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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Johnson Steven
mobi |eng | 2006-10-18 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

BY THE END OF THE DAY, SNOW HAD BUILT A CONVINCING statistical case against the pump. Of the eighty-three deaths recorded on Farr’s list, seventy-three were in houses that were ...
( Category: Infectious Disease June 11,2015 )
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
The Natural History of Pollination by Michael Proctor
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Proctor [Michael Proctor, Peter Yeo and Andrew Lack]

Other wind-pollinated herbs The flowers of grasses and sedges are so specialised for wind pollination that they bear little resemblance to insect-pollinated flowers. Among the remaining wind-pollinated herbs, an entomophilous ...
( Category: Flowers June 10,2015 )
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome by Nessa Carey
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Nessa Carey [Carey, Nessa]

Figure 12.4 The dots represent the positions of protein-coding genes in the nucleus. If genes were positioned in the nucleus solely as a function of their position on chromosomes, we ...
( Category: Cell Biology June 9,2015 )
Trilobite by Richard Fortey
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

Anomalocaris, at first claimed as a “weird wonder,” but now known to be related to primitive arthropods and hence to trilobites. But when you reach the scene of crime McCavity’s ...
( Category: Fossils June 7,2015 )
Genetic Entropy by John Sanford
mobi |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:John Sanford

Figure 12. Poly-constrained information and poly-constrained DNA. Like puns, palindromes, and other word puzzles, DNA contains poly-functional letters, words, and phrases. Such sequences can only arise by very careful design. ...
( Category: Mammals June 6,2015 )
600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color by W. F. Kirby
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:W. F. Kirby [Kirby, W. F.]

Plate 46 PHYTOMETRIDAE Fig. 1. Ortholitha palumbaria Fig. 2. Ortholitha bipunctaria Fig. 3, a–c. Scotosa certata Fig. 4. Scotosa undulata Fig. 5. Larentia fluctuata Fig. 6. Larentia bilineata Fig. 7. ...
( Category: Butterflies June 6,2015 )
Starting out in Statistics by de Winter Patricia Cahusac Peter M. B
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:de Winter, Patricia, Cahusac, Peter M. B. [de Winter, Patricia, Cahusac, Peter M. B.]

ina 25 4.24 3.38 2.99 2.76 2.60 m 26 4.22 3.37 2.98 2.74 2.59 eno 27 4.21 3.35 2.96 2.73 2.57 D 28 4.20 3.34 2.95 2.71 2.56 29 4.18 ...
( Category: Biology June 5,2015 )
A Whale For The Killing by Farley Mowat
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

"We hailed them and told them to liold off so we could get clear of the Pond. George, he yelled down to we they had orders for to finish off ...
( Category: Marine Life June 5,2015 )
The Ugly Animals: We Can't All Be Pandas by Simon Watt
epub | | 2014-07-08 | Author:Simon Watt

‘… armed with chemical weaponry …’ PART SALAMANDER, PART sausage, this frankfurter-like amphibian is known as an olm. It lives in the cavernous pits below the ground of Slovenia, Croatia, ...
( Category: Zoology June 4,2015 )
A History of Japan by Totman Conrad
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Totman, Conrad [Totman, Conrad]

10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590–1700) Dimensions of Expansion Kyoto Revived Enriching a Common Higher Culture 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700–1850) Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications Cultural and Political Trends 12 CRISIS ...
( Category: Japan June 3,2015 )
The Wandering Mind by Michael C Corballis
epub | | 2014-06-02 | Author:Michael C Corballis [C. Corballis, Michael]

And so language itself was born In the early stages, perhaps, stories were told as pantomimes, as people acted out their experiences. But pantomime is inefficient and often ambiguous, and ...
( Category: Cognitive June 3,2015 )
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Singer

We have now surveyed the main trends in animal raising in which traditional methods have been transformed into factory style animal production. Sadly, as far as the animals are concerned, ...
( Category: Animal Rights June 1,2015 )
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Keith Thomas [Thomas, Keith]

16. THE MAKING OF A WITCH They themselves, by the strength of fancy, may think they bring such things to pass which many times unhappily they wish for and rejoice ...
( Category: ESP June 1,2015 )
The Log From the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics)
mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Marine Biology May 30,2015 )

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