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Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Donald Rumsfeld

Unless and until senior users take time to engage analysts, question their assumptions and methods, seek from them what they know, what they don’t know and ask them their opinions—and ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

So, through the baroque imagination of a Greek master, ‘Alexander’s Wedding to Roxane’ won a prize at the festival games of Greek Olympia and survived through a Roman visitor’s description ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Simon Winchester

Joseph Needham would remain in China for eighteen months more. By the time he left he had visited 296 Chinese institutes, universities, and research establishments; he had arranged for the ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Geography March 25,2014 )
Creation: Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution by Randal Keynes
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Randal Keynes

CHAPTER TEN LOSS AND REMEMBERING Funeral—Consolation—Charles and Emma’s thinking— Emma’s keepsakes—Charles’s memorial of Annie THE NEXT DAY EMMA BORE her grief in her own way. Her sister Elizabeth had come ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Livio, Mario [Livio, Mario]

Figure 22 There was one thing that the B2FH paper did not achieve. No matter how hard they tried, Hoyle and his collaborators did not manage to account for the ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins

Sunset and the evening star From Aden to Zanzibar. The bonds of the Empire sundering And final salutes are thundering And man will not cease his wondering . . . ...
( Category: Weaving March 25,2014 )
Einstein For Dummies by Calle Carlos I
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Calle, Carlos I. [Calle, Carlos I.]

With his principle of equivalence, Einstein made Galileo’s observation the foundation of his new extended theory, the general theory of relativity. Another way to state Einstein’s principle of equivalence is ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 25,2014 )
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
mobi |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Jon Krakauer

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
Shirley Jones by Shirley Jones
mobi |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Shirley Jones

After I finished playing Tahoe, Ryan, our third son, was born. I was delighted, and so was Jack, although sometimes the stress of having three little boys under one roof ...
( Category: Emergency March 25,2014 )
Zero by Charles Seife
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-12 | Author:Charles Seife

XIII The hardest part was splitting up from the others and trusting them to do their bit. But he had to. And, though he didn't say as much, when he ...
( Category: Arithmetic March 25,2014 )
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America by Henry Petroski
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Henry Petroski

Clandestine ground-breaking in New Jersey for the Canal Street Tunnel by (left to right): C. M. Holland, chief engineer, for whom the tunnel would be named posthumously; G. H. Flinn, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Daniel J. Levitin

6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away from Me Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain As I’ve discussed, most music is foot-tapping music. We listen to music that ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects March 25,2014 )
What Should We Be Worried About? : Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night (9780062296245) by Brockman John
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Brockman, John

IS THE NEW PUBLIC SPHERE . . . PUBLIC? ANDREW LIH Associate professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California; author, The Wikipedia Revolution The advent of ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:James Mahaffey

134 The USS S-48, built in 1921, was possibly the only submarine to find peril in a heavy snowstorm. She was returning home to Portsmouth, Connecticut, on the night of ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )

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