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Natural History of San Francisco Bay by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto & Kathleen M. Wong
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Ariel Rubissow Okamoto & Kathleen M. Wong

Booms deployed during fuel transfers in Puget Sound, Washington, to help prevent any spilled oil from contaminating the ecosystem. (Washington State Department of Ecology) Most critical for the bay in ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts & Alice Roberts
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Alice Roberts & Alice Roberts

NEANDERTHAL CHESTS While the shape of your chest reflects your posture and how you move (as an ape with an upright trunk, which doesn’t hang around in trees any more, ...
( Category: Evolution September 22,2017 )
The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark & Richard York
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark & Richard York

Navigating the Great Divide: Realism versus Constructionism From its first appearance in the mid-1970s until the 1990s, environmental sociology was characterized by “an almost universal commitment … to a realist ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 22,2017 )
How Not to Be Eaten by Waldbauer Gilbert Dr
epub |eng | | Author:Waldbauer, Gilbert, Dr.

Figure 8. A North American skunk and an unpalatable African butterfly independently evolved conspicuous black-and-white color patterns that warn predators of their noxiousness. The majority of the 350,000 known beetle ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 22,2017 )
The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan

All together, Pak Teh and his crew would gather nearly a thousand pounds of honey from this tree. It was but one of about ten trees they tend, trees widely ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
Man and Woman by Pfaff Donald W
epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Pfaff, Donald W.

According to the results of Elena Choleris in our lab at Rockefeller University, estrogens (E) circulate in the blood and enter the brain. Arriving at the hypothalamic cell group, the ...
( Category: Medicine September 22,2017 )
Problem-Based Microbiology by Swapan K. Nath
epub |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Swapan K. Nath [Swapan K. Nath, PhD, F(CCM), Sanjay G. Revankar, MD]

Imaging Head MRI revealed ring-enhancing lesions in the left parietal lobe and right frontal lobe (Fig. 63-1). FIGURE 63-1 Head MRI scan of this patient with seizure illness. Note ring-enhancing ...
( Category: Medicine September 22,2017 )
The Engine of Complexity by John Mayfield
epub |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:John Mayfield

9 Complex Systems What constitutes a complex system? There is no widely accepted mathematical definition of a complex system. Computers, thunderstorms, the human brain, and corporations are all examples. Always ...
( Category: Computer Science September 22,2017 )
An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Ackerman

CHAPTER 23 “Shall It Be Male or Female? Say the Cells” Shall it be male or female? say the cells, And drop the plum like fire from the flesh. —Dylan ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Jeff Hawkins

WHAT A REGION OF CORTEX LOOKS LIKE We are now going to turn our attention to an individual region of cortex, one of the boxes in figure 5. Figure 6 ...
( Category: Psychology September 22,2017 )
Power, Sex, Suicide by Lane Nick
epub |eng | 2005-09-22 | Author:Lane, Nick

Proton leak But there is a diabolical catch. We have seen that the muscles contribute little to the resting metabolic rate: the danger of oxygen toxicity means that blood is ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
Missing Microbes by Martin Blaser
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Blaser [Blaser, Martin J.]

12. TALLER We were on a back road, taking what on the map looked like a very direct route to Chichén Itzá, a large pre-Columbian city built by the Mayas. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
Whisper (Feral Riders) by LA Brookes
mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:LA Brookes [Brookes, LA]

Chapter Four Parker took a long pull of his beer. Now this was the life—sitting in the cool evening breeze, listening to Chase play his guitar as the others challenged ...
( Category: Animals September 21,2017 )
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
epub |eng | 2006-09-20 | Author:Susan Richards [Richards, Susan]

[ 10 ] A WEEK AFTER my date, Allie stopped by early on a Saturday morning before the bugs were bad. We stood at the fence with our coffee watching ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 20,2017 )
Seven Flowers by Jennifer Potter
epub | | | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

One of the Roman’s fiercest critics was the lyric poet Christine de Pizan, who turned to poetry some time after the death in 1390 of her husband, a secretary to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 20,2017 )

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