Biography: science, technology and medicine

With more than one million people behind bars, the United States imprisons a larger share of its population than any other industrialized nation.

A primera vista, pareciera que no hay universos más divergentes que los de la literatura y la ciencia.

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.

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This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934).

Marie Curie made a very important discovery in the field of chemistry.

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Albert Einstein lived a very interesting life.

Are you contemplating a career in the medical field; an M.

Why is it important to go back to history instead of just focusing on the present?

Before a great discovery, the Renaissance scientists had to endure long days of working in sometimes unhygienic places.

Young children may not know what life was like before technology.

The NHS and those who work in it have never been more important.

When an 80-ton Fin Whale became trapped in a lagoon near his Newfoundland home, Farley Mowat rejoiced: here was a unique chance to observe one of the world's most magnificent creatures up close.

John was always healthy.

'Long, thin, and cool as hell' was how parasitologist Thomas Platt described the new genus and species of trematode (Baracktrema obamai) he named in honor of the 44th USA president and his 5th cousin, Barack Obama.

Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.

Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements.

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A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words-the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world.

Physics is the important branch of science mainly concerned with the properties of matter and energy and the relationship between them.

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.

It is difficult to find a surgeon like Enzo Piccinini.

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

Rural Odyssey is a story that follows the family and life of a young man who grew up in rural America.

Pasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding.

This is a kaleidoscopic account of the remarkable life story of Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923-2008), an internationally reputed physicist, and the son of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer (1883-1953), one of India's most eminent jurists.

A rainforest biologist and single mom chronicles her family's adventures in remote rainforests around the world.

The coauthor of the award-winning In the Company of Crows and Ravens and his wife, an animal-behavior expert, offer an engaging account of their days as young field biologists in MaineTwenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and Colleen Marzluff left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine.

Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Alpha C Chiang, a renowned economist, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Connecticut, is best-known for his classic textbook - Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics.

This book chronicles the life and work of the late Arthur Kornberg, one of the premier biochemists in the world, who discovered the enzyme DNA polymerase, a key enzyme required for the biosynthesis of DNA.

This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French-born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and gained America's first Nobel Prize in 1912.

Explore the wonders of wild Mongolia through the eyes of a distinguished field biologist Mongolia became a satellite of the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, and for nearly seven decades effectively closed its doors to the outside world.

A "e;highly readable"e; account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-by inspiring his teenage passion for physics and providing refuge from the Nazis (The Wall Street Journal).

This invaluable book is an autobiographical account of doing scientific research in India.

This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century.

When all seems lost, where can you find hope?

How did she navigate the world of venture capitalists and investment bankers to engineer the sale of her company and reap a personal fortune?

An accessible illustrated compendium of over 1000 topics in intensive care and acute medicine, arranged alphabetically for easy reference.

The story of how a boy came to be infected with blood borne viruses, and in spite of multiple death sentences, lived to become the world's first ever LGBTQ+ Ambassador for Haemophilia.

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind Americas first public school for mentally disabled peopleFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nations oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr.

"e;A beautifully descriptive, lyrical immersion in the natural world that's coupled with a detective story, reminiscent of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

"e;A beautifully descriptive, lyrical immersion in the natural world that's coupled with a detective story, reminiscent of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

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By turns somber and funny but above all provocative, Elizabeth BenedictsRewriting Illness: A View of My Ownis a most unconventional memoir.