Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

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...