Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...
( Category: Wildlife March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Phillip T. Robinson

Tapeworm life cycle in a zoo bear Wild animals frequently recover from a wide variety of infections and injuries during their lifetimes, although any serious injury can make an individual ...
( Category: Zoology March 21,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Chapman, Marina & Barrett-Lee, Lynne [Chapman, Marina]

18 Over the following weeks, I existed in a strange sort of purgatory, suspended in a place where I felt completely alone. I was no longer one of the monkey ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Andrew Collins

CHAPTER THIRTEEN In Search of Sokar According to the eminent British Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857–1934), the curator of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum for thirty years ...
( Category: Fossils March 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ward, Jamie [Ward, Jamie]

Early Signs of Dementia in the Language Use of Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch; 1919–1999. © Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis. Iris Murdoch’s last novel, Jackson’s Dilemma, was considered by both critics and her ...
( Category: Neurology March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:edited by Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison & Christine Padoch [Hecht, Susanna B.]

Narratives of Change: Northern Laos Across the border in Northern Laos a different story has unfolded.4 Postwar political insecurity until the mid-1980s prevented active development efforts in the uplands; government ...
( Category: Botany March 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Prasenjit Duara [Duara, Prasenjit]

Dialogical transcendence and popular religion Although the emperor claimed exclusive access to Heaven, the Chinese imperial model was not a theocracy. Local communities were permitted to worship a panoply of ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions March 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael C. Gerald

SEE ALSO: Harvey’s De motu cordis (1628), Blood Cells (1658). In 1901, Landsteiner identified the four human blood types and, four decades later, found the Rh factor. In 1968, the ...
( Category: Biology March 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jules Howard [Howard, Jules]

I can still see them now, weeks later, in my mind’s eye. I can even see their maggot-like movements, and the circular frame of the microscope lens around them. The ...
( Category: Zoology March 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:George Johnson [Johnson, George]

Before Nancy’s chemo had ended her doctors began discussing the next stage of her treatment and what kind of particles they should use to irradiate her. Alpha particles are too ...
( Category: Oncology March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-28 | Author:Gould, Stephen Jay Jay [Gould, Stephen Jay Jay]

It has been charged upon the views here advanced that they tend to the support of slavery…. Is that a fair objection to a philosophical investigation? Here we have to ...
( Category: Natural History March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Charles C. Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-31 | Author:John Hudson Tiner [Tiner, John Hudson]

Jean Henri Fabre became a schoolteacher. He was fortunate to be assigned to a school on Corsica, the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The island rose from sea ...
( Category: Children & Teens March 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Winton, Tom [Winton, Tom]

"OK, you hippy pieces of shit," growled the biggest one, the one who first grabbed me inside Ungy's. He was right in my face, reeking of salami or garlic or ...
( Category: Horses March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Sheril Kirshenbaum [Kirshenbaum, Sheril]

What His Nose Knows In 2000, psychologists in Texas conducted a study similar to Wedekind’s experiment. Seventeen women—who, importantly, were not using hormonal contraceptives at the time—wore the same T-shirt ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions March 4,2015 )