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The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Geography March 25,2014 )
An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins

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: Weaving March 25,2014 )
Rivethead by Ben Hamper
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-08-15 | Author:Ben Hamper

7 ANOTHER LAYOFF SWALLOWED ME UP, THIS TIME, THE GRAND-pappy of ‘em all. I was out of work for nearly a year, far too long a span when you stopped ...
( Category: Automotive March 25,2014 )
Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Howard Schultz

DON’T GET DIZZY ON WALL STREET’S EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER If I had to pick the happiest day of my business career, it would have to be June 26, 1992. That ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
For What It's Worth by Les Gold
mobi |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Les Gold

Where a Bigger Vision Will Take You After changing our store and opening our doors to the TV cameras, I believe the public image of pawnbrokers has really started to ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives by Zuckerberg Randi
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Zuckerberg, Randi [Zuckerberg, Randi]

Earlier this year, there was a lot of talk about a term called “catfishing,” when Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o found out that he had been cat fished—the girl ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Robert A. Caro

14 Three Encounters AT ABOUT 4:30 A.M., while Johnson was sleeping, the autopsy was finally completed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and the coffin was brought by that gray Navy ambulance ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 25,2014 )
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-03 | Author:Bill Bryson

An Excerpt from Bill Bryson’s At Home THE DRAWING ROOM I If you had to summarize it in a sentence, you could say that the history of private life is ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 25,2014 )
Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-29 | Author:Heather Poole

Chapter 10 Flying Freak Show DREAMS REALLY DO come true, I thought to myself after a male flight attendant walked on board and announced that the agent had told him ...
( Category: Commercial March 25,2014 )
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Anthony Bourdain

PINO NOIR: TUSCAN INTERLUDE OF ALL THE HIGH-PRESSURE, full mind-body crunches, strange interludes, unexpected twists and 'learning experiences' in my long and largely undistinguished career, my brief Tuscan interlude with ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-13 | Author:Michael Pollan

I thought about the farmer more than once that spring as we worked on the heavy timber frame of my building. I thought about the speed and ease with which ...
( Category: Design & Construction March 25,2014 )
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-13 | Author:Ishmael Beah

We arrived in the village with nightfall and sat against the walls of the army house. It was quiet, and as if we were afraid of silence, we began cleaning ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, The Fast Lane and Me by Ben Collins
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Ben Collins

Chapter 20 Taking the Rough with the Smooth The reason Top Gear felt so exciting and personal to me was because the camera crews gave their all to capturing every ...
( Category: Motor Sports March 25,2014 )
Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Homer Hickam

DURING THE man-trip ride inside one morning, it occurred to me that Bobby was four years older than me and might, as a result, have a tad more experience with ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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