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Papa Goose: One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life by Michael Quetting & Stacey O'Brien & Jane Billinghurst
epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Michael Quetting & Stacey O'Brien & Jane Billinghurst

I SIT ON THE GRASS WITH A CAN OF BEER AND NOTICE that I still have the same peaceful feeling inside me that I had at the airfield. Is this ...
( Category: Zoology April 1,2019 )
Fuel Cell Fundamentals by O'Hayre Ryan & Cha Suk-Won & Colella Whitney & Prinz Fritz B
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:O'Hayre, Ryan & Cha, Suk-Won & Colella, Whitney & Prinz, Fritz B. [O'Hayre, Ryan]

Figure 8.12 A membraneless fuel cell design based on a Y-shaped microfluidic channel configuration that places fuel and oxidant streams into diffusional contact without mixing. The left-hand oxygenated electrolyte stream ...
( Category: Thermodynamics March 30,2019 )
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Jack E. Davis

LABOR DAY 1937 was the beginning of the road to imperfect harmony between Louisianans and the industry. Morgan City residents kicked off the first annual Louisiana Shrimp Festival that day. ...
( Category: Natural History March 29,2019 )
Writing Animals by Timothy C. Baker
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy C. Baker

Open Narratives: Evie Wyld and Yannick Murphy Both All the Birds, Singing and The Call open with a vivid description of animal death, divorced from any context. Wyld’s novel begins ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2019 )
11 Explorations Into Life on Earth: Christmas Lectures From the Royal Institution by Helen Scales
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Helen Scales [Scales, Helen]

A thank-you letter from RI Director Sir George Porter to the British Museum, sent after the Lectures. The haunting calls of another lemur species echo around the Lecture Theatre, as ...
( Category: Animals March 26,2019 )
Child of the Woods by Susi Gott Séguret
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Susi Gott Séguret

Old Time Religion “Gimme that old-time religion, Gimme that old-time religion, Gimme that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me.” When my parents first moved into Shelton Laurel, they were ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 25,2019 )
Gemstones (Collins Gem) by Cally Oldershaw
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Cally Oldershaw

Occurrence The most important source of jadeite jade is Myanmar. Historically, Central America and Russia were also important. Nephrite jade occurs more widely. JADEITE Jade Jadeite jade occurs in a ...
( Category: Mineralogy March 23,2019 )
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) by Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 23,2019 )
A Branch from the Lightning Tree by Martin Shaw
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Martin Shaw

CHAPTER 5 CROSSROADS, TEMPLES, AND WILD INTELLIGENCE The dark eagles, sleep and death, Rustle all night around my head: The golden statue of man May be swallowed by the icy ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 23,2019 )
Birds of Italy by Marianne Taylor Daniele Occhiato
epub |eng | 2018-03-22 | Author:Marianne Taylor,Daniele Occhiato

EUROPEAN BEE-EATER Merops apiaster 27cm Spectacular, unmistakeable multicoloured bird, slim and elongated with large head. Blue underparts and flight feathers, orange-brown upperparts with yellow shoulders, yellow throat outlined in black. ...
( Category: Wildlife March 23,2019 )
Ocean Outbreak by Drew Harvell
epub |eng | | Author:Drew Harvell

Figure 10. Mortality of the ochre star in Bamfield, British Columbia. Photo by Drew Harvell. My brain was in overdrive trying to detect every clue to the cause and any ...
( Category: Ecology March 23,2019 )
Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene by Tim Dee
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Tim Dee

Jonathan Livingston Seagull To study the cultural presence of gulls, the uses we have put them to, is to come upon strikingly opposing representations. Gulls have been identified with purity ...
( Category: Ornithology March 22,2019 )
Horizon by Barry Lopez
epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Barry Lopez

* * * — THE ONGOING ACADEMIC and popular debates about human origins—about exactly where the line of human descent lies among hominoids in the human evolutionary family—captivated my imagination ...
( Category: Natural History March 20,2019 )
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything by Graham Lawton & New Scientist
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Graham Lawton & New Scientist [Lawton, Graham & Scientist, New]

WHAT WAS THE FIRST COOKED MEAL? BREAKFAST: FIBROUS AND BITTER LEAVES; FRUIT. Lunch: bark; fruit; raw monkey meat and brains. Dinner: grubs; leaves; fruit. No, not the latest food fad ...
( Category: Natural History March 17,2019 )
How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Ted Floyd

104 POPULATION DYNAMICS: FIND YOUR OWN NICHE Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus THE SPECIES IS well named: Rock Wrens live among rocks. You can find them bopping around outcroppings above the ...
( Category: Ornithology March 14,2019 )

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