A cardiac technician takes you to the front lines of emergency medicine—from tragic car accidents to gunshot wounds—in this “fast-moving” memoir (Booklist).
The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world.
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.
With his critically acclaimed best-sellers The Mathematical Toursist and Islands of Truth, Ivars Peterson took readers to the frontiers of modern mathematics.
Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-74), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir that dissects the ideological regime of cancer, offering a profound meditation on illness, mortality, and survival in modern America.
This book describes the life and times of fifty-three great British scientists and engineers - male and female inventive geniuses who changed the world, improving the lives of mankind, and propelling humanity forward.
In May 1999, seven thousand people crowded the basilica in Bologna, Italy to offer a farewell to Enzo Piccinini, a surgeon who died tragically at the age of forty-eight.
Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry.
A mixture of memoir and biography, Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino tells a deeply human story that appeals both to scientists and non-scientists.
Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada's most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.
Wer Wissenschaft verstehen will, sollte die Menschen kennen, die sie zustande bringen, und erfahren, warum ihnen bei ihrem Bemühen nicht alles gelingen kann.
Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) is now recognized as one of the most common forms of dementia in individuals under age 65, second only to Alzheimer's.
In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement.
A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problemsA self-professed "e;comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,"e; the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary.
This insider's account, a penetrating view of science policy and politics during two presidencies, captures the euphoria that characterized the space program in the late seventies and early eighties and furnishes an invaluable perspective on the Challenger tragedy and the future of the United States in space.
Ce livre réunit les contributions au colloque organisé au Collège de France en novembre 2008 à l’occasion du centenaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).
Das Praxisbuch für Messie-BeraterAutorin ist führende Messie-Expertin im deutschsprachigen Raum»Pathologisches Horten« neu in der ICD-11 aufgenommenErklärung der psychologischen Hintergründe und des praktischen VorgehensAuch von Fachleuten wird oft übersehen, dass das Verhalten von Messies durch psychische Störungen ausgelöst wird.
Since publication of Stillman Drake's landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western science.
Prix Nobel de physique 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes a exploré un nombre impressionnant de domaines différents, de la supraconductivité aux cristaux liquides, de la « matière molle » aux polymères et à la mécanique des cellules biologiques.
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic.
Qu’est-ce qu’un chimiste, à la fin d’un énième repas d’anniversaire, peut bien raconter à ses amis et aux amis de sa fille qui, eux, ne sont pas du métier ?
