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Five Billion Years of Solitude by Lee Billings
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Lee Billings

Out of Equilibrium An earth scientist’s tendency to see the Big Picture at the expense of smaller details helps explain something that happened to me one morning in the red-brick ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science June 14,2017 )
Mammals of North America (Princeton Field Guides) by Kays Roland W. & Wilson Don E
epub |eng | 2009-11-08 | Author:Kays, Roland W. & Wilson, Don E. [Kays, Roland W.]

CACTUS DEERMOUSE Peromyscus eremicus 169–218mm, 92–117mm, 18–40g Medium-sized mouse with long, soft, silky pelage and large ears. Body is pale gray washed with reddish brown above and whitish on the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 14,2017 )
The Scientists by John Gribbin
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Gribbin

Book Four: THE BIG PICTURE 9 - The ‘Darwinian Revolution’ Charles Lyell: his life - His travels in Europe and study of geology - He publishes the Principles of Geology ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 14,2017 )
Green Planet: How Plants Keep the Earth Alive by Stanley A. Rice
epub |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Stanley A. Rice [Stanley A. Rice]

Edaphic Conditions Edaphic conditions refer to the material in which a plant grows, usually but not always soil. It can also refer to rocks on which plants grow or the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
Owls Aren't Wise and Bats Aren't Blind by Warner Shedd
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-26 | Author:Warner Shedd [Shedd, Warner]

THE MINK Curiously, and uncharacteristically for most members of the weasel family, little in the way of folk myths and erroneous beliefs seem to have sprung up concerning the mink ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey Into the Human Heart by Lynn Schooler
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Lynn Schooler

Chapter 15 Boulder Hell. It was a good description. It seems like it took hours of stepping carefully from stone to stone, with the metal tips of my hiking poles ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites by Poulin Robert
epub |eng | 2007-06-13 | Author:Poulin, Robert

7.3.2 The Nematode Cystidicola cristivomeri The nematode Cystidicola cristivomeri also has a two-host life cycle. It uses a single species of mysid shrimp, Mysis relicta, as intermediate host. The life ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
Bacteria by Wassenaar Trudy M
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Wassenaar, Trudy M.

Chapter 16 Record Holders Record holders usually receive more attention than the group that collectively is most common, the modal. Since our knowledge of the bacterial world is skewed, a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
Keeping Bees In Towns & Cities by Luke Dixon
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Luke Dixon

Bees on a queen excluder Uncapping The bees put a little wax cap on each cell when it is full of honey. To get the honey out you first need ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences June 13,2017 )
Smithers Mammals of Southern Africa by Reay H. N. Smithers
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Reay H. N. Smithers

Common duiker / Grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia Gewone duiker Description Upperparts vary from greyish buff to reddish yellow. Underparts are usually white but may be grey or tinged reddish. Black ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 13,2017 )
Antarctica 2041: My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness by Robert Swan & Gil Reavill
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Robert Swan & Gil Reavill

Icewalk Fifteen minutes of fame is short. The media glare shone brightly upon In the Footsteps of Scott, illuminated us for a brief moment, then winked out. But people remembered. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 13,2017 )
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik
epub |eng | 2009-01-12 | Author:Katrina Firlik

This teenage patient reminded me, as an analogy to the trite “you can’t judge a book by its cover,” that you can’t judge a person’s intelligence by his outward appearance. ...
( Category: Memoirs June 13,2017 )
A Matter of Degrees by Gino Segrè
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-30 | Author:Gino Segrè [Segrè, Gino]

Some Like It Hot The tubeworms living on the hydrothermal vents were definitely a surprise. So were the bacteria. They should all have been dead at vent temperatures. After all, ...
( Category: Physics June 13,2017 )
Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2 by David W. Macdonald
epub |eng | | Author:David W. Macdonald [Macdonald, David W.]

Landscape conservation Sites with ‘no’ or little human disturbance, and with high biodiversity and/or threat levels, are candidates for landscape conservation, a very effective strategy for protecting endangered species and ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 13,2017 )
1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
mobi | | 2006-10-10 | Author:Charles C. Mann

TEN THOUSAND MOUNDS Anyone who traveled up the Mississippi in 1100 A.D. would have seen it looming in the distance: a four-level earthen mound bigger than the Great Pyramid of ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2017 )

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