Professionals & Academics
epub |eng | 2003-10-14 | Author:Mariane Pearl [Pearl, Mariane]

Chapter Eight MY IN-LAWS have requested a conversation with Terry Anderson, the AP correspondent held hostage in Lebanon for seven years—seven years!—until he was released in 1991, when the Lebanese ...
( Category: Journalists October 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Influential Individuals [Individuals, Influential]

Another key lesson from Musk is his insistence on setting the standard rather than following everyone else in the traditional path . Musk is a trailblazer who is always looking ...
( Category: Scientists October 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Ginsborg, Paul

ising, watchful of the need to balance the books. These were important virtues in an Italian public sphere not noted for such qualities. But they were not enough. No corpus ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Edmund Morris

A GASLESS NEW YORK Edison could have recalled all his bamboo explorers in December, because by then one of them, William H. Moore, had sent him an ideal variety for ...
( Category: Scientific Instruments October 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Joanna Cannon

Harvested There is a running joke that you should avoid being admitted to hospital at the beginning of August, because that’s when all the new doctors arrive on the wards. ...
( Category: Depression October 24,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-01-18 | Author:Sias, Matthew Franklin [Sias, Matthew Franklin]

A Multitude of Maggots Investigator Jim Sosik and I are called to an apartment complex in Northshore for a decomposed body. Jim is a seasoned investigator originally from St. Louis, ...
( Category: Scientists October 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Amaryllis Fox

* * * — I’m assigned back to CTC/WMD, charged once again with keeping nuclear, biological, and chemical agents out of the hands of global terror groups. I’m working operations ...
( Category: Military October 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-19 | Author:Linenger, Jerry M

Afloat in the BlackSea, undergoingrecovery trainingfor emergencysplashdowns.(Courtesy NASA) % Left Star City, Russia,(left to right) SashaLazutkin, Vasily Tsibliev,and I standing in front ofa Soyuz capsule simulator.(Courtesy NASA/RSA) Below Final spacesuitcheckout ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Ottaway, Susan [Ottaway, Susan]

…a tricky aeroplane to fly. It didn’t have absolutely benign handling characteristics. It was very prone to a thing called Dutch rolling – a sort of roll-yaw coupling – and ...
( Category: Business October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Robert W. Firestone [Firestone, Robert W.]

Looking back at my experience with Dr. Rosen, I remember several reasons that caused me to regret my necessary departure. First, I was committed to the psychotic patients I was ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Butcher

* * * The following day I printed up some photos of the missing dog, as well as a stack of business cards featuring my contact details. For each investigation, ...
( Category: Law Enforcement October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-26 | Author:Yikai Zhang [Zhang, Yikai]

After finding my first cicada, plenty more appeared Light trapping, as it turned out, was one of the most exhilarating experiences I’ve ever had – I was so absorbed by ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Kristin Kimball

* * * There was another thing, and it was so scary, I couldn’t look it square in the face. We’d gotten a tax bill that we weren’t expecting—on the ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Sutherland

CHAPTER THIRTEEN At Fourteen Weeks THIS WEEK I TURN FIFTY. Naturally, I compare my life at forty to my life at fifty. People’s lives can vary greatly in this decade, ...
( Category: Medical October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Riley

Two years and ten months later: No time at all. No time. Three years after: And by now I’ve stopped making these notes. What follows is a postscript, drawing on ...
( Category: Love Poems October 17,2019 )