mobi, epub | | 2010-01-28 | Author:James Clavell

Buntaro was waiting for him a hundred paces away in the center of the path that led down to the village—squat, immense, and deadly. The guard stood beside him. It ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Laskin

Ole and Charley had gotten the wagon loaded up with hay and were about half a mile from home when the storm overtook them. The wind came up so fast ...

epub |eng | | Author:Charles Heatwole

Going by the Numbers The world’s 6.1 billion people are spread very unevenly across the planet’s surface, as you can see from Figure 11-1. Virtual empty quarters — large and ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Patrick Di Justo & Emily Gertz [Di Justo, Patrick and Gertz, Emily]

Chapter 4. Gadget: LED Sensitivity Tester Before building and using the LED photometer, we first need to figure out exactly which wavelengths of light each of our LEDs is sensitive ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Emmott [Emmott, Stephen]

The global carbon cycle is absolutely critical to the ability of us, and almost every other species on Earth, to survive on this planet. We are now radically changing every ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rose George

Public bathrooms, and their absence, throw up big questions. For me, the questions started with the doors. In China, I asked a lot of people about why their toilets had ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CHAPTER VII The Siege of Tyre THE city of Tyre stood on a small island, three or four miles in diameter, 2 on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-27 | Author:Andy Andrews

THE FIFTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS Today I will choose to be happy. Beginning this very moment, I am a happy person, for I now truly understand the concept of happiness. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Sheridan, Sam [Sheridan, Sam]

Another day, another vital lesson. “Small traps, that’s your bread and butter,” John said. “You put enough of those out for pack rats and mice, you can do okay. I ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

Almost from the start, Churchill had great hopes of turning European discontent under Nazi occupation into outright revolt. In May 1940, he had appointed Dr Hugh Dalton, a well-off socialist, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

Part III THE SIEGE In sieges, as in all undertakings, it is necessary [and] timely to consider every . . . circumstance that may happen during the execution of the ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Kolbert, Elizabeth]

A typical example of the species-area relationship, showing the shape of the curve. For the purposes of thinking about extinction, the species-area relationship is key. One (admittedly simplified) way of ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Andrew Blum

The next day I visited Witteman at the AMS-IX offices. On the wall behind his desk was a homemade mash-up of the movie poster from 300, based on the bloody ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Rupert Darwall [Darwall, Rupert]

The Buenos Aires COP4 was held in the first two weeks of November 1998. It adopted the Buenos Aires Plan of Action to put flesh on the bones of the ...

mobi, epub |pt | 2012-02-21 | Author:Howard Friel

However, the occurrence of such changes becomes increasingly more likely as the perturbation of the climate system progresses. Physical, chemical and biological analyses from Greenland ice cores, marine sediments from ...