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Galileo's Reading
Par Crystal Hall. 2013
Galileo (1564–1642) incorporated throughout his work the language of battle, the rhetoric of the epic, and the structure of romance…
as a means to elicit emotional responses from his readers against his opponents. By turning to the literary as a field for creating knowledge, Galileo delineated a textual space for establishing and validating the identity of the new, idealized philosopher. Galileo's Reading places Galileo in the complete intellectual and academic world in which he operated, bringing together, for example, debates over the nature of floating bodies and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, disputes on comets and the literary criticism of Don Quixote, mathematical demonstrations of material strength and Dante's voyage through the afterlife, and the parallels of his feisty note-taking practices with popular comedy of the period.The Correspondence of Charles Darwin 1877: VOLUME 25 (The Correspondence of Charles Darwin)
Par Frederick Burkhardt, James A. Secord. 2017
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist…
of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 25 includes letters from 1877, the year in which Darwin published Forms of Flowers and with his son Francis carried out experiments on plant movement and bloom on plants. Darwin was awarded an honorary LL. D. by Cambridge University, and appeared in person to receive it. The volume contains a number of appendixes, including two on the albums of photograph sent to Darwin by his Dutch, German, and Austrian admirers.My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s (Graphic Medicine #3)
Par Peter Dunlap-Shohl. 2015
How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at the age of forty-three? My Degeneration, by former Anchorage…
Daily News staff cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl, answers the question with humor and passion, recounting the author’s attempt to come to grips with the “malicious whimsy” of this chronic, progressive, and disabling disease. This graphic novel tracks Dunlap-Shohl’s journey through depression, the worsening symptoms of the disease, the juggling of medications and their side effects, the impact on relations with family and community, and the raft of mental and physical changes wrought by the malady. My Degeneration examines the current state of Parkinson’s care, including doctor/patient relations and the repercussions of a disease that, among other things, impairs movement, can rob patients of their ability to speak or write, degrades sufferers’ ability to deal with complexity, and interferes with the sense of balance. Readers learn what it’s like to undergo a dramatic, demanding, and audacious bit of high-tech brain surgery that can mysteriously restore much of a patient’s control over symptoms. But My Degeneration is more than a Parkinson’s memoir. Dunlap-Shohl gives the person newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease the information necessary to cope with it on a day-to-day basis. He chronicles the changes that life with the disease can bring to the way one sees the world and the way one is seen by the wider community. Dunlap-Shohl imparts a realistic basis for hope—hope not only to carry on, but to enjoy a decent quality of life.The Man Who Built a Better Leg
Par Tracy Vonder Brink. 2018
Injured by a cannonball, James Edward Hanger was the first amputee of the Civil War. Determined to find a better…
solution than a peg leg, he worked to develop his own artificial limb company. He even continued working past retirement, providing Hanger Limbs for victims of World War I.The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773
Par Robert Schofield. 2004
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin…
and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley—all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev
Par Rogacheva, Maria A.. 2017
Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case…
study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.Επιβιώνοντας από τη Σχιζοφρένεια: Science Fiction In A Flash
Par Zoi Karampekiou, Richard Carlson. 1993
Ο Ρίτσαρντ Κάρλσον Τζούνιορ διαγνώστηκε με παρανοϊκή σχιζοφρένεια όταν ήταν είκοσι ενός ετών. Η σύγχρονη ψυχιατρική απογοήτευσε τρομερά τον Ρίτσαρντ…
για παραπάνω από μία δεκαετία. Έπειτα από ένα περιστατικό με την αστυνομία, κατάλαβε πραγματικά ότι η διάγνωσή του ήταν αληθινή και άρχισε επιτέλους τη μακρά διαδικασία της ανάρρωσης. Πάνω από δέκα χρόνια μετά, η ζωή του έχει βελτιωθεί πολύ. Κατά τη θεραπεία του, ο Ρίτσαρντ ξεπέρασε επίσης την κατάθλιψη, την ψυχαναγκαστική διαταραχή και τον λήθαργο. Μην αφήσετε αυτό που συνέβη στον Ρίτσαρντ να συμβεί σε σας, σε κάποιο αγαπημένο σας πρόσωπο ή σ’ έναν ασθενή. Πάντα να είστε ειλικρινείς μεταξύ σας και με τον ψυχίατρό σας.Holding on to Normal: How I Survived Cancer and Made It to the Other Side, Happier, Healthier and Stronger
Par Alana Somerville. 2018
A compelling memoir about trying to live meaningfully with illness and triumph beyond it by breast cancer survivor Alana…
Somerville a teacher and mother of two young children I looked at all the sick people around me Was I going to be like them Was that already me Did I suddenly have a time stamp on my life Would I make it out of this alive Alana Somerville wife teacher and mother of two small children was thirty-three years old when she was diagnosed with stage-two triple-negative breast cancer The diagnosis changed her world and the relationships she had with everyone around her Suddenly she was faced with endless medical appointments multiple surgeries and procedures the challenges of chemotherapy and all the decisions involved in her treatment She also had to deal with the trauma of realizing that her support network sometimes even her closest friends could struggle with how to help or even how to react to her anymore Throughout the course of her illness Alana learned to maneuver through the medical system to advocate for herself and to build a truly supportive network She also discovered how to keep her positive spirit intact while undergoing a double mastectomy and ongoing treatment She is now living cancer-free a survivor and an advocate Alana s story is not unique It s a story that will resonate with anyone who has suffered illness and found themselves navigating a whole new world upon diagnosis This is an everywoman s journey through the experience of cancer tracing the emotional physical and psychological steps that are common to all In the end this memoir will offer hope that one can live a healthy fulfilling and happy life beyond diagnosis Holding on to Normal is for anyone who is suffering or knows someone who is suffering from a setback in life and who is looking for inspiration on how to navigate their own journeyBeauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
