Biography: science, technology and medicine

During his life time George Washington Carver was referred to as the black Leonardo da Vinci.

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion.

Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.

Collected here are three gnostic writings from Thomas, Mary, and John.

In The Changed Life, Henry Drummond instructs us on how we may change our lives to be more like Christ.

James Joseph Walsh, M.

James Joseph Walsh, M.

This book is a mixture of Kabacks life and his development as a scientist, both of which involve numerous serendipitous events.

It was Alan Scott's mother who emphasized the notion that doctors were the same as God; one healed the body and the other the mind and soul.

This book is the story of my life with multiple sclerosis.

This book is a compilation of monthly medical articles written for the Farmville, North Carolina, weekly newspaper.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) is an unfinished memoir by Benjamin Franklin.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

John Heysham Gibbon, Jr.

At the end of the nineteenth century, revolutionary developments began to take place in American geography.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

A poor uneducated mill worker in his youth, whose driving passion was the study of astronomy, John Brashear lived to be designated "e;first citizen of Pennsylvania"e; for his scientific and philanthropic accomplishments, honored not only in his native Pittsburgh but by scientists all over the world.

This is the first full-length biography of John Morgan, the man who established the first school of medicine in North America.

Have you ever wondered why a friend or loved one died?

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Known as the original Snakemaster from his various television shows, Austin Stevens is one of the most famous herpetologists in the world.

The ThinkPad notebook computer has been at the center of the digital revolution that has transformed millions of lives around the world, allowing users to obtain access to their documents, pictures and other personal data from virtually anywhere at any time.

Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculationfrom the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge.

One word strikes more fear into a person's mind than any other: cancer.

Thomas Edison closely following the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye.

Unehelich, Vegetarier, homosexuell, Linkshänder, leicht ablenkbar und durchaus ketzerisch – Leonardo da Vinci verlangte der Gesellschaft des 15.

'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon.

'Enchanting to the point of escapism.

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw.

A deeply personal memoir of late autism diagnosis.

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.

Joe Inglis, star of BBC 1's award-winning series Vets in Practice has written his diary for a year.

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate?

Timed to coincide with the release of Walter Isaacson's latest biography on the famous painter and inventor, as well as the latest thriller in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code series, this book includes 101 in-depth facts about Leonardo Da Vinci.

Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.

"e;Ellen's Story"e; is a testament of my persistent struggle for literacy, the crippling defeat I suffered in my adult life due to this problem, and the ultimate steps I needed to take toward triumph.

A little boys eyes roll quickly back into his head.

This book is for the nurses and nurse assistants of the past and future and what they will go through and what we have gone through, the good and the bad, and about helping veterans also in the veterans hospital.

It is 1946, and a young man stares out his third-story apartment window.

Not My Spine is a compelling, revealing and true story about a mother's experience during the pregnancy of her first child, and also after the birth.

Boulders: Life with Parkinsons Disease recognizes that the small obstacles of daily life pebbles when one lives with ones health intactcan become a field of boulders that demands planning and effort to traverse when one lives with an impairment.

One day.

In 1997, Carol Roth was in her late thirties living a hectic, programmed life as wife, mother, real estate agent, volunteer, and tennis player.

Award-winning educator, environmentalist and world traveler A.