Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Gates, Moses [Gates, Moses]

ABANDONED MANSION. You would think a shantytown in the concrete yard of a half-decomposed building would be a residence of last resort. But it turns out it’s not. I learn ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Eugene Cernan [Cernan, Eugene]

17 The Magnificent Beast DON RRICKLES, WHO MADE his living needling the high and mighty, did me no favor one evening during his freewheeling comedy act in Las Vegas. Alan ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Nancy Conrad [Conrad, Nancy]

The best part of reentry and recovery? Being done. Gordo used the last little bit of fuel they had to fire the thrusters and get her in right on the ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Masha Gessen [Gessen, Masha]

Perelman's term as a Miller Fellow ended in the spring of 1995. His paper on the Soul Conjecture had come out the previous year, and he had spoken at the ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Andrew Smith

The museum district comes on like a pleasant afterthought to the city, manicured green and – with no reason for anyone to go there other than culture – quiet. It’s ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]

ON MAY 8, 1976, I attended the “Operation Understanding” banquet at the Shoreham Americana Hotel in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism (NCA). I had achieved less ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Neal Thompson [Thompson, Neal]

At times Henri Landwirth felt caught between his two favorite astronauts: Alan Shepard and John Glenn. He knew they were two very different men, but there were qualities in each ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Randy Pausch

( Category: Death March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Colin Burgess [Burgess, Colin]

These views reflected some of the considerable unease felt by many outside of the Soviet Union. Though there was undoubtedly a degree of admiration for their historic achievement, it came ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Ray Monk [Monk, Ray]

When Bohr read this account, he was appalled at how little it accorded with his own memory of that meeting, and so he wrote, but did not send, a letter ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Walter Lewin & Warren Goldstein

CHAPTER 8 The Mysteries of Magnetism For most of us magnets are just fun, partly because they exert forces that we can feel and play with, and at the same ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:J R Hansen [Hansen, J R]

There was no denying the brilliance of Mailer’s exposé. Yet Mailer really did not care about Armstrong, the man, on a personal level, only as a vessel into which the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Colin Burgess [Burgess, Colin]

Following his decision to join the air force as his career field, and after a two-month graduation leave, White went to Bartow Air Force Base in Florida to begin flight ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi | | 2012-06-12 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

One flash of inspiration had not brought Newton here. The path to universal gravitation had led through a sequence of claims, each stranger than the last. A force draws bodies ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:John Gribbin

Back to the future This new speculation stemmed from Schrödinger’s early fascination with thermodynamics and the way the world is governed by statistical laws. He noticed that his wave equation ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 26,2014 )