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Fascination of science : 60 encounters with pioneering researchers of our time
\"A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Science and Immortality
From the eighteenth century until as recently as World War II, the
natural scientist was depicted as a kind of moral superhero:
objective, modest, ascetic, and selflessly dedicated to the
betterment of humanity. What accounts for the widespread diffusion
of this myth? In Science and Immortality, Charles B. Paul
provides a partial explanation. The modern ideology of the
scientist as disinterested seeker after truth arose partly through
the transformation of an ancient literary form-the commemoration of
heroes. In 1699 Bernard de Fontenelle, as Secretary of the Paris
Academy of Sciences, inaugurated the tradition of the
éloge , or eulogy, in honor of members of the Academy. The
moral qualities that had once been attributed to the idealized
Stoic philosopher were transferred in the eulogies to the \"natural
philosopher,\" or scientist. The over two hundred éloges
composed between 1699 and 1791 by Fontenelle and his
successors-Mairan, Fouchy, and Condorcet-served as a powerful
device for the popularization of science. It was the intention of
the secretaries, though, not only to exhibit the natural scientist
as a modern-day hero but also to present a truthful record of
scientific activity in France. Paul examines the éloges
both as a literary form that used rhetorical and stylistic devises
to reconcile these two conflicting goals and as a collective
biography of a new breed of savants-one that already contained the
seed of the conflict between self-image and reality embedded in the
modern scientific enterprise. A unique history of science in
eighteenth-century France, Science and Immortality
illuminates the record in the éloges of the
professionalization of some sciences and the maturation of others,
the recognition of their utility to society and the state, and the
widening trust in science as the remedy to economic restriction and
political absolutism. Paul's thorough catalog of the
éloges , extensive bibliography, and translations of
representative éloges make this book an essential source
for scholars in the field. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1980.
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Kid scientists : true tales of childhood from science superstars /
\"Forget the moon landing, the Nobel prizes, and the famous inventions. When the world's most brilliant scientists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Albert Einstein daydreamed instead of paying attention in class. Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails in her house. And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope. [This book] tells these stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page\"--Back cover.
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Scientists : who changed history
Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and boldly graphic biography-led book.The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and.
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Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin
In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.
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Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning
?\"[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful.\"—Library Journal, starred review First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl's memoir Man's Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author's philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl's life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the \"third Viennese school\" amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed. Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life. From the introduction: At the same time, Frankl's testimony, second only to the Diary of Anne Frankin popularity, has raised the ire of experts on the Holocaust. For example, in the 1990s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington purportedly refused to sell Man's Search for Meaningin the gift shop…. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Frankl became very popular in America. Frankl's survival of the Holocaust, his reassurance that life is meaningful, and his personal conviction that God exists served to make him a forerunner of the self-help genre.
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12 scientists who changed the world
Discusses the accomplishments of twelve of the most influential scientists and their lasting impact on the world.
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