The Icepick Surgeon
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The Icepick Surgeon
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Author : Sam Kean
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Icepick Surgeon written by Sam Kean and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with True Crime categories.
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries and often committing crimes in the process. The Icepick Surgeon masterfully guides the reader across two thousand years of history, beginning with Cleopatra’s dark deeds in ancient Egypt. The book reveals the origins of much of modern science in the transatlantic slave trade of the 1700s, as well as Thomas Edison’s mercenary support of the electric chair and the warped logic of the spies who infiltrated the Manhattan Project. But the sins of science aren’t all safely buried in the past. Many of them, Kean reminds us, still affect us today. We can draw direct lines from the medical abuses of Tuskegee and Nazi Germany to current vaccine hesitancy, and connect icepick lobotomies from the 1950s to the contemporary failings of mental-health care. Kean even takes us into the future, when advanced computers and genetic engineering could unleash whole new ways to do one another wrong. Unflinching, and exhilarating to the last page, The Icepick Surgeon fuses the drama of scientific discovery with the illicit thrill of a true-crime tale. With his trademark wit and precision, Kean shows that, while science has done more good than harm in the world, rogue scientists do exist, and when we sacrifice morals for progress, we often end up with neither.
The Icepick Surgeon
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Author : Sam Kean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Icepick Surgeon written by Sam Kean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic books categories.
The Disappearing Spoon
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Author : Sam Kean
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2010-07-12
The Disappearing Spoon written by Sam Kean and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-12 with Science categories.
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?* The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. THE DISAPPEARING SPOON masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery--from the Big Bang through the end of time. *Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.
The Bastard Brigade
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Author : Sam Kean
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-07-18
The Bastard Brigade written by Sam Kean and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-18 with History categories.
Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of planning the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services created a secret offshoot - the Alsos Mission - meant to gather intelligence on and sabotage if necessary, scientific research by the Axis powers. What resulted was a plot worthy of the finest thriller, full of spies, sabotage, and murder. At its heart was the 'Lightning A' team, a group of intrepid soldiers, scientists, and spies - and even a famed baseball player - who were given almost free rein to get themselves embedded within the German scientific community to stop the most terrifying threat of the war: Hitler acquiring an atomic bomb of his very own. While the Manhattan Project and other feats of scientific genius continue to inspire us today, few people know about the international intrigue and double-dealing that accompanied those breakthroughs. Bastard Brigade recounts this forgotten history, fusing a non-fiction spy thriller with some of the most incredible scientific ventures of all time.
Caesar S Last Breath
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Author : Sam Kean
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Caesar S Last Breath written by Sam Kean and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Science categories.
** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ** ‘Popular science at its best’ Mail on Sunday ‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ Observer With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might also bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation. In Caesar’s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe and across time to tell the epic story of the air we breathe.
Mr Humble And Dr Butcher
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Author : Brandy Schillace
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Mr Humble And Dr Butcher written by Brandy Schillace and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon…and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart, a young American neurosurgeon had an even more ambitious thought: Why not transplant the brain? Dr. Robert White was a friend to two popes and a founder of the Vatican’s Commission on Bioethics. He developed lifesaving neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But like Dr. Jekyll before him, Dr. White had another identity. In his lab, he was waging a battle against the limits of science and against mortality itself—working to perfect a surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the human body had died. This “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “provocative” (The Washington Post) tale follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, Cold War politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death. It’s a “masterful” (Science) look at our greatest fears and our greatest hopes—and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.
Summary Of Sam Kean S The Icepick Surgeon
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-07-16T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Sam Kean S The Icepick Surgeon written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-16T22:59:00Z with True Crime categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Dampier was a brilliant scientist and navigator, but he was also a pirate. He took to sea after being orphaned at age fourteen, visiting Java and Newfoundland before an unhappy stint in the navy. He eventually settled in the Bay of Campeche in eastern Mexico and made his living cutting logwood. #2 Dampier’s preoccupation with wind and weather was born out of his experience as a buccaneer. Buccaneers were a distinct class of pirates, and their home governments scorned them as much as their enemies did. They had no permission to raid anyone. #3 Dampier joined the Jamaica pirates as a navigator, and the subsequent voyage was a rambling adventure. They started off raiding cities in Panama, then sailed up to Virginia, where Dampier was arrested for unknown reasons. They then went to the Pacific coast of South America. #4 Dampier’s travels took him to many different countries, and he took advantage of his time on the open sea to study winds and currents. He became a first-class navigator. He eventually returned to London in 1691, after having promised his new wife he’d be back in twelve months.
The Facemaker
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Author : Lindsey Fitzharris
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2022-06-07
The Facemaker written by Lindsey Fitzharris and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.
The Ice Pick Cure
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Author : Eirik Husby Saether
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-23
The Ice Pick Cure written by Eirik Husby Saether and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with categories.
John struggled with committing sins through his childhood. A sin always begins with a thought. As an adult, he studies psychology to cure himself. He reads about lobotomy, which is called surgery for the soul. Can sinful thoughts be cut out of our heads?It's easier to cure others than himself.When a girl disappears from the university, the police don't know she's his first patient.
Dignity Of Life Moral Philosophy Organisational Theory And Hostage Rescue
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Author : Avichal
language : en
Publisher: I K International Pvt Ltd
Release Date : 2023-08-09
Dignity Of Life Moral Philosophy Organisational Theory And Hostage Rescue written by Avichal and has been published by I K International Pvt Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-09 with History categories.
Scholarly, multidisciplinary, and iconoclastic, this book provides a comprehensive study of human behaviour in organisational setting, discusses the theory and principles of self-organisation, elaborates the strengths of self-organisation over command organisation, and gives a complete roadmap to set up and sustain in any culture and society an exceptionally capable hostage rescue force specialising in mass hostage rescue. However, its numerous valuable insights, relying not on technology but people and employing the force of their intrinsic motivation, are not relevant to the niche of special forces and wider military context alone but can be employed across all occupational settings to build highly efficient organisations where people work voluntarily and deliver responsibly without the supervision and control of command element. Beyond formal organisations, all fields of human activities, including the private lives of individuals too can immensely benefit from radical ideas and useful information contained in it. Besides discussing the deeper questions of life as a whole, of organisational life in general, of mass hostage rescue in particular, and of character, culture, environment, leadership, and communication, it also elaborately explains how we make decisions in crisis, who is an expert and how one can become an expert, how do we learn and how we can learn better, what makes us commit errors and mistakes, what lies behind our failures, and how we can deal with errors and failures both as individuals and organisations. About Author: Avichal is an Indian police officer who has been associated with the world of special forces as a practitioner, instructor, designer, administrator, institution builder, and adviser for over two decades and has operated and trained in many countries of the world.