Biography: science, technology and medicine

Winner of the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice AwardJonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon, a flying doctor, a ship's medical officer and a battlefield surgeon.

Your family probably owns a Ford, but do you know the man who first created the Ford?

In the heady days of the early 1960s, the United States found itself perched on the edge of technological, sociological, and societal precipices.

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes Furiously Happy from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened.

During the Renaissance period, artists and scientists were considered as the highest individuals in society.

Despite his debilitating illness, Stephen Hawking found way to share his knowledge of the universe.

The renaissance period is long gone but its influence can still be felt up until the present times.

Before a great discovery, the Renaissance scientists had to endure long days of working in sometimes unhygienic places.

Emmy Noether es la matemática más importante de la historia y una de las científicas más destacadas de todos los tiempos.

Physics is already a difficult subject to tackle for adults; what more if it were taught to children?

The first biography to look at the early feminist and radical Mary Wortley Montagu, who successfully introduced Britain to the inoculation against the smallpox virus.

Reaching for the Heights is a true story of a Christian mum who travelled alongside her son in his lifes journey as he searched for God and found him in Bolivia.

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges.

Despite his debilitating illness, Stephen Hawking found way to share his knowledge of the universe.

The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today's young children.

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation.

This is a heartwarming story of a young doctor training to be a surgeon.

A Jew who left Germany when Hitler came to power, Sir Ernst Chain was a winner, with Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Florey, of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945.

If you're playing basketball, that's science in action!

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles follows the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.

Written in simple and lucid language, these biographical sketches of great scientists have been put together for ready reference.

"e;How Steve Became Ralph is an odyssey in every sense of the word.

How you live today is very different from how a Renaissance child lived.

Cinquanta-dos anys, dos mesos i un dia és el temps transcorregut des que l'autor es va llicenciar en Medicina (30/11/1969) fins al dia que va penjar la bata (31/1/2022).

Wer in einem Heim lebt oder den Umzug in ein Heim plant, weiß, dass die Heimunterbringung eine teure Angelegenheit sein kann.

Most Americans are aware that the Wright brothers had been the first to fly a powered Flying Machine in 1903.

The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today's young children.

In this humorous, entertaining, and poignant memoir Philip M.

Domingo Felipe Cabred fue un hombre eminente de su época.

Catch a Falling Star, the life story of Donald Clayton, follows the struggle of one human being to find love and to create scientific understanding of the origin of the atoms of chemical elements.

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

Have you ever felt frustrated with the situation in which you find yourself?

This book must be one of the best references in the science's invention department of the renaissance.

El doctor Miquel Vilardell repassa amb senzillesa i claredat en aquesta obra la seva dilatada trajectòria professional i ens obsequia amb les seves re_ exions més personals que són fruit de tota una vida dedicada a la medicina.

The Renaissance period is widely celebrated for the artistic advancements that happened during the time.

Develop an appreciation for the inventions of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Johannes Gutenberg and the Wright Brothers.

Why is it important to go back to history instead of just focusing on the present?

The renaissance period is long gone but its influence can still be felt up until the present times.