Engineering & Transportation
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Annie Jacobsen

Three months later, on a balmy spring day in May of 1967, Colonel Slater decided he was going to take the Oxcart for a last ride. Some of the pilots ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:John Heilemann

Chapter Thirteen Obama Agonistes THE OBAMAS ATE BREAKFAST in silence at their hotel in San Antonio the morning after Ohio and Texas. Their friends Jarrett and Whitaker tried to cheer ...
( Category: Elections March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Chapter 5 Supporting Evidence: The Middle East Beyond declarations of leaders, and the self-refuting case of Iraq, several additional bits of evidence have been adduced to justify the faith in ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Sanger, David E. [Sanger, David E.]

GEN. JAMES MATTIS is no one to be trifled with. The burly head of CENTCOM spent the last year bolstering defenses in case war breaks out with Iran. He has ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Stephen Puleo

Meanwhile, the cause of the disaster continued to be a source of debate carried out in the press. State chemist Walter Wedger, and U.S. inspector of explosives Daniel T. O’Connell, ...
( Category: Health & Safety March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

America had been bested on the international stage, and editors across the land now salivated at the prospect of finding someone to blame for the sluggishness and complacency of the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Dan Parry

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Unger, David C. [Unger, David C.]

Reagan’s military buildup emphasized weapons that were designed to fight, deter, or impress a rival superpower. The Weinberger-Powell Doctrine reserved America’s own military forces for wars of national security necessity, ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ben Evans

( Category: Automotive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )