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Ecology and Socialism by Chris Williams
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-28 | Author:Chris Williams

The mining and refining of uranium is a highly pollution-and energy-intensive business in its own right. The fissile material needed in nuclear reactors, the isotope of uranium, U- 235, is ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 12,2015 )
Healthy Brain, Happy Life by Wendy Suzuki
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Wendy Suzuki

THE CLASS THAT REFLECTED MY LIFE My “Can Exercise Change Your Brain?” class, a brand-new kind of hybrid course, represented the brand-new kind of challenges I was taking on in ...
( Category: Medical June 12,2015 )
Lentil Underground by Liz Carlisle
epub |eng | 2015-01-08 | Author:Liz Carlisle

CREATIVE CAPITAL Dave liked the idea of buffering his growers from the layered uncertainties of (1) farming (2) specialty (3) organic crops. But the problem was, Timeless Seeds didn’t have ...
( Category: Sustainable Agriculture June 12,2015 )
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-06 | Author:Helen Scales [Scales, Helen]

I step into the cool, dim interior of the Museo del Bisso – the Byssus Museum – and instantly feel as if I have walked into the fairy tale that ...
( Category: Marine Biology June 12,2015 )
The Homing Instinct by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A just-hatched broad-winged hawk on a freshly inserted green fern frond. No greens are added during the month-long incubation, but after the young hatch, the greens are brought almost daily ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
A New History of Life by Peter Ward
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Peter Ward

OXYGEN AND TEMPERATURE, REPRODUCTION AND THERMOREGULATION At this point we can summarize and discuss the variables in land animal reproduction and try to relate these to generalizations about both oxygen ...
( Category: Biology June 11,2015 )
Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion by Valerie Curtis
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Valerie Curtis [Curtis, Valerie]

EPILOGUE DISGUST: THE UNFINISHED STORY What does the future hold for disgust? The blooming field of disgustology is going to be an exciting place in the near future. We are ...
( Category: Microbiology June 11,2015 )
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Ernst Mayr

S P E C I A T I O N T H E P R O C E S S O F A L L O P A T R ...
( Category: Biology June 11,2015 )
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga
mobi |eng | 2009-06-19 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga

Spatial abilities are used to create, think of, remember, and change visual images in one’s mind. For instance, looking at a two-dimensional map and being able to visualize its information ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 11,2015 )
Bones Would Rain From the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships With Dogs by Suzanne Clothier
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-18 | Author:Suzanne Clothier

context of our role as guardians and caretakers, persuasion may fail. In some situations, compulsion or coercion may be justified, especially if the consequences of a failure to respond or ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Jeffrey A. Lockwood

A NEW KIND OF METAMORPHOSIS In his twenty-nine-page paper, Uvarov undertook what is called a taxonomic revision. In biology, the naming of species and their proper assignment to a particular ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders June 11,2015 )
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued From the Brink by Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson

Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
( Category: Wildlife June 11,2015 )
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-04-21 | Author:Jane Goodall

* * * otherwise, with his lower lip pushed determinedly forward, he would plod into one tent after the other looking for them. He would pull everything apart, push everything ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 11,2015 )
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-16 | Author:David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton

llliam James is said to have composed this ditty, although with insights inspired by opium rather than evolutionary biology: Higamous hogamous, woman monogamous Hogamous higamous, man is polygamous. What earthly ...
( Category: Sexuality June 11,2015 )
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by Lloyd John & Mitchinson John
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )

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