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 Margaret Willes In the dark, bitter days of winter, when the ground lies frozen and snow-covered, it can be hard to believe that mere months before, gardens and window boxes ... [visit website]
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Barbara Allen Our frequent urban companion, cooing in the eaves of train stations or scavenging underfoot for breadcrumbs and discarded French fries, the pigeon has many detractors—and even some fans. ... [visit website]
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Peter Williams So attached was the author Patricia Highsmith to snails that they became her constant travelling companions. Often hidden in a large handbag, they provided her with comfort and ... [visit website]
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Written and Illustrated by Ram Papish The northern fur seal spends most of its life in the open ocean of the North Pacific, from California up through Alaska and down ... [visit website]
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Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt With Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams, Gary A. Laursen and Rodney Seppelt offer the first field guide to cryptogams of the Denali National Park ... [visit website]
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Desmond Morris From Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat” to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, owls have been woven into the fabric of popular culture. At times they are depicted ... [visit website]
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Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn Gems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. They are kept as signs of prestige or power. ... [visit website]
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Michael Forsberg The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, ... [visit website]
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Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester In the years since the 9/11 attacks—and the subsequent lethal anthrax letters—the United States has spent billions of dollars on measures to defend ... [visit website]
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Marty Crump Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that ... [visit website]
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Carlos M. Herrera Plants produce a considerable number of structures of one kind, like leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds, and this reiteration is a quintessential feature of the body plan ... [visit website]
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Florence C. Hsia Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and ... [visit website]
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Amanda Rees Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon ... [visit website]
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John Sorenson Apes—to look at them is to see a mirror of ourselves. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behavior and social personality. Here, John ... [visit website]
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Edited by Reuven Dukas and John M. Ratcliffe Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive ecology investigates how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints on ... [visit website]
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Edited by Jon D. Witman and Kaustuv Roy Pioneered in the late 1980s, the concept of macroecology—a framework for studying ecological communities with a focus on patterns and processes—revolutionized the ... [visit website]
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Laura Dassow Walls Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the ... [visit website]
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Nicolaas Rupke In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer ... [visit website]
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Patricia E. Faasse For almost a hundred years, the Willie Commelin Scholten laboratory was the hub of phytopathology research in the Netherlands, where generations of students learned the principles of ... [visit website]
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By itechnolog.com news on January 27,2010
Mark V. Barrow, Jr. The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the ... [visit website]
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