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Hawthorn by Bill Vaughn
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Bill Vaughn

NINE A Tree for All Seasons More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 27,2018 )
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Davis

Chupacabra taco stand in Hollywood In Los Angeles, the Chupacabra craze was something of an antidote to the monomania of the Simpson trial. While O.J. was saturating English-language television in ...
( Category: Sociology July 26,2018 )
The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction by Thom Hartmann
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-25 | Author:Thom Hartmann [Hartmann, Thom]

Torches in the seas Only discovered in a serious way in the 1960s, there is so much methane in the form of clathrates, such as the frozen methane slurry on ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 22,2018 )
The Way of a Ship by Derek Lundy
epub |eng | 2013-07-21 | Author:Derek Lundy

Historians have lately become more interested in Jack Tar, some as part of the rise of social history during the last half of the twentieth century. The traditional approach of ...
( Category: Water Sports July 22,2018 )
Goat Song by Brad Kessler
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Brad Kessler

1¾ gallons 1 gallon Scrubbed buckets. Made chèvre from four gallons. JULY 21 In my lap—a doe, And in her lap—a harp; She plays it with her fingers, And kills ...
( Category: Regional U.S July 21,2018 )
Junk Raft by Marcus Eriksen
epub |eng | 2017-05-14 | Author:Marcus Eriksen [Eriksen, Marcus]

DAY 44: JULY 14, 2008, MILE 719 Hurricane Genevieve (Latitude 23°06’, Longitude 123°08’) “You must stay in cold seas!” Charlie says over the satellite phone. We had called him for ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 21,2018 )
100 Heartbeats by Jeff Corwin
epub |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Jeff Corwin [Jeff Corwin]

The ferret isn’t safe yet, though. Its old nemesis the plague struck a colony of 300 in South Dakota during the wet spring and early summer of 2008, killing as ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 21,2018 )
The Secret World of Red Wolves by T. DeLene Beeland
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:T. DeLene Beeland

Paradiso’s take on why hybridization became widespread was a very different interpretation than the idea that simple habitat destruction and alteration had frayed existing social structures and allowed hybridization, which ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 20,2018 )
Ivory, Horn and Blood by Ronald Orenstein
epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Ronald Orenstein

CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE LAST RHINOS For two rhinoceros subspecies, and possibly more, our best conservation efforts are already too late. The story of the Vietnamese Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus), a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 20,2018 )
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History [1977, 1992] by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 1977-10-31 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

19 | Velikovsky in Collision NOT LONG AGO, Venus emerged from Jupiter, like Athena from the brow of Zeus—literally! It then assumed the form and orbit of a comet. In ...
( Category: Evolution July 20,2018 )
The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Paul Bogard

The original grasslands in all their glory are something we will never see. “The most decimated ecosystem in continental North America,” the prairie is sometimes called. Gone are the grizzly ...
( Category: Earth Sciences July 20,2018 )
Butterflies of the Midwest by Jaret C. Daniels
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Jaret C. Daniels

White-lined Sphinx 2.4–3.6" forewing with wide diagonal white line from apex; hindwing with pink center; feeds like a hummingbird at flowers; active at dusk and dawn Abbott’s Sphinx 2–2.8" forewing ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 19,2018 )
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell
epub |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:James Campbell [Campbell, James]

CHAPTER 7 Back-to-Nature Boys In 1975, when Heimo Korth left Wisconsin, leaving behind everything and everybody he knew, he was answering a universally familiar call—the yearning to escape home. When ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 19,2018 )
Horse by Elaine Walker
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Elaine Walker

Daniéle Da Meda’s photographic series, Gauchos shows traditional tools in modern hands. The images were taken in the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul and explore the region’s ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 19,2018 )
Terra Nova by Eric W. Sanderson
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Eric W. Sanderson

Figure No. 67 The Sunny Country: US Solar Power Potential The solar power potential of the US is, conservatively, at least 1,000 times greater than the wind power potential. For ...
( Category: Technology July 18,2018 )

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