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Un anthropologue sur Mars: sept histoires paradoxales
Par Oliver W Sacks, Christian Cler. 1996
Sept récits consacrés à des personnages atteints de troubles neurologiques aussi divers que le syndrome de La Tourette, l'autisme, l'amnésie…
et la cécité totale aux couleurs. À travers chacun d'eux, l'auteur, un neurologue, démontre que les troubles neurologiques ne sont pas seulement des maladies, ils ouvrent des mondes nouveaux grâce aux merveilleuses capacités de reconstruction et d'adaptation que l'humain possède. 1996.Twitter power: how to dominate your market one tweet at a time (Your coach in a box)
Par Anthony Robbins, Joel Comm, Ken Burge. 2009
If you don't know what Twitter is, or how to use it, this is the audiobook for you. In this…
insightful volume, Comm shows listeners how to use one of the Internet's hottest social networking tools to keep customers and business partners "in the know" in real time. The best businesses of today and tomorrow are using this high-tech, low-cost, and low-hassle technology to gain real advantages over their competitors. Don't get left behind! 2009.They all laughed at Christopher Columbus: tales of medicine and the art of discovery
Par Gerald Weissmann. 1987
Essays on a wide range of subjects, such as literature, philosophy, politics and psychology, which show the disparity between the…
scientific progress of the last few decades and the increasing social disintegration. 1987.The virus that ate cannibals
Par Carol Eron. 1981
Biographical, intellectual, and historical backgrounds are blended into sprightly accounts of scientists labouring to defeat viral diseases, including yellow fever,…
polio, and kuru, a bizarre neurological disease in New Guinea. c1981.The truth about the drug companies: how they deceive us and what to do about it
Par Marcia Angell. 2004
Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, presents an indictment of "big pharma" as corrupting Congress, the…
FDA, and members of the medical profession. The cost of marketing, both to physicians and consumers, far outweighs expenditures on research and development, though drug makers invoke R&D as the reason drug prices are so high. Angell also offers specific suggestions for reform of this essential industry. 2004.The transformed cell: unlocking the mysteries of cancer
Par Steven A Rosenberg, John M Barry. 1992
Dr Rossenberg provides a glimpse inside the workings of the scientific process. His quest began in 1968 when he encountered…
a patient whose cancer had mysteriously disappeared. Could the body itself have mounted a massive immune response to the cancer? He set out to see if immunotherapy, and later gene therapy, could succeed where surgery, chemotherapy and radiation had failed. 1992.The trembling mountain: a personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow disease
Par Robert Klitzman. 1998
Recounts the author's experiences in Papua New Guinea in 1981 studying kuru, an illness caused by essentially the same infectious…
agent as in Mad Cow disease. Documents his encounters with the Stone Age Fore group that practices cannibalism. Discusses the difficulties and triumphs of conducting field work in epidemiology and medical anthropology. 1998.The thorn in the starfish: how the human immune system works
Par Robert S Desowitz. 1987
A parasitologist explains discoveries about the human immune system, including those by Pasteur, Metchnikoff and Ehrlich. Includes a discussion on…
AIDS and of the difficulties in developing an AIDS vaccine. c1987.Born in California of Laotian (Hmong) parents, Lia suffers from epileptic seizures that began at age three months. As traditional…
Hmong medicine is not available, Lia's parents take her to American doctors. Neither parental love nor the doctors' sense of duty can transcend the cultural barriers and misconceptions that complicate Lia's medical care. 1997.The soul of a new machine
Par Tracy Kidder. 1981
Describes Data General's race to design and build the eagle, a brand new "32-bit supermini" computer, in one and a…
half years. A group of brilliant and unusual people work together under extreme pressure to achieve this goal. Bestseller. c1981.The secret of the yellow death: a true story of medical sleuthing
Par Suzanne Jurmain. 2010
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find…
a way to eliminate the disease. Junior and Senior High. 2010.The net delusion: the dark side of internet freedom
Par Evgeny Morozov. 2011
For all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and…
repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. Could the recent Western obsession with promoting democracy by digital means backfire? Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2011.The night shift: real life in the heart of the ER
Par Brian Goldman. 2010
Goldman shares his experiences of the witching hours at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. He introduces us to the kinds of…
patients who walk into an ER after midnight, but also reveals the heartbreaking side of everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understanding and a quick fix. c2010.The one device: the secret history of the iPhone
Par Brian Merchant. 2017
For all the time we spend swiping, tapping, and staring at iPhones, you think there would be few things we…
didn't know about these gadgets. But think again. "The One Device" is a Magic School Bus trip inside the iPhone--traveling into its guts, peeling back its layers, and launching explorations that take us to the driest place on earth and a Mongolian lake of toxic sludge, down the Silk Road, into 19th century photography, and all the way back to Cupertino, California, where members of the original design team reflect on the earth-shattering work they did. 2017.The media symplex: at the edge of meaning in the new age of chaos
Par Frank Zingrone. 2001
Television and the Internet have become our main source of news, but while CNN and CSPAN can provide more information…
than ever before and at a greatly accelerated pace, they tend to give us simplistic explanations of complex social and economic events: the sound bite. The new communication technologies are creating an overload that paralyzes us from taking action, except to consume as directed by advertisers. The author offers a corrective to the blind faith that has characterized our relationship with the new technology to date. 2001.The man who lied to his laptop: what machines teach us about human relationships (Your coach in a box)
Par Clifford Ivar Nass, Corina Yen. 2010
Professor and designer analyzes human interactions with technology - and argues they can help explain interactions between people. Discusses the…
unconscious tendency to treat computers as though they were human. Suggests several essential rules for effective interpersonal relationships. 2010.The man who mistook his wife for a hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Par Oliver W Sacks. 1985
Doctor Sacks discusses a wide range of neurological cases, touching on some of the deepest and strangest extremes of the…
human condition. There are patients with perceptual and intellectual aberrations and those who display abnormal mental powers. The curious details of the cases are lit up by Doctor Sacks' profound sympathy which enables us to enter the world of his patients. 1985. Uniform title: Man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical talesThe long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more
Par Chris Anderson. 2006
The juggler's children: a journey into family, legend and the genes that bind us
Par Carolyn Abraham. 2013
Explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy--by cracking the genome of…
her own family. Armed with DNA kits, the author criss-crosses the globe, taking cells from relatives and strangers, a genetic journey that turns up far more than she bargained for--ugly truths and moral quandaries. With lively writing and a compelling personal narrative, 'The Juggler's Children' tackles profound questions around the genetics of identity, race and humanity. 2013.The Internet for dummies
Par Margaret Levine Young, John R Levine, Carol Baroudi. 2007
Now updated to cover the latest browsers, including Internet Explorer 7 and the newest version of Firefox, this book is…
packed with new information on the latest Internet trends, including talking over the Internet using Skype, having fun on MySpace, building a simple Web page, sharing photos on Flickr, and posting and viewing videos on YouTube. It includes coverage of browsers, search engines, music and video sites, shopping, financial services, file downloads, e-mail, instant messaging, viruses, spam, and creating a personal Web site or blog. 2007.