Author: Glines, Alan Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Kansan Conquers the Cosmos presents the story of Alan Glines, who began working with NASA in 1966 and was part of Mission Control during the height of the space program. Full of fun and excitement, ...
Author: Kellermann, E Walter Publisher: M-Y Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is of interest to historians of science and to scientists as well as to the general reader. Historians will be interested in the author's 'revealing view' of the British pre war university s...
Author: Br¸ck, M. T. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the...
Author: Suzuki, David Publisher: Greystone Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: David Suzuki's autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in Metamorphosis and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzu...
Author: Ward, Richard Publisher: Christopher Matthews Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although raised as the youngest of nine children on a farm in Montana where sibling competition was a way of life, the author's desire to compete did not carry over into the classroom, that is, until ...
Author: Hoskin, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King Geo...
Author: Jammer, Max Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature ...
Author: Linenger, Jerry Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Dr. Jerry Linenger's 132 days aboard the decaying Russian space station Mir were beset by power outages that left the crew in total darkness and tumbling out of control, poisonous chemical leaks, and...
Description: Me Father was the keeper of the Eddystone light, He married a mermaid one fine night... The Eddystone Rocks are among the most feared and romanticized rock formations in the world. Guarding the appr...
Author: Stevenson, R. L. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ON the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two c...
Author: Upadhyaya, Gopal S. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book is first in English language highlighting the memoirs of a world renowned powder metallurgist .The author who is widely travelled , has had intimate interactions with eminent materials scient...
Author: Cormier, Milton, J Publisher: OPA Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dr. Milton Cormier spent a professional lifetime in the research laboratory investigating the mystifying bioluminescent properties of sea creatures. His principal focus, a picture of which is shown on...
Author: Myers, Donald G. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The author shares his forty years of real life experiences and what he has learned from working with the criminal and the insane in the field of Forensic Psychology.
Author: Stevenson, R. L. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Fo...
Author: Soderqvist, Thomas Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This biography probes the unusual mind, the dramatic life, and the outstanding scientific work of Danish-born immunologist Niels Jerne (1911-1994). Jerne's Nobel Prize-winning achievements in the fiel...
Description: Best known for his major railway-building accomplishments, Sir Sandford Fleming's origins are revealed in these early diaries that record his thoughts as an 18-year-old leaving his family home in Scot...
Author: Darwin, Charles Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory. Darwin wrote his autobiography under the title Recollections of the Development of my Mind ...
Author: Darwin, Charles Publisher: EZreads Publications, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Rec...
Author: Darwin, Charles Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A fascinating autobiographical account of Charles Darwin's life. It delicately intertwines the details of his personal life with that of his career. It brings to us Darwin not only as a naturalist of ...
Author: Darwin, Francis Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: [My father's autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children, - and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an ...
Author: Ber, Karl Wolfgang Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1973, Dr. Böer created the Solar One house, the first house to convert sunlight into electricity and heat. His leadership made a lasting impact on science, engineering, and the solar industry. T...
Description: This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshnes...
Author: Mahon, Basil Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshnes...
Author: Nero, Robert W. Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Birds or potsherds? This dilemma is confronted by one of Canada's top nature writers in this account of a lifetime's involvement as an avocational archaeologist.
Author: Nero, Robert W. Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Birds or potsherds? This dilemma is confronted by one of Canada's top nature writers in this account of a lifetime's involvement as an avocational archaeologist.
Author: Stevens, Henry Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thomas Hariot (1560 - 1621) was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. After studying at Oxford he traveled to America for Sir Walter Raleigh. His observations of the Am...
Author: White, Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerge...
Author: Coe, Steven R. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Have you ever been far away from city lights and noticed the stars like diamonds in the sky? Many people have, and have been deeply moved and amazed by the experience. Touching the Universe chronicles...
Author: Seifer, Marc Publisher: Citadel Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable ...
Author: Clayton, Donald D. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Catch a Falling Star, the life story of Donald Clayton, follows the struggle of one human being to find love and to create scientific understanding of the origin of the atoms of chemical elements. Bor...
Author: Dye, William Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bill Dye is one of the lucky ones. Like so many of his childhood pals, he dreamed of flying jets or being "a console guy" launching satellites. Unlike so many young boys who wished for a life of adven...
Author: Hoskin, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King Geo...
Author: Jammer, Max Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature ...
Author: Friedlaender, Jonathan S. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Jonathan Friedlaender has devoted much of his professional life to studies of human population variation in Pacific Islanders.. His collaborator on this memoir of his life and experiences in the Paci...
Author: Taylor, Paul Publisher: Kent State University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Recipient of the Library of Michigan's 2010 Notable Books award -- The first biography of Sherman's chief engineer and the man whose post-Civil War engineering work changed Great Lakes navigation fore...
Author: Taylor, Paul Publisher: Kent State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recipient of the Library of Michigan's 2010 Notable Books award -- The first biography of Sherman's chief engineer and the man whose post-Civil War engineering work changed Great Lakes navigation fore...
Author: Rolston, Scott L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Throughout the first six decades of the twentieth century Alfred Louis Kroeber worked with great distinction as a member of an anthropological circle the ethos of which he could not fully share. His b...
Author: Johnson, Mrs. Moriah Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In life sometimes we feel like we cannot make it because of the obstacles we face in our everyday life. Some of our obstacles may be drugs, abusive relationship, or having to live with people other th...
Author: Beene, Gary Publisher: Sunstone Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Practice random acts of kindness" is a catchy little phrase. It is also nonsense. There should be nothing random about the decision to be kind. There is no single action more powerful and "The Seeds ...
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