Science & Math
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Norie Neumark [Neumark, Norie]

Loudspeakers, loud speakers We use the term “loudspeaker” or “speakers” so casually that the sense that these objects are ‘speakers,’ that they are speaking, has been lost. Why do we ...
( Category: Arts & Photography April 1,2018 )
epub |hun | | Author:1952 [Ismeretlen]

“How expensive?” The head porter blinked, raised his black eyebrows the faintest trifle. “Perhaps an ounce a week . . . The Traveller’s Inn and the Fairmont are likewise expensive, ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:B.K. Verma [Verma, B.K.]

Corolla It consists of four or five petals which are polypetalous with imbricate aestivation. In Eucalyptus, the petals are united completely forming a cap like structure which is shed when ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Mary Sojourner

I’m sitting at my old rolltop desk on a gorgeous Mojave day. I read what I’ve written and feel nothing but nostalgia. That’s the nature of this dysfunction. The memories ...
( Category: Addiction & Recovery April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:John Forbat [Forbat, John]

Fig.5.32 Mock-up of Blast warhead for Red Dean, showing the Initiator.47 The EMIE Fuze design dated back to the 1951 prototype, to meet the GW2 specification. Alternatives were considered for ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Daniel Chamovitz [Chamovitz, Daniel]

Knowing Up from Down In 1758—more than a century before Darwin’s landmark book The Power of Movement in Plants—Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, a French naval inspector and ardent botanist, observed ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-13 | Author:Charles R. Morris [Morris, Charles R.]

I FOUND the M&Ms very impressive if deeply unsatifying. Within their own frame of reference, they were yet another example of the surgeons’ flat, factual, way of dealing with the ...
( Category: Medicine April 1,2018 )
epub |nld | 2008-04-01 | Author:Fred E. Basten

Klieg lights fill the Hollywood sky to announce the grand opening of the new Max Factor Make-Up Studio, 1935. The doors opened promptly at 4 p.m. Minutes later, stars, producers, ...
( Category: Fashion April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-24 | Author:Nobus Dany [Dany, Nobus]

( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Hans Offringa [Offringa, Hans]

219. When Is a Screw Cap Used? Teacher’s was the first whisky marketed with a screw cap, in 1913. There are no guidelines on screw caps—it is up to the ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine April 1,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Gerd Gigerenzer

The Chain of Inference One would think that a match between a defendant’s DNA and the DNA found at a crime scene would prove that the defendant is the source ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Smith & GARY FERGUSON

Even in the research community, not everyone’s pleased about how easy it is to see wolves in Yellowstone. Veteran Canadian wolf biologist Lu Carbyn once commented that Yellowstone has changed ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Neil Shubin [Shubin, Neil]

This was an age of exploration of the natural world, and by looking at rocks and fossils, people began to formulate new ideas. Ships returned monthly from the far corners ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Kay Pfaltz

CHAPTER 22 The Decision Made The longest journey you will ever travel is the journey from your head to your heart. —ANONYMOUS I BEGAN TO WEAN FLASH OFF THE STEROIDS. ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Matthew Pasek [Pasek, Matthew]

KEY POINTS AND HINTS: Stereoisomers are like conformation isomers, if you break down the molecule to a descriptive sentence, there’s no way of distinguishing between stereoisomers, compared to conformational isomers. ...
( Category: Chemistry April 1,2018 )