Science, technology and medicine Books

Schets van het Leven en de Physiologie van Herman Boerhaave (1881) is een boek geschreven door Gerardus Cornelis Nijhoff. Het boek beschrijft het leven en werk van de Nederlandse arts en wetenschapper Herman Boerhaave. Boerhaave wordt beschouwd als een...

""Philipp der Gro�����m�����tige von Hessen und die Restitution Ulrichs von Wirtemberg, 1526-1535"" ist ein historisches Buch von Jakob Wille, das im Jahr 1882 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt die politischen Ereignisse in Deutschland w�����hrend...

Pasteur Et Ses �����l�����ves (1898) est un livre �����crit par J.F. Boutet qui explore la vie et l'�����uvre de Louis Pasteur, un scientifique fran�����ais c�����l�����bre pour ses contributions ������ la microbiologie et ������ la m�����decine. Le...

Over Een Bijzondere Soort Van Geheele Functien (1896) is een wiskundig boek geschreven door Albert Antonie Nijland. Het boek richt zich op een speciale soort gehele functies, namelijk de functies die voldoen aan een bepaalde differentiaalvergelijking...

Observations Sur Les Savans Incredules est un livre �����crit par Jacques Francois De Luc en 1762. Ce livre est une critique des savants sceptiques de l'�����poque, qui remettaient en question les croyances religieuses et les miracles. De Luc, un...

In diesem Buch beschreibt Johann Peter Frank sein eigenes Leben und Wirken. Er präsentiert seine Werke, seine Leistungen und seine Einflüsse auf die Medizin seiner Zeit. Diese Biografie ist nicht nur ein wichtiges Zeugnis seiner Selbstreflexion, sondern...

This biography tells the story of Amos Eaton, a 19th century scientist and educator who made significant contributions to the fields of geology and botany. It details his life and career, as well as his impact on American science education. Published in...

Who was Sabina Spielrein? Her dramatic life story is most famous for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, dramatised in the film A Dangerous Method starring Keira Knightley. Yet she was a woman who overcame family and psychiatric abuse to become an...

Esta es una historia donde el protagonista se encuentra atrapado por segunda vez en las garras de los perversos. Nadie, a excepción de su abogada, lo escucha ni cree en su inocencia, sin embargo, él decide insistir hasta...

This book presents Dr Syme's views on the plight of people with dementia, and his suggestion for further legislative change. The book's title reflects a life that has been long, and where all that was possible has been achieved - and so is in a sense...

Thirty-four-year-old Judy Taylor relished her simple, happy life. She had a loving husband, three young daughters, and a beautiful home. But after intestinal blood clots annihilated her digestive system, Judy was left with the certainty of starving to...

What would you do with a second life? That's the question that Channing S. Jun, a young medical student from Kanggye, North Korea, found himself asking after a series of unlikely events spared him from certain death at the hands of communist agents...

Alphabet Blessings offers a practical look at the process of in vitro fertilization through explanation of testing, terminology and common lingo of the infertility community as well as factors affecting cycle outcome. With an honest and open discussion...

I have dealt with Tourette Syndrome for the past 18 years and have learned to accept it even through the many challenges in life.I Love My Tourette Syndrome and I would not change it for nothing in the world.It is a part of me and it is my life. I have...

High drama of investigative reports involving disaster heroism, air crashes, serial murder, hidden American history, childhood and other health disorders, and wartime crises.

As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of...

Henry F. Sherwood is an important person! He was born Heinz Weizenbaum, barely escaped Hitler's Holocaust, and came to America.He joined the Army in WWII and fought in some of the most horrific battles in the Pacific Theatre. It was during this time he...

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties-A Remembrance chronicles the life of Fairfield Goodale, a New Englander who left Harvard to become a World War II fighter pilot but later returned to school to become a physician.Goodale was propelled into a...

This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery. It discusses how Italian and European surgeons' attitudes to health and beauty - and how patients'...

Recent scholarship has done much to document the experiences of women in science, but there has been little comparable research on Black Americans' experiences and contributions and even less on Black women scientists. The hardships that Black scientists...

Enter the operating room with Dr. William Meffert as he shares generations' worth of his family's wartime surgery experiences.William Meffert is a surgeon. His father was a surgeon. And now, so is his son. Three generations familiar with incisions,...

