General & Reference
epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Thomas Hager

What Fritz has achieved in these eight years, I have lost—and even more. And what’s left fills me with the deepest dissatisfaction. . . . [E]ven if external circumstances and ...
( Category: Germany May 30,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Ayelet Waldman [Waldman, Ayelet]

The only time Iris ever saw Daniel box she had come prepared to be outraged, prepared even to walk out in disgust. In fact she was there in the stands ...
( Category: Family Saga April 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-12 | Author:Buchanan, Kyle & Roller, Dean [Buchanan, Kyle]

Summary It is revision time again. 61. Remember prom-Ethel helping Neo stand up? Picture her and you’ll remember Promethium. 62. And the kind and gentle Good Samaritan who rushes to ...
( Category: General & Reference March 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Eve Curie

She obeyed him—she always obeyed—but she felt tired in body and mind. She grew discouraged and accused herself of intellectual impotence, of "stupidity." The truth was simpler: in this woman ...
( Category: General & Reference March 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-09-01 | Author:Tiner, John Hudson [Tiner, John Hudson]

Lot’s wife If a Roman soldier from ancient times could come to modern America following a winter storm, he would be surprised. He would see what he thought of as ...
( Category: General & Reference March 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Theodore E. Brown;H. Eugene H Lemay;Bruce E. Bursten;Catherine Murphy;Patrick Woodward

14.26 (a) Consider the combustion of ethylene, C2H4(g) + 3 O2(g) → 2 CO2(g) + 2 H2O(g). If the concentration of C2H4 is decreasing at the rate of 0.036 M/s, ...
( Category: Physical Chemistry February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Mendeleev’s Garden In 1945 the Science Museum in South Kensington reopened (it had been closed for much of the war), and I first saw the giant periodic table ...
( Category: Medical December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Hervé This [This, Hervé]

53 Truffles European black truffles are all of the same species, but genetic analysis shows that Chinese truffles are something quite different. THE BLACK DIAMOND! An immense amount of ink ...
( Category: General & Reference November 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Mullis, Kary [Mullis, Kary]

12 THE ATTACK OF THE LOXOSCELES RECLUSAE I LEARNED WHAT would happen if I put my hand on top of a red ant hill. I was curious to know how ...
( Category: General & Reference November 12,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-07 | Author:Schwarcz, Joe [Schwarcz, Joe]

Breatharians and Nutritarians Breatharians and nutritarians. Never heard of them? One represents the extent of human folly, while the other is a scientifically legitimate attempt to improve health. A breatharian ...
( Category: Trivia October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Sam Kean [Kean, Sam]

A live body is so complicated, so butterfly-flaps-its-wings-in-Brazil chaotic, that if you inject a random element into your bloodstream or liver or pancreas, there’s almost no telling what will happen. ...
( Category: General & Reference October 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-23 | Author:Elaine Dewar [Dewar, Elaine]

In spite of the fact that he had mostly supported himself, the idea that biological science is a public endeavor, rather than a private pleasure to satisfy private curiosity, was ...
( Category: Biotechnology August 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Cathy Cobb

DEMONSTRATION 12. PRACTICAL ALCHEMY Practical alchemy is not an oxymoron. As we've learned, not all alchemists were independently wealthy. Even if they started out wealthy, they probably didn't stay that ...
( Category: General & Reference July 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Schwarcz, Joe

Breatharians and Nutritarians Breatharians and nutritarians. Never heard of them? One represents the extent of human folly, while the other is a scientifically legitimate attempt to improve health. A breatharian ...
( Category: General & Reference June 24,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Aldersey-Williams, Hugh [Aldersey-Williams, Hugh]

Shakespeare recodes lead’s predictive potential in The Merchant of Venice. In order to win the beautiful heiress Portia, her suitors must make an elemental choice between caskets of gold, silver ...
( Category: Inorganic June 3,2014 )