Biography: science, technology and medicine

This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823).

The truly inspirational account of living positively with dementia.

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives.

A comprehensive and practical guide to dementia, this book is essential reading for anyone who has a friend or relative with the condition.

This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B.

Ada Lovelace, Tochter des weltberühmten Dichters Lord Byron, war weit mehr als nur ein Kind ihrer Zeit.

This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines.

Uğur Şahin und Özlem Türeci, Wissenschaftler und Mitgründer von BioNTech, haben den weltweit ersten zugelassenen Covid-19-Impfstoff entwickelt – und damit Medizingeschichte geschrieben.

A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century.

The story of the author's research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour.

Brown-Squard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged licentious behavior, and by other scientists for his unorthodox views and for claims that, in fact, he never made.

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth.

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time.

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thoughtDescribed by Voltaire as ';perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,' Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716) is often portrayed as a rationalist and philosopher who was wholly detached from the worldly concerns of his fellow men.

Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains.

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.

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

Containing never-before-published material, this fascinating account sheds new light on one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

Das rätselhafte, dramatische Lebensschicksal des Mannes, der als »Vater der Archäologie« und Begründer der deutschen Klassik Epoche machteJohann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–68) gilt als Wegbereiter der deutschen Klassik und als Begründer der Archäologie.

Most human beings don't manage to achieve fame.

La chimie, ou la science des merveilles imprévues : l'éloge des hasards de la découverte, des rencontres de l'expérience, des bonheurs inattendus de la recherche.

In 1959, Harold M.

The commercial and cultural explosion of the digital age may have been born in California's Silicon Valley, but it reached its high point of riotous, chaotic exuberance in New York City from 1995 to 2000in the golden age of Silicon Alley.

Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events-technical and spiritual-of our lifetime.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 58 contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.

The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering.

'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme.

This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.

In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "e;woman question,"e; a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession.

Get the facts about Hepatitis C Having hepatitis C can be a transformative, extremely tough experienceespecially without the right information.

'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud AtlasThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies.

An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time.

“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming.

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh.

The true story of a brilliant herpetologist killed by a snake in the jungle of Burma is vividly recounted in this fascinating and harrowing biography.

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON AI * FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2023From Dr.

Macleod was an ardent believer in the social principles of health care.

Against the Current offers a personal account of the plight of European refugees and the importance of immigrants to Canada's post-war growth.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things .

This is the 16th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age.

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In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "e;meteor in the hemisphere.