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The Political Arena (1934-1961)
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 240.00Part I is devoted to Niels Bohr's mission to promote an "open world" between nations, that is, full sharing of information in the scientific and technical, as well as in the cultural spheres the scientific and technical, as well as in the cultural spheres. He started his mission immediately upon escaping from Nazi-occupied Denmark in the autumn of... more...
Keeping Hope Alive
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; US$ 27.17The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people more...
Keeping Hope Alive
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; Not AvailableThe truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people more...
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine
Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 24.95The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window... more...
Life, on the Line
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 14.99"One of America's great chefs" ( Vogue ), Grant Achatz, shares how his drive to cook immaculate food fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. By 2007 chef Grant Achatz had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine, he had received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award, and he and Nick... more...
The Mercury 13
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 16.00In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America?s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys? club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The... more...
Newton
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 21.95When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia , a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws... more...
Pendulum
Atria Books 2007; Not AvailableIn 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including... more...
Pendulum
Atria Books 2007; Not AvailableIn 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including... more...
Pendulum
Atria Books 2007; US$ 19.95In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including... more...









