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The New Landscape Declaration by Landscape Architecture Foundation
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Landscape Architecture Foundation

Gina Ford is principal, landscape architect, and chair of Sasaki’s Urban Studio. She holds degrees in architecture from Wellesley College and landscape architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Chapter ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 4,2018 )
The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-29 | Author:Carlos Magdalena

10 Warm Waterlilies A passion for plant conservation. A long-term love affair with waterlilies. I began to wonder if there was a way of bringing them together. Was there a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
Rising Tides by John R. Wennersten
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:John R. Wennersten

AFRICA REFUGEES BY THE NUMBERS Africa is already home to some fourteen million people worldwide displaced by political turmoil and war, but experts say climate change is driving Africa’s displacement ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah K. Strycker
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Noah K. Strycker [Strycker, Noah K.]

seeing red WHEN THE PECKING ORDER BREAKS DOWN Let’s talk chicken. By the end of the twentieth century, domestic chickens outnumbered humans by about four to one on this planet, ...
( Category: Field Guides April 4,2018 )
The Predator Paradox by John Shivik
epub |eng | | Author:John Shivik

CHAPTER 7 OF SPIKED DOUGHNUTS AND TURBO-CHARGED FLAGGING Testing Aversive Stimuli Kari Signor wasn’t much taller than the plastic bins that she bolted to a tree and filled with doughnuts. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
Extreme Simplicity by Christopher Nyerges
epub |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Christopher Nyerges

THE KEY TO SUCCESS: CONSERVATION The whole subject of water use and conservation underscores the fact that our choices in so many countless little areas may result in broad, cumulative ...
( Category: Architecture April 4,2018 )
Animal Kingdom by Jack Ashby
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Ashby

Before they come to blows, hippos will perform incredible ‘yawn’ displays to try and convince each other that they are too big to pick a fight against. The jaw joint ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
American West at Risk by Wilshire Howard G.; Nielson Jane E.; Hazlett Richard W. & Jane E. Nielson & Richard W. Hazlett
epub |eng | 2008-04-04 | Author:Wilshire, Howard G.; Nielson, Jane E.; Hazlett, Richard W. & Jane E. Nielson & Richard W. Hazlett

The fearful link The United States mines uranium mainly from sedimentary deposits in 5 of the 11 western states.78 Dangerous underground uranium mining (see chapter 7) ended in 1992, and ...
( Category: Engineering April 4,2018 )
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

* * * * * * COURTING AND DISPLAYS FINDING AND WINNING a proper mate is an important event, which many animals execute with considerable energy and inventive expertise. In ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
The Sea by John Mack
epub |eng | | Author:John Mack

A man dies on shore – you follow his body to the grave, and a stone marks the spot . . . A man is shot down by your side ...
( Category: World April 4,2018 )
Spider by Unknown
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-04 | Author:Unknown

41 FBI Field Office, New York Howie Baumguard and his new partner, Angelita Fernandez, sat in the conference room waiting for the IT guy to fix the video link to ...
( Category: Field Guides April 4,2018 )
The Man With the Black Dog by Mario Cesare
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Mario Cesare

* * * Mkambati Nature Reserve is named after a species of palm tree native to Madagascar, from where their huge seed pods, oddly shaped like a giant pig’s scrotum, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
Unnatural Harvest by Ingeborg Boyens
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Ingeborg Boyens

* * * — It is tempting to believe we can get the irritants of farming under control. An exhibit at the Epcot Center in Florida’s Disney World imagines a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
A History of Life in 100 Fossils by Paul D. Taylor
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Paul D. Taylor [Taylor, Paul D.]

Losing a skeleton octopus OCTOPUSES ARE PECULIAR CREATURES. With their large eyes and head seemingly capable of accommodating an oversized brain, these molluscs resemble humanoid aliens from a science fiction ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
Mammals of North America by Kays Roland W.; Wilson Don E.;
epub |eng | 2009-04-04 | Author:Kays, Roland W.; Wilson, Don E.; [Kays, Roland W.; Wilson, Don E.]

CACTUS DEERMOUSE Peromyscus eremicus 169–218mm, 92–117mm, 18–40g Medium-sized mouse with long, soft, silky pelage and large ears. Body is pale gray washed with reddish brown above and whitish on the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )

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