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Der zweite Band der naturwissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technischen Schriften von Leibniz vereint alle drei Fachbereiche der Reihe VIII in einem Band. Neben Exzerpten zur Physik, Botanik und Anatomie enthalt er Stucke aus den Gebieten Astronomie, Magnetismus, Mechanik (Bewegung, Festigkeit, Kraft, Reibung, Stoss), Alchemie, Medizin und Technik (Uhrwerk, Perpetuum mobile, Wasserbau, Architektur, Militaria u.a.).

Mary A. Hecht blends fiction, travelogue, and memoir in this evocative portrait of India and its many cultures.

Hecht first explored India in 1963, reluctantly going only to satisfy her father's wishes. She is forever grateful for the opportunity he gave her. This introduction to the beautiful country enchanted her, and she has spent years recording her own experiences and writing short stories based on the people she met.

Hecht's short stories capture the vivid atmosphere of India. In the first, a man lands a new job as a driver for foreigners in the country. As he grows...

I had an uneventful childhood. My family loved me." The author's direct, personal voice gives this Holocaust memoir its power. Although the writing is direct, almost monosyllabic at times, the book is not intended for young readers. It conveys a brutality that is sudden and close, just as it was for the boy when he heard that his beloved older brother and his father had been shot to death and thrown into a common grave.

This is the story of a young boy who came of age before World War II in a small Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian town. Nearly his entire family met their end by gas or by...

Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous "yellow cake from Niger," Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be...