mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Royte

A lot can go wrong with your home’s plumbing, but even more goes wrong in the streets. Every year, according to the American Water Works Association, between 250,000 and 300,000 ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Nelson Johnson

8 The Painful Ride Down It was late afternoon in winter. The office was dark and still, save for one room. Hap Farley and his partner, Frank Ferry, were seated ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Jon Krakauer

“Who could resist? And Chris knew it. He’d have this look on his face like ‘I’m damn cute! Want to buy some beans?’ By the time he came home, the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer

VIRGINIA BEACH The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan

THE REVIEWER OF A WEEK who perhaps most upset him was Emerson. Emerson had praised the book to Thoreau in person. Eventually, Thoreau realized that Emerson was not being honest ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

13. A SNAIL’S THOUGHTS why such careful consideration snail? — KOBAYASHI ISSA (1763 – 1828) I WAS CERTAIN THAT my snail was just as aware of the details of its ...

mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...

mobi | | | Author:Willie & Korie Robertson

mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Attenborough, David & Fuller, Errol [Attenborough, David]

Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit from G. D. Elliot’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1873). Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by William Hart ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:[Ken Hultgren

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epub |eng | 2007-02-26 | Author:Maude Barlow [Barlow, Maude]

Ecuador On March 1, 2007, the mayor of Quito, Ecuador’s capital, announced he had halted plans to privatize the city’s water, plans that had been seriously underway for four years. ...