Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | | Author:Joanna Macy

Our extermination of other species has been compared to popping rivets out of the wings of an airplane in flight. How many rivets can the plane lose before it begins ...
( Category: Motivational July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 1987-06-01 | Author:Marc Reisner [Reisner, Marc]

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Abdel-Motaal, Doaa;

THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES The Moon Treaty was negotiated to create a more specific regime for the Moon than the Outer Space Treaty. Article 1 of the latter ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 18,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jim Corbett [Corbett, Jim]

CYANIDE POISONING As I was returning to the Inspection Bungalow after visiting the goat that had been killed the previous night, I was informed in the village that my presence ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Judy Colbert

essentials George Washington University bounded by 21st, G, 22nd, and H streets, Washington, D.C. 20052. Enter through the Trustees Gate on H Street, Professors Gate on 21st Street, or America’s ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amina Khan

6 HIVE MIND How Ants’ Collective Intelligence Might Change the Networks We Build Few creatures you might find on land look as humble as the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The ...
( Category: Engineering July 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:William deBuys

The packs must be rebalanced. Because the rice bags are much lighter, the other loads require adjustment. Viengxai grins as I open my pack and remove the tent and sleeping ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-16 | Author:James Kaiser

The painters of the Hudson River School not only introduced Mount Desert Island to the masses in the 1800s, they also helped launch the American conservation movement. Two hundred years ...
( Category: Food, Lodging & Transportation July 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rust, Stephen; Monani, Salma; Cubitt, Sean

conclusion: the end of the line The early history of undersea filmmaking continues to hold weight today, as the tropes advanced during each of these periods has shaped subsequent views ...
( Category: Photography & Video July 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Michael Klare

THE NILE RIVER BASIN Since very early times, the waters of the Nile River have sustained human habitation in what is now Egypt and Sudan. Every fall, raging floodwaters pour ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Margaret Millar

10 Mnemos The bird arriving here in the spring is dominated by one great purpose. He must find a place to breed, a nesting site safe from predators, with food ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Adrian Vickers Miguel Covarrubias [Covarrubias, Adrian Vickers Miguel]

Often the group was visited by the leaders of famous orchestras from other villages who were invited as guests of the community to teach new compositions. The leaders of the ...
( Category: Anthropology July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Jeremy Narby & Jeremy Narby

TRANSFORMERS AND TRANSFORMATION kept cropping up during this investigation. My hunch is that part of nature’s essence is to transform itself, to evolve. The beings of this world seem driven ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:Kevin Dann

* * * HENRY THOREAU FAMOUSLY had the most acute senses—of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting; to each sensory domain, he brought focused powers of attention. As we moderns narrow our ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marren

The Wettest Place in England 27 Thread Rush Juncus filiformis A miniature rush with a pompom head halfway along a thread-like stem On the shingle shore of Derwentwater, Cumbria 26 ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 12,2018 )