Titres dans Science et technologie

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture...

The Work of Human Hands is a timeless medical journey through pioneering surgeon Dr. Hardy Hendren's legendary operating room that the Los Angeles Times called "impossible to forget". Set at Boston Children's Hospital, which U.S. News & World Report consistently rates as America's best children's hospital, The Work of Human Hands is available now for the first time in audio. The new edition includes a fresh introduction and a greatly expanded epilogue updating readers on Hendren and patient Lucy Moore today.

One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A “spellbinding, thriller-like” (Shelf Awareness) history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious, forgotten man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is...

Bestsellerauteur Walter Isaacson vertelt in deze biografie het verrassend intieme verhaal van een van de meest fascinerende en controversiële ondernemers van deze tijd: Elon Musk. Een baanbrekende pionier die de wereld naar het tijdperk van elektrische voertuigen, private ruimtevaart en kunstmatige intelligentie heeft geleid. O, en hij heeft Twitter overgenomen.

Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated for his consummate genius. He was the painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the inventor who anticipated the advent of airplanes, hot air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist?

Robert Oppenheimer had a lot resting on his shoulders. During the Second World War, he was tasked with directing the development of the world’s first nuclear arsenal. Known as the Manhattan Project, this super-secretive wartime project had the stoic visage of Oppenheimer overseeing the greatest experiment ever conducted by humankind. Much had happened in Oppenheimer’s life to lead him to this point, and much would subsequently take place after, but this moment was indeed the pinnacle of his career and his life.

Sara Seager : la femme qui pourrait découvrir une autre Terre. Le récit d'une quête spirituelle et intime, à la fois dans ce monde et bien au-delà... En tant qu'astrophysicienne spécialiste des exoplanètes - ces planètes qui orbitent autour d'une étoile autre que le Soleil -, Sara Seager a passé une grande partie de sa vie la tête dans les étoiles. Pas facile dans ces circonstances de garder les pieds sur terre. Mais l'amour de son mari, Mike, et de ses deux fils lui permet de naviguer entre les mondes avec une relative aisance, malgré son trouble du spectre autistique.

THE STORY OF A HEALER AND THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHAIN OF HOMEOPATHY CLINICS If you think of homeopathy in India, one name springs to mind-Dr Batra's(R). From humble beginnings with a clinic in Chowpatty, Bombay in 1982, Dr Mukesh Batra put homeopathy on the world map by starting over 200 clinics...

With excerpts from Tesla’s autobiography and insight from those who knew him best, this book aims to shed new light on the unique visionary and inspire the next generation of scientists. The story of Tesla will leave you feeling mournful for his sad fate, moved by his never-ending pursuit of a better future, and inspired by his enthusiasm.

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and...

Before she even turned 40, Florence Nightingale was the darling of the British public, the heroine of the Crimea. She could have sailed home to England and comfortably lived out her days. Instead she conducted a postmortem on every moment of her wartime service. She sought to broadcast her mistakes so everyone would understand what happens in unsanitary medical facilities. One hundred and fifty years ago, the respect we now have for nurses and the intense training that nurses must undergo was nothing but a seed in Florence Nightingale's imagination.

Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R...

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw recognized among world's top 20 inspirational leaders in Biopharma

Quando cominciai a lavorare nel laboratorio di Intelligenza Artificiale del MIT nel 1971, entrai a far parte di una comunità in cui ci si scambiavano i programmi, che esisteva già da molti anni. La condivisione del software non si limitava alla nostra comunità; è un cosa vecchia quanto i computer, proprio come condividere le ricette è antico come il cucinare. Ma noi lo facevamo più di quasi chiunque altro. Realizzato, redistribuito e redistribuibile secondo la licenza Attribuzione-NonOpereDerivate 4.0 Internazionale.

The William E. Boeing Story: A Gift of Flight is the first ever full-length biography of William E. Boeing, the father of commercial aviation. Boeing's story is an exciting one, complete with bootleggers, kidnappers, and disastrous run-ins with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and future Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

C'è chi si indispettisce, c'è chi si esalta e c'è invece chi si rende conto, come il giovane Heisenberg durante la sua tormentata convalescenza a Helgoland, che probabilmente il traguardo è proprio questo: smettere di ascoltare il mondo come lo si è ascoltato fino a quel momento e avventurarsi verso una forma di comprensione assolutamente nuova. Per quanto terrore possa, a tratti, ispirare. È la via che ha preferito Benjamín Labatut, ricostruendo alcune scene che hanno deciso la nascita della scienza moderna.

Als der britische Autor Joe Dunthorne gebeten wird, einen Vortrag über seine Familie im »Dritten Reich« zu halten, macht er bei seinen Recherchen dazu eine schier unglaubliche Entdeckung: Sein jüdischer Urgroßvater Siegfried Merzbacher, der in den 1920er-Jahren in Oranienburg lebte und dort als Chemiker Haushaltsartikel herstellte, darunter eine radioaktive Zahnpasta, war später maßgeblich an der Entwicklung chemischer Waffen für die Nazis beteiligt. Erst Mitte der Dreißigerjahre emigrierte die Familie in die USA. Bis an sein Lebensende haderte Merzbacher mit seiner Vergangenheit.

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 to December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light.

The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.

Michael Faraday was born in Newington Butts, Surrey, on September 22, 1791 (which is now part of the London District of Southwark). He grew up in a bad home. His dad, James, was a Christian who came from the Glasite sect.