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Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Joseph Gies
epub |eng | 1994-07-15 | Author:Joseph Gies

( Category: Technology July 31,2020 )
Engineers of Dreams by Henry Petroski
epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Henry Petroski [Petroski, Henry]

( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers July 31,2020 )
Philosophy of Science Volume 2 by Mario Bunge
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Mario Bunge [Bunge, Mario]

Problems 12.5.1. The astrophysicist A. Eddington claimed—in the tradition of Kant—to possess a priori knowledge of the physical world, a knowledge derived purely from epistemological principles. Examine this claim and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 30,2020 )
Financing the New Space Industry by Howard E. McCurdy
epub |eng | | Author:Howard E. McCurdy

Advancing the firm was more challenging. Development of his New Shepard launch vehicle was underway by 2005. Twelve years later (in 2016), the company concluded its signature achievement, repeatedly landing ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science July 30,2020 )
The Apocalypse Factory by Steve Olson
epub |eng | 2020-06-06 | Author:Steve Olson

Only reinforced concrete buildings, including those of Nagasaki Medical College Hospital, remained standing within a mile and a half of the hypocenter, which is in the valley beyond the hospital. ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics July 29,2020 )
The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
mobi |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Charles Darwin

1 It is remarkable how the same disease is modified in different climates. At the little island of St. Helena, the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague. In ...
( Category: Developmental Biology July 29,2020 )
Why Nations Fail by James A. Robinson Daron Acemoglu
mobi |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:James A. Robinson Daron Acemoglu [Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson]

Both of the goals of removing competition with white farmers and developing a large low-wage labor force were simultaneously accomplished by the Natives Land Act of 1913. The act, anticipating ...
( Category: Development & Growth Economics July 28,2020 )
Paternity by Nara B. Milanich
epub |eng | | Author:Nara B. Milanich

* * * MEANWHILE, THE CHILDREN of the Allied occupation, including biracial ones, had begun to appear. In Naples, a song called the “Tammurriata Nera” narrated the birth of a ...
( Category: Fatherhood July 26,2020 )
Technology and the Virtues by Shannon Vallor
epub |eng | 2017-02-05 | Author:Shannon Vallor

6.12 Magnanimity: Moral Leadership and Nobility of Spirit [Related Virtues: Equanimity, Courage, Ambition] The Aristotelian virtue of magnanimity, or megalopsuchia (greatness of soul or spirit), has been the object of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 26,2020 )
Doing Physics by Martin H. Krieger
epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Martin H. Krieger

THE DIALECTIC OF FINDING A GOOD VACUUM: A PHENOM ENOLOGY As we discuss in chapter 5, a good vacuum allows physicists to observe phenomena in terms of that vacuum’s orderly ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics July 26,2020 )
The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla, with special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting (1894) by Tesla Nikola & Commerford Martin Thomas
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Tesla, Nikola & Commerford Martin, Thomas [Tesla, Nikola]

( Category: History & Philosophy July 25,2020 )
Untangling Twinning by Maureen L. Condic
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Maureen L. Condic

Ethical and Legal Status of “Preembryos” The Aristotelian view that a human substantial form causes all the acts of the embryo and exists from the very beginning of life is ...
( Category: Medical Ethics July 25,2020 )
Colliding Worlds by Arthur I. Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur I. Miller

7.12: Joe Davis, Bacterial Radio, 2011. Davis is regularly invited to address science departments and symposia, though he finds that “often I speak a language that nobody understands.” He feels ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 25,2020 )
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good by Cathy Gere
epub |eng | 2017-08-30 | Author:Cathy Gere [Gere, Cathy]

DAVID FERRIER Born in Aberdeen in 1843, David Ferrier studied classics and philosophy under Alexander Bain at the University of Aberdeen. It was Bain who introduced the young man to ...
( Category: Medical Ethics July 25,2020 )
The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Devra Davis

A Breast Cancer Fund poster, banned in San Francisco in January 2000.The superimposed mastectomy scar is that of the author’s friend Andrea Martin. 11 Doctoring Evidence You can observe a ...
( Category: Oncology July 25,2020 )

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