Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Darryl Jones

Changes in Behavior To conclude this selective review of supplementary feeding experiments on tits and chickadees, we turn to the possible influences on perhaps the most malleable and immediate features ...
( Category: Field Guides March 24,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1999-11-15 | Author:A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Chapter 12 I’d expected Katz to be insufferable in the morning, but in fact he was surprisingly gracious. He called me for coffee and when I emerged, feeling wretched and ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-14 | Author:A short history of nearly everything

20 SMALL WORLD IT'S PROBABLY NOT a good idea to take too personal an interest in your microbes. Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francisco Gutiérrez & Mateo Gutiérrez

Fig. 8.1BThe 1925 Lower Gros Ventre translational slide, Wyoming, developed on a dip slope underlain by sandstone, limestone and shale dipping around 20° towards the valley. This rapid 40 million ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 23,2018 )
epub, mobi | | 2016-01-08 | Author:Robin Kimmerer

Back home I wash away the last bits of black soil and trim the long white roots. One big handful of leeks we set aside, unwashed. The girls chop the ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Michael Tennesen

The Polar Regions Climate changes in the polar regions will be the greatest of any area on Earth and will cause major ecological, sociological, and economic impacts—especially in the Arctic ...
( Category: Environment March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-22 | Author:David Suzuki

Chapter 6 TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS ABUNDANT, CHEAP FOSSIL fuels have driven explosive technological, industrial, and economic expansion for more than a century. The pervasive infrastructure developed to accommodate this growth makes ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-22 | Author:Rob Wood

-11- DEEP WILDERNESS “What is it about Canadian wilderness that is so important for us to defend?” SINCE EARLY CHILDHOOD I HAVE been intuitively responsive to the ability of wild ...
( Category: Sustainable Living March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Todd McLeish

Chapter 8: Cucumbers and Geoducks PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA AFTER ALASKA attained statehood in 1959, it became responsible for the small sea otter populations in the state, and from ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 22,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:Tristram D. Wyatt

Honest signals Across the animal kingdom, signals within a species seem to be honest on the whole. This might seem surprising: what is to stop animals from boasting or deceiving ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Henry Fountain

— The screeching was the worst thing. Gloria Day didn’t recognize the noise, but later she realized what it was: the sound of her house, just a few blocks from ...
( Category: Earth Sciences March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Kim Meeder [Meeder, Kim]

While contemplating all that had happened, it occurred to me that, just like our once unwanted and unloved property, trees, horses, and kids, so too this horse had come to ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 22,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1996-08-01 | Author:Keith H. Basso [Basso, Keith H.]

Western Apache conceptions of language and thought are cast in pervasively visual terms. Every occasion of ‘speaking’ (yałti’) provides tangible evidence of ‘thinking’ (natsíkęęs), and thinking occurs in the form ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Lewis-Stempel

Tisk. Tisk. Tisk. A robin endlessly repeats its alarm call in the hedge bordering the Grove. Tisk. Tisk. Tisk. It is around eleven o’clock and Edith and I have tramped ...
( Category: Sociology March 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:BirdNote & Ellen Blackstone & Emily Poole

Blakiston’s Fish Owl A SERIES OF DISTINCTIVE low hoots signals the presence of a sumo wrestler of a bird. It’s Blakiston’s Fish Owl—“Blakiston’s” because its existence was recorded by the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 21,2018 )