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Breverton's Nautical Curiosities by Breverton Terry
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Breverton, Terry. [Breverton, Terry]

MERCHANT NAVY LOSSES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Of the 61,631 men killed on Allied merchant ships, 34,541 (56 percent) were on British ships. The following table puts into perspective ...
( Category: Transportation September 1,2018 )
Endgame by Derrick Jensen
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Derrick Jensen [Jensen, Derrick]

BRINGING DOWN CIVILIZATION, PART I It IS possible to get out of a trap. However, in order to break out of a prison, one first must confess to being in ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 31,2018 )
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller
epub |eng | 1962-08-29 | Author:Henry Miller

3 If the reader is not already fed up with Ionesco I should like to add a few more words on the subject, this time about The Bald Soprano, which ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 30,2018 )
Ten Thousand Birds by Birkhead Tim; Wimpenny Jo; Montgomerie Bob
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Birkhead, Tim; Wimpenny, Jo; Montgomerie, Bob [Birkhead, Tim, Wimpenny, Jo and Montgomerie, Bob]

Artist’s impression of the way Tinbergen and Lorenz conducted their hawk-goose model experiments with a pulley system that allowed them to fly hawk and other shapes over turkey poults. Inset ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 29,2018 )
How to Cuss in Western by Michael P. Branch
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Michael P. Branch

WHY AM I, a confirmed desert rat, about to offer a paean to cutting trees—to cutting them first down and then up? The answer may be found in the intimate ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 29,2018 )
Sustainability Principles and Practice by Robertson Margaret;
epub |eng | 2017-02-12 | Author:Robertson, Margaret;

p.198 Foundations A foundation transfers and distributes the load of a building to the earth below. Most building foundations involve concrete. Concrete is a mixture of cement, sand, coarse aggregates, ...
( Category: Economics August 27,2018 )
Roots of Ecology by Egerton Frank N.;
epub |eng | 2012-08-26 | Author:Egerton, Frank N.;

FIGURE 7.9. Edward Forbes holding a plant, emphasizing his professorship of botany at Kings College, University of London. By T. H. Maguire, 1849. Source: Egerton 2003. In 1841 Forbes joined ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 27,2018 )
Summer by Karl Ove Knausgaard
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

Ice Cubes Ice cubes are small, hard and shiny cubes of frozen water which are used mainly to cool drinks. The ice cubes produce a rustling or clinking sound when ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2018 )
Ecological Medicine by Kenny Ausubel
epub |eng | | Author:Kenny Ausubel [Ausubel, Kenny; Harpignies, J. P.]

The Role of Herbs in Integrative Medicine Tieraona Low Dog Dr. Tieraona (Ta-row-nay)Low Dog is a dazzling expression of the transformation under way in health care. Among the most dynamic ...
( Category: Alternative Medicine August 25,2018 )
Inglorious by Mark Avery
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Avery

Note * Because Prince Harry, a friend and a gamekeeper were in the area at the time, the police asked whether they had any information that could help. Unfortunately, they ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing August 25,2018 )
A Message from Martha by Mark Avery & Mark Avery
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:Mark Avery & Mark Avery

CHAPTER SIX How the Wild was lost when the West was won Alas, the pigeons and the frosty morning hunts and the delectable pigeon-pie are gone, no more to return. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 25,2018 )
A Mantis Carol by Laurens Van Der Post
epub |eng | 1989-11-12 | Author:Laurens Van Der Post [Laurens van der Post]

Dance of the Great Hunger ‘OF COURSE, I must and will,’ she began, her voice for the first time harsh and almost matter-of-fact, because of stricture of her own recollected ...
( Category: Anthropology August 25,2018 )
The Shape of the Journey by Jim Harrison
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jim Harrison

And the great shattering cold waves On Good Harbor Bay, the sea permanently bleak; a squall line a hundred miles long, the island a dull ugly green, and only one ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
100 Plants to Feed the Bees by The Xerces Society
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:The Xerces Society

Uses Reforestation/shade garden Ornamental Edible/herbal/medicinal Exposure: Sun to shade Soil moisture: Average Bloom time: Early summer Flower color: White Maximum height: 80 feet (24 m) 46. Blackberry, Raspberry (Rubus spp.) ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 24,2018 )
Birds of the Philippines by Norman Arlott
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Arlott

101 WHISTLERS 1 HYLOCITREA (YELLOW-FLANKED WHISTLER) Hylocitrea bonensis 14–15cm FIELD NOTES: Inconspicuous. Forages in the mid-storey and understorey, singly, in pairs or as part of mixed-species feeding flocks. H. b. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2018 )

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