Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2000-03-24 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

Out of this unsentimental calculus of marital conflict and deceit can be drawn a new perception of cuckoldry. When fertilization occurs by insemination, the universal mode of reptiles, birds, and ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Bekoff

Give Peace a Chance: We Do Not Have to Go to War I’VE WRITTEN A NUMBER OF ESSAYS about the importance of cooperation, fairness, compassion, and empathy in the evolution ...
( Category: Wildlife July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:The Worldwatch Institute [The Worldwatch Institute]

When delegates to the UN climate conference in Indonesia in 2007 agreed to the so-called Bali Roadmap, ICLEI gathered local government organizations to form the Local Government Climate Roadmap 2007–2009—the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 2,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Gerald Durrell

6. Capybara and Cayman Our fortnight in the Rupununi passed so quickly that we were surprised one night when we discovered, swinging in our hammocks and calculating on our fingers, ...
( Category: Animals July 1,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Paul Rosolie

12 The Beached-Whale Paradox Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER I once made a decision so ludicrously ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry June 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

The original draft of the poem survives, with a pair of Ginkgo biloba leaves charmingly crossed at the bottom of the page, but, sadly, Goethe’s original tree does not. The ...
( Category: Marine Biology June 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Paul Chambers

Crab Apple – Malus sylvestris ‘When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian’s nose looks red ...
( Category: Botany June 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-12 | Author:Martin Crawford [Crawford, Martin]

( Category: Organic June 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

The point of these memories about my introduction to publishing at Macmillan is that because of my inside experiences in the industry I saw the writer’s life from a perspective ...
( Category: Authors June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:John Gierach [Gierach, John]

12 TEMPORARY PURIST I live near the confluence of two perfectly good freestone trout creeks in the Rocky Mountains, but in early April when the midges are still on and ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Haber, Gordon & Holleman, Marybeth [Haber, Gordon]

Not only do many other animals pass near wolf homesites, but virtually all of the homesites and dens are also used by many other animals, including foxes, ground squirrels, porcupines, ...
( Category: State & Local June 6,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

And now outside the window, deep on the horizon, a new thing appears, as if we needed a new thing. It is a new land blue beyond islands, hitherto hidden ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays June 5,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Tom Kelley

(photo/illustration credit 4.5) STORYBOARDING A SERVICE Whereas products can be prototyped with machine tools or 3D printers, new services are prototyped using other methods. One simple approach is to create ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving June 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Rothenberg

FOUR OUT OF THE FIFTEEN PHRASE TYPES OF SOTAVALTA’S THRUSH NIGHTINGALE NAGUIB’S THRUSH NIGHTINGALE PHRASE SONOGRAMS In this case the musical notation shows more nuance, even if it looks too ...
( Category: Ornithology June 1,2014 )