Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Dan Parry

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:John M. Barry

The report had consequences. Park’s laboratory began the struggle to produce an antiserum and vaccine to Pfeiffer’s bacillus. Soon they were culturing liters and liters of the bacteria, transporting it ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Unger, David C. [Unger, David C.]

Reagan’s military buildup emphasized weapons that were designed to fight, deter, or impress a rival superpower. The Weinberger-Powell Doctrine reserved America’s own military forces for wars of national security necessity, ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Letts

Approaching the fence, Snowman is alert and Harry is balanced forward. (illustration credits 14.3) But this was a tough course. The fences were all above five feet, with big spreads, ...
( Category: Riding March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-14 | Author:R.A. Scotti

Chapter 15 The Dangerous Right Semicircle Survivors in eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts could not believe that the storm was holding anything back, but the Hurricane of 1938 saved the worst ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ben Evans

( Category: Automotive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:John Buntin

FOR DECADES, police departments had enjoyed wide latitude in how they went about apprehending criminal suspects. In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that evidence improperly or illegally obtained ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:John Buntin

FOR DECADES, police departments had enjoyed wide latitude in how they went about apprehending criminal suspects. In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that evidence improperly or illegally obtained ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson

BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

CHAPTER 12 MONSIEUR, WE THINK YOU ARE ROTTEN A man is not either stupid or intelligent, he is either free or not free. —Written on a wall of the Faculté ...
( Category: Rocks & Minerals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )