epub |eng | | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

When observation and theory collide, scientists turn to carefully designed experiments for resolution. Their motivation is especially high in the case of biological systems, which are typically far too complex ...

epub |eng | | Author:Doug Fine

I don’t know if I’ll ever be lucky enough to harvest in the snow again. I hope so. I know we all still talk about it. I remember thinking, as ...

mobi |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Bill McKibben

But now it’s done. There’s really nowhere plausible left to run a highway. And not only that; almost everything else is done, too. The last real National Projects were putting ...

epub |eng | | Author:Thayer Scudder

b.produce and selectively distribute key materials (papers, reports, handbooks) on research topics; c.maintain a network of relevant experts; d.conduct periodic training workshops on key issues/topics; and e.upgrade their staff and ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Wendy Williams

* * * All they need is nectar, water, and shelter from the sun and wind, James explained. In fact, the first few generations of monarchs over that summer had ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Wexler, Philip; [Wexler, Philip]

This means that the method for the proper identification of a specific toxin was differential, consisting of grouping together all the substances with a similar or identical action, comparing their ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Haege, Elke, Leake, Simon

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Fanren Zeng

The trunk of the oak tree grew a hundred spans around and as high as a hill; the tree’s shade could cover 1,000 heads of cattle, and the number of ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-24 | Author:Brian Fagan [Fagan, Brian]

A HOT, SULTRY afternoon has settled on the floor of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The air is heavy and still, weighing on the visitors passing through the empty rooms of ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Rob Dunn [DUNN, ROB]

Superficially, agriculture, including the farming of rubber trees, is often in conflict with wild nature. Ford cut down forests to make Fordlandia and Belterra. Similarly, the soybean fields of Brazil ...

epub |eng | | Author:Merchant, Carolyn;

Figure 6.1 Marxist Framework of Social Analysis Source: Howard Sherman, Foundations of Radical Political Economy (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1987), 44, reprinted by permission. ANARCHIST SOCIAL ECOLOGY Current theories of ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

SMOG As you might be aware, the setting for many of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries was the foggy, smoggy city of London. The smog that covered London throughout the nineteenth ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tennesen

11 PREDATORS WILL SCRAMBLE OVER THE LAST 600 million years, during most of the extinction events, predators were the last to go. During the Cretaceous extinction, which knocked out the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

2. The Colorado Plateau, which stretches across 130,000 square miles of southeastern Utah, northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and western Colorado, has seen more rain and snow during the past ...