Natural History
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

Fruit and flower scarabs. All but one of these cetoniines are from East Africa; the South American rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules (lower left), is shown in four views, male and ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Kyle Dickman [Dickman, Kyle]

But for many hours, the hotshots droned through the flat, windswept high desert that lies between Jemez Springs and Prescott. The crew didn’t pull into the base until after seven ...
( Category: Fire Science June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:Michael Pollan

That day, my second on the farm, as Joel introduced me to each of his intricately layered enterprises, I began to understand just how radically different this sort of farming ...
( Category: Natural History June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-13 | Author:McMillan, John [McMillan, John]

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...
( Category: Free Enterprise June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Muir, John [Muir, John]

* * * XVI Nevada's Dead Towns[21] Nevada is one of the very youngest and wildest of the States; nevertheless it is already strewn with ruins that seem as gray ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:White, Gilbert [White, Gilbert]

* * * Letter XI To The Honourable Daines Barrington Selborne, Feb. 8, 1772. Dear Sir, When I ride about in the winter, and see such prodigious flocks of various ...
( Category: Natural History May 30,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:J.B. MacKinnon

* Vegetarianism was in fashion in 1620s Netherlands, and one Snyders scholar has argued that this may have influenced the artist’s sympathetic portrayal of fish, which he often shows twisted ...
( Category: Ecology April 5,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Florence Williams

• 9 • HOLY CRAP: HERMAN, HAMLET, AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HUMAN GUT O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-28 | Author:Gould, Stephen Jay Jay [Gould, Stephen Jay Jay]

It has been charged upon the views here advanced that they tend to the support of slavery…. Is that a fair objection to a philosophical investigation? Here we have to ...
( Category: Natural History March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Ben-Erik van Wyk

NOTES Infusions of juniper berries or juniper oil are traditional diuretic and antiseptic medicines. The oil is used in aromatherapy. 1. Mabberley, D.J. 2008. Mabberley’s plant-book (3rd ed.). Cambridge University ...
( Category: Herbs January 30,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

It was, of course, often done—but rarely said so boldly and without apology. In any case, Caldwell eventually found the eggs of the platypus (usually laid two at a time ...
( Category: Natural History January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Jane Goodall

And Now “Superweeds” Monsanto has also created GE crops (soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beet) that are tolerant of its own brand of herbicide, Roundup, now the most widely ...
( Category: Primatology January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men. Several years ago I visited India on a trip sponsored by Harvard’s Natural History Museum. My colleagues delighted in ...
( Category: Fauna January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bill Hayes

Dr. Ehrlich never actually got to view the drama within the blood. But what was to him the most likely scenario involving the most likely suspects can now be clearly ...
( Category: Hematology January 6,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Michael Pollan

( Category: Natural History January 6,2015 )