epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-26 | Author:Thomas Nagel [Nagel, Thomas]

2 The first problem arises only if one presupposes realism about the subject matter of our thought. We want to know how likely it is, for example, that evolution should ...

epub | | 1998-07-15 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking [Hawking, Stephen W.]

A Brief History of Time CHAPTER 7 BLACK HOLES AIN’T SO BLACK Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Mumfrey, W. H. [Mumfrey, W. H.]

WARNING Freefall diving is a high-risk activity and should not be attempted unless in the most life-threatening circumstances. All other alternatives should be considered before jumping. The diver must have ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Joanne Baker [Baker, Joanne]

If the Higgs field gives the other force-carrier bosons mass, what is the mass of the Higgs boson? And how does it get its own mass? Isn’t this a chicken-and-egg ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:J. A. Jance [Jance, J. A.]

CHAPTER 12 I asked Daisy if I could use the phone to check in with the department before I left the Edinburgh Arms. She obligingly led me to the kitchen. ...

epub, mobi | | 2006-10-30 | Author:Jeremy Clarkson [Clarkson, Jeremy]

Australia For a country whose most notable contribution to the world of television is a programme called Neighbours, it comes as quite a surprise to find the nearest big city ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-07 | Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasse [Tyson, Neil deGrasse]

I would later learn that in addition to his PhD in planetary science from the University of Arizona, Mark Sykes also wields a law degree from the same institution and ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Lily Koppel

On March 23, 1965, Betty sat in her living room with the Mercury wives, old pros watching the countdown. Her boys and Sam the Dog, “a sad-eyed basset hound,” were ...

mobi, epub, pdf |pt | 1991-03-15 | Author:Michael Talbot

epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Clancy, Tom [Clancy, Tom]

AGM-88 HARM On May 1st, 1960, over the farmlands of central Russia, a small air battle took place that forever changed the nature of air warfare. Almost 13 miles/21 kilometers ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Christian Lambright [Lambright, Christian]

Still, what if the NSA or some other agency was transmitting signals that anyone in the area could intercept? Our intelligence agencies have had decades of experience dealing with efforts ...

mobi, epub |pt | 1997-09-08 | Author:Carl Sagan

PLANETARY SCIENCE fosters a broad interdisciplinary point of view that proves enormously helpful in discovering and attempting to defuse these looming environmental catastrophes. When you cut your teeth on other ...