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...Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)...

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... NOAA FISHERIES PACIFIC ISLANDS REGION plays a signifcant role in the HEALTH of our OCEAN and the nation’s ECONOMY and COASTAL COMMUNITIES. Our dedic... ...tation to promote sustainable fsheries and aquaculture, protect our marine mammals, conserve and restore habitats, ensure our seafood is safe, and... ...e, and inform decision-makers. The NOAA Fisheries Service touches the lives of everyone in the U.S. Pacifc islands and we are proud of our role in co... ...ing valuable, healthy fsheries. NOAA Fisheries Pacifc Islands Region’s area of responsibility is bound by the Hawaiian Archipelago in the north, Amer... ... Region’s area of responsibility is bound by the Hawaiian Archipelago in the north, American Samoa and U.S. Pacifc Remote Island Areas in the south, ... ...’s area of responsibility is bound by the Hawaiian Archipelago in the north, American Samoa and U.S. Pacifc Remote Island Areas in the south, and the... ..., affords economic opportunities, and enhances the quality of life for the American public. SCIENCE... at NOAA Fisheries science is at the foundat... ...Taniguchi, KTA Super Stores, President Chris Tatum, Marriott, Vice President North Asia, Hawai‘i and South Pacific James C. Tollefson, The Chamber of... ...m Kamehameha Schools Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts (Sheraton Waikiki Resort) Northrop Grumman Corporation Outrigger Enterprises Group Palapalai Chun K...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting... ... needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but ... ...but agree that the synapsid—a common reptile ancestor we share with other mammals—had the first ear bone that resonated sounds to its brain. Synapsi... ...e call subcutaneous fat not found on other apes but also found on aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—aga... ... between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed downwar... ...r winds. By the fifteenth century, their descendants had spread as far north as the seashore above Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...Universe in organic seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, shellfish, fish, birds, mammals and brains. This basic design of Splitness is older than Natu... ...ative Change. Nothing in the Universe is unchanging. What we as short-lived mammals deem to be permanent or unchanging is merely due to our relati... ...sent we exist in. That context is the perspective of only one sub-species of mammals living upon one planet, in one solar system, in one galaxy: wh... ...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ...m the original Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver th... ...of a few lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ... Euclid‘s to find the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s o... ...ould have been Siddhartha. But as the ideas of the Enlightened One spread northward to China it became mixed with the traditions of ancestor worship... ...d into the ideas of a single supernatural. This idea spread to Europe, to North Africa and across the Atlantic, Most people in those areas believe in... ...lassifying the various types of animals from the single celled amoebas to mammals, and since humans were doing the classifying we decided that we we... ...or they would have been killed at the animal shelter. What about feeding mammals to reptiles in zoos -- ―The human protests for animals ex... ...to people? If not, at which phylum do we draw the line? Worms, jellyfish, mammals, fish, flatworms, insects, birds, reptiles?‖ —―You‘re right. ...

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The fundamental assumptions underlying the modern study of psychopathology examined.

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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