Science & Math
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-03 | Author:Bill Bryson

An Excerpt from Bill Bryson’s At Home THE DRAWING ROOM I If you had to summarize it in a sentence, you could say that the history of private life is ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Rory McGrath

Part Two Flapping Around A Lot BIRDING FOR ADULTS Twenty-five years’ worth of dark, bright, deep, shallow, murky and quirky water had sloshed under the bridge between the day I ...
( Category: Sports & Outdoors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:James D. Watson

10. MANNERS APPROPRIATE FOR A NOBEL PRIZE INDIVIDUALS nominated for Nobel Prizes are not supposed to know their names have been put forward. The Swedish Academy, which judges candidates and ...
( Category: Molecular Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Jason Kersten

WITH THE PEN AND OVI PROBLEMS SOLVED, Art took on the New Note’s most daunting challenge: the watermark. Ever since he’d first seen it that day at Barnes & Noble ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Jon Krakauer

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

13. A SNAIL’S THOUGHTS why such careful consideration snail? — KOBAYASHI ISSA (1763 – 1828) I WAS CERTAIN THAT my snail was just as aware of the details of its ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-30 | Author:Vanessa Woods

MAX IS IN THE TESTING ROOM. He is the perfect male model, his luxurious hair fans out in all directions. He shakes his locks when he sees me. Yes, his ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Cahalan, Susannah [Cahalan, Susannah]

It was Easter weekend. On Saturday, the surgeon’s head nurse arrived to describe the preparation for the brain surgery. She seemed upbeat and managed to make the biopsy sound routine. ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Knapp, Caroline [Knapp, Caroline]

If there were a 12-step program for codependent dog owners, I’d no doubt be a prime candidate, but I’d hardly be the only member. Right there in the church basement ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Michelle Williams

TWENTY-SIX One early afternoon after lunch, which was a soggy sandwich from the canteen, the doorbell had rung and, after the usual banter between Clive and the undertaker, what lay ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jennifer Ouellette

One week before Christmas in 1664, a comet streaked across the sky over England. Astrologers claimed it was an omen of impending apocalypse. One William Lilly predicted that this, combined ...
( Category: Calculus March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Lynne Cox

I returned to UCSB to complete my junior year of college. That winter I received a letter from Sandy Blewett, the swimmer I had met a few years before in ...
( Category: Swimming March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Anthony Bourdain

PINO NOIR: TUSCAN INTERLUDE OF ALL THE HIGH-PRESSURE, full mind-body crunches, strange interludes, unexpected twists and 'learning experiences' in my long and largely undistinguished career, my brief Tuscan interlude with ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Joshua Foer

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 25,2014 )