Biography: science, technology and medicine

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

In this revelatory new book, the author of the award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking ideas and astonishing mind of one of the greatest geniuses of modern times .

Twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world Women look to other women as role models and for inspiration.

Walter Raaflaub, ein von seinen Patienten als Arzt und Mensch geschätzter Allgemeinmediziner, erkrankt 2002 an Prostatakrebs.

On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.

Sarah Braun erhält im Alter von 24 Jahren die Diagnose ALS, amyotrophe Lateralsklerose.

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy.

A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNALFrom Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery.

Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skeletons that are destined for the museums specimen collection.

The physical effects of a stroke are often the most obvious, and hospitals can offer medication and therapy to help alleviate them.

In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen.

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.

Medical imaging technologies can help diagnose and monitor patients' diseases, but they do not capture the lived experience of illness.

Un Grand Medecin et Biologiste Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812-1882)

A National Jewish Book Awardwinning biography: A look at the early years of Israel's statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.

A hopeful memoir that shares the author's voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.

This is the fourteenth volume in the series of 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.

This is the 18th 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.

This book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and solar energy in the U.

The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

As featured on BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour, Start the Week), Times Radio, in the Telegraph (also as a bestseller), The Times, and at the Royal Institution.

"e;The scientists who made the nuclear bomb are the focus of this detailed, engrossing history of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

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.

Wegweisende Empfehlungen für interprofessionelle evidenzbasierte MaßnahmenViele an Demenz erkrankte Personen entwickeln neben den kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen auch psychiatrische Symptome, welche unter dem Oberbegriff BPSD zusammengefasst sind.

By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word.

Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian.

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age.

The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments, including dementia.

John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities.

The most comprehensive account of the mathematician's life and workJohn Napier (1550-1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms-an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the slide rule: the two would serve humanity as the principal means of calculation until the mid-1970s.

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars.

'Freeman Dyson has had an extraordinary range of interests, serious activity and influence.

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals.

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This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.

An extraordinary account of life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward from a nurse who worked there for seven years.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

“Demonstrates an awesome command of the vast Galileo literature .

Late Seventeenth Century Scientists provides information on the lives and scientific works of scientists who were active in the latter half of the 17th century.

Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863-1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidestepsnot the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology.

A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.

This is a re-issue of Blue Nights and Long Nights ISBN 9780552158527.

THE SUNDAY TIMES No 1 BESTSELLER'Deborah James captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal'Brave, bright, beautiful' - Lorraine Kelly'Deborah's ability to find positivity in the darkest of places is an inspiration to us all' - Davina McCall'This book has shaken me awake.

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.