Life's Voyage

Life's Voyage
Title Life's Voyage PDF eBook
Author Maurice D. Atkin
Publisher Keller Publishing LLC
Total Pages 330
Release 2005
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780967412832

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"A parade of luminaries marches through Maury Atkin's fascinating memoir. We meet Israeli president Chaim Weizmann, Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kolleck, and the economist Robert Nathan, not to mention a slew of alligators. But it is Atkin's own story that truly lights up the book, a life devoted to the Zionist dream. Then again, to paraphrase Herzl, if Maury Atkin wills it, it is not a dream. / Franklin Foer"-- Back cover.

A Life's Journey

A Life's Journey
Title A Life's Journey PDF eBook
Author Nadine Vitols Dixon
Publisher
Total Pages 236
Release 2006
Genre Latvia
ISBN

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The story of Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the first female president of Latvia, who served from 1999-2007. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.

A Life's Voyage (Abridged, Annotated)

A Life's Voyage (Abridged, Annotated)
Title A Life's Voyage (Abridged, Annotated) PDF eBook
Author Ambrose Cowperthwaite Fulton
Publisher BIG BYTE BOOKS
Total Pages
Release 2016-05-19
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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In Ambrose Fulton’s ninety-two years, seventy of which he chronicled here, he lived enough for any ten men. A sailor, miller, real estate man, and Iowa pioneer, it seems the role he enjoyed the most was social commentator and historian. In that role he provides us with not only a look at pioneer Iowa but at the tumultuous years through which he lived, including the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. He was well-read and well-traveled and he entertains as he takes you on his life's voyage. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

With the tide; or, A life's voyage. By Sidney Daryl

With the tide; or, A life's voyage. By Sidney Daryl
Title With the tide; or, A life's voyage. By Sidney Daryl PDF eBook
Author sir Douglas Straight
Publisher
Total Pages 204
Release 1868
Genre
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With the Tide Or, A Life's Voyage. A Story for Young People. [With Illustrations.]

With the Tide Or, A Life's Voyage. A Story for Young People. [With Illustrations.]
Title With the Tide Or, A Life's Voyage. A Story for Young People. [With Illustrations.] PDF eBook
Author Sidney Daryl (pseud. [i.e. Sir Douglas Straight.])
Publisher
Total Pages 202
Release 1868
Genre
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The Monkey's Voyage

The Monkey's Voyage
Title The Monkey's Voyage PDF eBook
Author Alan de Queiroz
Publisher Basic Books
Total Pages 370
Release 2014-01-07
Genre Science
ISBN 0465069762

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Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life. In the tradition of John McPhee's Basin and Range, The Monkey's Voyage is a beautifully told narrative that strikingly reveals the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery.

Voyage Through Time

Voyage Through Time
Title Voyage Through Time PDF eBook
Author Ahmed Zewail
Publisher American University in Cairo Press
Total Pages 437
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1617972460

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From a beginning in an Egyptian Delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond. In this engaging exposé of his life and work until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, Zewail explores in non-technical language the landscape of molecules glimpsed on the scale of one quadrillionth of a second: the femtosecond, 0. 000 000 000 000 001 second. Zewail enriches the journey into the strange territory of femtochemistry with insightful analogies and illustrations to aid both the general reader and the scientifically inclined. He likewise draws lessons from his life story so far, and he meditates on the impact the revolution in science has had on our modern world in both developed and developing countries. He suggests a concrete course of action for the world of the have-nots, and ends the book with hope for Egypt in developing the nation's greatest natural resource its youth to build a more promising future, and for America to develop a new vision domestically and internationally.