Biography: science, technology and medicine

One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W.

A revealing biography of George Abbey, the powerful and enigmatic NASA engineer who shaped human spaceflight for a generation.

Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site of an injury or infection in a human or other animal?

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated.

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated.

Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own.

Maine-born Dr.

In 1964, newly-minted physician Stephen C.

This biography of an early twentieth-century South Carolina doctor sheds light on his pioneering work with the mentally ill to combat a public health scourge.

A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century.

Fresh out of training, Dr.

Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors Award in the memoir/autobiography category!

One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization.

David Morine's long love affair with Maine began when he was a boy in 1946 and his parents rented their first lakeside cabin in Fryeburg.

Like many new general practitioners in the 1950s, Dr.

Deadly epidemics of yellow fever and Asiatic cholera plagued the South throughout the nineteenth century, yet doctors had few effective weapons against the diseases.

View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens.

Albert Einstein was the most famous and influential thinker of his time.

Long before the space race captured the world's attention, K.

The landowners in this book have improved their land and done so by being profitable, generous to their human community, committed to family, and desirous of leaving land better than when it came into their stewardship.

Tall, handsome, charming Col.

Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard is the definitive book on conducting a complete investigation of a cybercrime using digital forensics techniques as well as physical investigative procedures.

When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run.

When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run.

So when facing a life threatening trial, how do you refuel the transformation needed to replenish the balance in life itself?

Rural Odyssey is a story that follows the family and life of a young man who grew up in rural America.

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane F.

Bone Voyage: Following One Surgeon on the Journey of a Lifetime reveals the inspiring life of Dr.

This story is now more relevant than ever as the latest science is now validating the protocols of Dr.

Twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world Women look to other women as role models and for inspiration.

Impressive stories of women using geospatial technology to create sustainable solutions for problems the world faces.

Foreword by Jane Goodall Thirty inspiring stories of diverse women using geospatial technology to advance science and help resolve important issues facing the world.

This is the engrossing story of a man whose life greatly advanced scientific research in the United States.

Here is a fascinating descriptive account of the man who invented the reaper, his life and the time in which he lived.

Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami.

Based on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of the animals he has studied.

An intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive.

Science is a serious business, right?

In her incredibly productive lifetime (1883-1974), American-born ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice earned the admiration of ornithologists and naturalists in far distant lands.

Retired fishery officer Randy Nelsons first love was catching poachers.

Clarke had no interest in trophy climbs and never did ascend many of BCs highest peaks.

At the age of 37, Bill Harshaw was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.

Als die westliche Welt in Dunkelheit versank, wagte sie, das Licht zu verteidigen.

Quando o mundo ocidental caiu na escuridão, ela ousou defender a luz.

Über das Buch:
Bei Richard Carlson Jr.

Richard Carlson Jr.

Sul libro:
A Richard Carlson Jr.