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Pascal, le savant, le croyant: une biographie
Par Yves Chiron. 2009
Pascal est un philosophe majeur et un savant de génie. Il fut aussi, on le sait moins, un homme d'affaires…
avisé et ingénieux. Un philosophe qui est allé au coeur de la nature humaine [...]. Un savant de génie : l'inventeur de la calculatrice, de la machine arithmétique, du transport public, du carrosse à cinq sols brille dans nombre de découvertes physiques et mathématiques. Un précurseur dans les affaires : chef d'entreprise avisé et visionnaire dans ses investissements, il s'engage aussi dans d'audacieux placements immobiliers. Toute sa vie, il saura faire fructifier son patrimoine en réalisant de complexes montages financiers. Et plus méconnu, un homme passionné, tourmenté et complexe. Yves Chiron réussit, en remontant aux sources, à nous livrer toutes les facettes du personnage. Les oeuvres de Pascal, sa correspondance, les lettres de sa famille ou de ses amis, les nombreux mémoires de ses contemporains et d'autres documents du temps délivrent des informations et de précieuses lumières pour incarner le portrait original d'un être d'exception. -- 4e de couv.Un oculiste au Siècle des lumières, Jacques Daviel, 1693-1762
Par Yves Pouliquen. 1999
Jacques Daviel fut au coeur du XVIIIe siècle l'équivalent d'un Ambroise Paré ou d'un Christian Barnard, chirurgiens pionniers, aventuriers de…
la science et de la technique au service de l'homme. C'est Daviel qui, le premier, opéra des patients de la cataracte. Tous les ophtalmologistes doivent à ses conceptions et à son courage leurs réussites présentes. Par-delà les siècles, un grand médecin d'aujourd'hui propose la biographie sensible et richement documentée d'un grand médecin d'hier. Quand l'âge du laser se souvient des premières audaces de la chirurgie. 1999.L'autobiographie (Science ouverte)
Par Charles Darwin. 2008
Comment un jeune bourgeois victorien, plutôt paresseux et porté sur la chasse, en est-il venu à révolutionner la biologie avec…
sa théorie de l'évolution des espèces ? Cette brève autobiographie, écrite à l'intention de ses enfants sur le ton de la confidence, est le texte le plus intime et le plus révélateur qu'ait laissé Charles Darwin. S'y mêlent son voyage autour du monde et ses problèmes de santé, son mariage et les débats suscités par sa théorie, les autoportraits du gamin espiègle et du vieux sage respecté, ainsi que le drame d'une foi religieuse désorientée par le hasard des lois naturelles. Cette édition, première traduction française exhaustive du travail de Nora Barlow, petite fille de Charles Darwin, complète l'autobiographie de nombreux documents essentiels, et fait la part des ajouts et suppressions qui ont affecté ce texte justement célèbre. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882.Into the past: a memoir
Par Phillip V Tobias. 2005
Tobias focuses on the first 40 years of his life: from his troubled childhood in Durban and Bloemfontein to his…
intense student days at Wits University (where he also taught from 1945 until his retirement in 1993) and the prolific research, correspondence and travels of his early career. He vividly recounts his interactions with some of the great names in twentieth century science as well as their impact on him. Through his dedication to the people of Africa, Tobias opens windows on the San (or Bushmen) of Botswana, the Tonga of Zambia, and he recounts his role in the fight against racism during the harrowing decades of South Africa's apartheid regime. 2005.Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world (Women in Science)
Par Rachel Ignotofsky. 2016
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,…
from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. Grades 4-7. 2016.Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions
Par Chris Barton. 2016
A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson's life. Growing up in…
a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. But it is his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults. Grades K-3. 2016.The neuroscientist who lost her mind: my tale of madness and recovery
Par Elaine McArdle, Barbara K Lipska. 2018
In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness--was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to…
her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors figured out what was happening, the immunotherapy they had prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. Lipska describes her extraordinary ordeal and its lessons about the mind and brain. She explains how mental illness, brain injury, and age can change our behavior, personality, cognition, and memory. She tells what it is like to experience these changes firsthand. And she reveals what parts of us remain, even when so much else is gone. 2018.Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
Par Helaine Becker. 2018
You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 [mission]. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure…
