Technology
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Andrew Smith

The museum district comes on like a pleasant afterthought to the city, manicured green and – with no reason for anyone to go there other than culture – quiet. It’s ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi | | 2012-06-12 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

One flash of inspiration had not brought Newton here. The path to universal gravitation had led through a sequence of claims, each stranger than the last. A force draws bodies ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Stone, Brad [Stone, Brad]

In 2003, Jeff Bezos came up with yet another way to frame his concept of Amazon. This time, it was for a group of buyers who were leading the company’s ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Lapsley, Phil [Lapsley, Phil]

Fifteen PRANKS LIKE THE FLAP of a butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane half a world away, the ripples of unintended consequences from Ron Rosenbaum’s “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Kate Summerscale [Summerscale, Kate]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WOMEN! HOLD YOUR TONGUES! November-December 1860 In the first, cold days of November, the strangest inquiry yet opened at the Temperance Hall. Thomas Saunders, a barrister and magistrate ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:James White [General, Sector]

and caught the end in a double grip as the plate teetered and disappeared sideways under the thorns. Conway climbed down as far as he could and pulled the rope ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charlie A. Beckwith [Beckwith, Charlie A.]

The briefing room was up at XVIII Airborne Corps. General Warner’s large office was filled with stars. It was like a Delta class reunion. General Meyer was there, along with ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Paul Scheckel

Windswept trees. If you’re driving down the road and see trees that look like they’ve had a bad haircut, it could indicate a good site for wind energy. Wind Monitoring ...
( Category: Do-It-Yourself March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Andrew Smith

We all saw it. I shined my light directly at Quinn’s pale and expressionless face. “That was a game, Quinn?” I said. “I told you it was,” Quinn said. “We ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Piers Anthony

10 - Sheen Sheen walked beside Citizen Blue to the Game Annex. The Annex had been closed for all residents except for this single event. “I fear you are making ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-06 | Author:John Wyndham

Part Two CHAPTER 16 Now We Are Nine DURING the next few years, such visits home as we managed were brief and hurried, spent entirely in dashing from one lot ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:James Burke

In 1763 the end of the Seven Years War meant that the government was no longer in urgent need of capital, so the rate of interest on borrowed money fell ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Laurence C. Smith

Contrasting Patterns of Settlement The decision of Soviet planners to relocate millions of people and force the growth of giant cities across her coldest, most remote terrain has created one ...
( Category: Weather March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:John Brockman

THE LIMITS OF INTUITION BRIAN ENO Artist; composer; musician; recording producer, U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon We sometimes tend to think that ideas and feelings arising from our intuition ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )