Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2015-06-25 | Author:Tim Flannery
CHAPTER THIRTEEN At Last, EVs In 2003, no one was doing lithium-ion batteries for consumer cars. J.B. STRAUBEL, TESLA CTO1 I AM embarrassed to say that EVs (electric vehicles) got ...
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Nature & Ecology
April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Fiona Reynolds
We love oak woodlands today but even these caused controversy when they were planted in the Royal Forests to grow timber for ship-building in the eighteenth century. (Courtesy of Latitude ...
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Politics & Government
April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Anthony
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Three days later the call came in from Vincent Otti on a satellite phone somewhere deep in the jungles of the Congo. ‘Mr Anthony, the situation is bad. ...
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Biological Sciences
April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 1994-05-01 | Author:Dekorne, Jim [Dekorne, Jim]
3. Ibid., p. 48. 4. Hesse, E. (1946). Narcotics and Drug Addiction, New York, Philosophical Library, p. 103. 5. Encyclopedia Britannica (1968), Vol. 7: p. 466. 6. Encyclopedia Britannica (1911), ...
( Category:
New Age & Spirituality
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Mitchinson, John [Mitchinson, John]
LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
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Biological Sciences
April 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Korst, Amy [Korst, Amy]
Dental Products Dental products pose a tough problem to those of us living zero-waste lifestyles. Many parts of the dental hygiene routine create trash—the toothpaste tube and floss being the ...
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Sustainable Living
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Mann, Charles C. [Mann, Charles C.]
The Ouachita mounds as they may have appeared at their creation, 5,400 years ago. Because modern-day hunter-gatherers in Africa live in egalitarian bands that constantly move from place to place, ...
( Category:
Americas
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Stewart, Amy [Stewart, Amy]
SIZE: 15 mm FAMILY: Rhinotermitidae HABITAT: Found underground, in trees, or in attics and crawl spaces of wood structures. DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, China, Japan, Hawaii, South Africa, Sri Lanka, southeastern United ...
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Biological Sciences
April 26,2018 )
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) by Egan Timothy
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Egan, Timothy [Egan, Timothy]
Chapter 7 FRIENDS OF THE HIDE At the Nisqually Delta, where Puget Sound picks up the runoff from one of Mount Rainier’s longest glaciers and then doglegs north, creatures of ...
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Nature & Ecology
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-28 | Author:Grady, Wayne [Grady, Wayne]
MAJOR WETLANDS OF THE GREAT LAKES BASIN As the continent’s western regions opened to colonization, swamps were considered impediments to settlement. In 1850, the United States passed the Swamp Lands ...
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Americas
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Mittelbach, Margaret [Mittelbach, Margaret]
After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
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Nature & Ecology
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Earle, Sylvia A. [Earle, Sylvia A.]
Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
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Nature & Ecology
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Shetterly, Susan Hand [Shetterly, Susan Hand]
Letting Summer Go Here, in the most northeasterly part of the country, I dropped my fear of snakes. I could pick up any snake I found, and did, and if ...
( Category:
Nature & Ecology
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Kingsolver, Barbara [Kingsolver, Barbara]
Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...
( Category:
Memoirs
April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Swan, Robert & Reavill, Gil [Swan, Robert & Reavill, Gil]
Icewalk Fifteen minutes of fame is short. The media glare shone brightly upon In the Footsteps of Scott, illuminated us for a brief moment, then winked out. But people remembered. ...
( Category:
Engineering
April 26,2018 )
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