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Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
Jack RepcheckRepcheck's riveting story tells of the enigmatic genius responsible for one of the most important scientific theories ever--and why it took several decades and a stranger's intervention before his groundbreaking "On the Revolutions of the ...
Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology
Richard C. FrancisWhen I was first approached about writing this book, Bill Clinton was still in his first term as President and Jack Repcheck was still at Princeton Uni- versity Press . Jack was the more significant of the two in getting the project off the ground, and ...
The Dynamics of Disaster
Susan W. KiefferI thank my editor Jack Repcheck, Devon Zahn, Hannah Bach- man, Don Rifkin, and the Norton staff, and Stephanie Hiebert, freelance copyeditor, for their diligence and patience through the creation of this book. Jack may have thought that he ...
Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't ...
Orrin H. PilkeyAccording to jack Repcheck's fascinating account of this in The Man Who Found Time, “the chronologists [that followed Africanus] were consistent in putting off [ the Second Coming] until a couple of hundred years after their own deaths.
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science
Charles Coulston GillispieUnless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. A special word of thanks is due to Jack Repcheck, editor at Princeton University Press, whose idea it was to republish this monographic article as a scientific biography in its own right.
The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City
Grant HeikenPrinceton University Press has been capably represented by Kristen Gager and Jack Repcheck, but the main editing and advice have been provided by Joe Wisnovsky, Sarah Green, Hanne Winarsky, Susan Ecklund, and Linny Schenck. Last ...
El secreto de Copérnico
Jack RepcheckEl secreto de Copérnico nos cuenta como, gracias a un providencial encuentro en una catedral del norte de Polonia entre el científico y un joven matemático que había ido en su búsqueda, salió a la luz el brillante descubrimiento que ...
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of ...
Jack RepcheckMartinJ. S. Rudwick, “Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970–1978). MartinJ. S. Rudwick, “Louis-Constant Prevost,” in Dictionary of ...
If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
Colonel Jack JacobsHeather (Jack's daughter) marriage, views on marriage (first) Sue Forbes ( Captain), Jack's second wife Zachary (Jack's son) Jacobs, Jack (military training) aircraft, jumping from many different bureaucrat vs. platoon leader cars and command ...
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum
More editionsJACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD: JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: Have you implemented tough, new cost-saving measures? Yes sir! We cutout vacations, holidays, ...
Sour Notes: A Sally Freberg Mystery
Norm Ledgin; Bethine LouiseYes, Jack Friedman.” He turned to Rosenberg. “That's the man. Jack Friedman. If anyone can find something, he can.” “I know Jack,” Rachel said. “How do you know Jack?” “He does the deli's books.” “Hey, small world.” “He's also distantly ...
Jack L. Chalker SF Gateway Omnibus
Jack L. ChalkerA Gollancz eBook Copyright ©JackL. Chalker 2014 Midnight at the Well of Souls copyright © Jack L. Chalker 1977 Spirits of Flux andAnchor copyright ©Jack L. Chalker 1984 The Identity Matrix copyright © Jack L. Chalker1982 Introduction ...
The Canyon
Jack Schaefer1953 by Jack Schaefer, renewed 1981 by Jack Schaefer All rights reserved. University of New Mexico Press reissued edition published 2016 by arrangement with the Jack Schaefer Trust Printed in the United States of America 21 20 19 18 ...
Back from Hell 3: Jack Is Looking for a Good Slay
Stephen KaneMore fun with Jack as more meet their maker, the police think that they have a ripper copycat, but they do not know that this Jack is the one and only.
The Complete Poetry of Jack London
Jack LondonMy awareness of and interest in Jack London began on my tenth birthday when my father gave me a collection of ... Jack London was essentially a poet who, unable to earn a living as such, wrote fiction and nonfiction to make a living and to ...
A Poet Of The Air; Letters Of Jack Morris Wright: First ...
Jack Morris WrightThis friendly rivalry continued till Jack Sawhill fell in a Nieuport, and was taken to the hospital with a broken arm. At Tours we were four in one large room—calling ourselves the “Four Musketeers”—Big Bill Taylor was Porthos; Jack Sawhill, the ...
Jack Smart's Merry jester: or, The wit's compleat treasury. ...
Jack SMART (Author of “Jack Smart's Merry jester”.)JAck SMART's humorous Relation of a Suitin CHAN c E RY. There was a Suit lately depending in the High Court of Chancery, wherein one Stephen Discord was Plaintiff, and one Simon Ostinacy was Defendant ; by the latter of which, I was ...
Jack Welch on Leadership
Robert Slater" --BusinessWeek on Jack Welch Jack Welch on Leadership distills the bestselling Jack Welch and the GE Way into 23 of Welch's leadership secrets and traits, and provides Welch devotees across the nation and around the globe with a rare ...
Como jack welch se tornou JACK WELCH: Experiências ...
Stephen H BaumSe você já se perguntou como algumas pessoas surgem e fazem acontecer, "Como Jack Welch se tornou JACK WELCH será uma revelação e tanto!
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack WelchIn an anticipated book on business management for our time, Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running General Electric, one of the world's largest and most successful corporations.
The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution
Jack London"This splendid volume does more than reinstate Jack London as a leading voice of the American cultural left.
Annual Report
Ohio. Auditor of StateBoard or Jack Page . . . . . . 14 00 31 N. C. Hager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 50 Aug. 3 О. Т. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expense of Jack Page.. . . . 6 00 4 E. H. Sell ... Clothing for Jack Page. . . . 12 40 8 J. . Lippincott .
The Cooper Affair:
Jack PattersonWhat Others Are Saying About Jack Patterson “Jack's Storytelling feels as natural as James Patterson's, and the short-chapter Setup is the literary answer to Lay's potato chips: you just want one more and before you know it, you've gone ...
Black Jack
Osamu TezukaBut because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil. The Black Jack series is told in short stories.
Happy Jack
Thornton W. BurgessVisit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Happy Jack Squirrel sat on the tip of one of the highest branches of a big hickory tree. Happy Jack was up very early that morning.
Jack: Secret Vengeance
F. Paul WilsonIn F. Paul Wilson's third young adult novel, the teenage Jack demonstrates the skills that will serve him later in life as the urban mercenary known as Repairman Jack.
Silent Confessions
Julie KennerJack asked. He followed Donovan up the four flights of stairs, past crime-scene techs and the tech from the coroner's office. The coroner. Jack clenched his fist. “ Shit,” he said. “A homicide.” Martin Spinelli met them at the door. “That's right, Jack ...
The Blue Book of College Athletics
More editionsPhys. ed. dir. (men) — Jack J. Johnson. Phys. ed. dir. (women) — Carolyn Barnett . Sports inf. dir. — Jack Johnson. Inf. dir. (gen.) — Janice Turner. Basketball coach— Jack J. Johnson (812) 936-9824; asst., Dwight Inskeep. Track coach— Jack ...
Jack Digger Helps Out
LADYBIRD BOOKS LIMITEDJack Digger is very busy today! He is digging a big hole. Everyone keeps stopping to ask what it might be for - is it a hole for a giant bunny? A trap for a three-headed monster? A special shark pond? Jack Digger will have to wait and see!
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