Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2002-06-29 | Author:Mark Kurlansky [Kurlansky, Mark]

BY THE LATE eighteenth century, more than 3,000 French men, women, and even children were sentenced to prison or death every year for crimes against the gabelle. The salt law ...
( Category: Rocks & Minerals March 3,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:John Gray [Gray, John]

BOCKELSON, HITLER AND THE NAZIS Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen is not someone whose name will be immediately recognized. For the few who know of him today, he was an aristocratic Prussian army ...
( Category: Atheism March 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Ronald D. Quinn & Keeley, Sterling, Dr. [Quinn, Ronald D.]

Kangaroo Rats Another characteristic group of chaparral rodents are the kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp., family Heteromyidae). They are easy to recognize with their wide triangular heads with large, round shiny ...
( Category: Natural History March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Michael E. Webber [Webber, Michael E.]

SEVEN Trends THE KEY UNDERLYING DEMOGRAPHIC trend that can strain the energy-water nexus is growth: population growth and economic growth. Population is growing, exceeding 7 billion people globally in 2011, ...
( Category: Hydrology March 3,2020 )
epub | | 2015-04-02 | Author:Olabarria, Pedro Maria Gonzalez

Figure 9.1. Detail of a spiral wound RO membrane. Feed water enters the flow path provided by the spacers, at the upstream end. Due to the pressure supplied by a ...
( Category: Home Improvement & Design March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Cut cleaned herring or mackerel fish into thick pieces. Place in a stone jar with 30 peppercorns and a half teaspoon of salt. Add one blade of mace and a ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Wescott, David

Camp Tools In the early days of American life the ax and the knife were the two indispensable tools. … With the knife they made spoons, brooms, rakes and bowls; ...
( Category: Camping March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Tyson Yunkaporta

Romancing the Stone Age I squirm at first Can’t listen if I can’t believe These claims made of Adam and Eve From Oldman there sitting—departure gate Red dirt etched biotic ...
( Category: Conservation March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-02 | Author:Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph E. Stiglitz

POLITICAL ECONOMY INCENTIVES AGAINST ACCUMULATION In this section we analyze the political economy incentives that may face politicians in countries with accumulated revenues—whether or not these revenues are formally a ...
( Category: Natural Resources March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Wallace Stegner [Stegner, Wallace]

8 Coda Wilderness Letter Los Altos, Calif. Dec. 3, 1960 David E. Pesonen Wildland Research Center Agricultural Experiment Station 243 Mulford Hall University of California Berkeley 4, Calif. Dear Mr. ...
( Category: Essays March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Budd Titlow

Yes, undoubtedly. The environment in which all storms form has changed owing to human activities. Global warming has increased temperatures and directly related to that is an increase in the ...
( Category: Climatology March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Patricia Mangione [Mangione, Patricia]

The gibes leveled against the Washington Guide's ponderous format were largely responsible for my job with the Writers' Project as its national coordinating editor. This sumptuous title was a euphemism ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Kate Davies

Choosing to Feel Grateful It can be difficult to feel grateful when there’s so much bad news. But gratitude is like intrinsic hope—it does not depend on our external circumstances ...
( Category: Conservation March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Donald S. Murray [Murray, Donald S.]

*One moving story that centres on the branding of barrels by companies involved in the herring trade is about a man from Stornoway, who often played in a yard operated ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Rapp

The above four-step mechanism shows that if the reaction is not arrested at step 3, and step 4 takes place, one would get a very poor conversion to C2H4. The ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 2,2020 )