that Apollo 13 returned safely home? As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of dishes and spoons she washed in the kitchen sink, everything! Boundless, curious, and excited by calculations, young Katherine longed to know as much as she could about math, about the universe. From Katherine's early beginnings as a gifted student to her heroic accomplishments as a prominent mathematician at NASA, this is the story of a groundbreaking American woman who not only calculated the course of moon landings but, in turn, saved lives and made enormous contributions to history. Grades K-3. 2018.Stark choices: a surgeon's story
Par Jaroslav F Stark. 2016
Czechoslovakia, 1968. Jarda Stark had a promising career as a heart surgeon ahead of him. His future seemed assured. But…
all was to change abruptly as the Russian tanks rolled in to crush the Prague Spring of 1968 and the family had a skin-of-their-teeth escape from the Communist authorities as they fled to the West. He soon found a place as a paediatric cardiac surgeon in the world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He saved countless lives, received international honours and co-wrote a textbook regarded as a bible of paediatric cardiac surgery. 2016.The quantum ten: a story of passion, tragedy, ambition and science
Par Sheilla Jones. 2008
The seeds of the shift currently taking place in science were sown years ago, in 1925-7. That's when a dramatic…
two-year revolution in physics reached a climax, and scientists are still trying to resolve the problem, started then, of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. Describes the rush to formalize quantum physics, the work of just a handful of men fired by ambition, philosophical conflicts and personal agendas. c2008.When breath becomes air
Par Paul Kalanithi. 2016
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi…
was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality. Bestseller. 2016.Charles and Emma: the Darwins' leap of faith
Par Deborah Heiligman. 2009
Portrays the private life of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), a public proponent of evolution. Discusses his marriage to devout Emma Wedgwood…
(1808-1896) and their lifelong debate over natural selection versus Christian creationism. Covers his work habits, bad health, and dedication to family. For junior and senior high and older readers. Printz Honor, National Book Award Finalist. 2009.Banting: a biography (Modern Cultural Theorists Ser.)
Par Michael Bliss. 1992
Chris Hadfield decided to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo moon landing with his family on Stag Island, Ontario,…
when he was nine years old, when it was impossible for Canadians to be astronauts. In 2013, he served as Commander of the International Space Station orbiting the earth during a five-month mission. Fulfilling this lifelong dream required intense focus, natural ability and a singular commitment to “thinking like an astronaut.” Hadfield gives us an insider’s perspective on just what that kind of thinking involves, and how earthbound humans can use it to achieve success and happiness in their lives. Bestseller. 2013.On the move: a life
Par Oliver W Sacks. 2015
The brilliantly unconventional physician and writer recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California,…
where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York. With unbridled honesty and humour, Sacks writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists who influenced him. Bestseller. 2015.Direct red: a surgeon's story
Par Gabriel Weston. 2009
How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's…
body? How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live? What happens when, on a quiet ward late at night, a patient you've grown close to lifts the corner of his blankets and invites you into his bed? Female surgeon Gabriel Weston allows light to fall on the questions we have all wanted to ask about surgery. She also tells the truth about what it is like to be a woman competing in a world dominated by Alpha males, in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century. 2009.The king's speech
Par Mark Logue, Peter Conradi. 2010
The grandson of Lionel Logue (1880-1953) uses his ancestor's diaries and correspondence to depict Australian-born Logue's life and his role…
as speech therapist for Albert, the duke of York, who was crowned King George VI on May 12, 1937. Bestseller. 2010.Jack Miner
Par Kate Carman. 1981
Accueillir la folie
Par Roger R Lemieux. 1995
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
Par Brian Harvey. 2019
An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his fatherAfter a 25-year break from boating,…
Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a sheriff with a summons. It was a malpractice suit, and it did not go well. Dr. Harvey never got over it. The box contained every nurse’s record, doctor’s report, trial transcript, and expert testimony related to the case. Only Brian’s father had read it all — until now.In this beautifully written memoir, Brian Harvey shares how after two months of voyaging with his father’s ghost, he finally finds out what happened in the O.R. that crucial night and why Dr. Harvey felt compelled to fight the excruciating accusations.