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The secret of the yellow death: a true story of medical sleuthing
By Suzanne Jurmain. 2010
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find…
a way to eliminate the disease. Junior and Senior High. 2010.In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his…
teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet a lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born that led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. 2017.The physics of hockey
By Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.The night shift: real life in the heart of the ER
By Brian Goldman. 2010
Goldman shares his experiences of the witching hours at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. He introduces us to the kinds of…
patients who walk into an ER after midnight, but also reveals the heartbreaking side of everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understanding and a quick fix. c2010.The milk lady of Bangalore: an unexpected adventure
By Shoba Narayan. 2018
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with…
her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy in India, but also family, food, and life. After Narayan agrees to buy her milk lady a new cow (she needs one and Narayan can afford it, so why not?), they set off looking for just the right cow. What was at first a simple economic transaction becomes something much more complicated, though never without a hint of slapstick. 2018.Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the…
mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future of physics. 2013.The origin of the universe (Science masters.)
By John D Barrow. 1994
Aimed at the non-specialist reader, this book gives the latest account of the status of the Big Bang, looks at…
the enigma of 'dark matter', and considers the possibilities and problems for further investigations. 1994.The mysterious rays: Marie Curie's world (Science Discovery Book Ser.)
By Victor Juhasz, Nancy Veglahn. 1977
The measure of the universe
By Isaac Asimov. 1983
Many people have difficulty in grasping the size of our universe. By using examples of various measurements -- length, pressure,…
time and temperature -- Asimov explains how to relate the unimaginable. For example, the tallest man on record was 9 feet tall while the smallest dinosaur was the size of a chicken. 1983.The man who mistook his wife for a hat: And Other Clinical Tales
By Oliver W Sacks. 1985
Doctor Sacks discusses a wide range of neurological cases, touching on some of the deepest and strangest extremes of the…
human condition. There are patients with perceptual and intellectual aberrations and those who display abnormal mental powers. The curious details of the cases are lit up by Doctor Sacks' profound sympathy which enables us to enter the world of his patients. 1985. Uniform title: Man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical talesThe juggler's children: a journey into family, legend and the genes that bind us
By Carolyn Abraham. 2013
Explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy--by cracking the genome of…
her own family. Armed with DNA kits, the author criss-crosses the globe, taking cells from relatives and strangers, a genetic journey that turns up far more than she bargained for--ugly truths and moral quandaries. With lively writing and a compelling personal narrative, 'The Juggler's Children' tackles profound questions around the genetics of identity, race and humanity. 2013.Getting a life: the social worlds of geek culture
By Benjamin Woo. 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we…
used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. Yet these conventionalized representations of geek culture typically ignore the real people who have invested time and resources to make it what it is. Woo recentres our understanding of geek culture on the everyday lives of its participants, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions. He shows how geek culture is a set of interconnected social practices that are associated with popular media and argues that typical depictions of mass-mediated entertainment as something that isolates and pacifies its audiences are flawed because they do not account for the conversations, relationships, communities, and identities that are created by engaging with the products of mass culture. 2018. "What is a nerd?" -- Talk nerdy to me: the meaning of geek culture -- Taking geek culture seriously: a practice-theoretic account -- Values and virtues: what is best in life? -- Careers: boldly going on -- Making communities from mass culture -- Institutions: building worlds between production and consumption -- The limits of participation -- The geek, the bad, and the ugly --Astrophysics for young people in a hurry
By Gregory Mone, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2019
The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
By Doug Bock Clark. 2019
Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live…
on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. 2019.Pourquoi E=mc2?: et comment ça marche? ((Quai des sciences).)
By Brian Cox, J. R Forshaw, Guy Chouraqui. 2012
" Savez-vous que vous voyagez à la vitesse de la lumière ? Et non seulement vous, mais votre chaise, votre…
table, votre maison, la Terre elle-même ? Bien sûr, nous ne parlons pas ici d'un voyage dans l'espace en trois dimensions, mais dans la structure profonde de l'univers : l'espace-temps. Vous trouvez cela difficile à croire ? Pourtant, c'est bien ce que nous dit la fameuse équation d'Einstein : E = mc2 ! En talentueux passeurs de savoirs, Brian Cox et Jeff Forshaw nous révèlent dans ce livre les mystères de la théorie de la relativité. Grâce à eux, même sans bagage mathématique, vous pourrez percer les secrets de l'équation la plus célèbre du monde ! " -- 4e de couv. 2012. Titre uniforme: Why does E = MC²?When death becomes life: notes from a transplant surgeon
By Joshua D Mezrich. 2019
Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich takes us inside the operating room to unlock the process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense…
ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation. Mezrich examines centuries of medical breakthroughs, connecting this history with the stories of his patients and the ethical debates surrounding organ transplantation. 2019.Under the knife: a history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations
By Arnold van de Laar. 2018
Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery. From the…
story of the desperate man in seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, the author offers a wealth of fascinating insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as technological advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery? 2018.L'éveil
By Oliver W Sacks, Christian Clerc. 1991
Ce livre permet de suivre, jusqu'à nos jours, le destin des rares survivants de la grande épidémie de maladie du…
sommeil (ou encéphalite léthargique) qui fit des ravages au cours de l'hiver 1916-1917. Il rapporte principalement les réactions observées après qu'ils furent "réveillés", en 1967, par la L-Dopa, un nouveau médicament aux effets remarquables. 1991.Guide critique des médicaments de l'âme: [antidépresseurs, lithium et régulateurs de l'humeur, neuroleptiques, stimulants, tranquillisants, somnifères, sevrage] ((Librio ; 70).)
By David Cohen, Suzanne Cailloux-Cohen. 1995
L'avenir de la vie
By Michel Salomon. 1981