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Entering an Unseen World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

Entering an Unseen World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Entering an Unseen World is an in-depth story about how a singular laboratory contributed to creating a new science, modern cell biology. The story begins in 1910, in a laboratory devoted to studying cancer at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and culminates in 1974 when the Nobel Prize was awarded to three pioneering scientists. Chapters devoted to the early years offer a compelling narrative about this laboratory while focusing on five aspects of how this science unfolded through time: the hundreds of scientists involved, a nurturing environment, the experimental procedures developed, the instruments devised and mastered, and the discoveries made in a previously unseen world....

The Professor, the Institute, and DNA
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

The Professor, the Institute, and DNA

Oswald Theodore Avery is little known outside of the scientific community. Yet, this extraordinary man, here brought vividly to life by a perceptive friend and sophisticated scientific colleague, was a monumental force in the development of medical research in the United States. Even among scientists, Avery is known chiefly as the senior author of a paper published in 1944 that identified DNA as the purveyor of genetic information. Two things make this highly personalized biography a landmark volume. First, its technical chapters clarify the philosophical concepts that lie behind today's understanding of the immunology of bacterial infection. Second, not a single existing textbook has ever described the laborious methods by which the men in Avery's laboratory discovered the genetic import of DNA.

Army Ants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 15

Army Ants

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-07-23
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  • Publisher: Heinemann

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The Question of Animal Awareness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

The Question of Animal Awareness

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Ask the Experts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Ask the Experts

  • Categories: Art

This text tells a new story about patterns of public and private grantmaking from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period during which the United States witnessed a remarkable expansion in arts patronage. Through archival documents, oral history, and ethnographic material, author Michael Sy Uy offers an in-depth analysis of grant-making practices, and highlights important and instructive issues concerning philanthropy, arts patronage, and musical production and consumption.

Rockefeller Medicine Men
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Rockefeller Medicine Men

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To Cast Out Disease
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

To Cast Out Disease

This is the first history of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division (1913-1951), which was one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century, a precursor of the World Health Organization. Based on extensive primary research, the book is enlivened with character sketches and descriptions of the conflicts among the "medical barons" who ran the division as they attempted to eradicate many serious diseases and to set up schools of public health and nursing around the world.

The Hostage Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

The Hostage Brain

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Foundations of the American Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Foundations of the American Century

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship. Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on managing social, political, and economic change than on solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting...

The Invention of International Relations Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Invention of International Relations Theory

The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a 'who's who' of scholars and practitioners debating what would become the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, the editor revisits a seminal event in the discipline.