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The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Maurice Maeterlinck [Maeterlinck, Maurice]

62 And whom does the queen-bee obey! She is ruled by nourishment given her; for she does not take her own food, but is fed like a child by the ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 22,2017 )
A Power of Old by Bella Forrest
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]

Ash Lithan and Qentos led the way to the pavilion. The remaining royals, Memenion, Hadalix and the abomination that was Queen Trina, were already gathered and waiting. I tried my ...
( Category: Vampires March 22,2017 )
Upstream by Mary Oliver
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Mary Oliver

5. Poe’s work is exquisitely and opulently constructed; the narratives have a fascination that is a sure-hold—a quality that, for lack of another word, one might simply call entertainment. They ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2017 )
The Hidden Lives of Owls by Leigh Calvez
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Leigh Calvez [Calvez, Leigh]

Now we in the Pacific Northwest are faced with a complicated dilemma. Some biologists have proposed the systematic removal of the invasive Barred Owl from the land we have set ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 15,2017 )
The Science of Game of Thrones by Helen Keen
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Helen Keen

To create one–you just need a scaled-up, really tall human, right? Easy! Well, no. The ‘scaling up’ bit is exactly where we run into difficulties in the real world, thanks ...
( Category: Trivia March 13,2017 )
A Game of Risk by Bella Forrest
epub |eng | 2016-07-13 | Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]

Bastien I tried to look casual as I entered the Mortclaws’ mountain and wound my way toward my parents’—and my old—bedroom. I arrived to find the door slightly ajar. As ...
( Category: Vampires March 12,2017 )
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Egan

THE DNA EVIDENCE THAT ASIAN CARP ARE SWIMMING IN LAKE Michigan has mounted in recent years. It turned up some 200 miles north of Chicago in the waters of Wisconsin’s ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2017 )
Curiosities of the California Desert: Historic, Offbeat & Forgotten Attractions by Heller Claudia
epub |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Heller, Claudia [Heller, Claudia]

The 1897 Santa Barbara Church in Randsburg burned down soon after it was constructed. It was rebuilt in 1904. It is probably the most photographed structure in the old mining ...
( Category: Pictorial March 9,2017 )
Sun Moon Earth by Tyler Nordgren
epub |eng | 2016-08-05 | Author:Tyler Nordgren

By this reasoning, since the famous astronomers of the nineteenth century were doing nothing more than filling in details of well-established laws, then perhaps it is no coincidence that today ...
( Category: Astronomy March 5,2017 )
Soul of the Rhino by Hemanta Mishra & Jim Ottaway
epub |eng | | Author:Hemanta Mishra & Jim Ottaway

12 SCIENCE AND SHAMANISM “Drinking from one end and pissing from the other,” I muttered. “Farting and shitting in between.” I wanted to relieve the tension. We had a long, ...
( Category: General March 4,2017 )
Wild as It Gets by Don Pinnock
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Don Pinnock

The art of walking The word saunter isn’t used much these days, probably because so few of us do it. Instead we march. The dictionary links sauntering to words like ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 4,2017 )
Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design by Timothy Beatley
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Timothy Beatley

PART 3: A Global Survey of Innovative Practice and Projects What follows is a set of short case studies that succinctly describe innovative biophilic projects and planning efforts around the ...
( Category: Architecture March 1,2017 )
How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea (Natural Navigation) by Tristan Gooley
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Tristan Gooley [Gooley, Tristan]

Wave diffraction through a narrow gap. A narrow gap gives the most dramatic demonstration of wave diffraction, but it’s actually happening whenever any waves pass obstacles. If you hide behind ...
( Category: Oceanography February 26,2017 )
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Paul Stamets [Stamets, Paul]

FIGURE 191 “Spaulded” (or “tiger”) maple shaker box, made of wood from a log inoculated with reishi (Ganoderma lucidum). When using the beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica), the wood is stained ...
( Category: Organic February 24,2017 )
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

7 The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on the Hooghly River. The vessel’s engine is said to have been sent from Birmingham to Calcutta in ...
( Category: Conservation February 24,2017 )

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