Мешков О.Д., Москалева И.Н. (сост.). Сборник научно-популярных текстов на английском языке

М.: Наука, 1978. — 103 с.Сборник научно-технических текстов предназначен для обучения чтению технической литературы на английском языке. Пособие составлено с использованием материалов оригинальных неадаптированных текстов и снабжено контрольными вопросами к каждому тексту.
Представленные материалы сборника не содержат вступительной статьи редактора.History of science and technology
The beginnings of technology
The splendid achievements of the greeks
The separation of sciences
Islamic science
Experiments
The purpose of a map
Time and its keepers
Modern science
The promise of plenty
Science is not standing still
Power and its resources
Man's age-old strugle for power (part 1, 2)
Man and his environment
Environment hazards to health. Smog. Dust
Clean air
Noise. Motor exhausts. Measuring it. Dangerous
Nuclear-power reactors: how dangerous?
The physiology of high altitude. The high-altitude environment. The physiological responses
Earth
The ultimate disaster (The chance of the world ending soon is remote, but it exists, scientists say)
Another ice age
Earth tremors remain unpredictable. Trigger. Devastation
Continents never die, they just drift away
The growing menace of our sinking lands (part 1, 2)
Space
Astronaut training
The Outer limits of space
New facts number billions but mars still mysterious
Balloon astronomy
Biology
Organic matter
Bacteria
Exploring the frontiers of the mind
Mind-reading computer
Men of science
Nicolas Copernicus
Michael Faraday
Ernest Rutherford
William Thomson
Miscellaneous
Mystery on the mesa
Atlantic ocean floor teeming with creatures
The lost vikings of Greenland
The global telephone network