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The measure of the universe
Par Isaac Asimov. 1983
Many people have difficulty in grasping the size of our universe. By using examples of various measurements -- length, pressure,…
time and temperature -- Asimov explains how to relate the unimaginable. For example, the tallest man on record was 9 feet tall while the smallest dinosaur was the size of a chicken. 1983.The man from Odessa
Par Greville Wynne. 1981
Master spy Greville Wynne tells the story of his career as a British secret agent up to the time of…
his trial and imprisonment in the Lubyanka over the Penkovsky affair, and following his exchange for top Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale. 1981.The lost spy: an American in Stalin's secret service
Par Andrew Meier. 2008
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country…
- but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. 2008.Describes the exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s, which is also the story behind the novel…
"The English Patient" (DC11460). In 1939 the group known as the Zerzura Club split allegiances: Englishman Ralph Bagnold formed the Long Range Desert Group of patrols that gathered intelligence and generally bedeviled Italian and German troops, while Hungarian Count Ladislaus Almasy led the German equivalent of the LRDG. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The implosion conspiracy
Par Louis Nizer. 1973
Astrophysics for young people in a hurry
Par Gregory Mone, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2019
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?Lamia, l'anti-barbouze
Par Philippe-L. Thyraud De Vosjoli. 1972
Le 18 octobre '63, Lamia, agent secret, envoie sa démission au General de Gaulle. Convaincu de l'infiltration soviétique au sein…
du cabinet français, désavoue par son propre gouvernement, il n'a pas d'autre choix que d'agir en solitaire. 1972.Carve her name with pride
Par R. J. Rubeigh James Minney. 1956
Violette Bushell was the daughter of an English father and a French mother. An ordinary London shop assistant before the…
Second World War, she undertook the exacting training for a war-time secret agent. Married in 1940 to Etienne Szabo, she was twice sent to Occupied France: the second time she did not return. A fellow agent tells the story of her Resistance work, her capture by the Gestapo and the award of her George Cross to her daughter, Tania. 1956.Manhunt
Par Peter Maas. 1986
True story of Edwin Wilson, a CIA agent run amok, who used his knowledge of espionage to gain a fortune.…
Responsible for suppyling the Libyan terrorist machine with weapons, he became the focus of a federal investigation. Strong language. Bestseller. 1986.Le mètre du monde
Par Denis Guedj. 2000
Two eggs on my plate
Par Oluf Reed Olsen, F. H Lyon. 1952
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.In June 1986, Edward Lee Howard became the first CIA officer to defect to the Soviet Union. Howard became angry…
after being fired from his job with the CIA and decided to defect to Moscow, thus destroying the CIA's Moscow network. c1989.The general was a spy: the truth about General Gehlen and his spy ring
Par Hermann Zolling, Heinz Höhne. 1972
The champagne spy: Israel's master spy tells his story
Par Wolfgang Lotz. 1972
As the top Israeli agent in Egypt, the author lived the life of a German horsebreeder who mingled in high…
society until he was caught. Imprisoned in Cairo for three years, he was saved by the Six Day War of 1967. 1972.Spy wars: espionage in Canada from Gouzenko to glasnost
Par David Stafford, J. L Granatstein. 1990
This history of espionage in Canada takes the reader from the days before World War II, when Canadian Intelligence mainly…
spied on leftists, to the modern-day plundering of this country's technology by the Soviets. 1990.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.Pleins feux sur les services secrets canadiens: révélations sur l'espionnage au pays
Par Richard Cléroux, Joseph-Aimé Valcourt. 1993