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by W. A. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity:...
The Big Picture
On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it.
“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science
“A tour de force.”—Salon
Already internationally acclaimed for...
Chicago
The Second City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling’s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City’s people and culture—its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness. But Liebling offended...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - presents biographies of famous space and aviation pioneers, including Werner von Braun, Hugh Dryden, Bob Gilruth, Donald Douglas, and others. The individuals profiled include barnstormers, entrepreneurs,...
Risk
Negotiating Safety in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
"Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk—threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering...
American Infidel
Robert G. Ingersoll, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The definitive biography of the man who more than any other figure in the history of the United States influenced the course of popular thought in the realm of unorthodoxy.
“…one of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.”
Rediscover Robert Green...
by Lee Gutkind
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy.
The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world’s first...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Learn About Leah Remini And The Church Of Scientology In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!In “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” Leah Remini tells her readers about a list she made which includes the things in her life that she is not proud of. The...
Epiphany Z
Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey’s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.
Frey’s unparalleled ability to detect emerging trends from the smallest of clues gives him...
by John F. Stover
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth...
Napoleon in Italy
The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument...
Philosophical Chemistry
Genealogy of a Scientific Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through...
Knowing from Words
Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports? Besides Hume's subversive discussion...
To Be (everything) What one can Be
Axioms Of Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
(A5, 100 P.) - “To be (everything) what one can be" translates into the development of humanization and/or intellectual autonomy, these being based, among other things, on the individual's capacity to be, collective and individual:
1- Politically participative;
2- Socially equitable;
3-...