History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:Goldwhite, Harold, Cobb, Cathy [CATHY COBB,HAROLD GOLDWHITE]

ISOMERISM Friedrich Wöhler and Justus Liebig Even though chemists as a group are not noted for their great beauty, Friedrich Wöhler was an outstandingly homely man. However this did not ...
( Category: General Chemistry April 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Archibald, J. David. [Archibald, J. David.]

FIGURE 5.6 One of Haeckel’s (A) broom-like tuft diagrams, addressing the issue of the poly- versus monophyletic origin of life, depicted in a slightly different form from his figure in ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Archibald, J. David.

FIGURE 5.6 One of Haeckel’s (A) broom-like tuft diagrams, addressing the issue of the poly- versus monophyletic origin of life, depicted in a slightly different form from his figure in ...
( Category: Genetics April 7,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian Stewart

If you’re thinking that this sounds a bit like attempts to solve the quintic, you’re onto something. If many capable mathematicians try something and fail, it is conceivable that it ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Jacques Vallee

319. 2 April 1716, Tallin, Baltic Sea: Clouds fighting Two large dark clouds engaged in combat, and many smaller fast clouds. The phenomenon was observed over the Baltic Sea, near ...
( Category: Reference April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Keevak

“MONGOLIAN” BODIES Despite all its eccentricities, one of the most familiar things about Crookshank’s reading of Mongolism is his breathing new life into the centuries-old notion that if there were ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Rosensweig, R. E. [Rosensweig, R. E.]

Equation set Equations governing the motion of the magnetic liquid, in a form that is convenient for use in the present problem, were developed previously as (1.27) and (4.74), and ...
( Category: Magnetism April 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Jim Bell

ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES When William and Caroline Herschel discovered Oberon and Titania, they and others couldn’t help but notice that those moons (and others found later) are spinning around ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 30,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Turkle, Sherry [Turkle, Sherry]

PRESENTATION ANXIETY What are the truth claims in a Facebook profile? How much can you lie? And what is at stake if you do? Nancy, an eighteen-year-old senior at Roosevelt, ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 1991-12-30 | Author:Kitty Ferguson [Ferguson, Kitty]

14 ‘Between film roles I enjoy solving physics problems’ ANDREI LINDE, WORKING with alex vilenkin in the late 1980s and early 1990s, discovered that an inflationary universe has an amazing ...
( Category: Scientists March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Richard D. Easton & Eric F. Frazier & Rick W. Sturdevant

9 Where Are We? GPS and GNSS Today I once was lost but now am found. John Newton, “Amazing Grace ,” 1779 Like millions of motorists, thirty-two-year-old Jeramie Griffin, a ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-21 | Author:Julia Voss [Voss, Julia]

Figure 53. Frontispiece to Haeckel’s 1874 Anthropogenie, oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen (Anthropogenie, Or the Evolution of Man) 4 THE LAUGHING MONKEY The Human Animal ON April 21, 1868, Darwin sketched ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Close, Frank [Close, Frank]

DAMAGE CONTROL Whereas for Gil’s friends in Abingdon this was a spy story come true, for others the implications of Pontecorvo’s defection were more serious. When news of Pontecorvo’s disappearance ...
( Category: Russia March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Amir D. Aczel

Andy Brouwer on one of his jungle adventures in Cambodia. “How would you go about looking for K-127?” I asked Andy when he finished his story. “I have some connections,” ...
( Category: Counting & Numeration March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Andrew Collins

Fig. 32. Graeco-Egyptian magical gem of unknown date showing the Phoenix as the Benu bird, standing on a crocodile, probably representing Set, the Greek Typhon. The Festival of Sokar The ...
( Category: Cosmology March 21,2015 )