mobi | | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

azw3 |eng | 1992-07-16 | Author:Gould, Stephen Jay [Gould, Stephen Jay]

19 | Velikovsky in Collision NOT LONG AGO, Venus emerged from Jupiter, like Athena from the brow of Zeus—literally! It then assumed the form and orbit of a comet. In ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

I had, once again, meant for this whole essay to be numbers: a landslide of numbers, like brittle talus. But I cannot tolerate them, at present. There is a space ...

mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Terri Irwin

Chapter Twelve The Crocodile Kid Stephen Robert Irwin was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, outside of Melbourne, in 1962, on his mother’s birthday, February 22. Lynette and Robert Irwin—the people ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

July is its own month too, in addition to being a bridge between others—July is the hammock, July is a crowded West, happy people on vacation, crowded gas pumps in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:McCalman, Iain [McCalman, Iain]

PART THREE Wonder 9 OBSESSION The Quest to Prove the Origins of the Reef PEOPLE WHO KNEW American zoologist Alex Agassiz described him as a kindly, gentle, and eminently rational ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Asma, Stephen T. [Asma, Stephen T.]

The monsters from the sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Warner Bros.). Image courtesy of Jerry Ohlinger. Though from a very different perspective, some liberal monsterologists also see civilization hanging in ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Candace Savage

* * * How Prairie Potholes Work At first glance, a slough does not appear to have the makings of a biological powerhouse. What is it, in the final analysis, ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Hoare, Philip [Hoare, Philip]

Up on the rocky headland that overlooks this spectacle, I sit alongside Marcelo on a wooden stool in his concrete cell. Silently, we watch the waves unroll. A few moments ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...

epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:John Muir [Muir, John]

* * * Nothing in after years has dimmed that Alaska storm-day. As I write it all comes rushing and roaring to mind as if I were again in the ...

azw3 |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Rachel Carson & Linda Lear

18 [1953] The Edge of the Sea THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-07-23 | Author:Munns, William [Munns, William]

Fig. #8-12 shows the two frames compared (left, top and bottom) where the motion is detected. Suffice to say, it is more clear in a visual animation cycling from one ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Paul Seabright

PRICES AS OPINION POLLS What may seem mysterious is how prices can come to summarize information in this way. What is the process by which a price, changing in response ...