Professionals & Academics
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:J R Hansen [Hansen, J R]

There was no denying the brilliance of Mailer’s exposé. Yet Mailer really did not care about Armstrong, the man, on a personal level, only as a vessel into which the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi | | 2012-06-12 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

One flash of inspiration had not brought Newton here. The path to universal gravitation had led through a sequence of claims, each stranger than the last. A force draws bodies ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:John Gribbin

Back to the future This new speculation stemmed from Schrödinger’s early fascination with thermodynamics and the way the world is governed by statistical laws. He noticed that his wave equation ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Ridley

Chapter Eight Triplets and Chapels IN AUGUST 1960 Crick received news that he, Wilkins, and Watson were to be jointly awarded the Lasker Prize by the American Public Health Association ...
( Category: Genetics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

INTEREST IN gravitational collapse was reawakened in the early 1960s with the discovery of quasars, very distant objects that are very compact and powerful optical and radio sources. Matter falling ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Charles Graeber [Graeber, Charles]

40 On October 27, Danny drove up to Newark with the first assistant prosecutor, Robert Land, and Assistant Prosecutor Tim Van Hise. The meet was at Saint Michael’s Hospital—Danny’s call. ...
( Category: Medical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Karen Siff Exkorn [Exkorn, Karen Siff]

How do I handle and respond to some of the well-meaning but frustrating things people are saying to me as a result of my child’s diagnosis? “Everything happens for a ...
( Category: Medical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Hayley Okines

Chapter 17 Hayley Sibling Rivalry I WAS NOT PLEASED when my brother Louis was born. I had to share my bedroom with him and he would wake me up in ...
( Category: Medical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-14 | Author:Ruth Rosen [Rosen, Ruth]

Numerous other prophecies describe a multitude of details about the Messiah. Even such a minute event as the dividing of his garments at his death was foretold hundreds of years ...
( Category: Reference March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Qanta Ahmed

WAHABI WRATH EVERYONE STOPPED EATING. THE AIR was pregnant with fear. Across from me, I watched Alon, a visiting professor from Johns Hopkins, turn sallow as all color drained from ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:David Levy & Joel Kilpatrick

Chapter 8 Paralyzed Sam was a thin man in his mid-forties, with straight black hair and a skeptical, serious personality. He was by most measures poor, having come from another ...
( Category: Neurosurgery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Damien Brown

12. WATCHING STORMS This rain just gets heavier. It sheets off the eaves like a thousand waterfalls, the sound utterly deafening. Even the roar of thunder is hard to discern ...
( Category: Medical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Kim Barker [Barker, Kim]

CHAPTER 14 HIGHWAY TO HELL As the lawyers danced, the Red Mosque boiled. The mosque-and-madrassa compound increasingly resembled an Islamic militant training camp in the heart of Islamabad, a city ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Rick Bragg

* * * CHAPTER EIGHT The Hanging FROM THE CRADLE, they had been taught that their very worth as a people was tied to their ability to labor. Their fathers ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Christine Schwab [Schwab, Christine]

11 Stable Until Ready FEBRUARY 1993 My life, three years after my diagnosis, was now totally defined by my chronic rheumatoid arthritis. My secret was still safe even though my ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )