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On July 20, 1969 the whole world stopped. It was a day in which a man who grew up on a farm without electricity would announce, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
In this, the first ever biography of Neil Armstrong, Leon Wagener explores the man whose walk on the moon is still compared to humankind's progenitor's crawl out of the primordial ooze. And whose retreat back to a farm in his native Ohio soon after the last ticker tape...
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Get the Summary of Fei-Fei Li's The Worlds I See in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Fei-Fei Li's "The Worlds I See" chronicles her journey from an immigrant teenager to a leading AI researcher, testifying before Congress on AI's societal impact. Li's significant contributions to AI, including her work on ImageNet and advocacy for inclusive, human-centered AI, are highlighted. Raised in Chengdu by parents who encouraged...
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Aliens is a highly debated topic, sometimes in favour others against it. Once again, we introduce more than fifty bioenergemal communications (BELCs) that for over the years we have presumably had, amongst others, with the bioenergeme of Khriannia, an extraterrestrial woman, occasionally with some of her close relatives and acquaintances, too, and finally with the bioenergeme of Bhrikiam, an extraterrestrial man. Both said to come from a planet named...
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Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 — 5 March 1827) was a French researcher and polymath whose work was critical to the advancement of designing, science, measurements, physical science, cosmology, and reasoning. He summed up and broadened crafted by his archetypes in his five-volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799—1825). This work interpreted the mathematical investigation of old-style mechanics to one dependent on...
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His fingers move across the surface of a shell, feeling the ridges and contours, searching for clues, gathering information unnoticed by the untrained eye. For Dr. Geerat Vermeij's fingers are his eyes. One of the most accomplished evolutionary biologists of our time and the world's leading authority on an ancient "arms race" among mollusks, Dr. Vermeij is blind.
No ordinary autobiography, Privileged Hands is the story of Dr. Vermeij's challenge...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998" Perez Zagorin is Joseph C. Wilson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester and a Fellow of the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books, including Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660; Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution, and Conformity in Early Modern Europe; and Philosophy, Religion, and Science in England, 1640-1700....
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Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and cosmology, and for his work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. A self-pronounced pacifist, humanist, and, late in his life, democratic socialist, Einstein was also deeply concerned with the social impact of his discoveries.
Much of Einstein's life is shrouded...
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Peter Raby lectures in Drama and English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of the widely praised biography Samuel Butler, Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers (Princeton), Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz, and Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890s. He also writes extensively on theater and is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde and The Cambridge Companion to Pinter (forthcoming).
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More than six thousand souls perished in the September 8, 1900, hurricane that devastated the island town of Galveston, Texas. Men and women, rich and poor, black and white struggled alike in what was to that date the worst natural disaster in American history. Many more would have lost their lives, however, if it wasn't for the efforts of Dr. Issac Monroe Cline, section director at the Weather Bureau Headquarters. It was Cline who decided to raise...
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In this original e-essay, part of the forthcoming book Why Steve Jobs Matters, veteran Silicon Valley journalist Alan Deutschman describes how Jobs changed the world we live in forever.
Steve Jobs' far-reaching vision of what technology was capable of rescued the American Dream while creating one of the most influential companies in the world, Apple Computer. Epic early career highs and lows, unwavering persistence and a relentless work ethic transformed...
12) No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
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“No Better Time” tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded...
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Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But people might not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even though it contained answers to the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book, ON ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, published only a few years earlier. Mendel's single chance of recognition failed utterly,...
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Ceci est un grand livre de biographie non-fiction décrivant la vie du légendaire Benjamin Franklin. Ce livre de biographie Non-Fiction se compose de 70000 mots approximatifs.
Benjamin Franklin était un polymathe américano-britannique et l'un des pères fondateurs des États-Unis. Franklin était un écrivain de premier plan, imprimeur, philosophe politique, politicien, Franc-maçon, maître de poste, scientifique, inventeur, humoriste, militant...
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Jürgen Renn, Assistant Professor in the University Professors Program at Boston University, and Robert Schulmann, Assistant Professor of History at Boston University, are coeditors of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.
In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning...
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Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own. Having earned a place at college, he decided to focus on civil engineering. After completing his graduate and PhD studies at Purdue University, Hampton entered a career that was not always welcoming to an African American-first as an academic and then, in 1973,...
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Time to Heal; Tales of a Country Doctor tells the story of the colourful life of a country doctor towards the end of his career. In turn shocking, sad and funny, they describe a doctor who feels poorly served by the conventional medicine of his time and finds new ways to relieve the suffering of his patients.
This tale has a twist. Twenty-first-century General Practice and its patients have been betrayed by top-heavy regulation, performance management...
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Este es un gran libro de biografía de no ficción que describe la vida del legendario Benjamin Franklin. Este libro de biografía de no ficción consta de 70000 palabras en aproximadamente.
Benjamin Franklin fue un político británico-estadounidense y uno de los padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos. Franklin fue un destacado escritor, impresor, filósofo político, político, masón, jefe de correos, científico, inventor, humorista, activista...
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The Collected Writings of Edward Leedskalnin is a compilation of two of Leedskalnin's works, Magnetic Current and A Book in Every Home. This eccentric sculptor and amateur scientist devoted most of his life to creating a large complex of megalithic stones that he quarried and carved himself.
Edward Leedskalnin was born in Latvia in 1887. Although he only received formal education up to the fourth grade, he was very inquisitive and spent a large...
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Isaac Asimov, known primarily for his science fiction stories, was also a scientist. In cooperation with the Senior Scholastic magazine, he composed this wonderful and fascinating work of historical nonfiction.
Twenty-six far-reaching discoveries and the twenty-nine scientists who made them-from Archimedes, who boasted he could move the world, to Goddard, who sent the first liquid-fuel rocket toward space.
These men of vision and genius set their...
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