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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs by Tristan Gooley
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Tristan Gooley [Gooley, Tristan]

11 A NIGHT WALK THE SUN HAD FALLEN FROM THE January sky, leaving a strong orange glow in the southwest. Jupiter was the first out, followed soon by the bright ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 29,2017 )
The Wisdom of Trees by Max Adams
epub |eng | | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

Hydraulics Shifting water and sugar around an organism as large as a tree requires some serious engineering. Four separate forces are at work: water adhesion, transpiration and surface tension all ...
( Category: Biological Sciences December 27,2017 )
Identifying Birds by Colour by Norman Arlott
epub |eng | 2017-11-20 | Author:Norman Arlott

( Category: Nature & Ecology December 25,2017 )
Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Brown

Rock of Ages, give, oh give me, Strength to sing the praise of love, With the roaring flames around me, Till I rest in peace above. When they finished and ...
( Category: Americas December 25,2017 )
The Power Of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
mobi |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:John McWhorter

Creoles also suggest a “default” setting in how they indicate tense. The African languages that slaves brought to the Caribbean had various ways of expressing past tense: some with a ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 22,2017 )
The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet by Eugene Linden
epub |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Eugene Linden [Linden, Eugene]

PART V THE ANTIPODES: THE LONG REACH OF HUMANITY CHAPTER 11 Unfreezing Time Humans cannot really live in Antarctica except for a few brief months during its summer, and then ...
( Category: Anthropology December 22,2017 )
Hummingbirds by Michael Fogden
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Fogden

Eupherusa eximia Stripe-tailed Hummingbird This species is named for the white edges to its otherwise black outer tail feathers. It is a medium-sized hummingbird with a fine, slightly downcurved bill, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 21,2017 )
Animals Don't Blush by David R Gross
epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:David R Gross [Gross, David R]

*** The next morning, Siam’s temperature was three degrees above normal, and she was not eating or drinking. Her white blood cell count had almost doubled from the day before. ...
( Category: Memoirs December 21,2017 )
Discovering Your Spirit Animal by Lucy Harmer
epub |eng | | Author:Lucy Harmer

Badger Badger’s head, with its white stripe between two black ones, tells us that it is a creature of both the day and the night. Badger has a reputation as ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality December 20,2017 )
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Olivia Judson [Judson, Olivia]

Bad news: you’re finished. All you can do is stagger about on your eight stumpy legs in the hopes of finding a stray sister so you can mate once more ...
( Category: Biological Sciences December 20,2017 )
Squid Empire by Danna Staaf
epub |eng | | Author:Danna Staaf

Fossils in History: From Fishing Fields to Buffalo Stones People have noticed fossils of shelled cephalopods all over the world since ancient times, but soft-bodied fossils have been much harder ...
( Category: Biological Sciences December 20,2017 )
Advocates for Animals by Lori B. Girshick
epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Lori B. Girshick

Issue Focus: Animal Cruelty One of the reasons animal cruelty exists is because most people do not see nonhuman animals as equal to humans in terms of rights, sentience, or ...
( Category: Criminal Law December 20,2017 )
Heart of Oneness by Jennifer Kavanagh
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Jennifer Kavanagh [Kavanagh, Jennifer]

So, what are we doing in recognition of those benefits? I believe that any consideration of our responsibility to the earth should begin in celebration. If we glory in the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 18,2017 )
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry David Thoreau

To Americans I hardly need to say— “Westward the star of empire takes its way.” As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was ...
( Category: Classics December 18,2017 )
The Lives of Animals by Coetzee J. M
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

4 Cf. Bernard Williams: “Before one gets to the question of how animals should be treated, there is the fundamental point that this is the only question there can be: ...
( Category: Biological Sciences December 18,2017 )

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