Word: sobel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Technology also demands that time be measured ever more precisely. An accurate mechanical clock proved to be so valuable to the British maritime industry in the eighteenth century that the government awarded a hefty prize to its inventor, Joseph Harrison (a story elegantly told in Dava Sobel's 1995 best seller Longitude...
Three staff programmers, led by HASCS Manager of User Services David M. Sobel, designed the portals...
...David M. Sobel, manager of user services at HASCS, said such a network interruption was unusual...
...alone of Galileo's three children mirrored his own brilliance, industry, and sensibility," Sobel writes. Yet remarkable as she was, Galileo's daughter revolves sedately around her father, whose triumphs and persecutions are recounted by Sobel with grace and power...
...Chinese healer who becomes her confidant, her partner in an alternative-medicine practice and eventually her soul mate for life. Throughout it all, Allende projects a woman's point of view with confidence, control and an expansive definition of romance as a fact of life. In this book and Sobel's, history is not only revised but also enthusiastically refurnished...