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Doctors and Discoveries
Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
Money, Whence it Came, where it Went
The author, a noted economist and diplomat, traces the evolution of money and the institutions and techniques for its management and mismanagement from Lydian coinage to 20th century inflation.
tPA for Stroke
Without warning stroke can paralyze, blind, or kill. Some victims recover, but many do not and may even suffer another disabling or fatal attack. The drug known as tPA can drastically reduce the long-term disability associated with stroke, but despite its near-miraculous capabilities and the growing support of most neurologists, it has been slow to win acceptance as the standard of care in emergency departments nationwide. tPA for Stroke chronicles how this remarkable drug came to be tested in stroke victims, its early years in development by the pharmaceutical giant Genentech, and its eventual marginalization due to a convergence of unfavorable political, fiscal, and medical circumstances. ...
A Life in Our Times
Autobiography of economist Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and the events and famous people of the times.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The theories and major writings of the eminent social scientist are examined and assessed within the framework of economic heterodoxy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
This book provides an intellectual portrait of John Kenneth Galbraith, an institutional economist who examines the configuration of power by the clusters of mores that comprise institutions. Galbraith proposes an aggressive social democratic policy to achieve social and economic reform. This policy includes explicit recognition that the state must intervene to countervail the power of entrenched political economic interests and to provide generous support of the arts and letters to achieve the affirmation of humanity.
Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous
Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of Algerian immigrant parents, born and raised in the housing projects surrounding Paris, recounts his career as an infamous and renowned bandit. Drawing inspiration and instruction from a host of films and television series, Faïd styled himself and was known to friends and accomplices as "Doc" -- after Steve McQueen in the legendary suspense thriller, The Getaway. With self-discipline and a striking ability to learn from experience, Faïd carried off his first robberies while still a teenager. He soon gradua...
The Scientific 100
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The 100 Most Influential Scientists
Who are the greatest scientists through the ages, and why? From Archimedes to Newton to Einstein to Hawking, this book aims to furnish the answers. In biographical sketches that provide both historical and scientific context, the author chronicles the lives and accomplishments of some of the world's most influential figures in science. And, more controversially, he then ranks them in order of influence.
The Galbraith Reader
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