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By Gene Shinn
ISBN-10: 0813044367
ISBN-13: 9780813044361
ISBN-10: 0813060559
ISBN-13: 9780813060552
By Gene Shinn
ISBN-10: 0813044367
ISBN-13: 9780813044361
ISBN-10: 0813060559
ISBN-13: 9780813060552
By Richard Adler
ISBN-10: 0786495995
ISBN-13: 9780786495993
By Hayden Lorimer,Charles W. J. Withers
ISBN-10: 1472512359
ISBN-13: 9781472512352
By G. Wayne Miller
ISBN-10: 0609807242
ISBN-13: 9780609807248
ISBN-10: 0812930037
ISBN-13: 9780812930030
ISBN-10: 147088982X
ISBN-13: 9781470889821
This is the tale of the medical professional many name the daddy of open-heart surgical procedure, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, besides colleagues at college sanatorium in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers somewhere else, entire what many specialists thought of to be an most unlikely feat: He opened the guts, repaired deadly defects, and made the incredible routine.
Acclaimed writer G. Wayne Miller attracts on archival study and unique interviews with Lillehei and mythical pioneers equivalent to Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of those medical professionals and their sufferers as they growth towards their landmark fulfillment. within the culture of works via Richard Rhodes and Tracy Kidder, King of Hearts tells the tale of an incredible and gripping piece of forgotten technological know-how history.
From the Hardcover edition.
By Alexander Soifer
ISBN-10: 3034807112
ISBN-13: 9783034807111
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden made significant contributions to algebraic geometry, summary algebra, quantum mechanics, and different fields. He liberally released at the historical past of arithmetic. His 2-volume paintings Modern Algebra is likely one of the such a lot influential and well known mathematical books ever written. it really is as a result superb that no monograph has been devoted to his lifestyles and paintings. Van der Waerden’s checklist is advanced. In trying to comprehend his lifestyles, the writer assembled hundreds of thousands of records from quite a few data in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA which printed attention-grabbing and sometimes impressive new information regarding van der Waerden. Soifer lines Van der Waerden’s early years in a kin of serious Dutch public servants, his lifestyles as professor in Leipzig through the complete Nazi interval, and his own friendship with one of many nice physicists Werner Heisenberg. We come upon heroes and villains and a way more various workforce in among those extremes. one in all them is the topic of this booklet.
Soifer’s trip via a protracted record of records, mixed with a radical correspondence, had exposed quite a few information of Van der Waerden’s German intermezzo that raised critical questions and reproaches.
Dirk van Dalen (Philosophy, Utrecht University)
Professor Soifer’s publication implicates the anthropologists’ and tradition historians’ middle curiosity within the evolution of tradition and within the growth of human evolution itself in this small contested planet.
James W. Fernandez (Anthropology, collage of Chicago)
The ebook is interesting. Professor Soifer has performed an excellent carrier to the self-discipline of historical past, in addition to deepening our realizing of the 20th century.
Peter D. Johnson, Jr. (Mathematics, Auburn University)
This booklet is a vital contribution to the historical past of the 20 th century, and reads like a singular with an ever-fascinating solid of characters.
Harold W. Kuhn (Mathematics, Princeton University)
This is a such a lot notable and demanding booklet. it's written in a fascinating, very own variety and demanding situations the reader’s skill of ethical and old judgment. whereas it's not constantly written within the variety of ‘objective’ expert historiography, it satisfies very excessive criteria of scholarly documentation. certainly the e-book features a wealth of resource fabric that permits the reader to shape a hugely exact photo of the occasions and personalities mentioned within the ebook. As an exemplar of ancient writing in a broader feel it may well compete with the other historic book.
Moritz Epple (History of arithmetic, Frankfurt college)
By Andrew Brown
ISBN-10: 0198515448
ISBN-13: 9780198515449
ISBN-10: 0199205655
ISBN-13: 9780199205653
Bernal's stressed power and mythical mind took him some distance past technological know-how. An wonderful polymath and a fervent Marxist, he was once one of many significant figures in a worldly intelligentsia in an age of extremes. the tale of Bernal's existence displays the intense political and highbrow weather within which he lived. He was once witness to (and usually fascinated about) many of the nice occasions of the 20 th century: the Easter uprising, schooldays within the nice conflict, the anti-fascist flow, the Second
World conflict, pacifist factors and nuclear disarmament throughout the chilly warfare. He was once a pioneer of Operational examine in the course of WW2 and made the 1st target analyses of the consequences of bombing on towns. As this biography indicates, he performed an important function in making plans the D-Day landings, arriving secretly
on the Normandy shores himself an afternoon later. After the battle, he grew to become a world ambassador for Marxism, technology, and peace, and used to be one of many few males conversant in Downing highway, the White condominium and the Kremlin.
