Science & Math
epub |eng | 2012-10-26 | Author:Peter Kropotkin

VII. MUTUAL AID AMONGST OURSELVES Popular revolts at the beginning of the State-period.—Mutual Aid institutions of the present time.—The village community: its struggles for resisting its abolition by the State.—Habits ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Ariel Rubissow Okamoto & Kathleen M. Wong

Booms deployed during fuel transfers in Puget Sound, Washington, to help prevent any spilled oil from contaminating the ecosystem. (Washington State Department of Ecology) Most critical for the bay in ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Alice Roberts & Alice Roberts

NEANDERTHAL CHESTS While the shape of your chest reflects your posture and how you move (as an ape with an upright trunk, which doesn’t hang around in trees any more, ...
( Category: Evolution September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark & Richard York

Navigating the Great Divide: Realism versus Constructionism From its first appearance in the mid-1970s until the 1990s, environmental sociology was characterized by “an almost universal commitment … to a realist ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Waldbauer, Gilbert, Dr.

Figure 8. A North American skunk and an unpalatable African butterfly independently evolved conspicuous black-and-white color patterns that warn predators of their noxiousness. The majority of the 350,000 known beetle ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-22 | Author:Kellett, Celia

Santonin was traditionally used as a treatment for worms. It is obtained from the dried flower heads of a species of Artemisia and is very toxic, particularly so if it ...
( Category: True Crime September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Alex Bellos

What Sam Loyd did with Get Off the Earth was to curve the geometrical vanish so it was in a circular form, and in place of lines put Chinese warriors. ...
( Category: Anthropology September 22,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-18 | Author:Alfred S. Posamentier

Hint: Mathematicians have been frustrated by this question, as they believe it requires thirteen hours, which would make it impossible for them to leave the cave with a flashlight having ...
( Category: Mathematics September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alistair Moffat [Moffat, Alistair]

Thus it came about that Plautius undertook this campaign; but he had difficulty in inducing his army to advance beyond Gaul. For the soldiers were indignant at the thought of ...
( Category: Europe September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Michael Yudell

SO LONG RACE… IN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS Just four months after the Brown decision Curt Stern, a renowned expert on Drosophila and a human geneticist at the University of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan

All together, Pak Teh and his crew would gather nearly a thousand pounds of honey from this tree. It was but one of about ten trees they tend, trees widely ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jammer, Max

* * * 1 The term “theology” was used, probably for the first time, by Plato in his Politeia (Republic II, 379a), then by Aristotle (Metaphysics III, 4, 1000 a ...
( Category: Physics September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:Alan Castle

BIRDS OF THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL As the John Muir Trail winds up and down along the Sierra Nevada, backpackers walk daily through varied terrain and habitats of differing vegetation ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Pfaff, Donald W.

According to the results of Elena Choleris in our lab at Rockefeller University, estrogens (E) circulate in the blood and enter the brain. Arriving at the hypothalamic cell group, the ...
( Category: Medicine September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Shawn Micallef

What Is Brunch Anyway? In 1895, the English writer Guy Beringer published an essay titled ‘Brunch: A Plea’ in a now-obscure periodical called Hunter’s Weekly. Nearly a hundred and twenty ...
( Category: Sociology September 22,2017 )