Biological Sciences
epub | | 2009-06-10 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein [Heinlein, Robert A.]

Creation. Faithfully reproduced, shining as steady and serene from the walls of the stellarium as did their originals from the black deeps of space, the mirrored stars looked down on ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1996-04-28 | Author:Greg Bear [Bear, Greg]

"The spring _and_ the pond. The orphans. Every so often, sitting here, I smell the faintest traces of hydrogen sulfide. The pool is mildly acidic." "I've tried not to advance ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Peter F. Hamilton [HAMILTON, PETER F.]

21 AndrÉ Duchamp had half expected to be shot at by the Ethenthia asteroid’s SD platforms when the Villeneuve’s Revenge jumped into its dedicated emergence zone three thousand kilometres away. ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Susan Casey

( Category: Oceanography March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1981-03-26 | Author:Sue Hakala

Mulching Materials Mulch can be composed of organic or inorganic materials. Black plastic sheeting and aluminum foil are two common inorganic mulches. Commonly used organic mulches include straw, hay, peat ...
( Category: Zoology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:David Suzuki & Wayne Grady [Suzuki, David & Grady, Wayne]

A WORLD OF FERNS The fan of slender sword ferns (Polystichum scopulinum) is still growing at the base of our tree, although the salamander has moved on. There is something ...
( Category: Trees March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:Colin Tudge

Finally, the ten species of Nyssa are mostly ornamental but include the tupelo, N. aquatica and N. sylvatica, trees big enough to provide North Americans with railway sleepers. (Once Nyssa ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Foster, John Bellamy & Clark, Brett & York, Richard [Foster, John Bellamy]

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: Ecology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Chamovitz

Knowing Up from Down In 1758—more than a century before Darwin’s landmark book The Power of Movement in Plants—Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, a French naval inspector and ardent botanist, observed ...
( Category: Botany March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-05-27 | Author:Pollan, Michael [Pollan, Michael]

• • • To a marijuana grower, Amsterdam in the 1990s was something like what Paris in the 1920s was to a writer: a place where alienated expatriates could go ...
( Category: Botany March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rachel Carson [Carson, Rachel]

With the tide, predators come from offshore. A blue crab dashes out of the surf to seize a fat mole crab that is in the act of spreading its antennae ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

Figure 14.The graph that Milutin Milankovitch sent to Wladimir Köppen shows the “equivalent latitude” for 65° N in summer, based on the amount of solar energy received, for the past ...
( Category: Oceanography March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

Chapter 7 Silent Forests, Crowded Oceans TREE-TRUNKS RISE to more than thirty metres. They are sheer, virtually unbranched up to their crowns. The air is so humid that the moisture ...
( Category: Paleontology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas French

That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category: Wildlife March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine & Surgery

MAP 157. Range of the Egyptian Cobra, Naja haje, the Nubian Spitting Cobra and Naja nubiae, the Nubian Cobra within the USCENTCOM region. PHOTO 137. Egyptian Cobra, Naja haje. For ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians March 27,2014 )