National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering 
Memorial Tributes [PDF ebook] 
Volume 5

_____________ A charming account of the life of Dorice Greenfield; dancer, wife, mother and now, author. At fifteen, Dorice runs away from her evacuated school campus, and the relative safety of the …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway »s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson »s cruise to the cannibal-infested S …

Sir Edward Heath’s Private Secretary didn’t take retirement sitting down… At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start …

This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaidō, Japan »s northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in re …

Originally published in 1868, this book follows the life of Prince Henry, including chapters on the Siege of Tangier, the capture of Ceuta and the death of Prince Henry. …

Can you remember the last time you cried?Life can take many directions. Each path leads to a different result. Which one you choose is determined by the previous path. How do we decide which path to …

The life of Canada’s police and military hero is “a story worth telling. Macleod’s solid research and clear writing also make it a story worth reading” (Alberta Prime Times.com). Sam Steele, “the man …

From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled …

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is usually remembered for his pessimism. His most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, concluded that no human desires can ever be fully …