Forfatter: Øyvind Grothe, født: 04.07.1945. Utdannelse: Teknisk skole i forsvaret, radiolinjen, HYSSB, Jørstadmoen. Tilleggsutdannelse: Flere kurs i IKT og datakommunikasjon. Pedagogisk Seminar. Opplæring/kurs på div. radiosondesystemer fra BEUKERS…
Getting to the Heart of the Matter is my journey through needing a triple heart bypass operation. I have tried to share my experience, how I learned and educated myself to understand the medications, healthy eating options, emotional and physical he…
Set between three countries, Burma, India and England, and spanning three very different generations, And The Twain Shall Meet witnesses the tumultuous years from 1870 to 1977. Tracing India's journey towards Independence in 1947, Cartner's story ex…
Marianne North (1830-90), the Victorian amateur botanist and painter, travelled to distant countries of the world to paint exotic flora in their natural surroundings. This two-volume collection of her memoirs, edited by her sister and published in 1…
We will never forget the pain & loss of past and present experiences.In a time of depression, grief, and loss.We give tributes to The First Responders and all essential workers for their invaluable service and tireless dedication to the public at la…
From the eighteenth century until as recently as World War II, the natural scientist was depicted as a kind of moral superhero: objective, modest, ascetic, and selflessly dedicated to the betterment of humanity. What accounts for the widespread diff…
The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother, Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of her battle with a pear-sized brain tumor. In 2017,…
Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic…
The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest caf , wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring--so loud as to drown out all other noises--of a…
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 60 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional…
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation-including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry-and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton…
This is a series of short stories from the life of the author that covers his years of growing up under four dictatorships and World War II in his natal Romania where he suffered as a Holocaust survivor. Some of the events described were pleasant an…
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life.
Despite its sub-title, The Seven Ages of One Man is not just a book about how one man started the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. It is much more...This is Richard Hills' autobiography - the story of his life, work, passions and relati…
Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary France, led to the biggest collaboration ever between mathematicians across the world, and revealed the 'M…
A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a "courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer" who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during…
With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002)This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasi…
William G. Anlyan, a dedicated doctor and gifted administrator, was a leader in the transformation of Duke University Hospital from a regional medical center into one of America's foremost biomedical research and educational institutions. Anlyan's f…
Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost every field of me…
Identity Theft is an award-winning book that follows Stanford professor Debra Meyerson's journey to recover from a severe stroke that initially left her physically incapacitated and unable to speak. In addition to providing realistic expectations fo…
In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements--redefining our ideas of normal an…
Matthew Boulton, of the famous Boulton & Watt steam engine partnership, was an eighteenth-century designer and inventor. Before he partnered up with James Watt he was a successful industrialist manufacturing a range of silver and plated goods, butto…
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Gene tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Siddhartha Mukherjee's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you…
An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and inventio…
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography, and climatology, and his role as one of the first great popularizers of the sciences. Hi…
Knife in the Fast Lane charts the history of care for sportspeople from the expert view of a doctor and orthopaedic surgeon with over 40 years' experience. Bill Ribbans gives you the inside track on the life of a surgeon operating on some of sport's…
This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the applicati…
Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1814-91) was a British geologist with a particular interest in the effects of glaciation on the landscape. He travelled in Europe and America, and was a keen climber. His first work, Geology of the Island of Arran (1840),…
Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantu…
