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Spider Dance
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Carole Nelson Douglas [Douglas, Carole Nelson]

My Lollita: I am glad the gold comb in the shape of a crown is favorable to you in California, the place of gold lying on and inside the ground. ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders May 30,2015 )
John James Audubon
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * IV. About the very great merit of this work, there is but one opinion among competent judges. It is, indeed, a monument to the man's indomitable energy ...
( Category: Zoology May 30,2015 )
Bramble-Bees and Others
mobi |eng | | Author:Fabre, Jean-Henri [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

CHAPTER 8. THE LEAF-CUTTERS. It is not enough that animal industry should be able, to a certain extent, to adapt itself to casual exigencies when choosing the site of a ...
( Category: Zoology May 30,2015 )
Creative Evolution
mobi |eng | | Author:Bergson, Henri [Bergson, Henri]

CHAPTER IV THE CINEMATOGRAPHICAL MECHANISM OF THOUGHT AND THE MECHANISTIC ILLUSION--A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF SYSTEMS[96]--REAL BECOMING AND FALSE EVOLUTIONISM. It remains for us to examine in themselves two ...
( Category: Cosmology May 30,2015 )
Wake-Robin
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
The Natural History of Selborne
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 )
NUTS AND BERRIES OF CALIFORNIA by Nyerges Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Nyerges, Christopher

Sometimes called husk tomato; one species (cultivated) is the popular tomatillo. The ripe fruits were eaten by the native peoples living in the desert near the Colorado River. The fruits ...
( Category: State & Local May 28,2015 )
The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by David Quammen
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

17 The idea of Ouesso and its market served as a crucial enticement to get the Voyager, as I imagine him, on his way. That’s where the wildcat notion of ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys May 27,2015 )
Gods of the Morning by John Lister-Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:John Lister-Kaye

11 The Long Wait When Springtime came, red Robin built a nest, And trilled a lover’s song in sheer delight. Grey hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might Clothed her ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
The Intimate Bond by Brian Fagan
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Brian Fagan

Riding horses opened up the steppes and provided a degree of mobility to people living in undeveloped country that had been unimaginable even a thousand years earlier. It also transformed ...
( Category: Animals May 27,2015 )
Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade by Rademeyer Julian
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Rademeyer, Julian [Rademeyer, Julian]

Either in August or September 2010, Pace secured the first rhinos to be slaughtered. Chai paid over R1 million in cash for them. As before, the money was drawn from ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
My Turn by Nancy Reagan
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Nancy Reagan [Reagan, Nancy]

I joined him for the second meeting, where he thanked all the young people and the volunteers who had worked so hard for him. “Don’t get cynical,” he told them. ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
My Natural History by Simon Barnes
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Simon Barnes [Simon Barnes]

A few years after my return to England, the wedding, the honeymoon and the marsh harrier, I was, if I might be so immodest, a success. At least, modest aims ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species by J. A. Mills
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:J. A. Mills [Mills, J. A.]

Tiger farming has proven to be a divisive issue and one that has distracted many in the conservation community from the common goal of saving wild tigers. . . . ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers May 27,2015 )
Forensics by Val McDermid
epub |eng | | Author:Val McDermid

Ethical issues persist. Troy Duster, a sociologist at New York University, points out that because incarceration rates in the US are eight times higher for black people than for white ...
( Category: Pathology May 27,2015 )

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