CONTENTS Benjamin Franklin John Fitch Nathan Read Oliver Evans Robert Fulton John Stevens Robert L. Stevens Eli Whitney Thomas Blanchard Elias Howe John Ericsson Peter Cooper George H. Corliss Alexander L. Holley William R. Jones James B. Eads Richa…
"A mesmerizing, unsettling memoir about the ever-echoing nature of identity--written in vivid, blooming detail." --Gillian Flynn, best-selling author of Gone Girl On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on a train platform in India with no ide…
The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work i…
El exito no es solo para los mas inteligentes o los mas talentosos; el exito lo ganan quienes mas lo desean. El corazon lo conquista todo y los triunfadores siempre se la juegan completamente, sin nunca estar satisfechos con nada menos que su mejor…
From the Bestselling Author of Call the Nurse and Nurse, Come You Here , the Moving Story of Her Young Life and Her Path to Independence through Training to Be a Nurse--"A Must-Read Suggestion for Fans of the BBC's Call the Midwife" (Booklist) Mary…
A genius to rival Edison, a personality as intriguing as Tesla, Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a key figure in creating the modern world.Thomas Alva Edison and Nikola Tesla have the glory, but perhaps the greatest electrical wizard of them all was Ch…
James Herriot älskade Yorkshire från första stund. Och lika stark är kärleken till arbetet hos Siegfried Farnon. Med värme och humor berättar Herriot om sitt arbete där ingen dag är den andra lik. Först hittar vi honom krälande i dynga för att förlö…
Over eight hundred great minds are introduced in Brilliant! Scottish Inventors, Innovators, Scientists and Engineers Who Changed the World. Metal-works, medicine, astronomy, surgery, architecture, machinery, transportation, geology and mathematics;…
Hidden Figures Varjoon jääneet NAISET JOTKA INNOITTIVAT KOKONAISTA SUKUPOLVEA Eletään 1960-luvun alkupuolta. Yhdysvaltojen ja Neuvostoliiton välinen kilpajuoksu avaruuteen on kiihkeimmillään. Etsiessään päteviä työntekijöitä Yhdysvaltain avaruushall…
At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries in which he recorded his imp…
Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943) oli kahden viime vuosisadan merkittävimpiä keksijöitä. Elämäni keksinnöt on Teslan omaelämäkerta, jossa hän kuvailee laajasti lapsuuttaan, nuoruuttaan ja työskentelytapojaan - sekä tietysti mullistavia keksintöjään. Teslan…
Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley - and of himself. Seeking to create an alternative to California's Gold Rush social chaos, Hutchings whetted the public enth…
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), as well as being one of the pioneers of psychology, is one of the most controversial of thinkers: in spite of being largely responsible for the introduction of now-familiar psychological terms such as 'extrovert' and…
How Do You Rewrite Your Life's Script after You've Suffered a Massive Brain Tumor? Janet Johnson Schliff was an award-winning special education teacher for 25 years. But, as her abilities began to fade away with no medical explanation, she suffered…
This is a collection of studies on individuals who have made contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. International in scope, both in terms of personalities and contributors, in this work subjects are drawn from all pe…
This book provides the best available account of the life and contributions of Jean-Martin Charcot. It gives a fascinating picture of the man and his milieu, and clearly defines his role in establishing the new medical speciality of clinical neurolo…
Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot, he helped establish the boundaries of most of o…
This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627–91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America which scrutinise Boyle’s writings on scienc…
Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962), originally from Vienna, made his name as an explorer of the flora of his new home, the Hawaiian Islands. After World War I, American institutions sent him as a botany explorer to southern China and the Tibetan border r…
Dr. Steven D. Hsi, a family physician and father of two young sons, was diagnosed in 1995 with a rare coronary disease that caused his death five years later at the age of forty-four. Throughout his ordeals as a patient, including three open-heart s…
The Care Factor tells the story of one incredible nurse - one among many - who chose to meet an unprecedented global health crisis on the frontline. Simone Sheridan has one of the most sought-after skills today. As a nurse, her skill is to care. Wh…
When the author was a kid, a big white sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a lif…
Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine in 1958 and subsequently dedicated the whole of her professional life to improving the care of the…
I don't know why people are afraid of people who have epilepsy. It's just a condition. It's not something you can catch; it is not contagious. Epilepsy has to do with the brain. Like me, I was born perfectly normal. However, I had one of my blood ve…
"Conway is a creative genius." (Martin Gardner) An unabashed original, John Horton Conway is Archimedes, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Richard Feynman all rolled into one-a singular mathematician with a rock star's charisma, a sly sense of humor,…
Tim was a successful hairdresser and business owner in Bovey Tracey, Devon.At about 8 am one morning in early March 2004, when he was just 42, he suffered a massive and catastrophic stroke that 'almost' took his life. 24 hours before that, he was cu…
This biography of Sir William Jardine (1800-1874), the foremost Scottish naturalist of the 19th century, uses original source material (manuscripts, correspondence, etc.). Despite Jardine's considerable achievements as ornithologist, ichthyologist,…
"With only 0.2% of the world's population, Jews have been awarded 24% of all Nobel Prizes in medicine and science. American Jews, who number 2% of U.S. citizens, have received 37% of the American awards.This vastly disproportionate number award winn…
Just as Henry David Thoreau "traveled a great deal in Concord," Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In Lake Views Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminen…
Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 seg n en New York Times. En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018 Una brillante y valiente investigaci n de Michael Pollan, autor de cinco best sellersde The New York Times, sobre la re…
Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed is a medical doctor, humanitarian, and the founder of Mission to Heal, an organization through which he has been conducting medical mission trips around the globe for over forty years. His organization provides surgery and surg…
"How do we keep one another's company? How might our lives unfold alongside those of our parents with Alzheimer's nearby? In Arno Geiger's exquisite memoir, he lets us into the private and sometimes sacred space he found in the company of his father…
It is well known that Einstein founded twentieth-century physics with his work on relativity and quanta, but what do we really know about these ground breaking ideas? How were they discovered? What should we retain today from the conceptual upheaval…
An intimate look at the journeys of two men a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enqu…
Love, Betrayal, Commitment and Courage. A young African American soldier took an oath to defend the Constitution of his country. Today, he has kidney disease and is on hemodialysis. He needs life-saving prescription medication. But, this honorably r…
No es necesario tener c ncer en tu cuerpo para saber c mo el c ncer consume f sicamente a las personas que se encuentran alrededor de un paciente con c ncer. Este libro est enfocado especialmente para tratar de ayudar de alguna manera a personas que…
On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness , theoretical physicist Joao Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, t…
'Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.'Nawal El Saadawi is one of…
