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The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah K. Strycker
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Noah K. Strycker [Strycker, Noah K.]

seeing red WHEN THE PECKING ORDER BREAKS DOWN Let’s talk chicken. By the end of the twentieth century, domestic chickens outnumbered humans by about four to one on this planet, ...
( Category: Field Guides April 4,2018 )
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Prothero Donald R
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-11-21 | Author:Prothero, Donald R. [Prothero, Donald R.]

Figure 8.1. A typical assortment of planktonic microfossils from a deep-sea core. Each is about the size of a pinhead or smaller, and many thousands are found in every cubic ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
The Predator Paradox by John Shivik
epub |eng | | Author:John Shivik

CHAPTER 7 OF SPIKED DOUGHNUTS AND TURBO-CHARGED FLAGGING Testing Aversive Stimuli Kari Signor wasn’t much taller than the plastic bins that she bolted to a tree and filled with doughnuts. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
The Campaign Manager by Shaw Catherine;
epub |eng | | Author:Shaw, Catherine; [Shaw, Catherine]

8 Media IN THIS CHAPTER •Print Media: Paid and Unpaid •Fielding Questions from the Press •Radio and Television •Production CAMPAIGNS ARE ABOUT SELLING A PRODUCT. THAT PRODUCT IS A candidate, ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
Animal Kingdom by Jack Ashby
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Ashby

Before they come to blows, hippos will perform incredible ‘yawn’ displays to try and convince each other that they are too big to pick a fight against. The jaw joint ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
American West at Risk by Wilshire Howard G.; Nielson Jane E.; Hazlett Richard W. & Jane E. Nielson & Richard W. Hazlett
epub |eng | 2008-04-04 | Author:Wilshire, Howard G.; Nielson, Jane E.; Hazlett, Richard W. & Jane E. Nielson & Richard W. Hazlett

The fearful link The United States mines uranium mainly from sedimentary deposits in 5 of the 11 western states.78 Dangerous underground uranium mining (see chapter 7) ended in 1992, and ...
( Category: Engineering April 4,2018 )
Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies by Odya Erin & Norris Maggie A
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Odya, Erin & Norris, Maggie A. [Odya, Erin]

Stomaching another gland Yes, the stomach is a key organ in digestion (Chapter 11 covers the digestive system in detail), but it also secretes hormones that are used during digestion, ...
( Category: Basic Sciences April 4,2018 )
The Secret World of Sleep by Penelope A. Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Penelope A. Lewis

Fig. 22 Japanese character task More abstract examples of the same general principle come from tasks in which people are asked to extract general statistics from a set of information ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments April 4,2018 )
Evolution by Donald R. Prothero
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Donald R. Prothero

FIGURE 8.3. The bottom-dwelling (benthic) foraminifera known as fusulinids were about the size and shape of a grain of rice and extraordinarily abundant in late Paleozoic limestones, where they may ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
The Flower Farmer by Lynn Byczynski
epub |eng | 2008-03-30 | Author:Lynn Byczynski [Byczynski, Lynn]

Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’ Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’. • H. paniculata is a hardy species that flowers on new wood, so it is not affected by cold winters or late frosts. The ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design April 4,2018 )
Anatomy 360 by Jamie Roebuck
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Roebuck [Roebuck, Jamie]

Heart attack (myocardial infarction) If a clot (thrombus) forms inside a coronary artery, it blocks the supply of blood to the myocardium “downstream” of it. If this blockage is prolonged, ...
( Category: Medicine April 4,2018 )
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

* * * * * * COURTING AND DISPLAYS FINDING AND WINNING a proper mate is an important event, which many animals execute with considerable energy and inventive expertise. In ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds by Kristin Andrews Jacob Beck
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Kristin Andrews,Jacob Beck

Conclusion Apes and infants are sensitive to others’ false beliefs. But we can’t yet say tout court that they have a concept of belief – because we’re not yet in ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
The One-Minute Workout: Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter by Martin Gibala & Christopher Shulgan
epub |eng | 2017-02-06 | Author:Martin Gibala & Christopher Shulgan [Gibala, Martin]

So What’s the Answer? The solution begins with something physiologists call rating of perceived exertion, or RPE. The psychologist Gunnar A.V. Borg of the University of Stockholm introduced the concept ...
( Category: Exercise & Fitness April 4,2018 )
Spider by Unknown
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-04 | Author:Unknown

41 FBI Field Office, New York Howie Baumguard and his new partner, Angelita Fernandez, sat in the conference room waiting for the IT guy to fix the video link to ...
( Category: Field Guides April 4,2018 )

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