Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career.
Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today.
Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age.
The must-read summary of David Owen's book: "e;Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg - Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine"e;.
Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age.
A memoir of the authors twenty-five-year, self-designed experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to meet trouble with active resistance.
There were things I was doing in my life that caused 3 strokes in 3 weeks and I needed to figure out what they were and why this had happened to me, so that I could make the change in my life I was in desperate need of making.
In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another.
Extrait : "L'histoire de la Médecine — pour répondre à l'état d'esprit actuel — ne peut plus être le récit des systèmes éphémères qui ont tour à tour gouverné l'art médical et qui représentent plutôt le tableau des variations doctrinales que celui de l'évolution progressive de la science.
Thrown for a loop by stage 4 lymphoma and a secondary brain tumor, a cancer patient recounts how he landed on his feet with a positive attitude and an offbeat sense of humor.
The must-read summary of David Vise and Mark Malseed's book "e;The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time"e;.
This book follows a previously published selection of poems and pictures by the children of Terezin and Osvtim, the 'camp of lies' of the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 'camp of death' of Auschwitz.
A compassionate, candid, and often humorous, biographical (and partially autobiographical) narrative/memoir of a six-decade long productive marriage of a remarkable woman and her distinguished veterinarian and professor husband, and how Alzheimer's disease, and its physical and psychological manifestations gradually, yet progressively, affected the couple's last four years, and especially, the author's supportive editor-teammate spouse, as the disease steadily eroded her personality and day-to-day ability to function.
No Way Out of This is not the kind of Alzheimer's memoir where you read about a noble, self-sacrificing wife who gives up everything to take care of her husband.
