Biography: science, technology and medicine

2009 Post ScriptThis 2009 revision especially honors all the wonderful souls who have touched my life .

Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring award-winning actor Ben Whishaw.

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

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B.

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EXPLAINING HUMANS'A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and richer lives' Prof.

Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves.

This book contains information about Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum and various medical terminology that goes along with this condition.

Careers and life can have many twists and turns.

Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics.

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** Future-proof yourself and your business by reading this book * Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside.

I read a lot of writings by astronauts in my research for Orbital, but this was my go-to.

This book is about the successful escape of a Slovenian from the Communist regime of President Tito.

Sometimes life doesnt always unfold the way you plan.

A ';beautifully written' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.

Travel back to the 1960s and walk the halls of Chicagos Cook County Hospital with Douglas R.

This edition of Darwin’s life story restores previously censored passages on religion and the scientist’s opinions of his contemporaries.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.

The surgeons' heads seemed small next to the huge dome-shaped lights.

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.

In life sometimes we feel like we cannot make it because of the obstacles we face in our everyday life.

This book is about the defining people, events and institutions in the authors life.

After forty years as an electronics engineer, Jim Snell had a stroke that ended his career but not his life.

Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was given a lobotomy.

'A hymn to the art and science of nursing itself' GuardianThe hand of a stranger offered in solace.

This is a remarkable story of an everyday person who overcame a debilitating injury, reclaiming her life and dignity in the process.

Senior Birdman: The Guy Who Just Had to Fly is the autobiography of one man's improbable rise from a humble farming community to the glamour and glitz of southern California, the epicenter of aviation development.

Whats the number one nightmare for every loving parent?

The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War.

So here's the list of who needs to read this book, EVERYONE!

The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers.

To Get Back Home is a medical thriller of the first order, a true story of triumph and survival over astronomical odds, as an otherwise healthy and active young woman fights for her life after being suddenly stricken by a rare neurological disorder, Acute Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis (ADEM).

Most of us have packed a suitcase or a small bag to go on a journey somewhere.

In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard .

'An explosive new book' Daily Mail'[A] careful, comprehensive interrogation of every major Facebook scandal.

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.

Growing up in a small mining town in New South Wales, Australia, during World War II, Beverley Keegan knew that she wanted to become a nurse.

Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.

Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes________They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school .

'Deeply affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and, ultimately, uplifts with its vein of deep humanity' Philippe Sands'An extraordinarily frank book laced with humour and self-deprecation' The TimesAs a doctor on the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where each day reveals a new challenge.

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.

'Enchanting to the point of escapism.

Dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, die Summe der Erfahrungen, Gefühle und Geschichten eines besonderen Lebens zu erkunden, das 1943 beginnt und nach 80 Jahren autobiographisches Erinnern mit tiefgreifendem Assoziieren verwebt.

It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come.

Auf der Suche nach einem verschollenen Spiegel-Artikel erhält der Erzähler in Philipp Schönthalers neuem Roman unerwartet eine Einladung zu einer Tagung am Forstell-Institut in Nevada.