epub |eng | 2011-01-21 | Author:Didier Van Cauwelaert [Cauwelaert, Didier van]

8 She opens the shutters and leans out toward the street. She stretches out her hand to see if it’s raining. She is wearing one of my shirts, as she ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Masha Gessen

PERFECT RIGOR THE PROBLEM 8 The Problem THE VERY POSSIBILITY of mathematical science seems1 an insoluble contradiction.” So, more than a century ago, wrote Henri Poincaré, known among mathematicians as ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Bodanis

THIRTEEN The Queen of Hearts Is Black EINSTEIN WAS IN A HAZE of confusion after the fall of 1923. He’d been thrown by Friedmann’s unexpected paper suggesting that the original ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Wiker, Benjamin [Wiker, Benjamin]

Chapter 6 Darwin Meets His Maker When Darwin published the Descent of Man he was not much beyond sixty years old, but he felt and looked much older. His continual ...

epub |eng | 1901-02-23 | Author:Sigmund Freud [Freud, Sigmund]

1 In the course of the conference, the details of the previous first visit return to consciousness. 2 Brill, loc. cit., p. 197. 3 If we inquire of a person ...

epub |eng | 2005-06-13 | Author:Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder

CHAPTER 15 CONFRONTATION IN PRAGUE ON HEARING OF KEPLER’S UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE, BRAHE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED HIS ELDEST SON, TYGE, AND SOON-TO-BE SON-IN-LAW, Franz Tengnagel, in a carriage to the ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Kandel, Eric R. [Kandel, Eric R.]

WITH THE TOOLS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND THE SUPPORT of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in hand, we could now address questions about genes and memory. Since 1961 my experimental ...

mobi |eng | 2006-10-18 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

BY THE END OF THE DAY, SNOW HAD BUILT A CONVINCING statistical case against the pump. Of the eighty-three deaths recorded on Farr’s list, seventy-three were in houses that were ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:George Pendle

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...

mobi | | | Author:Walter Isaacson

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epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Smiley, Jane [Smiley, Jane]

Chapter Eight By the time Atanasoff was home from Bikini Atoll and finished with his aborted computer project for the navy, John Mauchly and Pres Eckert were deep into their ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...