Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Viktors Duks

The Classicist carefully removes a land mine from the clay. Oh, yeah—of course I took the machine gun. Sorry, I forgot to tell you. We never leave things like that ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Bogard, Paul [BOGARD, PAUL]

I have been to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in the past, seen the view, seen the smog, thought, Shoot, this isn’t right, and gone on my way. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-07 | Author:Tom Zoellner

Luck up! Luck up! Here comes the pit boss And he has his bright light In the night Already lit! Wismut had become, by that point, a “state within a ...
( Category: Chemistry September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Trevor Cox

Figure 5.9 Sound in a whispering gallery. Imagine cuing a ball on a circular pool table so that it goes off almost parallel to the side wall. The ball then ...
( Category: Physics September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Botkin, Daniel B. [Botkin, Daniel B.]

9. Biofuels Figure 9.1 Harvest of experimental oilseed crops at Piedmont Biofuels farm, in Moncure, NC.1,2 (Photo by Debbie Roos, North Carolina Cooperative Extension) Interest in and enthusiasm about biofuels ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Jared Diamond [Diamond, Jared]

An outside observer who visited Japan in 1650 might have predicted that Japanese society was on the verge of a societal collapse triggered by catastrophic deforestation, as more and more ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Loxton, Daniel & Prothero, Donald R. [Loxton, Daniel]

Figure 5.23 Many nineteenth-century artists and writers depicted epic battles between the newly discovered ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Onto that stage stepped Mary Anning, a working-class Englishwoman whose sharp eye and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Gordin, Michael D. [Gordin, Michael D.]

6 · Strangest Bedfellows Harold Urey disliked Immanuel Velikovsky. Winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 1932 discovery of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), Urey had ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-19 | Author:Richard Fortey

One of the sheets from the herbarium of Linnaeus in the Linnean Society of London. This is larkspur, Delphinium consolidum. The President of the Linnean Society would preside over a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Whateley, Michael

The End. Subterranean “It’s getting dark, Simon,” Jayne said. “I know, it’s not much further. This is the last hill. Promise.” “I thought the last hill was the last one.” ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Paul Kingsnorth

* Over the next few years, the old green movement that I grew up with is likely to fall to pieces. Many of those pieces will be picked up and ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-23 | Author:Ann Roberts [Roberts, Ann]

best to hide their flaws—not speaking too loudly or saying the wrong thing. It was all about putting one’s best foot forward, she thought. Of course, some couples were already ...
( Category: Architecture September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Woodlief

EIGHT “Socially, climbers are not that adept.” — Renny Jackson, head Jenny Lake ranger On July 23, 2003, Rob Thomas had secured two permits for his climbing group of 13 ...
( Category: Americas September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Chad Fraser

The end finally came for Johnson’s Island on September 5, 1865, five months after the end of the war, when the last of its prisoners were transferred to other facilities. ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub | | 2011-03-15 | Author:David Quammen

2. Rarity (small, infrequent patches) 3. Limited dispersal ability 4. Inbreeding 5. Loss of heterozygosity 6. Founder effects 7. Hybridization 8. Successional loss of habitat 9. Environmental variation 10. Long-term ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 16,2017 )