletons or entire communities preserved intact in a nice soft rock; most often it ...
( Category: Ichthyology January 19,2020 )
The Variety of Integral Ecologies by Sam Mickey Sean Kelly Adam Robbert
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Sam Mickey,Sean Kelly,Adam Robbert [Sam Mickey,Sean Kelly,Adam Robbert]

8 FIVE PRINCIPLES OF INTEGRAL ECOLOGY Sean Kelly A LOOMING MASS EXTINCTION of species the likes of which has not been seen in 65 million years, global climate change, habitat ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
Inside Science: Stories From the Field in Human and Animal Science by Robert E. Kohler
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Robert E. Kohler

FOREST WALKING AND WATCHING What Goodall saw upon arriving at Gombe was not what Leakey had led her to expect (he never did see the place firsthand). Leakey conjured up ...
( Category: Biology January 19,2020 )
Fishing Lessons: Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans by Kevin M. Bailey
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Kevin M. Bailey

7: Crimson Tide The Bay of Fundy Weir Fishery and a Conflict with Green Power “I am a fisherman,” Darren Porter said in a thick Scotian accent. “It’s not only ...
( Category: Marine Biology January 19,2020 )
Our Senses: An Immersive Experience by Rob DeSalle
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Rob DeSalle [DeSalle, Rob]

* * * BOX 12.1 | HEMISPHERECTOMIES This operation is an extreme version of the one performed on Henry Molaison. Of course, doctors would not do this operation if it ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )

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