epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Matthew Parker [Parker, Matthew]

allace would complain that the delays in sorting out the problems in accommodation were down to “supplies taking for ever to arrive” and the labor “immediately available and who could ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David McCullough

* * * 1 Reportedly it was Senator Hanna who put Roosevelt on to Cromwell. “You want to be very careful, Theodore,” Hanna is supposed to have advised in fatherly ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Bill Adair [Adair, Bill]

Jim Hall, the NTSB’s new chairman, had just replaced the retiring Carl Vogt. A short man with sandy hair and a mild Tennessee drawl, Hall was a Vietnam veteran, a ...

epub |eng | 1989-05-31 | Author:Clausewitz, Carl von & Michael Eliot Howard & Peter Paret [Clausewitz, Carl von]

CHAPTER EIGHT Types of Resistance The essence of defense lies in parrying the attack. This in turn implies waiting, which for us is the main feature of defense and also ...

epub |eng | | Author:David F. Noble

While Parsons was trying in vain to commercialize N/C, others were getting into the act. Directly or indirectly supported by the Air Force, Giddings and Lewis, together with General Electric, ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:David Isby [Isby, David]

Land and Water Conflicts over land and water rights underlie a lot of Afghanistan’s internal strife, including those relating to corruption and even terrorism. Arable land and water are both ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Jack Hitt [Hitt, Jack]

VII. Marlboro Time Around midnight in San Francisco, Patterson and I are on the floor with our fortieth or fiftieth attempt at configuring the 2500-volt transformer so that we can ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Marc Levinson [Levinson Marc]

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Henry Petroski

This collection of forks shows the variations available in several silver patterns. Top row, left to right: oyster fork-spoon, oyster forks (four styles), berry forks (four styles), terrapin, lettuce and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Deborah Blum

Dry newspapers found Norris less persuasive. Alcohol killed thousands of people long before Prohibition was enacted, they pointed out. “Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?” asked Nebraska’s Omaha ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Jane Brox

12. Alone in the Dark They are pronounced overhauls ... the swift, simple, and inevitably supine gestures of dressing and of undressing, which, as is less true of any other ...