Science & Math
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: Astronomy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-09 | Author:Singer, P. W. [Singer, P. W.]

IT BECAME NECESSARY TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT Through these types of technologies, many science fiction writers envision how the “war on terrorism” might ultimately be ...
( Category: Science & Math March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-08 | Author:John Keay [Keay, John]

SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon Lambton’s death in January 1823 meant that Everest, as his only assistant of rank, now took acting charge of the Great Trigonometrical Survey. With it went ...
( Category: Geography March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-25 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

272 Signs of nobility: never thinking of degrading our duties into duties for everybody; not wanting to delegate, to share, one’s own responsibility; counting one’s privileges and their exercise among ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Lizzie Collingham [Collingham, Lizzie]

14 The Soviet Union – Fighting on Empty Hunger and cold held our people in their merciless grip. (Victor Kravchenko, head of the Department of War Engineering Armament for Russia)1 ...
( Category: Agriculture & Food Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Richard Osgood

UNKNOWN WARRIOR 10 A postern gate was located on the eastern side of the citadel at Basing House in Hampshire. As we have seen, this building, held by the Royalists, ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Rudolph Herzog [Herzog, Rudolph]

CHAPTER SEVEN Flying Reactors There are places where radioactive substances have no business being. One of them is space. That may sound like science fiction, but it is, in fact, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Mark Denny

Bombs Away In World War I it was difficult to aim from airplanes, as well as to aim at them. From the point of view of those on the planes, ...
( Category: Conventional March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-05-31 | Author:Clausewitz, Carl von & Michael Eliot Howard & Peter Paret [Clausewitz, Carl von]

CHAPTER EIGHT Types of Resistance The essence of defense lies in parrying the attack. This in turn implies waiting, which for us is the main feature of defense and also ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-09-07 | Author:Michael Isikoff

PINCUS finally got Libby on the phone. Libby wouldn’t say anything on the record. He wouldn’t allow Pincus to refer to him as a vice presidential aide or even a ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-02-15 | Author:Andy McNab [McNab, Andy]

I took the threat seriously. He had just confirmed my worst fears. They would give us both a good kicking, then take us off and slot us. Good, I thought, ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Teofilo F. Ruiz

History and the World of Matter If what I describe here is easily understood, part of our experience, part of our need for physical and emotional comfort, how can it ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David F. Noble

While Parsons was trying in vain to commercialize N/C, others were getting into the act. Directly or indirectly supported by the Air Force, Giddings and Lewis, together with General Electric, ...
( Category: Industrial Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Daniel Diehl

Twelve From Russia with Hate: André Chikatilo (1978–90) Life has always been hard in the Russian states and it was especially true in 1936 when André Chikatilo was born in ...
( Category: Archaeology March 26,2014 )