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The Friar and the Cipher by Lawrence Goldstone
epub |eng | 2005-02-14 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone

BY THE FALL OF 1268, Bacon's prospects for precipitating reform in the Church never seemed better. In the spring of that year, Frederick's grandson Conradin, “the last of the Hohenstaufens,” ...
( Category: General February 3,2015 )
English as a Global Language (Canto Classics) by Crystal David
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Crystal, David [Crystal, David]

Education It follows from what has been said in this chapter that English is the medium of a great deal of the world’s knowledge, especially in such areas as science ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies February 2,2015 )
Culinary Herbs & Spices of the World by Ben-Erik van Wyk
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Ben-Erik van Wyk

NOTES Infusions of juniper berries or juniper oil are traditional diuretic and antiseptic medicines. The oil is used in aromatherapy. 1. Mabberley, D.J. 2008. Mabberley’s plant-book (3rd ed.). Cambridge University ...
( Category: Herbs January 30,2015 )
Questioning the Millennium by Stephen Jay Gould
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, the Distribution of White Garments Among the Martyrs and the Fall of Stars (1498), Albrecht Dürer. Woodcut from The Revelation of Saint ...
( Category: Rationalism January 29,2015 )
The Science of Shakespeare by Dan Falk
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Falk

WHEN SHALL WE 1,250 MEET AGAIN? The Shakespeare Association of America is to Shakespeare studies what the American Astronomical Society is to astronomy. The SAA* is the world’s largest professional ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
Evolution's Captain by Peter Nichols
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Nichols

Much of what FitzRoy “learned” from his dealings with Fuegians must be set against misunderstandings like this—and his reliance on translators who were frequently under coercion. Although they were his ...
( Category: Scientists January 29,2015 )
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family by Byrne Peter
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Byrne, Peter [Byrne, Peter]

AHARONOV: There seems to be a problem here. It raises the question is time reversible? If you look on the process of branching you see that it has a definitely ...
( Category: Quantum Theory January 29,2015 )
Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human by Garreau Joel
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-16 | Author:Garreau, Joel [Garreau, Joel]

* * * The Hell Scenario Bill Joy and other advocates of The Hell Scenario see a future in which the advance of The Curve is unstoppable, and unspeakable evil ...
( Category: Social Aspects January 29,2015 )
Connections by James Burke
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:James Burke [Burke, James]

A painting (1438) of St. Barbara, incorporating the latest luxuries afforded by the presence of the chimney. Wooden furniture keeps her feet off the tiled floor, glass windows are backed ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Tom Standage

crYPTOGRAPHY—tinkering with codes and ciphers—was a common hobby among Victorian gentlemen. Wheatstone and his friend Charles Bab-bage, who is best known for his failed attempts to build a mechanical computer, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 28,2015 )
Five Equations That Changed the World by Michael Guillen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Guillen

VICI On February 29, 1812, Faraday leapt up the stone steps and rushed through the heavy doors of London’s Royal Institution. Symbolically, it was like the storming of Bastille, except ...
( Category: History January 26,2015 )
The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Charles Eisenstein [Eisenstein, Charles]

And in Ecclesiastes 2:8 we read, … I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gathered me men-singers and women-singers, and ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture January 24,2015 )
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless by John D. Barrow
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:John D. Barrow [Barrow, John D.]

Fig 8.3 Three possible futures for an oscillating universe: (a) An oscillating universe of many equal cycles. (b) The size of the expansion maximum should grow as the oscillations continue ...
( Category: Metaphysics January 23,2015 )
The World As I See It by Einstein Albert
mobi |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]

The Institute for Intellectual Co-operation DURING THIS YEAR THE leading politicians of Europe have for the first time drawn the logical conclusion from the truth that our portion of the ...
( Category: Essays January 23,2015 )
The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet by Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan
azw3 |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan

A correct understanding of emptiness thus stops us from falling into the traps of realism or nihilism. Meditation on emptiness attenuates the belief in the real existence of things. But ...
( Category: Eastern January 22,2015 )

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