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Learn how plants and insects communicate through emissions in the infrared frequency range and why poisonous pesticides do not solve the real problems facing agriculture. In this breakthrough book Phil Callahan uncovers why certain insects are attracted only to certain plants, the role of pheromones work in nature, and how plants under stress literally signal insects to come devour them.

A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological study of animal behaviour. 'Ethology', and...

We are familiar with the longing for something more in our livessomething to remind us there is more than being driven to pursue goals and accomplish aspirations that seem to be increasingly meaningless. I wrote Established by God, Expressed in Nature: 7 Spiritual Laws in Natural Settings because...

This book is about our Creator and Salvation. The connection between the Bible and Nature [Gods Second Book] is best described in Job 12:8: Speak to the earth, and it will teach you. We Worship our Creator because we owe our Total life and existence to Him. Fear God and give glory to him, for the...

Society and Exploitation Through Nature offers an integrated approach to the environment, linking the philosophical, social and physical sciences to environmental problems and issues. The text covers three main themes; exploitation of nature and society; the limits of exploitation through sustainability...

As Nature abounds each day, we only need to look at the beauty of it all to know that our Creator is real, alive and well! The Bible says that creation itself glorifies its own Maker. Nature is beautiful and alive and there is nothing else like it. As you read this rendition of Nature cooperating...

In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life’s big questions with “candor [and] admirable courage” (Christian Science Monitor). Determined to live...

This e-book is a visionary work on the developing universe, especially its governmental institutions both Nature’s and human-made. It gives specific detailed predictions for compassionate democratic governmental reform, the application of advanced sciences, a greater appreciation for Nature and its processes, and advanced life in the universe in the ensuing millennia.

Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy are based on a number of factors - none of which, however, acknowledge the degradation of natural resources. Continued deterioration of the environment is leading us closer to crisis, while policymakers and the public base their decisions on dangerously incomplete...

The proceedings of a Cost Effective Biological Surveys and Data Analysis workshop held at the old Quarantine Station, North Head, Sydney, in March 1988, under the auspices of the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers (CONCOM) and the Australian Environment Council (AEC).

Absolute Truth - Abstraction - Adler - Aenesidemus - Agnosticism - Agnostics Agricola through Tacitus - An Hypothesis is a Wild Ass Guess Anaximander - Apologist Philosophers and Theologians Apriorism’ of Kant - Aristotle Subjective Idealist - Avenarius Subjective Idealist Anaximenes - Ayn Rand...

When it comes to our skin, nature knows how to soothe, smooth, hydrate, refresh, tone and feed us. It probably won't come as any surprise that rose is not only soothing to the skin, but in traditional Chinese medicine it is soothing to our whole being. Seaweeds are packed with antioxidants that are...

This book addresses the processes of stochastic structure formation in two-dimensional geophysical fluid dynamics based on statistical analysis of Gaussian random fields, as well as stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation of positive random fields f(r,t) described...

The book provides readers with a snapshot of the state of the art in the field of nature-inspired computing and its application in optimization. The approach is mainly practice-oriented: each bio-inspired technique or algorithm is introduced together with one of its possible applications. Applications...