Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

This biography of Jack Maurice Nissenthall, written by his daughter, Linda Nissen Samuels, draws heavily on Jacks own writings: The Wizard War, an ...

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputa...

This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also...

Andrea Chapela, one of Grantas Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning...

Most people think that stroke victims end up looking like Frankenstein with a horrible facial expression and erratic movements. But, that is not t...

No one expected this journey. Jessica Carmel was born with a severe congenital heart condition. At four days old, her parents learned she would nee...

This study explores the evolution of Lomonosovs imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years ...

In the 1960s and 70s, America spent $20 billion dollars (around $150 billion by today's standards) to land humans on the moon, and win the Cold War...

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent Pop Sociologist and Mental Health Activist of t...

From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown...

Dr Myron Weisfeldt's own story is a jumping off point for understanding elements of discovery and political skill that foster a successful leadersh...

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family...

Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida ...

Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first physician-responder to the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in ...

An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (17071783), one of the...

It wasnt rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now ab...

Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped river...

As the new chief of the Michigan Department of Conservations Fish Division in 1964, Howard A. Tanner was challenged to do something . . . spectacul...