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Animal Tracking Basics by Tiffany Morgan
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Tiffany Morgan

When your twenty minutes of pick tracking are up, wrap up the exercise by writing a reflection paper. What did you notice toward the end of the ten minutes in ...
( Category: Wildlife March 3,2016 )
Death at SeaWorld by David Kirby
epub | | | Author:David Kirby

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...
( Category: Mammals March 1,2016 )
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:David Neiwert [NEIWERT, DAVID]

CHAPTER Seven Salmon, Boats, and Oil THE SUMMER OF 2013 WAS A PECULIAR YEAR—A WORRISOME YEAR—for whale watchers in the San Juan Islands, and it all came down to salmon, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 29,2016 )
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category: Environmental February 24,2016 )
Elephants on the Edge by G. A. Bradshaw
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:G. A. Bradshaw

10 Speaking in Tongues As she approached his enclosure, her body stiffened and a cold sweat broke out. Massa would agitate and vocalize with his trunk swaying. It took every ...
( Category: Wildlife February 24,2016 )
Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism by Steiner Gary;
epub |eng | 2013-02-22 | Author:Steiner, Gary; [Steiner, Gary]

CHAPTER FIVE Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism HISTORICAL COSMOPOLITAN IDEALS The ideal of civil society that prevails today owes a direct debt to Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, who sought to ...
( Category: Structuralism February 23,2016 )
Floodpath by Jon Wilkman
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jon Wilkman [Wilkman, Jon]

10. Los Angeles on Trial Nine days after the St. Francis flood ebbed into the Pacific, accusations of a link between the disaster and a dynamite plot headlined newspapers and ...
( Category: Environmental February 15,2016 )
[excerpt] by Editor
epub |por | 0101-01-01 | Author:Editor [Editor]

Chapter Ten The carriage ride to the station allowed no time for even the quickest little tryst...but then there was the ride to Virginia Falls. Between the Pullman Limited Express ...
( Category: Alternative Medicine February 15,2016 )
Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Outer Hebrides by Mitchell John Hanson
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Mitchell, John Hanson [Mitchell, John Hanson]

Nine The City of Light For a while during my student years and afterward, I had lived in Paris, near the Place Monge, and had sporadically attended the Sorbonne and ...
( Category: Cycling February 15,2016 )
Following the Sun by John Hanson Mitchell
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John Hanson Mitchell

Nine The City of Light For a while during my student years and afterward, I had lived in Paris, near the Place Monge, and had sporadically attended the Sorbonne and ...
( Category: Cycling February 15,2016 )
Rainbow Dust by Peter Marren
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marren

9. Fire and Brimstone Butterflies and the Imagination The earliest writers about our butterflies were concerned with a matter to which few today give any thought. They wanted to know ...
( Category: Butterflies February 15,2016 )
Collecting Rocks, Gems and Minerals by Patti Polk
epub |eng | | Author:Patti Polk

Crystal Habits Habit Description Acicular Needlelike or hairlike Dendritic Treelike or branching pattern Equant Having similar diameter in all directions Prismatic Tubular, elongated Striated Parallel grooves on crystal faces Columnar ...
( Category: Jewelry February 14,2016 )
The Species Seekers by Richard Conniff
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff

“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...
( Category: Conservation February 14,2016 )
To Touch a Wild Dolphin by Rachel Smolker
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Rachel Smolker [Smolker, Rachel]

Andrew and I were out surveying dolphin groups. We came across the male triplet Trips, Bite, and Cetus, with Yogi, a female, and the males Realnotch, Hi, and Patches. Booboo, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 13,2016 )

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