History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2008-02-27 | Author:Lee Smolin [Smolin, Lee]

String theory failed as a theory of physics because of the existence of a manifold of possible background spacetimes.… The long-standing crisis of string theory is its complete failure to ...
( Category: Physics April 26,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Paul A. Lombardo [Lombardo, Paul A.]

Estabrook’s Demise Arthur Estabrook’s expert testimony provided some of the most important evidence in the 1924 Buck trial. Unlike any other witness, Estabrook had actually seen the “three generations” whose ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-25 | Author:James Tabery [Tabery, James]

Figure 6.1 (A) Five clones of yarrow (Achilleas) grown at three different altitudes—Stanford (30 meters), Mather (1,400 meters), and Timberline (3,050 meters; reproduced from Clausen, Keck, and Hiesey 1940, figure ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Robert Lanza & Bob Berman [Lanza, Robert & Berman, Bob]

11 SPACE OUT Ye Gods! Annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. —Alexander Pope (1728) How do our animal minds apprehend the world? We’ve all been taught ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Chris Skinner

As can be seen, it varies widely and is a reflection of the regulatory structure and enthusiasm to adopt mobile wallets among the banks and MNOs. For example, in Tanzania, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Gavan Tredoux

Writing for the Daily Worker must have been lucrative. Normally such work would pay modestly, if at all, but the paper had substantial subsidies from Stalin, funneled through Eastern Europe ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Taylor Downing

12 Truck Bomb In the summer of 1982, Ronald Reagan had decided at last that the United States must intervene in the ongoing crisis in Lebanon. It had taken some ...
( Category: Military April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

The West Indies CUBA AND HISPANIOLA. The two largest islands of the Greater Antilles contain an exuberant fauna and flora that form the bulk of the biodiversity of all the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-23 | Author:Maury Klein

CHAPTER 14 MONEY, MERGERS, AND MOTORS With the advent of the dynamo electricity has taken a new and very much larger place in the commercial activities of the world. It ...
( Category: Engineering April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Baert, Patrick

Concluding comments Sartre’s rise in the autumn of 1945 was partly due to a broader, powerful network in which he had managed to occupy a leading role. Sartre’s network consisted ...
( Category: Sociology April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Richard Koch

Time heresy: time is abundant, time is available How can we change our mental map of time? Here are a couple of related thoughts that are profoundly and demonstrably true, ...
( Category: Personal Finance April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-23 | Author:Steve Stewart-Williams

The spark of reason The upshot of this rather long discussion is that if we wish to maintain that human beings are superior among the animals, this cannot be based ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 23,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:James Watson [Watson, James]

To everyone's surprise, the debate has been resolved by DNA: 30,000-year-old DNA extracted in 1997 from the very bones that started it all in 1856. Having evolved in order to ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 22,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Jackson

In 1806, William was packed off to England to attempt to negotiate a trade deal for the West Indian colonies. He was accompanied by his little sister Delia and his ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 22,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Richard Reeves [Reeves, Richard]

CHAPTER 6 Rutherford finished out the 1919 school year at Manchester, packed up the apparatus to continue the proton experiments, and took on the most prestigious position in British physics: ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 21,2018 )