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Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-04-06 | Author:Robert Kolker

CHAPTER 24 1979 University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado Robert Freedman and Lynn DeLisi never worked in the same lab or even the same research institution or hospital. They ...
( Category: Medical April 9,2020 )
The Boiling River by Andrés Ruzo
epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Andrés Ruzo

( Category: Scientists April 4,2020 )
The Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Robert S. Ball

WILLIAM HERSCHEL. William Herschel, one of the greatest astronomers that has ever lived, was born at Hanover, on the 15th November, 1738. His father, Isaac Herschel, was a man evidently ...
( Category: Astronomy April 3,2020 )
The Man from Zara by Covadonga O'Shea
epub |spa | | Author:Covadonga O'Shea [O'Shea, Covadonga]

Good quality clothing? Some people still have the idea that “Zara clothes are cheap, but of poor quality,” a criticism I pass on to one of the store managers with ...
( Category: Scientists March 28,2020 )
Conversations with Galileo by William Shea
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:William Shea

I’ve heard it said that professors give private lessons to young noblemen. Did you do any of that? Of course – that was one of the first things I did, ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2020 )
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Catherine Mulholland

THE CHIEF TILTS WITH HARRIMAN Five days before the election, on December 1, the McNamara brothers confessed to bombing the Times building. Establishment figures breathed more easily, but Harriman’s followers ...
( Category: Environmental March 23,2020 )
Where Our Food Comes From by Gary Paul Nabhan
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Paul Nabhan

CHAPTER EIGHT Apples and Boomtown Growth: Kazakhstan The fragrance of the Kazakh forest was unlike any I have ever known, for the pervasive smell of ripening and rotting apples and ...
( Category: Scientists March 23,2020 )
Buried Glory by Hargittai Istvan;
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Hargittai, Istvan;

Alexei Abrikosov and his third wife in 2004 in their home in Lemont, Illinois. Source: Photograph by and courtesy of the author. Abrikosov had always had heroes, but they changed ...
( Category: Scientists March 22,2020 )
Breaking Trail by Arlene Blum
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Arlene Blum

Nineteen days later I boarded a plane for Moscow. Once settled in my seat, I thumbed through the official brochure. “Well-known Soviet climber Vitaly Abalakov invites you to conquer the ...
( Category: Rock March 20,2020 )
The Remarkable Life and Career of Ellen Swallow Richards by Swallow Pamela C
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Swallow, Pamela C.

Robert’s recovery was slow. Thin and without energy, he would sit silently in front of a window and stare outside. This went on for months. Ellen suffered, too, from worry. ...
( Category: Scientists March 20,2020 )
Capturing the Light by Roger Watson
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Watson

Chapter Eighteen THE ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES, AUGUST 1839 At a joint meeting of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts held at the Institut de France on 19 ...
( Category: Equipment, Techniques & Reference March 20,2020 )
A Well-Ordered Thing by Gordin Michael D
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Gordin, Michael D.

CHAPTER 8 Disintegration Fighting Revolutions with Faith My God! it is a melancholy thing For such a man, who would full fain preserve His soul in calmness, yet perforce must ...
( Category: Scientists March 20,2020 )
The Paradise of Bombs by Scott Russell Sanders
epub |eng | 1987-03-19 | Author:Scott Russell Sanders [Sanders, Scott Russell]

Rain and melted snow seek out every fault, scour passage through every fracture, open tunnels and sinkholes, underground rivers and sudden gurgling springs. The waters make it, and waters unmake ...
( Category: Essays March 20,2020 )
The Starlight Night by David H. Levy
epub |eng | | Author:David H. Levy

When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific… Most critics assume that Keats was recalling Herschel’s discovery ...
( Category: European March 18,2020 )
The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) by Richard Jurek
azw3 |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Richard Jurek [Jurek, Richard]

Low considered Apollo 8 the emotional highlight of the program.163 For many years afterward, he would often gift the Bill Anders Earthrise photo taken from lunar orbit as a memento ...
( Category: Russia March 17,2020 )

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