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The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron by Benjamin Ehrlich
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Ehrlich

“For the histologist,” Cajal declared, “every progress in staining technique comes to be something like the acquisition of a new sense open to the unknown.” * * * As a ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 1,2023 )
My Life by Wallace Alfred Russell;
epub |eng | 2022-06-14 | Author:Wallace, Alfred Russell;

CHAPTER XV— REMARKS ON MY CHARACTER AT TWENTY-ONE IN April, 1843, my father died at Hoddesdon, at the age of seventy-two, and was buried in the family vault in St. ...
( Category: Scientists January 1,2023 )
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson
epub |eng | 1958-12-31 | Author:Matthew Josephson [Josephson, Matthew]

Mr. Edison’s exhibition is the wonder of the show, and his representative [Johnson] is the prince of showmen. One feels that after an hour with Mr. Johnson that there is ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 1,2023 )
Hudson Fysh: the extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings by Grantlee Kieza
epub |eng | 2022-09-22 | Author:Grantlee Kieza

When Matthews had to make a forced landing after an engine failure in one of the Qantas F.K.8s,55 near Blackall on 13 September, the machine suffered major damage to the ...
( Category: Aviation & Nautical January 1,2023 )
Scrubbed by Nikki Stamp
epub |eng | 2022-03-21 | Author:Nikki Stamp [Dr Nikki Stamp]

CRITICAL REFLECTION QUESTION What do you observe about the life of a cardiothoracic surgeon in this case study? I was enjoying my weekend, amazingly not at work. I was actually ...
( Category: Medical January 1,2023 )
Curlews on Vulture Street by Darryl Jones
epub |eng | 2022-07-27 | Author:Darryl Jones

Transportation for crimes again humanity As the first day of a new project, it certainly had plenty of variety. Unavoidably, this was work where everything happened in full view. It ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 1,2023 )
The River You Touch by Chris Dombrowski
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Dombrowski

A loss of faith, Mary tells me at breakfast, begins with a loss of ritual. “Go hunting for the day,” she says, tapping her midsection. “Your gut will feel better ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 1,2023 )
John von Neumann by Norman Macrae
epub |eng | 2017-06-09 | Author:Norman Macrae

The age requirements for appointment in the reserve corps were adopted after a thorough study of all factors involved, and have been adhered to consistently since their adoption, many applicants ...
( Category: Scientists January 1,2023 )
Arc of a Life: Escapades of an Adventurer by Andrew Reilly;
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Andrew Reilly;

TWENTY-FOUR A Moveable Feast “Paris is a Moveable Feast.” ~Earnest Hemingway THE ROTARY SCHOLARS WHO would be studying in Paris arrived together by bus, and we then set off on ...
( Category: Educators January 1,2023 )
A Generous Nature by Houle Marcy Cottrell;
epub |eng | | Author:Houle, Marcy Cottrell; [Houle, Marcy Cottrell]

Our relationship to the land matters. If we lose the health of these landscapes, then we are not going to succeed as a society. We need to make sure that ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 1,2023 )
The Last Doctor by Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Schneller
epub |eng | 2022-09-27 | Author:Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Schneller [Marmoreo, Jean & Schneller, Johanna]

CHAPTER EIGHT Tom Thomas Allen Fraser, age sixty-two, had a few character traits in common with Thor. They were both sociable, strong-willed, and certain of what they wanted. But their ...
( Category: Medical January 1,2023 )
Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig
epub |eng | 2022-09-22 | Author:Mya-Rose Craig [Craig, Mya-Rose]

CHAPTER SEVEN Roots Spoon-billed Sandpiper The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a small, critically endangered wader which breeds in north-eastern Russia and winters in southern Asia. In 2016, the global population was ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 1,2023 )
Science, Philosophy and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union by Loren R. Graham
pdf | | 1989-01-01 | Author:Loren R. Graham [Graham, Loren R.]

( Category: Scientists January 1,2023 )
What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Mark H. McCormack

2. Who are your friends, and where are they going? One of the nice things about having friends in business is that they grow with you—and vice versa. Yet it ...
( Category: Business January 1,2023 )
My Years With General Motors by Alfred P Sloan & Jr
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Alfred P Sloan & Jr.

Chapter 13 The Annual Model Change Annual car models are now such a natural and accepted part of American life that few persons, I would imagine, have thought about the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 1,2023 )

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