Engineering
epub, mobi | | 1957-10-14 | Author:John Wyndham [Wyndham, John]

* Two or three days later I had a letter telling me that the job I had been angling for in Canada could be mine if I sailed without delay. ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:Colin Tudge

Finally, the ten species of Nyssa are mostly ornamental but include the tupelo, N. aquatica and N. sylvatica, trees big enough to provide North Americans with railway sleepers. (Once Nyssa ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rachel Carson [Carson, Rachel]

With the tide, predators come from offshore. A blue crab dashes out of the surf to seize a fat mole crab that is in the act of spreading its antennae ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Dominique DeVito

PHEROMONES and BEE-HAVIOR Pheromones (derived from the Greek words meaning “to bear” and “hormone”) are chemical combinations producing scents that animals give off to other animals of the same species. ...
( Category: Engineering March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1845-03-26 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

One day I rode up the valley to the farthest inhabited spot. Shortly above that point, the Cachapual divides into two deep tremendous ravines, which penetrate directly into the great ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Gray Barker [Barker, Gray]

CHAPTER 10 INDRID COLD Indrid Cold adjusted his flying cap and held up the reflector. A greatly enlarged version of himself startled him; then he turned the shaving mirror and ...
( Category: UFOs March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...
( Category: Aircraft Design & Construction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:David Brooks [Brooks, David]

The Urge to Merge Wolfram Schultz is a neuroscientist at Cambridge University who did research on monkeys in hopes of understanding Parkinson’s disease. He would squirt apple juice in their ...
( Category: Class March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Mazzetti, Mark [Mazzetti, Mark]

11: THE OLD MAN’S RETURN “You remember the first rule of retirement, George? No moonlighting, no fooling with loose ends. No private enterprise, ever.” —John le Carré, Smiley’s People General ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-22 | Author:Joshua Cooper Ramo [RAMO, JOSHUA COOPER]

* * * In the old days, many problems in international affairs seemed as if they could be understood from the outside in. If you knew, say, how many tanks ...
( Category: History & Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:L. Sprague De Camp

THE LATER ROMAN ENGINEERS SEVEN In the final century of the Republic, Rome expanded swiftly, gobbling up all the other nations of the Inner Sea. At the same time the ...
( Category: Mysticism March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Specter Of The Past (Timothy Zahn) [Past, Specter Of The]

CHAPTER 12 The west wall of the Resinem Entertainment Complex was dirty and salt-encrusted, discolored with age and pitted by the debris from the explosion fifteen years earlier that had ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Sacrifice (Karen Traviss) [Sacrifice]

chapter nine I don’t want to worry, you, sir, but I’ve just heard something on the metal commodities market that might concern us. Someone’s talking about offering futures in Mandalorian ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Mark Denny

It’s a Gas Across the globe, we currently consume about 31 billion barrels of oil each year. Given the estimated reserves of unconventional oil, the Athabasca tar sands can supply ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-16 | Author:Ashcroft, Frances [Ashcroft, Frances]

Raising the Barriers It is vital that only a single sperm fertilizes an egg because if multiple sperm do so the resulting cell fails to develop normally. Thus the egg ...
( Category: Electricity March 27,2014 )