In 2006, Kwan Kew Lai left her full-time position as a professor in the United States to provide medical humanitarian aid to the remote villages and the war-torn areas of Africa.
Dieses eBook: "Streifzüge durch Celebes (Spannender Abenteuerbericht)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Medical technology meets rural, Amish values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country doctor returns to his roots in Ohio.
Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself.
Entrepreneur and media mogul Ted Turner has commanded global attention for his dramatic personality, his founding of CNN, his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his companys merger with Time Warner.
A portrait of an American thinker with contributions by Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Sven Birkerts, Wes Jackson, and more: "e;A masterful collection.
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children.
New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers.
Colleagues and former students of the late Professor Pritchard (aka Bob), an eminent UK geneticist, have gathered memories about his scientific and personal life.
With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002)This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his enormous scientific contributions, including being the first to develop technology that led to gene cloning science.
Découvrez le parcours de vie de l'auteure, de sa Bretagne natale à nos jours, fait de nombreux aléas et de combats menés vers la survivance, qu'elle écrit avec émotion et pudeur.
On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon,s foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus.
Este Manual trata de ayudar a los profesionales de la salud para que puedan encarar investigaciones, publicaciones y conferencias sobre investigación clínica.
El matemático Manuel Sadosky (1914-2005) tiene ganado un merecido reconocimiento en la historia de la ciencia como "Padre de la computación en Argentina".
Si usted disfrutó en La Nuca de Houssay de cómo hacía, qué pensaba y qué temía un Marcelino Cereijido veinteañero que se iba atreviendo a incursionar en el mundo de la ciencia profesional, entérese ahora en El Doctor Marcelino Cereijido y sus patrañas de cómo siguió aquella saga y de qué está sucediendo en estos momentos.
Nacido en Turín (Italia) en 1875, el matemático Beppo Levi pasó la mayor parte de su vida en su país natal, donde fue profesor en las Universidades de Cagliari, Parma y Bologna.
El objetivo de este libro es acercar la figura de Guadalupe a un público nuevo, fundamentalmente del ámbito empresario, académico y científico, siendo, una oportunidad para difundir la llamada a la santidad en medio del mundo.
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.
'Michael Days insightful aphilosophical biography of J Robert Oppenheimer stands out from other works on the so-called afather of the atomic bomb by its focus on the post-war period and by the depth of its philosophical engagement with his humanistic thought on science and culture.
Dr Wu Lien-teh (1879 - 1960) was a distinguished scientist and Cambridge-trained Chinese physician who, at the age of 31, was sent to Manchuria in the severe winter of 1910 to fight the terrifying pneumonia plague which then threatened the world and claimed a deathtoll of 60,000 victims.
IN THE NEWSWeimin Wu: pioneer physicist on Chinese science's turbulent past, promising futureTimes Higher Education, 25 February 2016While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and the launch of the first artificial satellite, the second 30 years after the reform and opening up was signified by the introduction of the Internet to China.
This is a collection of articles, many written by people who worked with Mandelbrot, memorializing the remarkable breadth and depth of his work in science and the arts.
