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The Appalachian Trail Visitor's Companion by Leonard Adkins
epub |eng | 1998-04-17 | Author:Leonard Adkins

Yellow lady’s slipper Viper’s bugloss Flame azalea Bloodroot To show that mountain laurel and rhododendron are not just southern plants, it is possible to find the pink blossoms of rhodora ...
( Category: South Atlantic April 18,2016 )
1623363853 (N) by Nathanael Johnson
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

TURKEY VULTURE Josephine, breathless and wild-eyed, found me in the kitchen. “Papa! There’s an eagle!” “Do you mean a seagull?” “No, an e-gull!” She pointed outside. I wiped my hands ...
( Category: Ecology April 17,2016 )
Weird Life by David Toomey
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:David Toomey

CHAPTER SEVEN Intelligent Weird Life SETI has been with us since 1959, the year that physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published a paper in the journal Nature outlining an ...
( Category: Biology April 16,2016 )
Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake

Figure 7. Nested Hierarchy. Diagrammatic representation of a nested hierarchy, which could represent subatomic particles in atoms, molecules, or crystals, for example; cells in tissues, organs, or organisms; or planets ...
( Category: Cosmology April 15,2016 )
Heritage Apples by Susan Lundy
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Susan Lundy

Stung by the loss of those trees, Clay forged an idea to graft as many of Sooke’s heritage trees as possible and plant them in the Sunriver Community & Allotment ...
( Category: Trees April 14,2016 )
The Naturalist by Darrin Lunde
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
Feathers by Robert Clark
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Robert Clark [Robert Clark and Carl Zimmer]

gray junglefowl PENINSULAR INDIA gallus sonneratii If it weren’t for its remarkable gold and black crest, the Gray Jungle-fowl would look very much like a common farm Chicken. Its colorful ...
( Category: Plants & Animals April 14,2016 )
Shark by Richard Ellis
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 11,2016 )
RSPB Seabirds by Marianne Taylor
epub |eng | 2014-04-10 | Author:Marianne Taylor

Black-headed Gulls breed inland as well as on coasts, favouring marshy wetlands. Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla Against the light, Kittiwakes show markedly translucent primary feathers. The Kittiwake is a part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 11,2016 )
RSPB Spotlight by Euan Dunn
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Euan Dunn

Puffins are essentially mariners who traverse the boundaries of sea, air and land in the breeding season. Wings must work hard to generate the lift needed for getting a stocky ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 10,2016 )
Reef Libre by Robert Wintner
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Wintner

The afterdeck was enclosed with nylon and transparent vinyl panels to fend off evening breezes. A banquet table set for nine transformed the 9 × 15 space into a perfect ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 9,2016 )
British Sheep Breeds by Susannah Parkin
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Susannah Parkin

North Ronaldsay is a small breed, indigenous to the Orkneys. The sheep survive on the seashore, living on a diet consisting entirely of seaweed. Native to the Orkneys, this is ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry April 8,2016 )
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Foster

4 FIRE Fox The Tube is a syringe, pushing a solution of bodies and electric air into the city’s limbs. When you ooze out of Bethnal Green station, there’s a ...
( Category: Wildlife April 8,2016 )
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...
( Category: Mammals April 8,2016 )
Critical Animal Studies by McCance Dawne
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:McCance, Dawne [McCance]

Ethics of Care Carol Adams elaborates her more recent critique of rights theory in favor of a feminist “ethics of care” in the above-mentioned anthology she edited with Josephine Donovan, ...
( Category: Zoology April 8,2016 )

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