From steamships to dockyards: completing the story of Brunel's work in South Wales
Inspired by Maine's extraordinary land-and-seascape, the author recounts a lifetime of intertwined adventures on the water, and professional and volunteer land conservation engagement. Shining through is the joy of Maine ocean and landscape, fascina…
John Crosfield (1915-2012) CBE DSc MAThis is the story of the long life of an inventor, artist, entrepreneur and family historian born into a prominent Quaker family, as seen through his own eyes. His correspondence begins at the age of nine, when h…
Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky was one of the greatest scientists of modern times. However, because of his extraordinary findings in many different disciplines, he fell victim to one of the worst slandering campaigns since the Middle Ages.This book is a su…
Essays by fourteen influential geographers provide timely examples of practical geographical scholarship and a useful antidote to ""ivory tower"" theories.
After years of subjecting the editors of St. Louis newspapers to eloquent letters on subjects as diverse as floods, tariffs, and mules, Thad Snow published his memoir From Missouri in his mid-seventies in 1954. He was barely retired from farming for…
During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manard…
In this revised and expanded edition of his collected writings, David Suzuki continues to explore the themes that have informed his work for more than four decades -- the interconnectedness of all things, our misguided elevation of economics above a…
"Susan Levenstein gives us a fascinating account of her life as an American doctor in the Eternal City, including an analysis of Italian healthcare that is both informed and terrifying. A must read for anyone who contemplates relocating to Rome--if…
During his fifteen years as chancellor, Dr. Ralph Snyderman helped create new paradigms for academic medicine while guiding the Duke University Medical Center through periods of great challenge and transformation. Under his leadership, the medical c…
Feel overwhelmed by your thoughts? Struggling with finding your true purpose in life? Or do you want to stop feeling lost in life? The truth is
The scientific wonder of youth is skillfully evoked in this intriguing memoir by the distinguished neurologist and author of Awakenings in which he describes his fascination with metals, gases, and chemicals, especially "Uncle Tungsten," and with un…
"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."Matthew 17:20 NIVMichael and Jan Burroughs were enjoying their retirem…
Jeff Gray won the Distinguished Flying Medal in command of a Lancaster bomber. After the war he flew the York, Hermes, Stratocruiser, Comet 4, and VC10. In this beautifully written memoir he takes the reader from agricultural work in rural Scotland…
A biography of Andre Lefebvre that offers a revealing insight into the work of a practically unknown aeronautic engineer who, after building and racing competition cars for Gabriel Voisin in 1933, created for Andre Citroen the revolutionary front wh…
Alice Street recounts how Valeriote was born at the sunset of good times and the dawn of hard ones. His mother's fifteenth child, he grew up in an Italian Catholic family on a street full of proud families with a multitude of languages and backgroun…
Headaches are one of the most common medical complaints. Nearly everyone gets a one at some point in their lives. Over 45 million Americans suffer with chronic headaches each year. Headache disorders are a major contributing factor to disability and…
Aliens visit the Earth and other planets mainly looking for minerals necessary for their nutrition, making of their spaceships and infrastructure construction of their societies. They only know about the biomaterial universe; unexpectedly, they all…
Dr Jodie Fleming, a clinical and health psychologist who previously specialised in the field of psycho-oncology - the human side of cancer - receives the terrifying news that she has two primary breast cancers. This becomes a frightening opportunity…
Challenge and adversity is part of life. But for little Harrison it hit hard the day after he was born. Faced with a serious case of Bacterial Meningitis his life was hanging in the balance. Typically Bacterial Meningitis has a 48 hour window before…
What happens when a cancer research institute's only remit is to be the best it can be? For more than 100 years, one laboratory in London has operated on just that premise. With a generous budget, inspired leadership, and a stable of scientific thor…
William I. Myers and the Modernization of American Agriculture is the first book-length study of one of the leaders of the twentieth-century effort to transform farming from a way of life into a science and a business. This biography of Myers offers…
A devastating typhoon; a mysterious rescue mission; an encounter between a black bear and a moose; a deadly near-collision on the Homathko River; the hunting of a sea lion by two orcas. These are just a few of the experiences author Len Helsing rela…
The Doctor Is In chronicles the amazing career of Dr. Bobbi Lancaster--a McMaster Medical School graduate; family doctor, retired professional golfer and transgender woman. The story-telling is riveting and the messaging is important. This book is a…
This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu.Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but what marked the most extraordinary aspect about her life was her journey as a truly brave cancer patient and an incredibly determined cance…
Most historians recognise the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was…
Ab sofort "Frauenpower trotz MS" als Sammelband (3-in-1): Mit 39 Jahren bekam Caroline R gnard-Mayer im Entlassungsbericht der Klinik diagnostiziert, dass sie Multiple Sklerose (MS) hat, die sie in ihrem weiteren Leben nun begleiten sollte. Nach zah…
The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became,to America's continuing chagrin,the father of the Chinese missile program.
The coauthor of the award-winning In the Company of Crows and Ravens and his wife, an animal-behavior expert, offer an engaging account of their days as young field biologists in Maine Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently marr…
If any human being in this world has taught with the examples all his life long, showing his teachings with his actions, that human being was Samuel Hahnemann. This book includes chapters on the personal and professional life of Master Hahnemann, al…
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the greatest physicist of the nineteenth century, and although his scientific contribution is now acknowledged to be on a level with those of Newton and Einstein, he has generally not received the acclaim that he…
Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence. 101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein provides in-depth, fascinating facts about the famous scientis…
From the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling…
A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical…
