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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (Harvest in Translation) by Saramago José
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1994-09-27 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY IS A WELL-KNOWN SAYING AND to the point, yet not as simple as it may seem to one who is satisfied with the approximate meaning of ...
( Category: Literary October 13,2014 )
Gerald Durrell by Douglas Botting
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1999-10-09 | Author:Douglas Botting [Douglas Botting]

At Kenema they were informed they could put up at a deserted chrome mine up in the foothills about fourteen miles out of town – a convenient spot, they were ...
( Category: Authors October 10,2014 )
100 Under 100 by Scott Leslie
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Scott Leslie [Leslie, Scott]

ARMOURED MISTFROG Happy stories don’t crop up very often in the sobering realm of endangered species. The news reports about threatened animals and plants are almost always dire and typically ...
( Category: Endangered Species October 9,2014 )
Sheep by Sue Weaver
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Sue Weaver

NEW LAMBS Not everything is clover once lambs are born. Lambs are susceptible to diseases and conditions as diverse as constipation and scours (diarrhea), pneumonia, acidosis, enterotoxemia, tetanus, polio, and ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry October 9,2014 )
Goats by Sue Weaver
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Sue Weaver

CARING FOR THE NEW KIDS Make sure your kids get the right start in life so they’ll be healthy. That means ensuring they get the proper nutrients, keep warm, and ...
( Category: Cheese & Dairy October 9,2014 )
Llamas and Alpacas by Sue Weaver
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Sue Weaver

ANTIBIOTIC PROS AND CONS Antibiotic overuse is a real and rapidly expanding problem. Many new livestock owners think, “I’m not going to use antibiotics on my animals.” However, in some ...
( Category: Reference October 9,2014 )
Jensen, Derrick
mobi | | | Author:Endgame Vol. 1

( Category: Environmental Policy October 8,2014 )
Last Chance To See by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
mobi |eng | 1991-12-14 | Author:Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark]

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Ecology October 1,2014 )
Tales of the Rational : Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science by Pigliucci Massimo
mobi |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]

“If the universe bears a greater likeness to animal bodies and to vegetables than to the works of human art, it is more probable that its cause resembles the cause ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays September 29,2014 )
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | 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: Trees September 25,2014 )
Counting Sheep by Philip Walling
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Walling

9 THE SUFFOLK It profiteth the lord to have discreet shepherds, watchful and kindly, so that the sheep be not tormented by their wrath, but crop their pasture in peace ...
( Category: Animals September 22,2014 )
That Quail, Robert by Margaret Stanger
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Stanger

I tried it. I tried it several times. When out there by herself, she paid no attention to a choice ant, she did not go into the geranium bed—she just ...
( Category: Birds September 22,2014 )
Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral by David Dobbs
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life September 22,2014 )
Eels: An Exploration, From New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish by James Prosek
azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:James Prosek

We had come to document the road’s end for the eel. In midsummer, an especially large volume of eels passes through Tsukiji. Eel is the sixth-largest import to Tsukiji overall ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks September 18,2014 )
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Travel September 18,2014 )

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