Par Lee Woodruff, David Levy, Allison Pataki. 2018
A deeply moving memoir about a young couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the…
love that helped them rewrite their future Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave—a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident—had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison had lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come. As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, Allison started to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation of this beautiful, intimate memoir. And in the process, she fell in love with her husband all over again. This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative power of faith and resilience. It’s a tale of a man’s turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places.Advance praise for Beauty in the Broken Places“A beautifully woven, suspenseful love story with a stunning victory, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit, and that anything is possible with a loving tribe.”—Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award–winning actress and author of The Seasons of My Mother “A bestselling historical novelist’s account of how she survived the harrowing year following her young husband’s unexpected stroke . . . The strength of this end-of-innocence book lies in its demystification of the idea that strokes only occur in older people. . . . [A] heartfelt account of dedication and devotion.”—Kirkus ReviewsS. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician
Par Nancy Cervetti. 2012
This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his…
fierce fight against women’s rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.Einstein at Home
Par Alice Calaprice, Josef Eisinger, Friedrich Herneck. 2016
These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow,…
a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich Herneck interviewed Ms. Waldow and published the conversations in the former East Germany. Unavailable in English till now, these five interviews offer fascinating glimpses into the great scientist's daily routines while he lived as a celebrated scientist in Weimar Germany.Einstein's well-known idiosyncrasies come to life in these conversations: his disheveled hair that was only poorly trimmed by his myopic wife, his love of classical music, his playing of the violin to help him think, his delight in sailing, his wide circle of friends and many social engagements, and his female companions besides his wife. Many celebrity acquaintances are also mentioned: from movie star Charlie Chaplin and conductor Erich Kleiber to writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann and fellow scientists Max Planck, Max Born, and Erwin Schrödinger.With a detailed introduction that puts these interviews in context, these colorful conversations create a vivid picture of Albert Einstein the man.From the Trade Paperback edition.Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Par Richard M. Cohen. 2018
After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis New York Times bestselling author Richard M Cohen finds…
a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs After enduring decades of harsh treatments and invasive therapies Cohen decided to trade in his life as a patient In 2012 Cohen and his wife Meredith Vieira were invited to host and chair an adult stem cell conference at the Vatican Scientists would be gathering in Rome to discuss stem cell therapy for autoimmune diseases including MS A believer in the power of denial and determination over faith and hope Cohen was caught off guard by what he learned Medical technology had advanced further and more quickly than Cohen had known Could there be a chance his health could improve Could MS be cured As Cohen took part in a pioneering stem cell protocol he opened himself to the possibility of hope for the first time in his adult life Cohen s deep dive into the cutting-edge world of stem cell research and his journalistic investigation of hope includes interviews with doctors scientists and religious leaders as well as conversations with others living with chronic conditions all with the goal of understanding a hope that is both elusive and alluring As drily funny as it is emotionally vulnerable Chasing Hope navigates the fascinating and ever-changing intersection between illness and hopeOne day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the…
