Environment
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Nancy Langston [Langston, Nancy]

SEVEN The Mysteries of Toxaphene and Toxic Fish THE PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE chemical named toxaphene offers a case study on the history of toxic contamination in Lake Superior fish. How did ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Chaney, Anthony;

CYBERNETICS: A DIM HOPE When an individual’s past experience is examined to provide an explanation for that individual’s mental pathology, that is a psychiatric diagnosis. When the same approach is ...
( Category: Medicine April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Bill Streever

Among sailors, frigate birds are sometimes said to come just before bad weather. More analytical sailors might say that they ride the leading edges of fronts. In contrast, Robert FitzRoy ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Mooney

Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica just north of Australia on April 23, 2006, possibly the most intense storm ever observed in the Southern Hemisphere. Image credit: Naval Research Lab April 24 ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:Lori Robinson

Schaller’s comfort in remote, little-known landscapes is rooted in a childhood during which he always felt like an outsider. Born in Berlin in 1933, he grew up in wartime Germany. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 10,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Reed Timmer

I consider myself an optimist even when I’m inside a spinning truck, but after earning quite a bit of money from the Manchester, South Dakota, video, I’ll confess that I ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 9,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-08-13 | Author:Renee Askins

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ian L. McHarg [McHarg, Ian L.]

Conclusion The housing solutions which have been advanced or utilized in this century fall into three main categories; the two extremes of the multi-story flat and the free-standing, single-family house, ...
( Category: Architecture April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-20 | Author:Alexander Pschera & Elisabeth Lauffer [Pschera, Alexander]

WHY ANIMALS WERE ALWAYS FRIENDS OF HUMANS A LITTLE STORY OF EMPATHY Shorty the waldrapp is a Facebook friend of mine. He’s a strange bird. A little unconventional, but not ...
( Category: Engineering April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-11 | Author:James Thornton

Harvey Jones skippered his boat in his estuary, but his eyes were set on a distant horizon: the next fisheries reform process. The recent round was more successful than he ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-03 | Author:Barnes, Simon [Simon Barnes]

77 There is a lovely little scrap of woodland to one side of the Suffolk Show ground, and as we passed, I heard the sudden racket of nightingale. Most people ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:A. Stoner & A. Melathopoulos [Stoner, A.]

2.2 Toward a critique of contemporary environmentalism Why did the rise of contemporary environmentalism, instead of attaining its objective, shift the problem to other registers?16 The answer to this question ...
( Category: Anthropology April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Michael Pollan

* * * Leave It to Beavers SHERRI TIPPIE, CREEKS ALL OVER COLORADO Sometimes it takes a hairdresser to explain things. In 2003, I invited Sherri Tippie, a self-described hairdresser ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:John Burch

ANALYSIS The Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) of 1964 was designed to stimulate research on water issues facing the United States at academic institutions around the country. Toward that end, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Derek M. Elsom

Woman with Lichtenberg figures on her neck, abdomen and arms after lightning struck her house while she was using a corded telephone in Galway, Ireland. On some occasions, unique evidence ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 9,2018 )