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Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms by Cercignani Carlo
mobi |eng | 2006-01-11 | Author:Cercignani, Carlo [Cercignani, Carlo]

8.3 Specific heats again Let us return now to the problem of specific heats, which should be a problem concerning equilibrium states and hence easily solvable. The difficulties typically arise ...
( Category: Scientists March 7,2016 )
The Great Boom 1950-2000 by Robert Sobel
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Robert Sobel

6 THE END OF THE POSTWAR PERIOD There is no question as to which car is most like the U.S. cars—it is the Datsun, with its familiar arrangement of components, ...
( Category: Economic History February 23,2016 )
To Touch a Wild Dolphin by Rachel Smolker
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Rachel Smolker [Smolker, Rachel]

Andrew and I were out surveying dolphin groups. We came across the male triplet Trips, Bite, and Cetus, with Yogi, a female, and the males Realnotch, Hi, and Patches. Booboo, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 13,2016 )
Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Alexandra Morton [Morton, Alexandra]

Chapter 12 Robin and I needed three things in a home port: whales, mail service, and playmates for Jarret. He was now two, and it didn’t seem fair to raise ...
( Category: Mammals February 12,2016 )
The Last Volcano by John Dvorak
epub |eng | | Author:John Dvorak

The role of gases in volcanic eruptions was self-evident to anyone who has seen an eruption. Lava froths furiously and fountains during eruptions, causing huge plumes of gas to rise ...
( Category: Volcanology February 1,2016 )
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:George Pendle [Pendle, George]

Amidst the chorus of celebration sounded a few dissonant notes. Ever since the military had stepped in as the Suicide Squad’s main benefactor, levels of security had soared and a ...
( Category: Occultism January 6,2016 )
We Are All Stardust by Stefan Klein
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Stefan Klein [Klein, Stefan]

The Poetry of Molecules Chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann on beauty “DON’T MAKE THE CHEMIST LOOK TOO STIFF,” admonished the photo editor. “Don’t worry,” replied the young photographer assigned to ...
( Category: Scientists December 19,2015 )
Darwin: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Howard Jonathan
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Howard, Jonathan [Howard, Jonathan]

6. The final form of the thought pictures shown in chapter 3 and the only illustration in the Origin of Species. The diagram depicts the evolution of ancient lineages A–L ...
( Category: Scientists December 14,2015 )
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Ginger Strand [Strand, Ginger]

8 Out of the Blue Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, generous of smile, rotund of body, arrived at GE sporting his traditional fez. He was trailed by his brocaded, bejeweled ...
( Category: United States December 10,2015 )
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas

Concussion risk functions were computed by using the logist function in the Statistical Analysis System program developed by the SAS Institute of Cary, North Carolina. This function relates the probability ...
( Category: Medical December 1,2015 )
The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Kanigel

5. S. RAMANUJAN, B.A. “At Cambridge we are in darkness,” wrote Trinity vice-master Jackson in January 1915. “No gas in the streets or courts; few electric lights and those shaded; ...
( Category: Scientists November 26,2015 )
Tracks and Shadows by Harry W. Greene
epub |eng | | Author:Harry W. Greene

Philippine Negritos with freshly killed reticulated python, twenty-three feet long and twenty-six inches in circumference, at the headwaters of the Koso River in the Sierra Madre, Aurora Province, Luzon, June ...
( Category: Ichthyology October 25,2015 )
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

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: Scientists October 20,2015 )
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

So it was the Canaanites’ fault: they had it coming to them because God wanted their land for his pet tribe’s Lebensraum and the incumbents just refused to get up ...
( Category: Scientists October 20,2015 )
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics by John Archibald Wheeler
epub |eng | 2010-06-18 | Author:John Archibald Wheeler [Wheeler, John Archibald]

With Janette and our three children (from left to right): Alison Lahnston, Jamie Wheeler, and Letitia UfFord, 1985. Soon after my return to Princeton, 1987. (Photograph by Robert Matthews, courtesy ...
( Category: Scientists October 14,2015 )

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