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Antoine Lavoisier
Genius of Modern Chemistry
Av Lisa Yount
E-bok, 2014
442 kr
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Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. Using experiments and careful measurements, he created a system to help chemists understand how matter behaves. He discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, and helped set up a system to classify these and other elements. Perhaps …
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek: Genius Discoverer of Microscopic Life
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2014
519 kr
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Genius Discoverer of Microscopic Life
Av Lisa Yount
E-bok, 2014
442 kr
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For his discoveries of microscopic life, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is remembered today as one of the great geniuses of science. Using microscopes he made himself, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek peered into exciting new worlds that no one knew existed before. Beginning in the 1670s, he discovered tiny, …
William Harvey: Genius Discoverer of Blood Circulation
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2014
519 kr
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William Harvey
Genius Discoverer of Blood Circulation
Av Lisa Yount
E-bok, 2014
442 kr
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In the 17th century the English physician, William Harvey described for the first time the details of the human circulatory system. Harvey discovered that the heart was a muscle and that by contracting, pushed blood through the body. He worked out the whole pattern of the heartbeat. William …
Right to Die and Euthanasia
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2007
509 kr
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The United States, and indeed the Western world, is bitterly divided on the issues of the right to die and euthanasia. Polls reported in 2004 indicated that between four and 10 percent of physicians helped to end a terminally ill patient's life at some time, even though such acts are against the …
Why Race and Gender Still Matter
An Intersectional Approach
Av Maeve M O'Donovan, Maeve M O'Donovan m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
820 kr
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Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for decades as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other disciplines.
Why Race and Gender Still Matter
An Intersectional Approach
Av Maeve M O'Donovan, Maeve M O'Donovan m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
949 kr
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Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for decades as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other disciplines.
Why Race and Gender Still Matter
An Intersectional Approach
Av Maeve M O'Donovan, Maeve M O'Donovan m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
970 kr
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Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for decades as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other disciplines.
Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, & Vivien Thomas
Mending Children's Hearts
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2011
409 kr
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In 1944, Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas revolutionized surgical treatment of the heart and nearby blood vessels—through an improbable partnership among a white male surgeon, a white female physician, and an African-American male laboratory technician. Separately, each of these …
Edward Pickering and His Women ""Computers
Analyzing the Stars
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2012
398 kr
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In the 42 years that Edward Pickering directed the Harvard College Observatory, he and his team of women ""computers"" made strides in promoting the new field of astrophotography, discovered the first spectroscopic binary star system, and cataloged more than 225,000 stars. Pickering hired women …
Why Race and Gender Still Matter
An Intersectional Approach
Av Maeve M O'Donovan, Maeve M O'Donovan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2736 kr
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Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for decades as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other disciplines.
Animal Rights
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2004
509 kr
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Whether praised, criticized, or dismissed, the quest for better treatment of animals - even perhaps extending to granting them some form of legal rights - has already made significant changes in Western society and law, and it may well make more profound ones in the decades to come. Most states and …
Energy Supply
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2005
509 kr
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Virtually every aspect of the energy situation is hotly debated. Will competition for energy cause new wars or economic collapses? What form and degree of regulation can best provide energy for everyone at fair prices? How can the environmental effects of supplying and using energy be controlled? …
Modern Genetics
Engineering Life
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2006
442 kr
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Since the dawn of time, people have noticed that members of families tend to look alike, having similar hair or eye color, for instance. Similarly, ancient farmers and herders realized that if they mated, or bred, plants or animals with desirable traits (such as the ability to grow quickly or …
Modern Astronomy
Expanding the Universe
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2006
442 kr
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Meet 12 men and women whose research and work in new technologies brought about a revolution in the understanding of time and space during the 20th century. From Edwin Hubble to George Gamow to Geoffrey Marcy, ""Modern Astronomy"" illuminates the lives and achievements of these innovative …
Modern Marine Science
Exploring the Deep
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2006
442 kr
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The deep sea takes up almost 70 percent of Earth's surface and more than 97 percent, by volume, of the part of the planet available to living things. And yet, it was only in the 20th century that humans developed the technology to venture more than a few hundred feet down into this daunting world. …
Forensic Science
From Fibers to Fingerprints
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2006
398 kr
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The lives of real forensic scientists - scientists who apply their skills to crimes or other legal matters - are not as glamorous as those of television heroes, nor are their results as sure. They may need weeks or months to identify criminals or victims instead of hours, or they may never do so at …
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2009
380 kr
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Deals with Alzheimer's disease management to research on birth defects.
Robert Ballard
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2009
442 kr
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As a boy growing up on California's coast, Robert Ballard was fascinated by marine geology and life underwater. While working for the U.S. Navy, he built his expertise in the new technology of submersibles, which served him well in later expeditions. In the 1970s, Ballard took part in several key …
Alfred Wegener
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2009
422 kr
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When German meteorologist Alfred Wegener first proposed his groundbreaking theory of continental displacement, later called continental drift, in 1912, his geologist peers rejected his theory because the field of geology at the turn of the century was based in 18th- and 19th-century observations …
to Z of Women in Science and Math
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2007
718 kr
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From ancient times to the present day, scientifically inclined women in many cultures have had to battle against the traditional belief that men are more cognitively adept than women. At times throughout history, women were persecuted for their attempts to break down traditional gender barriers. …
Animal Rights
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2008
509 kr
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The treatment of animals has become a controversial issue over the years, with many questioning an animal's fundamental rights. For some, the issue of animal rights is merely an attempt to improve conditions of animals used for clothing, food, and other products, while others believe animals should …
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2008
509 kr
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From viruses to humans, each organism on earth is made up of genes that provide a blueprint to how that organism functions. As technology and science have progressed, so too have the depth and extent of biotechnology and genetic engineering. The use of biotechnology and genetic engineering has …
Rosalind Franklin
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2011
398 kr
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Growing up in the interwar period in London, Rosalind Franklin was determined to become a scientist, defying her father's wishes. After World War II, Franklin worked at the French government's central chemical research laboratory, where she learned X-ray crystallography. This technique relies on a …
Luc Montagnier
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2011
409 kr
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While studying retroviruses and cancers cells in the 1980s, researcher Luc Montagnier published a paper about the isolation of a virus from the immune system cells of a patient showing symptoms of what would soon be known as AIDS. That virus, HIV, was later proved to be related to AIDS, a disease …
Craig Venter
Dissecting the Genome
Av Lisa Yount
Inbunden, 2011
409 kr
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In the race to map the human genome, Craig Venter is credited with speeding up the discovery of the whole human genome by about five years—an incredible step forward for this type of research. Venter's whole-genome shotgun sequencing approach was cheaper, more accurate, and much faster than other …
