History & Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2011-10-30 | Author:Bill Bryson

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Study I IN 1897 A YOUNG ironmonger in Leeds named James Henry Atkinson took a small piece of wood, some stiff wire and not much else, and ...
( Category: Design & Construction November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Colin Dickey

CHAPTER TEN FRAGMENTS OF A MYSTERY Mysteries surround Beethoven’s death; perhaps they always will. With the temporal bones lost, an accurate diagnosis of his deafness may never be made, and ...
( Category: Historiography November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-06 | Author:David Plotz

CHAPTER 8 THE SECRET OF DONOR WHITE A year passed, and I didn’t hear from Donor White. Lots of people offered to help me find him. Two private detectives volunteered ...
( Category: Genetics November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Blum

“BETWEEN THE DEATHS and apparitions of the dying person and the living a connexion exists which is not due to chance alone. This we hold as a proved fact. The ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category: Mammals November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Hirshfeld [Hirshfeld, Alan]

While astronomers were engaged in the Dopplerian debate over star colors, a little-known conjecture wafted in the background. In December 1848, French physicist Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau delivered a lecture at the ...
( Category: Astronomy November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Wilson, Edward O. [Wilson, Edward O.]

• 19 • The Emergence of a New Theory of Eusociality THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN of any complex biological system can be reconstructed correctly only if viewed as the culmination of ...
( Category: General November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-06 | Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

On Friday, July 31, Reynolds was aboard the Vincennes, at anchor beside the Peacock off Vanua Levu, talking with William May. May was at work on a chart of the ...
( Category: Americas November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Schmidt, Eric & Cohen, Jared [Schmidt, Eric]

Sudden access to technology does not in and of itself enable radicalized individuals to become cyber terrorists. There is a technical skills barrier that, to date, has forestalled an explosion ...
( Category: History & Theory November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Watson, Peter [Watson, Peter]

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery o f night ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-11-02 | Author:Rachel P. Maines

FIG. 12. British male reaction to the ascending douche, from Joseph Buckley, Recollections of the Late John Smedley and the Water Cure (1888; Matlock, England: Arkwright Society, 1973). ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS Electrotherapeutic ...
( Category: Electronics November 3,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:K.A. Linde

Chapter 18 pay up As promised, that night the guys planned an evening for the girls that included Mollie’s drink of choice. Liz went on a shopping excursion to acquire ...
( Category: Political November 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-07 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

INDEX Abject honesty, 106 Action making choices, 44–45 results of, 45 Adventure, scientific spirit of, 47 Advertising as perpetually insulting, 87 in television, 85 Age heroic, 62–63 unscientific, 59–122 Alternative ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

In the traditional occult, Venus is the goddess of love and ripeness, tranquility and charity. She represents the ardor within nature to grow and spread, dispatching fields of wild plants ...
( Category: Cultural October 27,2014 )