edge of her bathtub--and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn't until later, after she saw the doctor, that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell and other giants of the oil industry--creating a white powder that covered Karen Street's husband's overalls every night, which then landed in their vegetable garden...and was highly radioactive.Winston Street didn't know the dust was poisonous, nor did his workers or his family. But someone did know. Indeed, there was evidence that America's Big Oil companies were aware for decades that they were pulling up radium from under the earth, poisoning yards like Street's while dumping radioactive water in unlined pits across the South. Now, to prove that and win justice for his blue-collar clients, an untested young lawyer named Stuart H. Smith and his eccentric team would have to get the better of America's best-known radiation attorney and the global clout of Chevron inside a Mississippi courtroom.In a gripping tale that reads as if torn from the pages of a John Grisham novel, Crude Justice tells how the Little Guy can take on the behemoth of Big Oil and win...with the help of a good attorney. Recounting more than two decades as a top environmental lawyer in the toxic oil patch of the American South, Smith tells the story of how he upped the ante again and again--getting the best of Chevron, then taking on the world's most powerful corporation, ExxonMobil, with $1 billion on the line, and finally ferreting out the elusive truth behind BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history.Smith finally builds upon the courtroom drama of his past and the environmental threats of the present--from fracking to the Keystone XL pipeline--to issue a resounding call for America to break its crippling addiction to fossil fuels.Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
Par Freeman Dyson. 2018
Both recalling his life story and recounting many of the major advances in twentieth-century science, a renowned physicist shares his…
autobiography through letters. While recognizing that quantum mechanics “demands serious attention,” Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished fellow physicist Max Born that the theory “does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One.” Aware that “there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself,” Freeman Dyson, the 94-year-old theoretical physicist, has nonetheless chronicled the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics. Written between 1940 and the early 1980s, these letters to relatives form an historic account of modern science and its greatest players, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Whether reflecting on the horrors of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, or the considerable demands of raising six children, Dyson offers a firsthand account of one of the greatest periods of scientific discovery of our modern age.The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science, With a New Afterword
Par J. L. Heilbron. 2000
In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German…
science. He shows how Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich.The Wright Brothers: Inventors of the Airplane (Great Life Stories)
Par Bernard Ryan Jr.. 2003
The Wright Brothers were an amazing team who created one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century --…
the airplane. Sons of a minister, Orville and Wilbur Wright were bright, industrious, and inseparable. As young men, they operated a print shop, published newspapers, and fixed and built bicycles. Orville and Wilbur began to actively pursue their dream of flying in the late 1890s. They built their first glider in 1900 and took it to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to test it. Three years later, Orville made the historic first flight on December 17. Their invention brought them much international attention. In 1909, they established the Wright American Company to build and sell their airplanes. Today, the Wright brothers are considered pioneers in the field of aviation. Book jacket.ReMaking History, Volume 3: Makers of the Modern World
Par William Gurstelle. 2017
Makers of the Modern World is the third volume of William Gurstelle's unique, hands-on journey through history. Each chapter examines…
a remarkable character from the past, one of the people whose insights and inventions helped create our modern world. What sets this series apart from other history books - including other histories of technology - is that each chapter also includes step-by-step instructions for making your own version of the historical invention. History comes to life in a way you have never experienced before when you follow the inventors' steps and recreate the groundbreaking devices of the past with your own hands.This volume brings you to the early modern era and the invention of the electric light, the movie projector, and the automobile. Inside, you will discover:Alessandro Volta and ElectroplatingHumphrey Davy and the First Electric lightGeorge Cayley and the Aeronautical GliderThe Lumiere Brothers and the Movie ProjectorRudolf Diesel and the Automobile EngineHans Goldschmidt and the Thermite ReactionAugust Mobius and the Mobius StripLouis Poinsot's Loads, Moments, and TorquesBe sure to also check out ReMaking History, Volume 1: Early Makers and ReMaking History Volume 2 :Industrial Revolutionaries.ReMaking History, Volume 1: Early Makers
Par William Gurstelle. 2016
William Gurstelle begins his remarkable journey through history with this volume, Early Makers. Each chapter examines a remarkable individual or…
group of people from the past whose insights and inventions helped create the world we live in. What sets this series apart from other history books - including other histories of technology - is that each chapter also includes step-by-step instructions for making your own version of the historical invention. History comes to life in a way you have never experienced before when you follow the inventors' steps and recreate the groundbreaking devices of the past with your own hands.In this volume you will discover:The Cave Dwellers of Lascaux and the Oil LampPythagoras and the Tantalus CupHeron and the Gin PoleEgypt's Bag PressOtto von Guerke and the Magdeburg HemispheresLevi ben Gershon and the Jacob's StaffJuliana Berners and the Fishing LureArchimedes and the Water ScrewChina's Differential WindlassBe sure to also check out ReMaking History, Volume 2: Industrial Revolutionaries and ReMaking History Volume 3:Makers of the Modern World.Lucille Teasdale
Par Deborah Cowley. 2005
Canadian surgeon Lucille Teasdale and her husband founded Lacor Hospital in northern Uganda in 1961 For 35 years the…
two doctors treated such contagious diseases as malaria TB and AIDS and Teasdale performed thousands of operations under difficult conditions They lived through civil war hostage takings and epidemics Teasdale received the highest humanitarian awards from the U N for her lifes work in Africa