Upright Lives
Author : Horace Walpole
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
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Author : Alexander (the Great)
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1683
Category : Brahmanism
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Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307908240
A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us. Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. In the process, he presents a fascinating new look at the unique characteristics of our species and our society that helped propel us from stone tools to written language and through the birth of chemistry, biology, and modern physics to today’s technological world. Along the way he explores the cultural conditions that influenced scientific thought through the ages and the colorful personalities of some of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers: Galileo, who preferred painting and poetry to medicine and dropped out of university; Isaac Newton, who stuck needlelike bodkins into his eyes to better understand changes in light and color; and Antoine Lavoisier, who drank nothing but milk for two weeks to examine its effects on his body. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and many lesser-known but equally brilliant minds also populate these pages, each of their stories showing how much of human achievement can be attributed to the stubborn pursuit of simple questions (why? how?), bravely asked. The Upright Thinkers is a book for science lovers and for anyone interested in creative thinking and in our ongoing quest to understand our world. At once deeply informed, accessible, and infused with the author’s trademark wit, this insightful work is a stunning tribute to humanity’s intellectual curiosity. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 1916
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Homosexuality
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"The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-
Author : Claye Gina
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781910779569
Gina Claye, a bereaved mum, shares how she survived the death of her two children: what helped her to keep going, and, after experiencing the pain and despair of traumatic grief, live life again with hope and meaning.
Author : Nebraska. Board of Control of State Institutions
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1916
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Vols. for 1913/14- include reports of related state institutions and schools.
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
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Author : Orison Swett Marden
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Conduct of life
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Indians of North America
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