epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Richard Holmes [Richard Holmes]

The picture seems to carry an allegorical message, skilfully developed from that of the Times editorial: the Scientist presses the extreme limits of Nature at his peril. The well-ordered world ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Defede, Jim [Defede, Jim]

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-01-18 | Author:Michael Crichton [Crichton, Michael]

She picked up the phone and called Barker back. “Will you talk about these incidents on camera?” “I’ve testified in court about this on numerous occasions,” Barker said. “I’ll be ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Rediker, Marcus [Rediker, Marcus]

Sailors, Slaves, and Violence The Liverpool writer “Dicky Sam” described the violent reality of the slave ship this way: “the captain bullies the men, the men torture the slaves, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Stephan Talty

At the neck of the lagoon, Don Alonzo waited. A stream of informers stole toward his flagship and gave the admiral a series of reports: The pirates were working on ...

epub |eng | | Author:Matt Potter

SLIGHT, MOUSY-HAIRED, AND leather jacketed, Andrei Alexeivich Soldatov looks more like the bass player in an indie band than the scourge of the Russian secret service’s more maverick tendencies. And ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Aldous [Aldous, Richard]

It was a bold claim, not least because it came as a major investor, General Electric Credit Corporation, was pulling out of GPA. In order to fill the gap left ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Paine, Lincoln [Paine, Lincoln]

Christopher Columbus The exploratory activity on the Atlantic had attracted any number of ambitious mariners, one of whom, the Genoese-born Christopher Columbus, conceived a bold plan “that he would sail ...

epub |eng, eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Jill Jonnes

EIGHTEEN “DISTURBED ABOUT NORTH RIVER TUNNELS” On Monday April 2, 1906, an anguished Samuel Rea sat at a wooden desk in his spacious Bryn Mawr home and considered how best ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Cate Lineberry [LINEBERRY, CATE]

Exhausted after a day of grueling hiking, the weary party arrived at Sheper, a village of about one hundred stone houses and roughly fifteen miles north of the border with ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Sam Roberts [ROBERTS, SAM]

PERHAPS THE TERMINAL’S MOST ENDURING EXPORT is about time. Until 1883, virtually every town in the country set local time by the sun. Typically, noon would be regularly signaled so ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Julian Stockwin [Julian Stockwin]

Chapter 8 At his book by the stern windows in the great cabin Renzi heard movement on the deck above, then stillness. A few minutes later the silvery shriek of ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2009-11-23 | Author:Michael Crichton

Chapter 24 THEY WERE STILL in Spanish waters, and they moved southward quickly, under every inch of canvas they could muster. The galleon normally carried as many as a thousand ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-13 | Author:Sinclair McKay

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife ‘You mustn’t think that it was all harmony at BP,’ says one veteran. ‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Lee J. Ames [Ames, Lee J.]

COW Draw 50 Animals FROG Draw 50 Animals MONKEY Draw 50 Animals GORILLA Draw 50 Endangered Animals COLUMBIAN WHITE-TAILED DEER Draw 50 Endangered Animals LAMB Draw 50 Baby Animals PIGLET ...