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Rise and Fall of the Knights Templar
The Order of the Temple 1118-1314 - A True History of Faith, Glory, Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
A highly readable look at the lifespan of the famous Knights Templar, who were warrior monks and the first disciplined, regulated, and uniformed standing army since antiquity throughout Europe and the Holy Lands—an economic force to be reckoned with and perhaps an institution guarding dark secrets....
Bizarre Weather
Howling Winds, Pouring Rain, Blazing Heat, Freezing Cold, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, and More of Nature's Fury
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This is weather beyond your wildest imagination—yet it’s all true: showers of worms from the sky, watermelon snow, gory storms, and other freakish and fun phenomena! These stories are anything but ordinary, and they will leave you stunned, horrified, amazed, and sometimes even amused at the incredible...
by Daniel S. Wilks
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make...
Emergent Nested Systems
A Theory of Understanding and Influencing Complex Systems as well as Case Studies in Urban Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book presents a theory as well as methods to understand and to purposively influence complex systems. It suggests a theory of complex systems as nested systems, i. e. systems that enclose other systems and that are simultaneously enclosed by even other systems. According to the theory presented,...
by William L. Dunn, J. Kenneth Shultis
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Exploring Monte Carlo Methods is a basic text that describes the numerical methods that have come to be known as "Monte Carlo." The book treats the subject generically through the first eight chapters and, thus, should be of use to anyone who wants to learn to use Monte Carlo. The next two chapters...
Evolving Ourselves
Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
“We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands.”
Why are rates of conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at...
Eating Smoke
Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations...
by Victor W. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This report shows the relationship of electrical and gravitation forces.
This report shows that gravitation is due to a residual positive charge on all atoms; further that space/ether (Space as defined by Einstein and Ether as defined by Ronald Hatch in his modified ether theory are equivalent.) is...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered...
by John Waterman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
At last, here is the book that brings it all together. "48 Hours to Chaos: An Engineer Looks at Life and How the World Really Works" is the one place to find answers to all those questions that have been bugging you all your life. Why do other people do things and act in ways that seem illogical...
by Robin Sacredfire
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The religious background of the Illuminati varies according to their world views and how history is seen, from which perspective is compiled, and although we may tend to simplify complexities within our mind, by placing collected information in the same box, it isn’t the easiest way to reach conclusions,...
Designing Human Practices
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of...
by Christine Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
The Ultimate Guide to Identifying Precious Stones
This book covers several topics including:
- HOW STONES ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM ONE ANOTHER - REFRACTION - DOUBLE REFRACTION ABSORPTION AND DICHROISM - SPECIFIC GRAVITY
- LUSTER AND OTHER REFLECTION EFFECTS...
by Thejendra Sreenivas
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
‘Have you noticed the exemplary work being done by some of our scientists and researchers around the world these days?’
‘Do you mean the great advances in curing cancer and other diseases?’
‘No, I am not referring to cancer research or the cure for baldness. I am talking about other kinds...