Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:T. C. Boyle

“Sess!” Skid Denton was shouting over the uproar, waving a full shot glass as if he were proposing a toast. “Where’d you find these freaks, anyway—the Ringling Brothers’ circus?” “And ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John le Carré

17 There was Crystalside and there was Townside, and though the two were separated by a mere half-mile as the frigate bird flew, they could have been different islands, because ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Alan Hollinghurst [Hollinghurst, Alan]

He closed the door, locked the door, and reached out for Wani, who patted him and kissed him on the nose as he turned away. "Where's the stuff?" said Wani. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-09-06 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

10/ global realization WHENEVER I TOLD SOMEONE in Berlin that I was planning to visit Plauen, I got the same reaction. It didn’t matter whom I told — someone old ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Annie Proulx

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. It ain't goin a be that way. We can't. I'm stuck with what I got, caught in my own loop. Can't get out of it. Jack, I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

* 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 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Barnatt [Barnatt, Christopher]

Figure 14.2: Nuclear fusion with helium-3 In 1994, a private venture called the Artemis Project was established with the goal of establishing a private Moon base. Backed by an increasing ...
( Category: Science & Math March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Turner, Mark

FIGURE 10 Representation Relation FIGURE 11 Compressing a Representation Relation to a Unique Element in the Blend Most blends of this sort, but not all, have connections not only of ...
( Category: Movements March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Yergin, Daniel [Yergin, Daniel]

Purgatory Despite Ike’s reply, the anger of the U.S. government toward Britain, France, and Israel continued unabated. The message from Washington remained the same: It did not approve of the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Charlie Higson [Higson, Charlie]

36 Just as DogNut and his crew were heading off back to the museum, another group of kids were setting off on their own expedition, a mile away to the ...
( Category: Spine-Chilling Horror March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Craig Dilouie [Dilouie, Craig]

THE BRIDGE When the survivors left Pennsylvania, they crossed a sliver of West Virginia, a piece of ground stabbing north like a spike, before final y entering Ohio. The Veterans ...
( Category: War March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Paul Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul]

a The term blitzkrieg gets used, often sloppily, to cover different though related things. Literally, it translates as “lightning war.” As such, it could be applied to many campaigns (that ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Smith, Rick;Lourie, Bruce [Smith, Rick;Lourie, Bruce]

Medical researchers discovered that mercury poses a health risk even at very low, continuous doses at about the same time that scientists studying atmospheric mercury shifted focus from direct local ...
( Category: Asthma March 25,2014 )