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In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff
epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Yet is it legitimate to think of a crow's caw as part of a "language"? The American Heritage Dictionary defines language as "any system of signs, symbols, etc., used for ...
( Category: Ornithology March 26,2014 )
Histology and Cell Biology: An Introduction to Pathology by Abraham L Kierszenbaum & Laura Tres
epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Abraham L Kierszenbaum & Laura Tres [Kierszenbaum, Abraham L & Tres, Laura]

HYPODERMIS (SUPERFICIAL FASCIA) The hypodermis, or subcutaneous layer of the skin, is a deeper continuation of the dermis. It consists of loose connective tissue and adipose cells forming a layer ...
( Category: Pathology March 26,2014 )
Smarter by Dan Hurley
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-25 | Author:Dan Hurley

In case you were wondering what all this running and tumbling has to do with intelligence, it just so happens that performance on the animal fluency test and on similar ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen
epub |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Rowan Jacobsen

Almond pollen by itself is not a good food for bees . . . Bees require a balanced diet and to get this almost always require more than one kind ...
( Category: Entomology March 26,2014 )
Witch Child by Celia Rees
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Celia Rees

Entry 40 I was brought up deep in the woods and I do not fear the forest as the others do. Neither does Jonah. He has travelled in Russia and ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
The Collector by Victoria Scott
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Victoria Scott

Chapter Thirty Fire Dancing I pull Charlie after me, and Blue and Annabelle quickly follow. The music is so loud, I feel it in my bones, in my teeth. It’s ...
( Category: Teen & Young Adult Paranormal & Urban Fantasy March 25,2014 )
Stung by Wiggins Bethany
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Wiggins, Bethany [Wiggins, Bethany]

Chapter 21 We cling to the wall’s dark shadow, leaving its protection only when we are forced to—the militia are stationed every quarter mile—not standard protocol according to Bowen. They’ve ...
( Category: Romance March 25,2014 )
Rule 34 by Stross Charles
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Stross, Charles [Stross, Charles]

Kemal doesn’t say another word as the car parks itself, but his expression says it all for him. “I need ten minutes to drop my bag,” he says, opening the ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Susan Casey

Wherever peppy earthquake action meets ocean, there will be giant waves. Which means not only Alaska but the entire North American west coast is poised to produce them. If you ...
( Category: Oceanography March 25,2014 )
The Beasts That Hide From Man: Seeking the World's Last Undiscovered Animals by Karl P. N. Shuker
mobi |eng | 2003-11-02 | Author:Karl P. N. Shuker

The discovery of Bennett’s cassowary was followed by the documentation of other, similarly undersized, wattle-less types, initially treated as distinct species. These included Westermann’s cassowary C. westermanni (Jobi Island) and ...
( Category: Zoology March 25,2014 )
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Matthew Scully

These last two come from Mr. Budiansky, raising yet again the question of how he keeps getting from “unknowable territory” to the confident assertion that animals think and feel nothing. ...
( Category: Zoology March 25,2014 )
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen
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 ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix by Watson James D. & Gann Alexander & Witkowski Jan
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Watson, James D. & Gann, Alexander & Witkowski, Jan [Watson, James D.]

Watson, his father and sister pose for a Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) publicity photograph. The first formal event of the week was the Nobel Foundation’s reception for all the year’s ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...
( Category: Microbiology March 25,2014 )
A Planet of Viruses by Zimmer Carl
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Zimmer, Carl [Zimmer, Carl]

Proteins like APOBEC3 disable endogenous retroviruses, but they don’t eliminate them. Over millions of years, our genomes have picked up a vast amount of DNA from dead viruses. Each of ...
( Category: Microbiology March 25,2014 )

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