Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters, Dyson Freeman
Автор: Dyson Freeman Название: Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters ISBN: 163149547X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631495472 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A lifetime of candid reflections from physicist Freeman Dyson, "an acute observer of personality and human foibles" (New York Times Book Review).
Автор: John D. Lantos, Martha Gershun Название: Kidney to Share ISBN: 1501755439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501755439 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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InKidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun's story in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. Together, they help readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation relatively safe and effective as well as the legal, ethical, and economic policies that make it feasible.
Gershun and Lantos explore the steps involved in recovering and allocating organs. They analyze the differences that arise depending on whether the organ comes from a living donor or one who has died. They observe the expertise—and the shortcomings—of doctors, nurses, and other professionals and describe the burdens that we place on people who are willing to donate. In this raw and vivid book, Gershun and Lantos ask us to consider just how far society should go in using one person's healthy body parts in order to save another person.
Kidney to Share provides an account of organ donation that is both personal and analytical. The combination of perspectives leads to a profound and compelling exploration of a largely opaque practice. Gershun and Lantos pull back the curtain to offer readers a more transparent view of the fascinating world of organ donation.
Автор: Leonard a Cole Название: Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino ISBN: 9811231486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811231483 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 2526.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A mixture of memoir and biography, Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino tells a deeply human story that appeals both to scientists and non-scientists.
Wednesday's Child, the autobiography of a retired Cardiologist, spans seven decades is written in three parts: Youth, Manhood, and Old Age.
The story is satirical, inductively reasoned, intentionally irreverent, and purposefully iconoclastic. It is an intimate vignette of incidents, personal and medical anecdotes, facts, and opinions. Family and personal relationships are laid bare as the author also describes his own flaws and shortcomings. Much like Aesop's Fables, the author seeks to find a kernel of universal truth in a litany of humorous, unusual, entertaining, sordid, or salacious anecdotal episodes.
Part One, Youth, describes the author's social and ancestral roots then follows him through the 1950s and late nineteen 1960s-up to and including Medical School in 1969. He explores the difficulties inherent in the culture-clash marriage of his parents; an impoverished Texas farm girl and a first-generation New York Italian dentist who met during World War II.
He describes the tribulations of navigating grammar school and college education at Duke University during the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War-an era when polarized politics led to campus riots and the temptations inherent in alcohol and drug use. Readers will also experience the behind-the-scenes rigors of Medical School and what it takes to become a novice physician graduate.
Part Two, Manhood, describes five years of postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at a New York City hospital adjacent to the Harlem ghetto during the violent crime-ridden years of the 1970s. This was the era of pansexual 'free love' that ushered in the homosexual AIDs epidemic, the Disco craze, and excessive drug use.
The author describes the difficulties of starting a medical practice and building Cardiology services in the posh New York, Long Island Hamptons. The practice and business of medicine, the perils of Medical Malpractice, and onerous interference by government regulations are described. He becomes affiliated with the local police, a CIA operative, a loan shark, and a spate of eclectic patients, friends, and celebrities.
The author then gets a Master's Degree in medical management and becomes a hospital Medical Director. Clinical medicine segues into bureaucratic oversight that includes confronting the foibles of several dysfunctional physicians.
Part Three, Old Age, includes a brief clinical tenure in Tennessee, personal burnout, and retirement, followed by working for several volunteer services. He must also care for aging parents, one of whom has Alzheimer's Disease. This is woven into the author's opinions on selected social and political issues that plague the United States, worldwide racial, religious, and cultural bias, global warming, and finally-our planet's future and its place in the universe.
Автор: Stanley Deser Название: Forks In The Road: A Life In Physics ISBN: 981123566X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811235665 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Stanley Deser is a preeminent theoretical physicist who made monumental contributions to general relativity, quantum field theory and high energy physics; he is a co-creator of supergravity. This is his personal story, intended for a broad, scientifically curious audience, with emphasis on the historic figures that defined the modern aspects of the field.
Beginning with an account of his early life in Europe during the fateful period leading up to WW2, it continues with his family's dramatic escape from the Nazis through their arrival to the US. His education at public institutions including Brooklyn College nurtured his love of physics from an early age. He earned his PhD at Harvard and spent fruitful postdoc years at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Niels Bohr Institute, where he met many of the luminaries of the field. Then followed a long career at Brandeis University and many visits to foreign institutions.
His work earned him many awards and led to exotic experiences detailed in the later chapters. The appendices contain semi-technical descriptions of some essential physics, as well as a more general commentary about the role of physics and physicists in understanding the universe.
Автор: Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey Название: Law and the Visible ISBN: 1625345879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625345875 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11088.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an accomplice? Do bodycams and video doorbells tell the truth? Are the ubiquitous technologies of visibility open to interpretation and manipulation? These are just a few of the questions explored in the rich and broadly interdisciplinary essays within this volume, Law and the Visible, the most recent offering in the Amherst Series for Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought.
Individual essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or neutral, the logics of surveillance and transparency, and a defense of anonymity in the digital age.
Contributors include Benjamin J. Goold, Torin Monahan, Kelli Moore, Eden Osucha, Jennifer Peterson, and Carrie A. Rentschler.
For more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production methods vitally changed the book industry in their time. With a macroscopic, comparative approach, this book looks at the transitional phases of the book of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries to locate distinctive patterns in the acceptance of new technologies. Using specific book value categories, which shape the acceptance context of innovations in book production, helps us find continuities and discontinuities of these patterns. It also offers a better understanding of current developments in publishing in the digital age.
Автор: Tao Soon Cham Название: Cham Tao Soon: Life At Speed ISBN: 981122708X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811227080 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: My autobiography is a record of my life and interactions with many interesting people over the course of my work.
Автор: Tesla, Nikola Название: My inventions - the autobiography of nikola tesla ISBN: 1940177383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781940177380 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1188.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The life of a Mormon intellectual in the secular academic community is likely to include some contradictions between belief, scholarship, and the changing times. In his memoir, Armand L. Mauss recounts his personal and intellectual struggles - inside and outside the LDS world - from his childhood to his days as a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the 1960s through his many years as a professor.
Автор: Leonard A Cole Название: Chasing The Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines And The Neutrino ISBN: 9811231052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811231056 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A mixture of memoir and biography, Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino tells a deeply human story that appeals both to scientists and non-scientists.
Автор: Ford Henry Название: My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry Ford ISBN: 0979311985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780979311987 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Olson Sigurd F. Название: A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson ISBN: 1517910951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517910952 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3756.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer
Few writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world, its power and fragility, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness, however, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us, that Olson documented in the journal entries gathered here.
Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills, pursuing recognition, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also, more significantly, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. Author of Olson’s definitive biography, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals, providing critical context, commentary, and insights along the way.
When Olson wrote, in the spring of 1941, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires.
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