According to the National Institute of Health, Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that is spread through the bite of one of several types of ticks, may now be a virulent epidemic in the U.S. producing as many as 300,000 to one million new cases per year...

The Baby's Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life...

Nurses Association of JamaicaJamaica (UK), NAJ (UK), takes you on a journey to discover and celebrate the contribution many Jamaican nurses have made to shape the National Health Service. It is written by select members of the NAJ...

About the AuthorErica Loberg was born in 1977 and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor’s in English from Columbia University. Erica was diagnosed with chronic hypomania, Bipolar II, in 2005 and continues down the road of...

Author BioAlexandra Truta is born in 1990 and is a Romanian/Canadian graduate now living in London. She has worked as a fashion model, NLP master practitioner and is a talented writer. I have loved playing around with words even before I learned how to...

Do you believe…you don’t know what you don’t know? What if I told you the last harvest predicted by thousands of scientists was to be 2080, would you believe me? Would you believe today it is a scientific observational truth that the...

 Today, people believe in astrology when they fail and in doctors’ decisions when they are sick. People have forgotten the importance of belief. One must understand that they exist for a reason, which will be realized with time. Competition...

Imagine losing a child because of lack of health insurance. Imagine trying to do everything possible to try to get him the proper care that would save his life. What parent wouldn’t give their life to save their child? Then imagine your child being...

This book contains stories of my life as a veterinarian in private practice for 32 years and 17 years as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Large Animal Medicine and Surgery Department at Texas A&M University. I served 7 years as a State Veterinarian...

More True Stories from EMS and the ERMore Confessions shares the raw and honest feelings of emergency service professionals through true 'story behind the story' revelations. Disclosing experiences from both sides of the gurney, Sherry and other EMS, ER,...

A PATIENT?S PERSPECTIVE: There have been an increasing number of articles and books by medical professionals warning us of the hospital dangers, but very few by patients based on their personal experience. This I will guarantee; your awareness of my...

From his birth on the West Bank of the Jordan River in Palestine in 1950 to present-day Texas, A Space Mind narrates the story of Ross Abotteen. This memoir explores the transitions of his life and his views, sharing his experiences from his birthplace...

Juliet Knowles began writing a blog about her daughter's fight with cancer as a way to reach out to others in the same situation, and her work became a personal story of survival. Now she offers her perspective on that struggle in Autumn Ivy Cannon...

Isaac Newton is regularly given the title of greatest scientist of all time, and in this biography we delve into how one quiet, 'difficult' farmers son, revolutionized the way we look at the universe. The theory of universal gravitation is what most know...

""Extracts From The Letters Of Jonathan Hutchinson: With Some Brief Notices Of His Life And Character"" is a book that was published in 1844. The book features a collection of letters written by Jonathan Hutchinson, a well-known British physician and...

He hated the radio; he called it a "lemon." He had even less use for the electronic phonograph. In 1925 he sounded the death knell for the Edison name in the home phonograph industry by saying he would stick with his mechanical device. After much...

The outstanding Russian mathematician Sophia Kovalevskya lived and worked in the second half of the 19th century. Her talents were outstanding. She lived in a century when Russia was making great strides in many branches of knowledge: the brilliant...

The life of the brilliant marine designer and naval architect, John Ericsson (1803 - 1889), who designed and built the Civil War ironclad Monitor which defeated the Confederate Merrimac. Ericsson's propeller is still the main form of marine propulsion...

Este libro es una recopilaci������n de las memorias de la Real Academia de Medicina de Madrid en el a�����o 1862, publicado por la editorial Consejos Publisher. La obra est����� dividida en dos partes y contiene una variedad de temas relacionados con la...

Il libro ""Memorie Della Reale Accademia Medica Di Roma V1 (1882)"" pubblicato da Opinione Publisher, ����� una raccolta di memorie e ricerche scientifiche presentate alla Reale Accademia Medica di Roma nel 1882. Questa pubblicazione ����� il primo...

Il libro ""Memoria Sui Calori Specifici De Corpi Solidi E Liquidi"" scritto da Amedeo Avogadro nel 1832, ����� una raccolta di studi e ricerche sull'energia termica di corpi solidi e liquidi. L'autore, uno dei pi����� importanti chimici e fisici italiani...