Mark Catesby's Natural History: An Introduction is a delightful picture book. It contains a collection of beautiful images of etchings by early eighteenth century naturalist and explorer Mark Catesby from his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida…
From the author of the absolutely absorbing (USA Today) memoir Undercurrents comes an unforgettable portrait of childhood, family and community. The eldest child of a devout Irish-American Catholic family, Martha Manning weaves her story around the…
Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes. "Wali has given us a magnificent portrai…
Now in paperback, Engineers tells the story of the brilliant minds that have constructed our man-made world, from ancient pyramids to modern spaceflight Discover the mathematical genius of Archimedes, the elegance of Leonardo da Vinci, and modern pi…
In a provocative autobiography, a cybernetic pioneer explains how he has deliberately crossed over a perilous threshold to take the first steps toward becoming a cyborg by upgrading his own body by incorporating high-tech implants that connected to…
John Cawte looks back in amazement to his years as a young doctor in an Australian madhouse. He now recognises the people he treated in the early 1950s as 'the last of the lunatics'. Anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs were unknown. Bursting as…
Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth centu…
Mit der Machtergreifung durch die Nationalsozialisten 1933 erfuhren die Konditionen arztlicher Berufsausubung einschneidende Umwalzungen. Ausgehend von den Entwicklungen in der Weimarer Republik und unter Einbindung in den allgemeinhistorischen Kont…
Published in conjunction with the one hundredth anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, this book focuses on the life and work of maverick geologist Jim Berkland, the only man to accurately predict an earthquake in the U.S. Original.
The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. Now an Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, and directed by Ron Howard. "How…
For decades starting in the 1950s, Raymond Patriarca ran the New England Mafia out of a storefront in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1980 he was seventy-two years old, and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. One night in December of that year h…
A glimpse into the private home life of the Darwins"A sensitive, intelligent portrait of Emma Darwin and her life at the centre of Victorian science."--Emma Darwin, author ofA Secret Alchemy"Succeeds brilliantly in discovering the poignant story of…
This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under…
The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.
Alone on the endless red-sand desert in the Australian outback, tracking Varanus giganteus, the perentie lizard that grows to be more than six feet long...for desert rat Eric Pianka, such adventures have led to a satisfying, if unusual, way of life,…
A "poignant" (Boston Globe) family memoir that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness Heather Sellers is face-blind--that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that describes the inability to recognize faces. Gro…
Scion of the Pittsburgh oil and banking family, William Larimer Mellon, Jr., was married, the father of three, and a successful rancher in Arizona when, at thirty-seven, he read a Life magazine article about Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life"…
Tracy Putnam and H. Houston Merritt co-discovered the effectiveness of Dilantin in controlling epilepsy, a dramatic find that is still invaluable today. Now, in this engaging volume, eminent neurologist Lewis P. Rowland, MD, tells the unique story o…
Kurt Goedel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us a complete understanding of the uni…
A fascinating study of a GP who served the community in Ballachulish from 1900 to 1945.
Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B. W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes.A keen observer of the na…
The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.P. Thompson was a passionate advocate of science education whose impact extended far beyond his home province of Saskatchewan. In Research and Reform, Richard Rempel…
First published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronological approach, this book not only traces the devel…
In March 2009, during what he thought was a routine medical exam, Charles Harris learns that he has incurable cancer. A colleague suggests he write a blog to keep family and friends current on his treatment. From that is born Incurable, an account o…
Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab? Based on interviews for the hit BBC Radio 4 series, The Life Scientific: Detectives reveals the life and work of some of the foremost scientist…
Toimittaja Ashlee Vancen kirja perustuu Elon Muskin, hänen perheenjäsentensä, ystäviensä ja työtovereidensa haastatteluihin. Se kuvaa kiehtovasti poikkeuksellisen lahjakkaan, koulukiusatun pojan nousua maailman menestyneimpien ihmisten joukkoon ja v…
The fifth volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers Edison's invention and development of the first commercial incandescent electric light and power system. In the process he turned his famed Menlo Park laboratory into the first true research…
At the end of the nineteenth century, revolutionary developments began to take place in American geography. The humanization of the subject proceeded at a rapid pace, as did the application of geography to other fields. The changes were initiated at…
Young and desperate, I took an entry level job in the intensive care unit at a local district hospital in rural California. This was in the early mid-1980s, a unique period in American medicine. A time when every effort was made to save a patient's…
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