Nature & Ecology
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:James Burke
In 1763 the end of the Seven Years War meant that the government was no longer in urgent need of capital, so the rate of interest on borrowed money fell ...
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Scientists
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Marq de Villiers
Dec. 26. Afternoon. Steve and Mary arrived at noon. They left Buzzard's Bay two days ago. Their weather service hadn't warned them. Their boat was damaged and they were exhausted, ...
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Weather
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Jerry Thompson; Simon Winchester
Gary Carver’s memory of that deceptively sunny day was just as vivid. The shockwaves hit while he was driving to his office on the Humboldt State campus in Arcata. After ...
( Category:
Natural History
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Matthew Scully
These last two come from Mr. Budiansky, raising yet again the question of how he keeps getting from “unknowable territory” to the confident assertion that animals think and feel nothing. ...
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Zoology
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:David Quammen
Now we come to the question of human survival, a matter of some interest to many. We come to a certain fretful leap of logic that otherwise thoughtful observers seem ...
( Category:
Ecology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | 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 ...
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Marine Life
March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen
105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
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Endangered Species
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Thomas French
That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category:
Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Bernd Heinrich
12 New England Longhorns 23 July 2005. TODAY I FOUND SEVERAL FOOT-LONG LIVE oak twigs on the ground under the tree I had planted about fifteen years ago next to ...
( Category:
Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman
After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
( Category:
Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Philip Hoare
NEGRO SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1 AUGUST MDCCCXXXIV –although it faces another building, one that belies the city’s claim to manumission. Passing through the double doors with their polished brass fingerplates, I ...
( Category:
Marine Life
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Hattie Ellis
How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category:
Insects & Spiders
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Mark W. Moffett
13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...
( Category:
Insects & Spiders
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Vaillant
Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category:
Environmental Policy
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Henry Nicholls
26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category:
Mammals
March 25,2014 )
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