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Oh what a slaughter: massacres in the American west
Par Larry McMurtry. 2005
Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres - Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River,…
Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. 2005.Niels Bohr et la physique quantique (Points. 145)
Par François Lurçat. 2001
Une tentative, par moments philosophique, pour rendre l'oeuvre de Bohr compréhensible à des lecteurs qui ne savent rien de la…
physique. "Un appendice donne des précisions destinées à celui qui a des rudiments de mathématiques du niveau de l'enseignement secondaire". 2001.Nathan Boone and the American frontier (Missouri biography series)
Par R. Douglas Hurt. 1998
Biography of Daniel Boone's youngest son, who followed in his father's footsteps as a frontiersman. Nathan worked as trapper and…
hunter, a surveyor, and a soldier, eventually settling in Missouri with a family of fourteen children. He was instrumental in the removal of tribes to the Indian Territory that enabled settlement of the plains by pioneers. 1998.Mountains, campfires & memories
Par Jack Boudreau. 2002
In the backwoods of British Columbia, Boudreau tells of adventures gone awry, bizarre encounters with creatures in the wilds, and…
the results of friendships gone sour. When men went missing, or furs were stolen, it was often up to the local police officer or game warden to don his hunting gear to track down the hunter or the hunted. 2002.Les secrets de la matière (Raconté en famille)
Par Étienne Klein. 2008
Présentation des lois qui gouvernent l'Univers et l'infiniment petit. Un document pour découvrir la composition des matériaux aussi différents que…
le fer, l'eau, l'oxygène, l'intense activité au coeur de la matière, la radioactivité, l'énergie atomique ou la physique quantique. Du big bang à la gravitation, en passant par le mouvement des étoiles et des galaxies. 2007, c2008.Les pommes de Newton (Albin Michel sciences)
Par Jean-Marie Vigoureux. 2003
Dans un style vivant et accessible à tous, Jean-Marie Vigoureux retrace l'histoire des représentations du monde jusqu'au bouleversement introduit par…
le modèle de Copernic. Dans le contexte de leur vie et de leur époque, il nous fait vivre ensuite les découvertes de Kepler et de Galilée pour nous présenter enfin le système de Newton qui fonde la physique classique. 2003.Comment je vois le monde
Par Albert Einstein. 1979
Il n'est personne dans le monde qui n'ait un jour entendu prononcer le nom d'Einstein. Son génie à fait l'unanimité.…
Il aura fallu la Seconde guerre mondiale et toutes ses conséquences pour laisser entrevoir un personnage d'une humanité exemplaire et profondément pacifique. À l'origine de ce livre, se trouve un certain nombre d'articles et de textes scientifiques d'Einstein revus et traduits par Maurice Solovine, un grand ami de l'auteur. Dans la première partie de ce recueil, on trouve les positions très nettes du savant dans le domaine social, religieux, politique et économique. Une large place est ensuite accordée à ses études scientifiques. 1989, c1979.Chapel of extreme experience: a short history of flicker
Par John Geiger. 2002
The true story of how the discovery of flicker potentials, and scientific observations about strange patterns, organized hallucinations, and even…
the displacement of time derived from stroboscopic light, nearly resulted in a Dream Machine in every home. 2002.Invisible: the dangerous allure of the unseen
Par Philip Ball. 2014
If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it…
a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. The story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it. 2015, c2014.In search of Schrödinger's cat: quantum physics and reality
Par John R Gribbin. 1984
Atom land: a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics
Par Jon Butterworth. 2018
From a top physicist at CERN comes the first guide to the fundamental units of matter and the forces that…
act on them--particle physics--since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model, leading the listener from basic concepts to the cutting edge. 2018.Astrophysics for people in a hurry
Par Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2017
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit…
within us? Few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos, so Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. Bestseller. 2017.How did we find out about the speed of light? (How did we find out--series.)
Par Isaac Asimov. 1986
Grass beyond the mountains: discovering the last great cattle frontier on the North American continent
Par Richmond P Hobson. 1951
In the fall of 1934, three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch made their way from peaceful…
Wyoming to the harsh, uncharted territory of the British Columbian interior. In conditions as challenging as any encountered by the western frontier pioneers of a hundred years earlier, the three men and their equipment-laden horses conquered the tortuous miles over narrow passes and mountain summits, hewed their first cabin from virgin timber, and attempted to carve out a space for themselves on the unforgiving landscape. Followed by "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 1951.Fearful symmetry: the search for beauty in modern physics
Par A Zee. 1987
Butter down the well: reflections of a Canadian childhood
Par Robert Collins. 1980
The author recalls the joys and sorrows of his childhood in rural Saskatchewan in the 1920s and the 1930s. His…
vivid imagination helped him to survive the loneliness of homestead life and the dreariness of the barren prairies. Followed by "The long and the short and the tall". 1980.Coming of age in the Milky Way
Par Timothy Ferris. 1988
Thorne writes for nonscientists and scientists who are not physicists in a quest to share his insights about "where and…
how relativity fails and what replaces it." He combines established principles of physics with imaginative speculation to examine concepts, such as black holes, that were developed theoretically long before technology was able to provide any observable evidence. 1994.Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: the woman behind the legend (Missouri biography series #1)
Par John E Miller. 1998
Biography of the woman who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Examines how the child who lived those…
experiences evolved into the mature author who wrote about them. Discusses the role of her daughter Rose in encouraging and editing her novels. 1998.Back trail of an old cowboy
Par Paul E Young, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost. 1983
This affectionate, humorous look at range life during the early part of the century is written by an old cowhand…
from Utah. An authentic picture of life in the real west. c1983.