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Dolphins and Sharks by Mary Pope Osborne
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

The sides of your nose and ears are made out of cartilage. Cartilage feels like bone, but it’s not as hard. Because cartilage is more flexible, sharks can turn quickly ...
( Category: Animals August 29,2017 )
A Sea of Glass by Drew Harvell
epub |eng | | Author:Drew Harvell

6. OCTOPUS AND SQUID Shape-Shifters under Pressure The long-armed squid (Chiroteuthis veranyi) in glass. Photo by Guido Motofico, courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Ireland. AS WE HEAD DOWN ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 29,2017 )
Ablaze by Read Piers Paul;
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Read, Piers Paul;

4 The information about the accident, cautiously and selectively imparted through the Soviet media, did little to reassure the citizens of Kiev. Clips of film showing cows grazing in the ...
( Category: Safety & First Aid August 29,2017 )
Unseen City by Nathanael Johnson
epub |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

Ginkgo Cooked Right After I overcooked my ginkgo seed I was determined to find someone who could show me how they were supposed to taste. Josephine and I returned to ...
( Category: Personal Transformation August 28,2017 )
Wild Hares and Hummingbirds by Stephen Moss
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Moss

NEXT MORNING, THE ghost swift has vanished, but the trap is filled with a profusion of his relatives. Opening a moth trap is the bug-hunters’ equivalent of Christmas morning, except ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 28,2017 )
Harpoon at a Venture by Gavin Maxwell
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Gavin Maxwell

When first I read that I drew from it a great deal of comfort, until I reached the last lines of the same poem, so completely giving it the lie ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 28,2017 )
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Jean Giono [Jean Giono]

Peaceful and regular work, a frugal way of life, the bracing air of the uplands, and above all his tranquillity of mind — all these had given the old man ...
( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
Big Miracle by Tom Rose
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Rose

12 G’day, Australia To journalists, the “story” of the three trapped whales showed more than just the miracle of modern telecommunications. It demonstrated just how powerful they had become. Never ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 28,2017 )
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:John Prebble

It is encouraging to find that such opinions are making their way among poor men who recollect well that their fathers and grandfathers contrived somehow to live while their employment ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice by Trevor Corson
mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Trevor Corson

In the kitchen, Zoran set a snapper on a cutting board in the sink under cold running water. He pointed to the poisonous fins along the back. “Don’t rub your ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 28,2017 )
Discovering the Mammoth by John J. McKay
epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:John J. McKay

CHAPTER 6 THE AMERICAN COUSIN In the fall of 1519, Hernán Cortés, six hundred soldiers, and fifteen horses arrived in the territory of the Tlaxcala, on the eastern edge of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 28,2017 )
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-28 | Author:Temple Grandin

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences August 28,2017 )
Feral Cities by Tristan Donovan
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:Tristan Donovan

Although city life hasn’t done much to change mountain lions, it has had a profound effect on another potential man-eater. For the past thirty years American black bears have moved ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 28,2017 )
The Last Empty Places by Peter Stark
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-28 | Author:Peter Stark [Stark, Peter]

* The British used remarkably innovative ways to cheat the Indians out of their lands. For instance, there was the bitter “Walking Purchase” of 1737. While accounts differ in exact ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 28,2017 )
The Resilient Earth: Science, Global Warming and the Fate of Humanity by Simmons Allen & Doug L. Hoffman
epub |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:Simmons, Allen & Doug L. Hoffman [Simmons, Allen]

Illustration 117: Archimedes' screw. Source Chambers's Encyclopedia, 1875. Ancient Roman historians wrote several biographies about Archimedes' life and works. Unfortunately, only a few copies of Archimedes' own writings survived through ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 28,2017 )

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