Biography: science, technology and medicine

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Salim S.

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

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Care for a loved one with cancer while caring for yourselfLooking after someone with cancer can be complex, overwhelming, and emotionally draining all at once.

Un libro ilustrado y educativo, que pone de relieve las contribuciones de cincuenta mujeres notables a los campos de la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y las matemáticas desde el antiguo hasta el mundo moderno.

Hildegard Peplau's 50-year career in nursing left an indelible stamp on the profession of nursing, and on the lives of the mentally ill in this country.

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The inspiring biography of an Adirondack legend whose tireless efforts are credited with much of today's preservation policies in the Adirondacks.

The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.

'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt.

HR Management in the Forensic Science Laboratory: A 21st Century Approach to Effective Crime Lab Leadership introduces the profession of forensic science to human resource management, and vice versa.

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

William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the physiology of binocular vision, among others.

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

In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s-part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb.

Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620).

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform-an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher.

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

The figure of Dai Zhen (17241777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history.

Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second World War.

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.

Michael Jacobs is a pioneer in the development of psychodynamic counselling.

Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed   In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867–1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.

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Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America's public sphere?

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

Ippy Ever After is a story of courage and determination against all the odds.

The posthumous diagnosis of Winston Churchill as manic-depressive has been drawn entirely from biographical information, which, though significant to understanding his life and mind, has often been misused or misunderstood.

In 1959, Harold M.

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Physics is already a difficult subject to tackle for adults; what more if it were taught to children?

Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors Award in the memoir/autobiography category!

David Morine's long love affair with Maine began when he was a boy in 1946 and his parents rented their first lakeside cabin in Fryeburg.

During the Renaissance period, artists and scientists were considered as the highest individuals in society.

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

If you're playing basketball, that's science in action!

One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization.

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How you live today is very different from how a Renaissance child lived.

You've probably heard of Neil Armstrong and his historic moon landing.

Alexander Graham Bell opened the doors to improving telecommunications between humans.

Do you know the famous story of how Isaac Newton discovered gravity?

Despite his debilitating illness, Stephen Hawking found way to share his knowledge of the universe.

This book must be one of the best references in the science's invention department of the renaissance.

Your family probably owns a Ford, but do you know the man who first created the Ford?

Like many new general practitioners in the 1950s, Dr.

Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard is the definitive book on conducting a complete investigation of a cybercrime using digital forensics techniques as well as physical investigative procedures.