Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Jamie Doran

Early on the morning of April 14 Gagarin left for Moscow. He climbed the gangway of a large Ilyushin-18 airliner capable of long-distance flights. In a few weeks’ time he ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:Homer Hickam

IKE and Mary Bykovski didn’t have a telephone, so I walked to their house after school. Mrs. Bykovski opened the door and frowned when she saw it was me. She ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-23 | Author:Randy Pausch;Jeffrey Zaslow

Take a time out. It’s not a real vacation if you’re reading email or calling in for messages. When Jai and I went on our honeymoon, we wanted to be ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Buzz Aldrin; Ken Abraham

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 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Kenneth Silverman

For the first six months after his agreement with Kendall, Morse became little more than a bystander to the development of his invention. Kendall rapidly set to work forming or ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Mitnick, Kevin; Steve Wozniak; William L. Simon [Mitnick, Kevin; Steve Wozniak; William L. Simon]

I booked into a small motel just down the street, afraid to stay in my own apartment. I didn’t sleep very well and was awake early, tossing and turning. Tuesday ...
( Category: Computers & Technology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Bill Hayes

Dr. Ehrlich never actually got to view the drama within the blood. But what was to him the most likely scenario involving the most likely suspects can now be clearly ...
( Category: Hematology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Randal Keynes

CHAPTER TEN LOSS AND REMEMBERING Funeral—Consolation—Charles and Emma’s thinking— Emma’s keepsakes—Charles’s memorial of Annie THE NEXT DAY EMMA BORE her grief in her own way. Her sister Elizabeth had come ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Livio, Mario [Livio, Mario]

Figure 22 There was one thing that the B2FH paper did not achieve. No matter how hard they tried, Hoyle and his collaborators did not manage to account for the ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-04 | Author:Eric Brende

I finally came upon a ramshackle hut in a clearing. Half of the front porch was gone. A corner post hung unsupported from the roof. Spindly trees were growing up ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins

Sunset and the evening star From Aden to Zanzibar. The bonds of the Empire sundering And final salutes are thundering And man will not cease his wondering . . . ...
( Category: Weaving March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan

THE REVIEWER OF A WEEK who perhaps most upset him was Emerson. Emerson had praised the book to Thoreau in person. Eventually, Thoreau realized that Emerson was not being honest ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Bettany Hughes

Beauty in Athens at this time was seriously considered to be the sign of a brilliant and noble spirit; a gift of the gods. Those laudable qualities that justified privilege ...
( Category: Philosophers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Paul Johnson

This passage may strike a modern reader as surprising. While it shows that Socrates was not inclined to homosexuality, it also shows him passively acquiescent in the face of Alcibiades’ ...
( Category: Philosophers March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Hunt, Tristram [Hunt, Tristram]

* To provide some kind of context, the social commentator Dudley Baxter analyzed the 1861 census to produce a class analysis of mid- Victorian En gland relative to income. To ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2014 )