No comments about Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry.

No comments about Inventors Card Game.

No comments about Discoveries: Newton (Discoveries (Abrams)).

No comments about Hans Krebs: Volume 2: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism, 1933-1937 (Hans Krebs).

1 comments about If I Die In The Service Of Science: The Dramatic Stories of Medical Scientists Who Experimented on Themselves.

1. If I Die in the Service of Science is a fascinating historical account of some of the most dreaded diseases known to plague mankind. By reading this book, one better understands the massive degree of suffering experienced by our predecessors, and the desperate conditions that compelled men, motivated by altruism, and the desire for riches and glory, to take their lives into their own hands by using themselves as experimental subjects.
   
   With the literary talent and expertise of a man who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, Jon Franklin helps the reader visualize the life and times of brilliant and eccentric men, weaving drama and human interest into settings of ignorance and despair.
   
   Co-author John Sutherland, M.D., a retired pathologist, contributes the scientific and historical detail.
   
   As is always the case in medical research, one must overcome not only the unknown, but also the self-serving egos, greed, and skepticism of members of the intellectual elite in power at the time. Personally, I appreciated the way the authors helped me, by way of this panoramic historical view, to realize that possibly the greatest barrier to the ending of human suffering is man himself.
   
   For those who are interested in science, medicine, or just history, this book is highly recommended!

3 comments about Pocahontas.

1. We've been taking this book out the library for years. We finally bought it. As with all of the books by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'aulaire, the illustrations are beautiful, the stories full of information and the facts true. They are very easy to read but still not wishy-washy. We all learn something everytime we read them. You want to read them over and over. Our children read these for fun. Wonderful.



2. I think this was an okay book for kids. It was funny when the animals played around and it was sad when the indians took john smith away.



3. This book is not historically accurate though it could be used to study stereotypes and perspectives from earlier times. Written in the 1940's, it does not benefit from contemporary historical research and does not offer a balanced view of Pocahontas' role in history. A better choice would be Pocahontas: Princess of the New World by Kathleen Krull.

No comments about Darwin on Love.

1 comments about Thomas Alva Edison (Grandes biografias series).

1. The book was in excellent condition. It was well packaged and arrived in good time. Overall good customer service.

No comments about Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700û1945).

1 comments about When Giants Roamed the Sky: Karl Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin to Goodyear.

1. Did you know that, during the 1920s, President Franklin D Roosevelt
   was Vice President of a Company planning to build or fly
   passenger airships such as the Hindenburg?
   
   The book describes the career of the German Zeppelin Engineer,
   Dr Arnstein, hired by Goodyear to design the US Navy Akron and Macon,
   780 ft long flying aircraft carriers, each with 5 Curtis F9C2 fighters
   inside. The man when to 2 different German Universities simultaneously
   and got a degree from each in the time most of us get
   just one degree at one University.
   You can see the N2Y trainer used with the airships in the
   National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida,
   and the F9C2 at the Smithsonian.
   The Airships themselves are on the bottom of the ocean.
   Even today, our ocean-surface Aircraft Carriers operate at maybe
   35 knots. The Flying Carriers of the early 1930s operated at 70 knots -
   twice the speed of delivery of planes where needed. Their plane operations
   were 100% successful - never a plane lost in mid-air
   launch or recovery.
   
   My father flew US Navy ASW Airships during WW2, and knew of the
   Akron and Macon - the Macon had been flying just 7 years before
   he was trained in 1942, and the huge WW2 Blimp hangars still standing,
   for example at Lakehurst, NJ and Sunnyvale/Mountain-View, CA,
   were built to handle planned WW2 rigids even bigger than the Macon.
   When I showed Dad a photo of the Macon's crew, he was astonished
   to see almost 100 men. Dad's small K-type airships, enthusiastically
   supported by president FDR, flew with a crew of 10.
   I wanted to learn more about these airships; the book does a good job.
   
   My father had strong opinions about the fate of these airships.
   The book goes into that in some detail.
   
   It looks like military airships may be back. After 45 years with
   no airships, the US Navy recently (2006) bought an airship
   and is flying it out of NAS Lakehurst, NJ, as a trainer.