Natural History
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Unwrapping Wonder: Finding Hope in the Gift of NatureLooking for hope in a hectic world? Here is a delightful mix of natural history, human story and God's glory found in everyday nature. Each chapter focuses on one ordinary natural object, such as the bee, the barnacle, the tiniest seed. Peer within these...
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Stepping Out Of EdenScience has manipulated DNA, mapped the human genome, and cloned both plants and animals. They estimate that humans share 99 percent of their DNA with chimps, but the 1 percent difference enables humans to create art, literature and religion.We often wonder, what makes humans...
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Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to...
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In the WildernessCited in Adirondack Life as one of the twenty-five most collectible books about the Adirondacks ever to appear, these essays were first published in book form in 1878. Warner's main theme is the small, often-ludicrous figure that the human being cuts in the wilderness....
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The Pig: A Natural HistoryA comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the fascinating natural history of the pig, from prehistory to the present At any given time, there are around one billion pigs in the world; that's one for every seven of us. And where would we be without...
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The Unexpected UniverseDrawing from his long experience as a naturalist, the author responds to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of a wide spectrum of phenomena throughout the universe. Scrupulous scholarship and magical prose are brought to bear on such diverse topics as seeds, the hieroglyphs on...
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Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of IndricotheresWritten for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls...
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Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and EvolutionWhat do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to nourish...
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Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. For over a century following its discovery by European explorers in 1820, Antarctica played host to competing claims by rival nations...
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An Undiscovered Scientific CodexIn Contemporary times it seems we cannot keep up with newly discovered scientific findings. In every field the discoveries seem to reinforce the notion that the past is no longer relevant, and there is nothing to gain from beliefs which now seem superstitious. However,...
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Practical small scale queen rearing using the Miller methodRearing new queens for our colonies is a rewarding and important practice that often gets mis-labelled as too difficult and complicated. This, is simply, not correct and with some planning and attention to detail new queens can be produced at a fraction of the...
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Geometry & Colours of Meliponine Brood CellsTitle: Geometry and Colours of Meliponine Brood Cells - Part 1 Subtitle: Preliminary Emphasis on Genus Tetragonula Synopsis: This literature is for enthusiasts who have difficulty remembering scientific names but can recognize geometric shapes. A preliminary look at what is termed as the most...
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The History of the Caribby-Islands,: Viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis [sic], Antego, &c.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The History of the Caribby-Islands,: Viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis [sic], Antego, &c.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome: With Notices of the so Called Amazons, the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present; v.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica,: With the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, FThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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COLOSS BEEBOOK - Volume III: Standard Methods for Apis mellifera Hive Product ResearchVol IIIThe COLOSS BEEBOOK, Vol IIIStandard methods for Apis mellifera hive product research - Vincent Dietemann, Peter Neumann, Norman L. Carreck & James D. Ellis (Eds)The COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) BEEBOOK is a unique venture that aims to standardise methods for...
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A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida: Containing an Account of the Natural Produce of All the Southern Part of British America in the ThThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Tsimsyan Myths, IllustratedThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Entre La Extinción Y El Rescate / Between Extinction and Rescue«Es crucial para nuestros paíises recuperar el control de los bienes y recursos naturales para su aprovechamiento, no explotación, en beneficio de las regiones y su población. --Cuauhtemoc Cardenas El planeta atraviesa un estado de emergencia climática. La región latinoamericana padece los efectos del...
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