The honest, compassionate and vital guide to getting older, from dementia to finances, medication to care homes'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read.
A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America's most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.
An engaging biography of Madame Curie's life written for younger readers, The Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly chronicles the life and work of one of science's brilliant women.
Praktische ACT-Interventionen für die Schematherapie- Relevant: ACT und Schematherapie sind maßgebliche Ansätze der dritten Welle mit zunehmender Evidenzbasis- Neu: Gemeinsamkeiten und praktische Integrationsmöglichkeiten beider Ansätze erstmalig beschriebenWährend sich ACT und Schematherapie in ihrem Verständnis von Kognitionen, Emotionen und Verhalten teilweise überschneiden, nehmen sie doch unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf psychische Störungen ein und prägen entsprechende Begrifflichkeiten.
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.
The story of the author's research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour.
Im Zentrum der Reformation stand nicht nur Martin Luther – auch seine Kinder spielten eine bedeutende Rolle in der Neuordnung einer durch religiöse Umwälzungen geprägten Welt.
El PACK CIENTÍFICOS 1 de la colección EN 90 MINUTOS reúne a 6 de los más destacados científicos de la historia: CURIE, EINSTEIN, BOHR HAWKING, NEWTON Y GALILEOPaul Strathern presenta un recuento preciso y experto de la vida, ideas y descubrimientos de estos seis científicos y explica su influencia en la lucha del hombre por comprender su existencia en el mundo.
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 66 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.
Biographic Memoirs Volume 82 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books).
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.
Retrieval Medicine is a core, concise and practical text covering the complex clinical and logistical problems experienced in the retrieval environment.
With foreword by astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian MayThis book describes the unlikely development of astrophysics in Spain, set against the final decade of Franco's rule and the country's transition to democracy.
In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch.
Marie Curie is a women who changed the face of science for all time, not just because of her discovery of the radioactive element Radium and her work with it, but because of her incredible strides forward in a such a male dominated world as laboratory science at the turn of the 19th century.
De son éblouissement d’enfant devant ses premiers fossiles à l’un des astéroïdes qui tournent en rond entre Mars et Jupiter, Yves Coppens égraine 14 milliards d’années d’histoire du monde, des roches, des êtres vivants et de l’homme comme autant de premières gorgées de paléontologie.
A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics.
Terra Incognita provides an autobiographical account of Joseph Abrahams' 75-year career as a psychoanalyst, with extensive scientific data, life-altering discoveries, and insightful conclusions.
