Biography: science, technology and medicine

An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy.

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged.

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

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists.

Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life.

Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobss death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobss vision and keep the company moving forward.

Together with his colleagues at Citroen, Andre Lefebvre created the Traction Avant (1934), the TUB (1939) - Citroen's first front wheel drive utility van that was succeeded by the H and HY vans (1947) - the Deux Chevaux (1948), and, last but not least, the DS (1955).

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed.

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

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler.

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their storieslost, distorted, or actively suppressed.

';Nuila's storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.

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Die Faszination unendlicher Weiten: Astronaut Matthias Maurer hat sie erlebt.

Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society Outstanding BookConservationist Fannye Cook (1889-1964) was the most widely known scientist in Mississippi and was nationally known as the go-to person for biological information or wildlife specimens from the state.

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces.

Autobiography of the most successful driver in Australian motorsport historyHe is the most successful driver in Australian motorsport history.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (MAY 2022).

Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman.

The 70 years from 1880 to 1950 witnessed the final ascent of humankind into the modern age.

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David Bellamy is a natural story teller whose memoir will be packed full of funny anecdotes and observations.

';The gold standard for Tesla biography.

The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'.

A Physics Today Best Book of the YearThe first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science.

A Syrian American surgeon chronicles her path to becoming one of New York City's first female ring-side boxing doctors in this exhilarating memoir.

Liliane Weissberg und Ernst Osterkamp widmen sich dem Leben und dem Werk des berühmten Gelehrten Michael Bernays, der im Mai 1873 ein Extraordinariat an der Universität München antrat und ab Februar 1874 ebendort Ordinarius war.

Dans ce livre, Alain Fischer raconte son parcours de médecin, pédiatre, spécialiste des maladies du système immunitaire et chercheur à l’hôpital Necker-Enfants malades à Paris.

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, movingand at times raucously humorousone of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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.

In an era when women were rarely seen in scientific circles, Ada Lovelace defied expectations and shaped history.

Norbert Wiener''s celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.

Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'.

Ce livre est le dernier ouvrage de Christian de Duve.

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

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Macabre, authoritative and fascinating.

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolutionBoolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use-from our computers and cars, to home appliances.

Wie ein kräftiger Sturm wirbelt die Diagnose Demenz das Leben der Betroffenen, aber auch ihrer Familien durcheinander.

When all seems lost, where can you find hope?

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is increasingly used among health practitioners in combatting a variety of diseases, most notably various types of cancer, and is often utilised in combination with other therapeutic options to enhance efficacy or reduce adverse reactions.

Circular Economy Processes for CO2 Capture and Utilization: Strategies and Case-Studies presents an innovative resource or integrating carbon capture, storage and utilization into the sustainable circular economy of the future.

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero.

True stories of fossil-hunting adventures around the globe from "e;a world-class field scientist [and] a highly entertaining writer"e; (The American Scholar).

'A beautiful and moving book that vividly brings home the challenges faced by those with dementia and their carers' Sir Tony RobinsonA moving and beautifully illustrated book that captures the real life tales of people living with dementia, as told by their loved ones caring for them.

The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir is a biography on the life of Irving Langmuir.

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Alan Berkman (19452009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president.

Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'.