Biography: science, technology and medicine

A treasure-trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from beloved physicist Richard P.

The classic "e;gripping account"e; of three young doctors in training at a New York City hospital, updated with a new preface and afterword (The New York Times Book Review).

A roadmap to help you recover better and faster following a cancer diagnosisofrom the moment of diagnosis through remission and life after cancer.

With over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock was a distinguished and original thinker, widely recognized by the international scientific community.

This book is about the author's life motivated by two pursuits: medicine, his profession and flyfishing, his favourite recreation.

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.

Luc Montagnier est celui qui, avec son équipe de l'Institut Pasteur, a découvert en 1983 le virus responsable du sida.

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.

Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry, in both scientific and popular periodicals.

Growing up on St Lawrence Boulevard, Phil Gold never aspired to be a doctor.

Macphail's writing - characterized by clarity of expression and support for unpopular positions - allowed him to develop and document many of the important political, social, and intellectual themes of his time.

';If we mean to change our ways, how will we do it?

In einer Welt, die von Männern dominiert wurde, war Mileva Marić eine Ausnahmeerscheinung.

What drives a man, born into the shadows of a medieval worldview, to challenge the heavens themselves?

A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politicsSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon Valley.

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

Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "e;the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether.

RIPPED APART: LIVING MISDIAGNOSED This is what it is like to suffer due to doctor mistakes and their refusal to admit the mistakes.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

By the time Marcus Taylor graduated from veterinary school at age 23, a sheep, a cow, a hawk, innumerable dogs, cats, parrots and even a fish had locked their mandibles onto his flesh.

The first two memoirs in the New York Times-bestselling series from an English veterinarian-and the basis for the PBS Masterpiece series.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 67 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 61 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.

Christina Pingel ist neun Jahre alt, als ihre Mutter durch ein unbehandeltes Herzleiden klinisch tot aufgefunden wird.

Personal reflections and practical help for cancer sufferers and those who love them.

A spirited, wry, and utterly original memoir about one woman's struggle to make her way and set up a life after doctors discover a hole the size of a lemon in her brain.

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

Winner:Banff Award for Mountain and Wilderness LiteratureThe British Sportsbook Award for Outstanding General Sports WritingThe Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureFinalist for the HW Fisher Biographers PrizeEverest was not conquered by force of will alone.

Recent Advances in Statistics: Papers in Honor of Herman Chernoff on His Sixtieth Birthday is a collection of papers on statistics in honor of Herman Chernoff on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Most discussions of the digital divide focus on the gap between African Americans and others when it comes to using, and benefiting from, the technological and business opportunities of the information age.

This text contains a collection of poetry written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1922.

A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a ';compelling' (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

Sir Edward Appleton G.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man.

Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second World War.

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives.

Since the founding of the National Park Service in 2016, tens of thousands of NPS employees and volunteers have devoted themselves to preserving our public lands, which today number more than 400.

Wie ein kräftiger Sturm wirbelt die Diagnose Demenz das Leben der Betroffenen, aber auch ihrer Familien durcheinander.

This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

Biographic Memoirs Volume 81 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

Die Diagnose Demenz verändert nicht nur den Alltag der Betroffenen grundlegend, sondern auch den ihrer Angehörigen und Freunde.

On July 20, 1969 the whole world stopped.

The four hundred townspeople of Ennis, Montana needed a doctor and Ronald E.

'This is an interesting and bittersweet biography.

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