Biography: science, technology and medicine

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics.

The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor’s year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.

Das neue Sachbuch über das Weltgenie Albert Einstein.

Music therapy as an intervention in medical, educational and many other environments has a rich and diverse history of methods, approaches and models.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Johann Heinrich Mädler (1794–1874)" verfügbar.

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science.

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).

A scientist, in a broad sense, is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge.

1912 sucht der junge sozialistische jüdische Wiener Dozent Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) Kontakt zum alten charismatischen, aber konservativen Professor Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), woraus sich eine für beide Beteiligten intensive Korrespondenz bis ins hohe Alter des Letzteren ergibt.

The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstones greatest and most famous wolves.

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS 'A must read for anyone who wants to start a mobile app business' Riccardo Zacconi, founder and CEO King Digital (maker of Candy Crush Saga) 'A fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar apps.

François Gros a participé à la grande aventure de la biologie moderne.

The landowners in this book have improved their land and done so by being profitable, generous to their human community, committed to family, and desirous of leaving land better than when it came into their stewardship.

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A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy .

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip.

A close look at Gunter Blobel's transformative contributions to molecular cell biology.

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War.

The USA Today–bestselling biography of a man who lost his sight as an adult and regained it twenty years later without any medical intervention.

During his fifteen years as chancellor, Dr.

Galileo Galilei, His Life and His Works is a biographic of Galileo Galilei.

Georg Joachim Rheticus: Ein Name, der in den Schatten seines berühmten Lehrers Nikolaus Kopernikus gerückt ist – und dennoch ein unverzichtbarer Architekt der modernen Astronomie.

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine.

Selected for Reading Well for Mental Health: endorsed by health experts, charities and people with lived experience of managing mental health conditions.

C’est une autobiographie d’un genre particulier que nous propose ici Yves Quéré.

This distinguished series contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood.

This edition of the private and scientific correspondence of Sir Rudolf Peierls gives a unique insight into the life and work of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

A book that enlightens the life of Ahmed H Zewail from his early childhood to his days at CalTech.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 72 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

The inspirational autobiography of Britain s beloved astronaut Tim Peake, the #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this Planet Earth?

Adventures in the English countryside and beyond with the Yorkshire veterinarian and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of All Creatures Great and Small, the basis for the BBC and PBS Masterpiece series.

With a show-jumping career spanning over forty years, Nick Skelton is a legend in the equestrian world.

Die in diesem Band versammelten Geschichten sind alle unterschiedlich und doch haben sie einen gemeinsamen Kern: eine Liebe für die Gegensätzlichkeit der Existenz.

This book provides a detailed biographical account of the industrious late nineteenth-century astronomer William Frederick Denning who, in later life, rose to be a celebrated public figure and a highly respected amateur astronomer.

Issa Ibrahim's memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years.

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summitAs a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion.

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "e;more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world.

'This is an an absolutely wonderful book that is full of gems about the elements and the periodic table .

The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.

In diesem Buch wird Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) als historisches Individuum im Schnittpunkt mehrerer Perspektiven gezeigt: So geht es erstens um Virchows Lebenskonstruktion und Lebensführung, zweitens um seine wissenschaftliche und politische Karriere und die damit verbundenen Handlungsfelder und -strukturen sowie drittens um die Wechselwirkungen zwischen seinen wissenschaftlichen und politischen Ideen und die Frage nach einem beide verbindenden "Denkstil".

Pour les Français, Louis Pasteur n’est pas seulement celui qui a inventé les vaccins, il est aussi le père de la microbiologie.

Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, whose long life stretched from 1869 to 1967, challenged convention from the time she was a young girl.

From Cameron Diaz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Book, comes a fresh, personal, and authoritative examination of the art and science of growing older and a roadmap for abundant health and resilience as we age.