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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig by Mark Essig
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Mark Essig [Essig, Mark]

Since the colonial period, Americans had been famous for consuming vast amounts of beef and pork, especially by comparison with the meat-starved peasantry of Europe. Statistics for early America are ...
( Category: Mammals May 26,2015 )
Animal Madness by Laurel Braitman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurel Braitman [Braitman, Laurel]

Early Adopters in the Cuckoo’s Nest One of the first nonhumans to be given psychopharmaceuticals not as a test subject but as a patient was a gorilla named Willie B. ...
( Category: Animal Psychology May 26,2015 )
Welcome to Subirdia by John M. Marzluff
epub |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Evolutionary responses to urbanization are not the sole province of birds and mammals. Insects and amphibians also evolve strategies to urban life. Color changes in response to urban pollution are ...
( Category: Wildlife May 25,2015 )
Vitamins For Dummies by Christopher Hobbs & Elson Haas
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hobbs & Elson Haas

Herbs for adolescents As a teenager, you may be more interested in herbal remedies when we tell you that they may help in clearing up acne. When your hormone levels ...
( Category: Vitamins & Supplements May 25,2015 )
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 25,2015 )
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...
( Category: Marine Life May 25,2015 )
The Narrow Edge by Deborah Cramer
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Cramer [Cramer, Deborah]

Ten DOES LOSING ONE MORE BIRD MATTER? The knot ghost trail from Texas up through the Great Plains, once populated but now rarely used and fading from memory, is disquieting. ...
( Category: Invertebrates May 25,2015 )
Common Spiders of North America by Richard A. Bradley
epub |eng | | Author:Richard A. Bradley

Calymmaria persica (Hentz, 1847) Plate 33 IDENTIFICATION This spider is pale yellow with dark brown or black markings. The cephalothorax has a thin black rim as well as black spots ...
( Category: Entomology May 23,2015 )
Do Our Pets Go to Heaven? by John Weldon
mobi |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:John Weldon

Heavenly Consensus? In addition, a number of leading Christians have concluded that pets will be or are likely to be in Heaven including Billy Graham, W. A. Criswell, J. Vernon ...
( Category: Fauna May 15,2015 )
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

MINGLING AT THE BORDER Does the fact that one of our closest relatives kills its neighbors mean that, as a recent documentary put it, “warfare is in our DNA”? This ...
( Category: Primatology May 11,2015 )
Out Of Control: The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World by Kelly Kevin
mobi |eng | 2009-04-29 | Author:Kelly, Kevin [Kelly, Kevin]

THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTER made in 1993, the Connection Machine 5 (CM5), can effortlessly generate Borges’s Library of books. But the CM5 can also generate equally vast and mysterious Borgian ...
( Category: Biology May 10,2015 )
Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall & Thane Maynard & Gail Hudson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-02 | 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 May 9,2015 )
Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning by Bergen Benjamin K
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Bergen, Benjamin K. [Bergen, Benjamin K.]

CHAPTER 7 What Do Hockey Players Know? Thus far we’ve emphasized the features of embodied simulation that people have in common. But the truth is far more nuanced. People don’t ...
( Category: Biology May 4,2015 )
Marijuana Grower's Handbook by Ed Rosenthal
epub |eng | | Author:Ed Rosenthal

COIR Coir, or coco peat, is made from the soft fibers and pith that protect the inner kernel of the coconut. Horticultural coir is made from ripe coconuts. As the ...
( Category: Reference April 27,2015 )
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Thor Hanson [Hanson, Thor]

FIGURE 9.2.Chili pepper (Capsicum sp.). The thousands of varieties of domestic chili peppers descend from four species native to South America. In the wild, their pungency repels seed-killing fungi as ...
( Category: Trees April 26,2015 )

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