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The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:James Burke

In 1763 the end of the Seven Years War meant that the government was no longer in urgent need of capital, so the rate of interest on borrowed money fell ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather by Marq de Villiers
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Marq de Villiers

Dec. 26. Afternoon. Steve and Mary arrived at noon. They left Buzzard's Bay two days ago. Their weather service hadn't warned them. Their boat was damaged and they were exhausted, ...
( Category: Weather March 25,2014 )
Cascadia's Fault by Jerry Thompson; Simon Winchester
mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Jerry Thompson; Simon Winchester

Gary Carver’s memory of that deceptively sunny day was just as vivid. The shockwaves hit while he was driving to his office on the Humboldt State campus in Arcata. After ...
( Category: Natural History 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 )
Reef Madness by David Dobbs
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
( Category: Endangered Species March 25,2014 )
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Thomas French

That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich
mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Bernd Heinrich

12 New England Longhorns 23 July 2005. TODAY I FOUND SEVERAL FOOT-LONG LIVE oak twigs on the ground under the tree I had planted about fifteen years ago next to ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman

After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
The Whale by Philip Hoare
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Philip Hoare

NEGRO SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1 AUGUST MDCCCXXXIV –although it faces another building, one that belies the city’s claim to manumission. Passing through the double doors with their polished brass fingerplates, I ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Hattie Ellis

How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett
mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Mark W. Moffett

13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Vaillant

Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal by Henry Nicholls
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Henry Nicholls

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )

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