Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | | Author:David Appleby

Hostility Levels of hostility within the related groups are low but intrusion by unrelated individuals poses a potential risk to offspring, increases the demand on essential resources and is poorly ...
( Category: Animal Psychology May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Donald Kroodsma

Daytime caroling songs Dawn song with carols and hissellys EASTERN BLUEBIRD (Sialia sialis) Summer Year-round Winter HABITAT: Open areas with sparse ground vegetation, often using nest boxes: farmlands, orchards, clear-cuts, ...
( Category: Ornithology May 5,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:Vaclav Smil

OFFSHORE DRILLING In 1949 John Hayward combined a submersible barge and a piled platform to build the first submersible rig, Breton Rig 20; he devised a way to stabilize a ...
( Category: Petroleum May 2,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-24 | Author:Frans de Waal [de Waal, Frans]

Triadic Awareness Siamangs—large black members of the gibbon family—swing high up in the tallest trees of the Asian jungle. Every morning, the male and female burst into spectacular duets. Their ...
( Category: Fauna May 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. M. Coetzee

Marjorie Garber “We are here tonight,” he informed the audience, “to listen to a lecture.” Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim THE TANNER LECTURES sponsored by the Princeton University Center for Human ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication April 30,2016 )
epub | | 2015-10-12 | Author:Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet, Michael Westlake

This bipolar view of the world, already questionable in 1992, is totally out of step with contemporary reality, in which emerging economies have shifted the center of gravity of the ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Sharratt [Sharratt, Mary]

YET, SEATED AT THE dining table, Aemilia couldn’t bring herself to look at him. Such absurd torment, the buzzing in her head would not be silenced. Her hands betrayed her, ...
( Category: Biographical April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Jack Ballard

The physical traits of wild hoofed mammals are remarkably adapted to the habitats in which they live, including specialized abilities that help them escape predators. Pronghorn are exceptionally fleet of ...
( Category: Wildlife April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Crease

Interlude SCIENCE AND METAPHOR YOUNG’S EXPERIMENT, whose beauty stems from the clarity with which he made one phenomenon—light—show itself acting like another—waves—is a classic example of the successful use of ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects April 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:George Monbiot

32 The Self-Attribution Fallacy If wealth were the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1 per ...
( Category: Specific Topics April 21,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Andy Couturier

Growing like thunderheads all summer long, the trees and plants of the woodlands thrive and cover every bit of the mountain until they finally begin to lose their momentum, and ...
( Category: Eastern April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Charles Darwin

Trochilus Forficatus Hacienda, condor, cactus, etc. Cactus; Cereus Peruviana Chilian miner Cordilleras from Santiago de Chile Chilian spurs, stirrup, etc. 1 Caldcieugh, in Philosoph. Transact. for 1836. 2 Annales des ...
( Category: Travel April 20,2016 )