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The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Andrew L. Jenks
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Andrew L. Jenks [Jenks, Andrew L.]

Chapter Seven HOMO SOVIETICUS If Gagarin’s image reflected anxieties about Russia’s place in the modern world, it was also shaped by his own behavior. In his role as the potted, ...
( Category: Russia July 3,2016 )
A Strange Wilderness by Amir D. Aczel
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Amir D. Aczel

Catherine II, a.k.a. Catherine the Great, acted as Euler’s patron during his stay in Russia from 1766 until his death in St. Petersburg in 1783. In 1771 a fire raged ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
It's Been a Good Life by Isaac Asimov
epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

Twenty-One. ON PROLIFICITY My favorite kind of day (provided I don't have an unbreakable appointment that is going to force me out into it) is a cold, dreary, gusty, sleety ...
( Category: Authors June 27,2016 )
Albert Einstein: Extraordinary Life Lessons That Will Change Your Life Forever (Inspirational Books) by Cooper Jamie
epub |eng | 2015-08-06 | Author:Cooper, Jamie [Cooper, Jamie]

Even worse, when you are forced to study things you are not passionate about, you can associate learning with stress and not-so-good feelings. It’s no surprise that when people finish ...
( Category: Scientists June 1,2016 )
No Dream Is Too High by Buzz Aldrin
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SMART. God blessed me with a good mind and the ability to understand certain things that others have trouble comprehending. But there is a big difference between ...
( Category: Scientists May 26,2016 )
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Gopnik Adam
epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Gopnik, Adam [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2016 )
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Terrible Toads and a Bushel of Birds By the time we had been in the Chaco two months, our collection had reached such proportions that it took us all our ...
( Category: Zoology May 6,2016 )
Einstein's Mistakes by Hans C. Ohanian
epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Hans C. Ohanian

Again, there was nothing very original about this idea. In Einstein’s days, the generation of artificial gravity by acceleration was well understood and widely applied in the technology of centrifuges. ...
( Category: Scientists May 6,2016 )
We Could Not Fail by Richard Paul
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Richard Paul [Paul, Richard]

Clyde Foster, seen here in front of the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965, got more black workers jobs, advanced the education of more black engineering students, and cleared the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 5,2016 )
Immunity by Luba Vikhanski
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Luba Vikhanski

33 ABSURD PREJUDICE ONCE, WHEN LILI WAS PUNISHED for calling a schoolteacher Madame instead of Mademoiselle, Metchnikoff stormed into the school, infuriated, grabbing Lili by the hand to lead her ...
( Category: Medical April 23,2016 )
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Nathalia Holt

Punch cards used by the women to write programs Most of the computers had never used a typewriter—only secretaries at JPL used those—and didn’t even know how to type. But ...
( Category: Scientists April 23,2016 )
0142004413 (N) by Gerald Durrell
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
Time, Love , Memory by Jonathan Weiner
epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Jonathan Weiner [Weiner, Jonathan]

CHAPTER TWELVE Cloning an Instinct No doubt the process of decipherment was difficult, but only by accomplishing it could one arrive at whatever truth there was to read. —MARCEL PROUST, ...
( Category: Physiological Aspects March 14,2016 )
Roger Bacon by Brian Clegg
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

Looking at Bacon’s plight through modern eyes, it can be difficult to understand why his work was so disliked. We have seen that the man himself, like many other obsessives, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2016 )

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