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A moving account of the death of Brian Aldiss’ wife Margaret. Margaret Aldiss, Brian’s wife of thirty years, passed away quickly after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Based on journals they both k……続きを見る

In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and pas……続きを見る

The Aurora Of The Philosophers by Paracelsus The work under this title is cited occasionally in other writings of Paracelsus, but is not included in the great folio published at Geneva in 1688. It w……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Französische Staatsmänner: Gesammelte Biografien" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Max Nordau (1849-1923)……続きを見る

Surgery carries more individual responsibility than any other field of medicine. Jonathan Kaplan studied medicine in South Africa and, after working in a black township and being drafted by the Sout……続きを見る

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Viñes (1837–1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports a……続きを見る

Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood ……続きを見る

A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force. The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lor……続きを見る

The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life: ……続きを見る

Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and universities that ar……続きを見る

A federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman routinely worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every type imaginable. Encouraged by the acclaim for h……続きを見る

One man’s search for truth on a personal journey of invention and faith! Today, magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRIs) and similar technologies are saving lives in hospitals and clinics througho……続きを見る

Dans ce livre est présenté une leçon de vie (de philosophie) de: Socrate, Diogène, Aristote, Zénon, Epicure et Pyrrhon. Et je vous donne en bonus: l'existentialisme est un humanisme de Jean Paul Sat……続きを見る

A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of waterーLakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These mak……続きを見る

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazin……続きを見る

Many people have something to say about what is wrong with our universities, but Gary Bauslaugh spent decades trying to do something about it. In this compelling, entertaining, and highly informativ……続きを見る

In 1951, Robert H. Simpson lifted off in a specially-equipped plane, flying directly into the path of a storm that would send most people running for cover. For more than four hours he observed Typh……続きを見る

Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known for his research int……続きを見る

J’écris l’histoire de Napoléon pour répondre à un libelle. C’est une entreprise imprudente puisque ce libelle est lancé par le premier talent du siècle contre un homme qui, depuis quatre ans, se tro……続きを見る

Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau est une autobiographie couvrant les cinquante-trois premières années de la vie de Rousseau (1712 – 1778). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale (le……続きを見る

C P Snow’s sketches of famous physicists and explanation of how atomic weapons were developed gives an overview of science often lacking. This study provides us with hope for the future as well as a……続きを見る

Do we really invent ourselves? Can’t we just blame others? Or luck? Or fate? Does it really matter how we got here? Probably not. Nevertheless, the question intrigues. Others produce biographies of ……続きを見る

This is a three part story it deals with Charles Babbage's ancestors through the ages. Secondly, his own life as a child then as a teenager and going on to university, his family life. Thirdly and h……続きを見る

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation. "[L……続きを見る

Je vous devais, Messieurs, ce compte abrégé de l’ensemble d’idées qui m’a conduit à vous présenter un tableau détaillé de la vie et des travaux d’un membre de l’ancienne Académie des sciences. Des b……続きを見る

Messieurs, je dois aujourd’hui, conformément à un article des règlements académiques dont la date remonte à 1666, et qui, dans un si long intervalle de temps, a to……続きを見る

À Madame Félix Roussel. Chère madame, Puisque vous attachez du prix à ces barbouillages, je suis heureux de vous les offrir. Ce manuscrit est inédit et contient un……続きを見る

In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgettーa professional ga……続きを見る

This book, the first in a projected three-volume definitive history, traces the University’s progress from territorial days to 1917. David W. Levy examines the people and events surrounding the scho……続きを見る

J’ai passé les dernières années du ministère du cardinal Mazarin dans l’oisiveté que laisse d’ordinaire la  disgrâce : pendant ce temps, j’ai écr……続きを見る