Nature & Ecology
mobi |eng | 2006-01-03 | Author:John Vaillant

DESPITE HIS PROPENSITY for envelope-pushing, Hadwin was injured badly in the bush only once—when the pawl on a jack he was using slipped under load, causing the handle to flip ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

WHEN I WAS growing up in southern California, I formed the rudiments of a local geography—eucalyptus trees, February rains, desert cottontails. I lost much of it when my family moved ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Tom Kizzia [Kizzia, Tom]

Papa was happier than anyone could remember, persecuted and on the run with disciples. He renamed his followers Naomi and Ruth. Rose and the youngest children hid with their guests ...
( Category: True Crime September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Doty

Even in the awful suburbs, there were long walks in the forest nearby, while the leaves turned every imaginable shade of yellow, and deer stirred in the oak groves near ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-19 | Author:John Nielsen [John Nielsen]

[Our bird] managed to escape at one point, and raced full tilt to the end of the leash and surprise: the water-softened soil no longer held the stake and the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Anthony Bourke [Bourke, Anthony]

We had to prepare Christian for his journey to Kenya, as the long flight to Nairobi would be an ordeal. He was to fly with East African Airways, and regulations ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Cheeta

When I’m swinging upside down in my tire behind the Sanctuary, the contrails of the airplanes segmenting the little rectangle of blue visible above the climbproof wall appear to me ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 18,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-09-18 | Author:Bradford Angier

Begin construction of the frame first by stabilizing the largest of switches into a point on the ground. Do the same for another switch at the opposite side of the ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Loxton, Daniel & Prothero, Donald R. [Loxton, Daniel]

Figure 5.23 Many nineteenth-century artists and writers depicted epic battles between the newly discovered ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Onto that stage stepped Mary Anning, a working-class Englishwoman whose sharp eye and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-19 | Author:Richard Fortey

One of the sheets from the herbarium of Linnaeus in the Linnean Society of London. This is larkspur, Delphinium consolidum. The President of the Linnean Society would preside over a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 18,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Marie Brennan

PART THREE In which scientific progress is made, despite the obstacle of a demon from the ancient past THIRTEEN An unexpected greeting upon our return — The continued problem of ...
( Category: Fantasy September 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Powers [Powers, William]

SIMPLIFY 14. THE IDLE MAJORITY ON JANUARY 21, 1949, some two billion people woke up and got out of bed, still unaware of the terrible change that had taken place ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

Intensification of the Pig Industry and the Problems for Pigs Raising hogs for market is not an easy job. Fifty years ago, farmers kept their pigs outdoors in dirt lots ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Victoria Whitworth [Whitworth, Victoria]

We hope you enjoyed this book. Victoria Whitworth’s next novel is coming in 2018 For an preview of her recent novel Daughter of the Wolf, read on or click the ...
( Category: Europe September 17,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-06 | Author:Yallop, Jacqueline [Yallop, Jacqueline]

A couple of times a day, we hose them down. We stand just inside the fence, turn the water pressure high, fit our thumb over the end of the pipe ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 17,2017 )