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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business by Christopher Leonard
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Christopher Leonard [Leonard, Christopher]

* * * By the mid-1990s, Bob Allen and his neighbors were getting better at their jobs. They steadily increased the number of piglets they could get from each sow, ...
( Category: Fauna April 25,2014 )
The Founding Fish by John McPhee
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:John McPhee

During this month a pretty large species of Clupea, called a shad, runs up the Rivers Delaware & Schuylkill in prodigious numbers. It has already proved a very seasonable relief ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 23,2014 )
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Horowitz Alexandra
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Horowitz, Alexandra [Horowitz, Alexandra]

* * * 1 By contrast, there are now thousands of surveillance cameras in Manhattan set to constantly monitor the behavior of persons in their view. In some areas of ...
( Category: General April 21,2014 )
The Derrick Jensen Reader by Derrick Jensen
epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Derrick Jensen

186 I need to be clear that I am not cynical enough to believe all relationships are this way, nor is that my experience. I was speaking specifically of those ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 20,2014 )
Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Paul Greenberg

With fish, though, hope must always be put in context. Around the time of the North American cod crises and the passage of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, Daniel Pauly, known ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture April 19,2014 )
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

A nest of Protoceratops eggs from the Cretaceous of the Mongolian People’s Republic. Courtesy of The American Museum of Natural History The immobilization hypothesis seems particularly apt in light of ...
( Category: Developmental Biology April 19,2014 )
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Elizabeth Kolbert]

A typical example of the species-area relationship, showing the shape of the curve. For the purposes of thinking about extinction, the species-area relationship is key. One (admittedly simplified) way of ...
( Category: Natural History April 13,2014 )
The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-04-12 | Author:Ellen Meloy [Meloy, Ellen]

ONLY A FEW GENERATIONS AGO, social mores, not women, kept women inside. The clothes didn't help much either—girdles, psychotic footwear, personal responsibility for the breakdown of western civilization if you ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 13,2014 )
State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? by The Worldwatch Institute
epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:The Worldwatch Institute [The Worldwatch Institute]

Melissa Leach is a social anthropologist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. She directs the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways ...
( Category: Environmental Science April 12,2014 )
The Extreme Life of the Sea by Palumbi Stephen R. Palumbi Anthony R
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Palumbi, Stephen R., Palumbi, Anthony R. [R. Palumbi, Stephen and R. Palumbi, Anthony]

Corals, warmth, and death Picture a secluded stretch of Samoan coast. Classic palm trees break up the sandy beach’s blinding white, and behind them loom craggy volcanic hills. Warm, placid ...
( Category: Ichthyology April 10,2014 )
The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiessen
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen

6 Beyond Black Drunken River WITH ITS MUD Streets, thatch roofs, and raffish waterfront, and its barefoot Shipibos with their nose ornaments and bright clothing, the Peruvian river town of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 9,2014 )
Creating a Forest Garden by Crawford Martin
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Crawford, Martin [Crawford, Martin]

Deciduous/Evergreen: E Zone: 8 Sun/shade preference: Shade tolerance: Performance rating: Fertility: SF This is the true Mediterranean myrtle – unrelated to the bayberries / wax myrtles, Myrica spp. Size: 0.6-2m ...
( Category: Organic April 4,2014 )
Enjoying Moths by Leverton Roy
epub |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Leverton, Roy [Leverton, Roy]

In practice, the British weather makes it impossible, or at least pointless, to run a moth trap on a sizeable proportion of nights – it might be too cool, too ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders April 4,2014 )
Collins New Naturalist Library (117) – Plant Galls by Redfern Margaret
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Redfern, Margaret [Redfern, Margaret]

GALL MIDGE GALLS Communities in cecidomyiid galls vary in complexity and, as in other galls, consist of parasitoids, predators, inquilines and caterpillar herbivores, with roles that often overlap and merge. ...
( Category: Botany April 4,2014 )
Irish Wild Plants by Coitir Niall Mac
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Coitir, Niall Mac [Coitir, Niall Mac]

Maidenhair Spleenwort – Lus na Seilge – Asplenium trichomanes24 ALTERNATIVE NAMES: (E) White Maidenhair. (I) Lus an Chorráin In Ireland maidenhair spleenwort was used to cure coughs in County Derry, ...
( Category: Plants April 4,2014 )

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