Brown's biography units out a lifestyles richly and entirely lived. approximately each vital British scientist of the mid-third of the twentieth century looks in its pages, in addition to artists (Picasso, Hepworth), writers (Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda) and statesmen (Churchill, Khrushchev, Mao, and Nehru). This compelling account attracts on unheard of entry to Bernal's papers and battle reviews to piece jointly a stunning photograph of Bernal: his Irish Catholic formative years, his Cambridge
years, his study, his commitment to technological know-how, his highbrow brilliance, his blind, dependable dedication to Marxism, his unorthodox Bohemian love existence. yet mainly, the Bernal who emerges from this usually severe account is a guy not just of exceptional psychological powers yet of serious warmth,
kindness, and humanity.
By Carin Berkowitz
ISBN-10: 022628039X
ISBN-13: 9780226280394
In Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform, Carin Berkowitz takes readers into Bell’s international, supporting us comprehend the lifetime of medication ahead of the fashionable separation of school room, laboratory, and health facility. via Bell’s tale, we witness the age while smooth scientific technological know-how, with its useful universities, set curricula, and doctors, used to be born.
By Brian Gillham
Highlights of the textual content include
• A therapy of the very important position performed through girls in international warfare II that is going way past traditional debts of the SOE, the land military and radar operators. The dietary rehabilitation of the prisoners at Belsen, the elucidation of the chemical constitution of penicillin, the simplest how you can hire the radar-foxing gadget referred to as ‘Window’, the garage of blood for mass transfusion and the upkeep of proclaims through the BBC.
• A learn of the administration of dietary concerns with a distinct specialise in Sheffield’s ‘Human Guinea Pigs’ and the research, utilizing a contemporary desktop set of rules, of the rations carried by means of the lengthy variety wasteland Group.
• an outline of the little-known yet very important half performed via psychologists within the knowing of the constitution of human vigilance and within the mental examine of evacuees.
• An acknowledgement of the valuable half performed through the non-scientist within the technological know-how and expertise of global conflict II. The barrister, the tree general practitioner, the hat-trimmer and the penicillin girls.
• The tragic loss to the state caused by the wartime loss of life of the inventor of stereophonic recording and sound transmission.
The readership for the opportunity of battle is anticipated to be different. it's going to contain readers of money owed of global conflict II, those that like technology truth books offered for the layman whist now not compromising the technology content material and the viewers for biography.
By Robert J. Richards
ISBN-10: 0226712141
ISBN-13: 9780226712147
ISBN-10: 0226712168
ISBN-13: 9780226712161
Prior to the 1st global battle, extra humans realized of evolutionary thought from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin’s leading champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from the other resource, together with the writings of Darwin himself. yet, with detractors starting from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern day creationists and advocates of clever layout, Haeckel is best referred to as a divisive determine than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards’s highbrow biography rehabilitates Haeckel, offering the main exact degree of his technology and artwork but written, in addition to a relocating account of Haeckel’s eventful life.
By James Lander
ISBN-10: 0809329905
ISBN-13: 9780809329908
While Lincoln is well known for his oratorical prowess and for the Emancipation Proclamation, in addition to many different accomplishments, his medical and technological pursuits aren't widely known; for instance, many americans don't know that Lincoln is the single U.S. president to procure a patent. Darwin, however, is widely known for his medical achievements yet now not for his passionate dedication to the abolition of slavery, which partly drove his learn in evolution. either males took nice pains to prevent inflicting pointless offense regardless of having deserted conventional Christianity. every one had one major adversary who recommended clinical racism: Lincoln had Stephen A. Douglas, and Darwin had Louis Agassiz.
With swish and complex writing, Lander expands on those commonalities and uncovers extra shared connections to humans, politics, and occasions. He lines how those highbrow giants came to carry remarkably related perspectives on the evils of racism, the price of technology, and the uncertainties of traditional religion.
Separated by way of an ocean yet joined of their rules, Lincoln and Darwin acted as trailblazers, prime their societies towards better freedom of inspiration and a better recognition of human equality. This interesting biographical exam brings the mid-nineteenth-century discourse approximately race, technological know-how, and humanitarian sensibility to the leading edge utilizing the mutual pursuits and objectives of those old figures.