epub |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Seabright, Paul [Seabright, Paul]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

The original draft of the poem survives, with a pair of Ginkgo biloba leaves charmingly crossed at the bottom of the page, but, sadly, Goethe’s original tree does not. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

Chapter 7 Silent Forests, Crowded Oceans TREE-TRUNKS RISE to more than thirty metres. They are sheer, virtually unbranched up to their crowns. The air is so humid that the moisture ...

epub |eng | 1845-03-26 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

One day I rode up the valley to the farthest inhabited spot. Shortly above that point, the Cachapual divides into two deep tremendous ravines, which penetrate directly into the great ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Fortey

The original draft of the poem survives, with a pair of Ginkgo biloba leaves charmingly crossed at the bottom of the page, but, sadly, Goethe’s original tree does not. The ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Neil Shubin [Shubin, Neil]

This was an age of exploration of the natural world, and by looking at rocks and fossils, people began to formulate new ideas. Ships returned monthly from the far corners ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Marie Brennan [Brennan, Marie]

PART THREE In which scientific progress is made, despite the obstacle of a demon from the ancient past THIRTEEN An unexpected greeting upon our return — The continued problem of ...

epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Attenborough

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, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jon Bell

JOEL PALMER didn’t ever walk to the very top of Mount Hood, nor did he own a pair of sneakers. But in 1845 the Canadianborn pioneer became the first known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...