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Fishing Lessons: Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans by Kevin M. Bailey
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Kevin M. Bailey

7: Crimson Tide The Bay of Fundy Weir Fishery and a Conflict with Green Power “I am a fisherman,” Darren Porter said in a thick Scotian accent. “It’s not only ...
( Category: Marine Biology January 19,2020 )
Extinction by Paul B. Wignall
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...
( Category: Paleontology January 19,2020 )
Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries With the Human by Onno Oerlemans
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Onno Oerlemans

One have I marked, the happiest guest In all this covert of the blest: Hail to Thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion, Thou, Linnet! In ...
( Category: Medieval January 19,2020 )
A Philosophy of the Insect by Jean-Marc Drouin & Anne Trager
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Jean-Marc Drouin & Anne Trager

POLLINATION: A SECRET OF NATURE? The Greeks, who probably inherited such techniques from the Babylonians, already knew that when cultivating date palms, to ensure a good harvest of dates, one ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders January 19,2020 )
Meat Markets: The Cultural History of Bloody London by Ted Geier
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-23 | Author:Ted Geier [Geier, Ted]

Figure 2 OXO Tower, London. Used by permission of walklondon.com. The distinctive container for Bovril has always had a rather bulbous profile, and Bovril advertisements from the late nineteenth century ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Mikael D. Wolfe
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-23 | Author:Mikael D. Wolfe

FIG. 5.1 Sculpture of Cárdenas at the dam that bears his name, flanked on each side by his workers and técnicos. Photograph by the author, 2006. Mike Davis explains that ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American January 19,2020 )
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health by Jennifer Thomson
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Jennifer Thomson

Conclusion This book opened by weaving together two claims. First, there is no way to think about our present environment without also thinking about health. Second, health and environmental activism ...
( Category: Environmental Policy January 19,2020 )
Seven Worlds One Planet by Jonny Keeling & Alexander Scott
epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Jonny Keeling & Alexander Scott

The krill crisis Antarctic krill are shrimp-like crustaceans about six centimetres long, but what they lack in size, they more than make up for in numbers. It is estimated that ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 19,2020 )
The Great Wood by Jim Crumley
mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Crumley

after fox bark. * See Among Mountains (Mainstream, 1993) * Feadan – the chanter of the Highland bagpipes. I was unclear if his use of the word in the original ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry January 18,2020 )
The Nature of Winter by Jim Crumley
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Jim Crumley [Crumley, Jim]

Over the years I refined and elaborated on my wolf reintroduction argument, in Brother Nature (Whittles, 2003), most noticeably in The Last Wolf (Birlinn, 2010), and most recently in my ...
( Category: Natural History January 18,2020 )
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

1 “Note on Absolute Chronology of Human Evolution,” Science 123 (1956), pp. 924–26. 2 Embryos and Ancestors, rev. ed. (New York, Oxford, 1951), p. 93. MAN OF THE FUTURE There ...
( Category: Wildlife January 18,2020 )
The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

IV Thoreau had loved nature as intensely as Darwin and perhaps more personally. He had seen with another set of glasses. He was, in an opposite sense to Darwin, a ...
( Category: Cosmology January 18,2020 )
The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

FIVE How Human Is Man? Be not under any Brutal Metempsychosis while thou livest and walkest about erectly under the scheme of Man. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE OVER A HUNDRED years ...
( Category: Organic January 18,2020 )
The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

II “Every man,” Thoreau once recorded in his journal, “tracks himself through life.” Thoreau meant that the individual in all his reading, his traveling, his observations, would follow only his ...
( Category: Paleontology January 18,2020 )
Life by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

Oolacunta! 2004 I’M WRITING THESE words in 2003, on my way home from London where I’ve been studying some of Australia’s most interesting mammals. It’s been a sad pilgrimage, but ...
( Category: Conservation January 17,2020 )

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