Tag: Discoveries

Free Download Peter A. Travelle, "Pulsars: Discoveries, Functions and Formation "
English | ISBN: 1611229820 | 2011 | 192 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star that has a mechanism to beam light. This mechanism is only partially understood, but is connected with very strong magnetic fields spinning with the star. This book presents and discusses current research in the study of pulsars, including changes in the orbital periods of binary pulsars; pulsar distances and the electron distribution in the galaxy; magnetic field evolution through pulsar glitches; natal pulsar kicks; particle acceleration in pulsar outer magnetospheres and accretion-driven millisecond x-ray pulsars.

Free Download Discoveries and Inventions that Changed the World
by Gianni Morelli
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1684815274 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 37.99 MB

Free Download Stephanie Dickey, "Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries "
English | ISBN: 946298400X | 2017 | 420 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists whose work involves Rembrandt van Rijn and associated artists such as Gerrit Dou, Jan Lievens, and Ferdinand Bol. The range of subjects considered is wide: from the presentation of convincing evidence that Rembrandt and his contemporary Frans Hals rubbed elbows in the Amsterdam workshop of Hendrick Uylenburgh to critical reassessments of the role of printmaking in Rembrandt’s studio, his competition with Lievens as a landscape painter, his reputation as a collector, and much more. Developed from a series of international conferences devoted to charting new directions in Rembrandt research, these essays illuminate the current state of Rembrandt studies and suggest avenues for future inquiry.

Free Download Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by Richard Rhodes, Charles Constant, Tantor Audio
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: B0D7QXDRJ6 | 13 hours and 18 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 726 Mb
Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age-old problem of why people kill.
Lonnie Athens was raised by a brutally domineering father. Defying all odds, Athens became a groundbreaking criminologist who turned his scholar’s eye to the problem of why people become violent. After a decade of interviewing several hundred violent convicts-men and women of varied background and ethnicity, he discovered "violentization," the four-stage process by which almost any human being can evolve into someone who will assault, rape, or murder another human being. Why They Kill is a riveting biography of Athens and a judicious critique of his seminal work, as well as an unflinching investigation into the history of violence.
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Free Download The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections between Climate and Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DCGP9VSL | 2024 | 13 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 382 MB
Author: Donald R. Prothero
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Over 4.5 billion years, Earth’s climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate recent past, the planet swung from one extreme to another-from a greenhouse world of sweltering temperatures and high sea levels to a "snowball earth" in which glaciers reached the equator. During this history, we now know, living things and the climate have always influenced and even shaped each other. But the climate has never changed as rapidly or as drastically as it has since the Industrial Revolution. In this entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.

Free Download The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World (Audiobook)
English | September 07, 2021 | ASIN: B099P4J52J | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 31m | 200 MB
Author: Aliya Whitely | Narrator: Alison Larkin
Fungi are unlike any other living thing – they’re almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world….
Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there’s still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and decay of their secret interconnected world.

Free Download MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses (Audiobook)
English | August 13, 2024 | ASIN: B0D642S9Z8 | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 4m | 277 MB
Authors and Narrators: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb, Brent Reaves, Buck Bowden, John Hayes, Mike Kunz, Bob Service, Chris Williams, Jeff Jones, Jim Swenson, Mike Carey, Chad Martin, Chad Johnston, Ryan Murray
Eleven spellbinding tales of transformation, survival, and grit from the creators of the New York Times bestselling original audiobook MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Close Calls.
In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share remarkable tales of life-altering moments. From a macabre discovery in the Idaho mountains that closed the book on a mystery spanning more than 50 years to an Ice Age archaeological find in remote Alaska, these stories take listeners on an immersive journey and provide intimate glimpses into a way of life that is slipping away. You’ll hear firsthand accounts of a deadly helicopter crash, turkey hunting during a tornado, a prophetic dream about a 24-point buck, a fight over a record-breaking black bear, plus more stories about close calls and brushes with death.

Free Download Accidental Astronomy: How Random Discoveries Shape the Science of Space (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMF8D6YK | 2024 | 7 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 421 MB
Author: Chris Lintott
Narrator: Chris Lintott
If you learn about the scientific method, you learn that first we hypothesize about something we’ve experienced, and then we look for more of it. This works well enough-but what if you are interested in studying a heretofore unknown comet or supernova? That is the essential problem of the astronomer: the most important discoveries happen without notice! Indeed, as Chris Lintott argues in Accidental Astronomy, luck defines astronomy. Lintott explores the ways in which happenstance shapes how we investigate the sky. To catch a glimpse of a comet, asteroid, or even a sign of alien life, we must be in the right place at the right time. And if we can’t be there, we must have a team of professionals and amateurs, across the globe, ready to spring into action at a moment’s-or a night’s-notice. For any astronomer, regardless of their experience or resources, the first step to discovery is the same: to stare at the sky and wait. A celebration of astronomy, stargazing, and cosmic discovery, Accidental Astronomy offers an irresistible window into how luck defines our knowledge of the skies.

Free Download Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries By Jonathan Eisen
2001 | 546 Pages | ISBN: 0895298090 | EPUB | 3 MB
To compile this book, editor Jonathan Eisen traveled the world in search of documented stories of scientific cover-ups, covert operations, and programs of deliberate misinformation, all designed to hide controversial inventions and discoveries, such as anti-gravity devices, limitless energy sources, results of cancer and AIDS research, and more. 40 photos. 30 illustrations.

Free Download In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences By Carl F. Craver, Lindley Darden
2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 022603965X | EPUB | 4 MB
Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances in estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay. In fact, much of biology and its history involves biologists constructing, evaluating, and revising their understanding of mechanisms.With In Search of Mechanisms, Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden offer both a descriptive and an instructional account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, Craver and Darden compile an impressive toolbox of strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena characteristic of living things. They discuss the questions that figure in the search for mechanisms, characterizing the experimental, observational, and conceptual considerations used to answer them, all the while providing examples from the history of biology to highlight the kinds of evidence and reasoning strategies employed to assess mechanisms. At a deeper level, Craver and Darden pose a systematic view of what biology is, of how biology makes progress, of how biological discoveries are and might be made, and of why knowledge of biological mechanisms is important for the future of the human species.