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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science
'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryThe remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of...
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to
One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first...
Last Word's Uncommon Women
Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised...
The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham
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A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to...
Last Word's Uncommon Women
Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised...
The Life Scientific: Explorers
Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves.Based on the interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, THE LIFE...
Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science
The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide T, and her fight for recognition in a toxic...
The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the...
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists--Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer
Frank Julian Sprague invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires. Within a year, electric streetcars had begun to replace horsecars, sparking a revolution in urban transportation....
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Author: James T. CostaFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 800g, 464 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2017How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. James...
Einstein: The Man and his Mind
Author: Gary BergerFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 330mm, 1980g, 212 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022"This visual - and artistically beautiful - format differentiates Einstein: The Man And His Mind from all previous...
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases,and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black...