Nature & Ecology
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]
14 INSECTS: FROM THE DIVERSITY TO THE LIMITS It seems astounding to us that some frogs can survive months being frozen, or that a bird as small as a kinglet ...
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Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson
Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
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Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Bill Schutt
Besides their ability to draw off accumulating blood at surgical reattachment or transfer sites, researchers are currently exploring the possibility that leech “saliva” contains a virtual cornucopia of pharmacologically active ...
( Category:
Fauna
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-02 | Author:David R. Montgomery
Figure 15. Map of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States showing the net depth of topsoil eroded from colonial times to i98o (modified from Meade i98z, 241, fig. ...
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Soil Science
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1986-08-12 | Author:Vicki Hearne; Donald Mccaig
One day a letter came from a British publisher asking him to do a book whose working title would be “Through the War” and whose purpose would be to once ...
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Animal Husbandry
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-02 | Author:Jeremy Narby
TRANSFORMERS AND TRANSFORMATION kept cropping up during this investigation. My hunch is that part of natureâs essence is to transform itself, to evolve. The beings of this world seem driven ...
( Category:
Shamanism
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-12-05 | Author:Ph.d. Colm A. Kelleher & George Knapp
Chapter 20 Monsters Human beings have been terrorized, mystified, and fascinated with tales of mystery beings and unearthly creatures for as long as our species has existed. Monsters, demons, goblins, ...
( Category:
Unexplained Mysteries
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Henry Petroski
Two ways of shaping triangular pencils from leaded slats, showing the practical way to be wasteful of wood (photo credit 14.1) While machines might be efficient for making pencils, during ...
( Category:
Industrial Design
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Fred Pearce
We now know that two main ice sheets formed. One stretched from the British Isles across the North Sea and Scandinavia, and then west through Russia and western Siberia, and ...
( Category:
Environmentalism
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Tim Flannery
As of early 2008, humanity had just thirty-seven days' worth of grain supply in reserve. It's been said that the ancient Romans had a more generous buffer against famine. As ...
( Category:
Environmental
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Ian McCallum
PART TWO LOOKING AHEAD Tonight I want you to feel the blurred edge between good and bad, to say no to the urge to look away or to take sides… ...
( Category:
Environmental
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Christian Parenti
From Guerrillas to Gangs Behind bars, the political radicals of Galeria B of Cândido Mendes Prison organized themselves and then united with the general-population inmates. The common criminals saw how ...
( Category:
Conservation
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Mark Lynas
BOUNDARY SIX TOXICS There is perhaps no better illustration of the domestication of our world than how rapidly we are turning it into plastic. Plastics are everywhere. In the deepest ...
( Category:
Environmental
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Peter Tate
The sound of a nightingale singing in the quiet of the night is unforgettable, and perhaps as a result is the subject of a great body of folklore. St Francis ...
( Category:
Birdwatching
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina
By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...
( Category:
Drilling Procedures
March 25,2014 )
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