Wyn Wachhorst, "The Dream Of Spaceflight: Essays On The Near Edge Of Infinity"
English | ISBN: 0306810484 | 2001 | pages | PDF | 12 MB
One of few truly gifted essayists who have turned their talents to science, Wyn Wachhorst here fashions a luminous meditation on the meaning of space exploration from a montage of images and reflections on humanity's dream of spaceflight. In a survey of major figures from Johannes Kepler to Wernher von Braun, he sees in the rise of spaceflight a metaphor of modern history as a recurrent story of transformation and rebirth. Other essays offer new perspectives on the nature of wonder, recall the romantic vision of the decades prior to Sputnik ("nostalgia for a bygone future"), and look at the larger meaning of the moon landing, seeing in spaceflight not only a spiritual quest in the broadest sense of the word, but a cure for the withered capacity for wonder that afflicts the postmodern mind.

Robert D. Ballard, "The Discovery of the Titanic"
English | ISBN: 0446671746 | 1995 | 288 pages | PDF | 27 MB
A firsthand account of the author's twelve-year quest to find the sunken luxury liner is illustrated with dozens of photographs and includes moment-by-moment accounts of the tragedy and the successful discovery expedition. Reprint."

The Discovery of a Visual System - The Honeybee by Adrian Horridge
English | PDF | 2019 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 1789240891 | 6.6 MB
This book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do not recognize "things" by their shapes. Yet they clearly see well enough to fly and find food with a minute brain. Bee vision is therefore relevant to the construction of simple artificial visual systems, for example for mobile robots. The surprising conclusion is that bee vision is adapted to the recognition of places, not things.

The Dinosauria By David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska
2007 | 893 Pages | ISBN: 0520254082 | PDF | 12 MB
When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors―forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria―contribute definitive descriptions and illustrations of these magnificent Mesozoic beasts.

Ralph M. Trüeb, "The Difficult Hair Loss Patient: Guide to Successful Management of Alopecia and Related Conditions"
English | ISBN: 3319197002 | 2015 | 344 pages | EPUB | 27 MB
You could read every textbook available on hair growth and disorders, and still not be able to treat hair loss effectively. In every art, there are many techniques, but few principles. The only way to achieve success is to have a firm foundation of principles to build upon, and the right attitude about how to achieve your goals. This book offers a detailed guide that goes beyond the technical aspects of trichology and evidence based medicine, providing specialists and primary care physicians experienced in the basic management of hair loss with the additional know-how they need to master the ultimate challenge of difficult hair loss patients. First, the prerequisites for successful management of hair loss are reviewed - basically, making a diagnosis and understanding the patient and his or her problem. Then, guidelines on the management of difficult dermatologic conditions and of psychopathological disorders associated with hair loss are provided. Lastly, important aspects of follow-up are covered-specifically the problems of adverse effects, patient non-compliance, and their management-before concluding with exemplary case studies of successful treatment of alopecia and related conditions.

The Design of Everyday Things By Donald A. Norman
2002 | 261 Pages | ISBN: 0465067107 | PDF | 22 MB
Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how-and why-some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

Julia Peters, "The Delicious Meal Prep: 75 Recipes to Save Time with a Meal Plans to Tasty Eat and Shopping Lists"
English | 2021 |ASIN : B08TX57D8N | 290 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Do you want to spend less time in the kitchen, and save money and time? Does your family still need nutritious, delicious, homemade food even on your busiest days? If you don't like buying unhealthy takeout on your way home from work, or piles of pizza boxes, then keep reading this book.

The Dark Side of Knowledge: Histories of Ignorance, 1400 to 1800 (Intersections) by Cornel Zwierlein
2016 | ISBN: 9004325123 | English | 436 pages | True PDF | 5 MB
How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are combined with contributions regarding knowledge gaps within identification procedures and political decision-making, with the emergence of consciously delimited blanks on geographical maps, with ignorance as a factor embedded in iconographic programs, in translation processes and the semantic potentials of reading. Based on thorough archival analysis, these selected contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris are tightly framed by new theoretical elaborations that have implications beyond these cases and epochal focus.

The Culprit by Martin Sasek
English | May 13th, 2020 | ISBN: 1777180503, 177718052X | 228 pages | True EPUB | 1.29 MB
An eloquently written memoir of the author's crazy life experiences, splashed and peppered with the outrageous antics of this wildly witted Bengal Kitten that not only turned their Empty Nest upside-down - but brought into focus a continuity of Kindred Spirits that gave meaning to their lives.

The Creative Writing Coursebook: 40 Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry by Macmillan UK; Updated edition
English | December 1, 2019 | ISBN: 1509868275 | 416 pages | AZW3 | 1.18 Mb
This coursebook takes aspiring writers through three stages of practice: Gathering-getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; Shaping-looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing-being your own critic, joining workshops, finding publishers. The exercises and activities throughout encourage writers to develop their skills. Contributions from 40 authors provide a unique and generous pool of information, experience and advice. This is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. It will suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or writing groups.