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Pourquoi E=mc2?: et comment ça marche? ((Quai des sciences).)
Par Brian Cox, J. R Forshaw, Guy Chouraqui. 2012
" Savez-vous que vous voyagez à la vitesse de la lumière ? Et non seulement vous, mais votre chaise, votre…
table, votre maison, la Terre elle-même ? Bien sûr, nous ne parlons pas ici d'un voyage dans l'espace en trois dimensions, mais dans la structure profonde de l'univers : l'espace-temps. Vous trouvez cela difficile à croire ? Pourtant, c'est bien ce que nous dit la fameuse équation d'Einstein : E = mc2 ! En talentueux passeurs de savoirs, Brian Cox et Jeff Forshaw nous révèlent dans ce livre les mystères de la théorie de la relativité. Grâce à eux, même sans bagage mathématique, vous pourrez percer les secrets de l'équation la plus célèbre du monde ! " -- 4e de couv. 2012. Titre uniforme: Why does E = MC²?Clearing in the West: my own story
Par Nellie L McClung. 1965
Trekking west with her family in 1880, the author grew up on a Manitoba homestead and taught in prairie schools…
until her marriage. Also provides a clear picture of the important role women played in the frontier communities. 1965.Notes from the century before: a journal from British Columbia
Par Edward Hoagland. 1969
Love song to the Plains (A Regions of America book.)
Par Mari Sandoz. 1961
A gallery of dudes
Par Marshall Sprague. 1967
Nine travellers to the west between 1833 and the 1890's are immortalized in this entertaining piece of scholarly Americana. Only…
one of the dudes, Theodore Roosevelt, was a native American. 1967.Le mètre du monde
Par Denis Guedj. 2000
Originally published in 1923, these stories tell of the pioneer women who helped to settle Manitoba. Included are the tales…
of the first European women in the West, and the recollections of Mrs. William Cowan, the oldest living settler, and Sister Laurent, who arrived in St. Boniface in 1850. 1987.Wolf willow: a history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier
Par Wallace Earle Stegner. 1962
When I was thirteen
Par Mary. Pseud McKenzie. 1979
This diary of a young girl in pioneer Ontario was written in 1897-1898 and published in a rural paper 20…
years later. Mary McKenzie is the pseudonym of Christina Young, daughter of John and Emma (Dawson) Young. 1979.Voice of the pioneer: more first-person accounts from CBC's best-loved radio program
Par Bill McNeil. 1984
View from a height
Par Isaac Asimov. 1964
The cosmological milk shake: a semi-serious look at the size of things
Par Robert Ehrlich. 1994
A physicist's humourous short essays concerning the size, weight, and distance of objects. Answers such questions as "How Tall Can…
Trees Grow?", "How Far Is the Sun?", and "What Does Air Weigh?" 1994.The silence of the North
Par Olive A Fredrickson, Ben East. 1972
In 1920, Olive Fredrickson married a trapper. She relates their many hardships: loneliness, near-starvation, and winter life in a primitive…
cabin. When her husband died, Olive was left with three children and a farm to manage. c1972.The village blacksmith
Par Aldren Auld Watson. 1968
A look into the bygone world of the old New England blacksmith. He shod horses, built wagons, buggies, sleds, and…
agricultural tools, and repaired harnesses. The author reveals the great variety of objects made from iron as well as how they were used. 1968.The legend of Grizzly Adams, California's greatest mountain man (Vintage West series)
Par Richard H Dillon. 1966
In 1837, at the age of 37, John Adams left Massachusetts for California where he hunted bear and other wildlife.…
He gradually assembled a menagerie of animals and exhibited them in San Francisco during the 1850s. Even with the facts separated from the legend, Adams continues to stand out as a bold and fearless man. 1966.The Oregon Trail
Par Francis Parkman, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Mason Wade, Maynard Dixon. 1978
An account of the author's experiences during the early days of the West. He writes of big game hunts, encounters…
with Indians, and camp life on the trail. First published in 1849. 1978.The mighty land
Par Cliff Farrell. 1975
Roundup of anecdotes, legends, and historical facts of the Old West by a Western novelist. Colorful portrayal of the trail…
blazers, the Indians, and bandits and the peacemakers, the railroad men and the ranchers. 1975.The generous years: remembrances of a frontier boyhood
Par Chet Huntley. 1968
The well-known television commentator recalls his boyhood in Montana before the depression - the one-room schoolhouse, the hard work and…
the wholesome pleasures, and the history and natural beauty of his native state. 1968.Relativity: the special and the general theory
Par Albert Einstein. 1961
Scientist Albert Einstein presents his theory of relativity--the measurement and study of space and time--for the layman who "is not…
conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." Originally published in 1916. This fifteenth edition includes five appendixes. 1961. Uniform title: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.Roughing it in the bush: or, Forest life in Canada
Par Susanna Moodie. 1962