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 The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton Series in Physics) by Hugh Everett, edited by Bryce Seligman Dewitt, Neill Graham English | March 25, 2025 | ISBN: 0691273677, 069161895X, 9780691273655 | True EPUB | 266 pages | 32.1 MB A landmark book on the influential many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics  The Manufacture of Medical and Health Products by Transgenic Plants By Esra Galun, Eithan Galun 2001 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 1860942490 | PDF | 17 MB In the mid-eighties, there was a revolution in plant biotechnology. Simple procedures could be used to genetically transform plants. Such transgenic plants will express alien genes, virtually from any organism, provided the genes are flanked by appropriate controlling elements. Soon aftr this biotechnology became available, there was an awareness that crop plants can serve as manufacturers of high-value medical products. This book provides the molecular and biotechnological background for genetic transformation in plants, as well as updated information about the production of antibodies, antigens and other medical and health products by transgenic plants. The book handles the relevant information in a critical manner by pointing out the risks and problems as well as presenting the outlook for development in this field. It provides a comprehensive and well-balanced treatment of its theme.  The Man Who Lost His Head: On Illusions and Delusions of the Mind by Douwe Draaisma, translated by Jane Hedley-Prôle English | September 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1836390882, 9781836391272 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 4.8 MB Blending neuroscience and ruminations on the creation and limits of reality, a remarkable investigation of disorders of the mind-and how we experience them.  The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment By Mary Terrall 2002 | 420 Pages | ISBN: 0226793605 | PDF | 3 MB Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe.Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's calculation that the earth was flattened at the poles. He also made significant, and often intentionally controversial, contributions to physics, life science, navigation, astronomy, and metaphysics. Called to Berlin by Frederick the Great, Maupertuis moved to Prussia to preside over the Academy of Sciences there. Equally at home in salons, caf?s, scientific academies, and royal courts, Maupertuis used his social connections and his printed works to enhance a carefully constructed reputation as both a man of letters and a man of science. His social and institutional affiliations, in turn, affected how Maupertuis formulated his ideas, how he presented them to his contemporaries, and the reactions they provoked.Terrall not only illuminates the life and work of a colorful and important Enlightenment figure, but also uses his story to delve into many wider issues, including the development of scientific institutions, the impact of print culture on science, and the interactions of science and government. Smart and highly readable, Maupertuis will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century science and culture."Terrall's work is scholarship in the best sense.Her explanations of arcane 18th-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language."-Virginia Dawson, American Historical ReviewWinner of the 2003 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society  The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 (Studies in German History) by Claudia Kreklau English | February 1, 2026 | ISBN: 1836953585, 9781836953593 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 9.9 MB Nineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French chefs fleeing guillotines, and one of the most rapidly evolving food industries in the world forged recognizably modern eating practices between 1780 and 1910. While central Europeans merely aimed to survive long winters, experiment with translated recipes and curious ingredients from abroad, and embrace the conveniences of industrial life, their consumption habits and cooking practices created a new product landscape. Throughout this transitional era of history, individuals visibly communicated their self-understandings through food.  The Making of Auschwitz: The Largest Killing Factory of all Time by Ian Baxter English | 2025 | ISBN: 1036121399 | 240 Pages | True ePUB | 8.5 MB  The MD Anderson Surgical Oncology Manual by Barry W. Feig MD English | May 2, 2023 | ISBN: 197519263X | 672 pages | PDF | 30 Mb Selected as a Doody's Essential Title for 2025!  The Luminous Transpersonal Self by AMMANUEL SANTA ANNA English | 2025 | ISBN: B0FQG5V9X6 | 118 pages | EPUB | 0.64 Mb Why Everything You've Been Told Is Wrong  The Luminous Self: Holarchy of Love (Luminous Holonics - A Solution to the Meta-Crisis Book) by Ammanuel Santa Anna English | September 11, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FKGTH3WZ | 99 pages | EPUB | 0.64 Mb The Luminous Self: Holarchy of Love offers a groundbreaking path into conscious relationship and personal integration. Drawing from Integral Theory, Internal Family Systems, and the author's pioneering framework of Luminous Holonics, this book reveals how every partnership, family system, and community is a living holon-both a complete whole and part of a greater whole.  The Louisiana Purchase By Thomas Fleming 2003 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0471267384 | PDF | 1 MB From The Louisiana PurchaseLike many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity. . . . Thomas Jefferson would have been less than human had he not claimed a major share of the credit. In a private letter . . . the president, reviving a favorite metaphor, said he "very early saw" Louisiana was a "speck" that could turn into a "tornado." He added that the public never knew how near "this catastrophe was." But he decided to calm the hotheads of the west and "endure" Napoleon's aggression, betting that a war with England would force Bonaparte to sell. This policy "saved us from the storm." Omitted almost entirely from this account is the melodrama of the purchase, so crowded with "what ifs" that might have changed the outcome-and the history of the world.The reports of the Lewis and Clark expedition . . . electrified the nation with their descriptions of a region of broad rivers and rich soil, of immense herds of buffalo and other game, of grassy prairies seemingly as illimitable as the ocean. . . . From the Louisiana Purchase would come, in future decades, the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and large portions of what is now North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Colorado, and Louisiana. For the immediate future, the purchase, by doubling the size of the United States, transformed it from a minor to a major world power. The emboldened Americans soon absorbed West and East Florida and fought mighty England to a bloody stalemate in the War of 1812. Looking westward, the orators of the 1840s who preached the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to preside from sea to shining sea based their oratorical logic on the Louisiana Purchase.TURNING POINTS features preeminent writers offering fresh, personal perspectives on the defining events of our time. |
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