Browse Items (30 total)

'I was a Chinese internet addict', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-3-1; 21st century; addiction; Americans; Beijing; Beijing (China); Biography; China; Funk, McKenzie; Internet addiction; Internet addicts; McKenzie Funk; Medicine; Psychiatric clinics; Psychological aspects; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social conditions; Sociological aspects; Virtual reality

'Flowery Regions of Algebra', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-14; Biography; History of Science; Physics; Pierre Laplace; Roger Hahn; Schaffer, Simon

'Red Science', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-3; Andrew Brown; Biography; Chemistry; Communism; Crystallography; Freudianism; Future; Hobsbawm, Eric; JD Bernal; John Kendrew; Lord Mountbattan; Politics; Science fiction; Sexuality; X-Ray Crystallography

'Provenly Unprovable', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-2; Biography; Feferman, Solomon; Fiction; Incompleteness Theorem; Kurt G�del; Mathematics; Maths; theorems and hypotheses

'A forest of bamboo', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2005-8-1; Biography; Curtis Cate; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Gass, William H.; Germany; Philosophers; Philosophy; STS

'A Tentative Idea for a Lamp', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-3-18; Biography; Design and Invention; Engineering; Henry Ford; invention; Radford, Tim; Thomas Edison

'Inscribed upon the body', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-7-1; Biography; Bodies; Fathers; Holocaust survivors; Kusz, Natalie; Medicine; Natalie Kusz; United States

'Desmondism', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-3-23; Biography; Biology; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Sutherland, John; T. H. Huxley

'Blood and logic', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-6-1; Biography; Dummett, Michael; Jean van Heijenoort; Leon Trotsky; Logic; Mathematics; Maths

'Bohr v. Einstein', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-20; Albert Einstein; Barrow, John; Biography; Niels Bohr; Physics; Quanthum Mechanics

'Who won the West? Apologies to the water birds and ranch hands', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-4-1; Biography; Biology; Kittredge, William; Oregon; Ranch life; Ranchers; Rural families; Social life and customs; Zoology

'Tidings of comfort & joy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Alex Comfort; Biography; Bodies; Corkery, P. J.; England; Gerontologists; Medicine; Sex instruction literature; United States

'Accepting Freud', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-4-12; 1980s; Biography; Eduard Siilberstein; Hampshire, Stuart; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy; Ronald Clark; Sigmund Freud

'Against Consciousness', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-1-24; 1980s; Behaviourism; Biography; Gregory, Richard; Ivan Pavlov; J.B. Watson; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

'Einstein', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1964; 1964-9-1; Albert Einstein; Biography; Blank, Joseph P.; Bucky, Thomas Lee; New Jersey; Other; Physicists; Physics; Princeton

'Fighter pilot', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1963; 1963-7-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airmen; Bach, Richard; Biography; Engineering; Fighter pilots; Training of; United States; United StatesAir Force

'Renaissance at the University of Texas', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1963; 1963-6-1; Administration; Austin; Biography; College presidents; Faculty; Harry Huntt Ransom; Higher education and state; Institutions and Funding; Morris, Willie; STS; Texas; University of Texas

'Our exiled airmen in England', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-10-1; 1960s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airmen; Armed Forces; Biography; Engineering; England; Foreign service; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Sigal, Clancy; Social conditions; United StatesAir Force; United StatesAir ForceStrategic Air Command

'The elusive Dr. Szilard', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-7-1; 1960s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Atomic bomb; Biography; Engineering; Government policy; Leo Szilard; Nuclear energy; Physicists; Research; Smith, Alice Kimball; United States

'Mr. Marek�s elephant', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-8-1; Biography; Discography; Engineering; George Richard Marek; Mayer, Martin; music; Music audiences; RCA Victor Record Division; Sound recording executives and producers; Telecommunications; United States

'E.H. Armstrong', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-4-1; Biography; David Sarnoff; Dreher, Carl; Edwin H. (Edwin Howard) Armstrong; Engineering; Inventors; Patent suits; Patents; radio; Suicide victims; Telecommunications; United States

'The dentist who changed world history', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-12-1; Biography; Bodies; Dentistry; Dentists; Maurice William; Medicine; New York; New York (State); Political activity; Socialists; Yat-sen Sun; Zolotow, Maurice

'The first Du Pont', Harpers

Tags: 18th century; 1940s; 1941; 1941-8-1; Biography; Chemical industry; Chemistry; Du Pont family; French; History; Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White); Physiocrats; Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours; United States

'J.D. Ross, public power magnate', Harpers

Tags: 1940; 1940-6-1; 1940s; Biography; Dreher, Carl; Electric engineers; Electric power production; Electrical Engineering; Engineering; J.D. (James Delmage) Ross; Northwest; Pacific; Public utilities

'How the Wright brothers began', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1939; 1939-10-1; Aeronautical engineers; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Biography; Engineering; History; Inventors; Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters); Orville Wright; United States; Wilbur Wright

'Barnum in modern dress', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1938; 1938-10-1; 1939-1940; Biography; Davis, Elmer Holmes; Fairs and Expositions; Grover A. (Grover Aloysius) Whalen; New York; New York (State); New York World�s Fair; Other; Public officers

'Doctor Jung', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1931; 1931-5-1; Biography; C.G. (Carl Gustav) Jung; Dream interpretation; Jungian psychology; Medicine; Psychologists; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley; Switzerland; Zurich

'The great American enigma', Harpers

Tags: 1930; 1930-10-1; 1930s; Automobile industry and trade; Biography; Bradford, Gamaliel; Engineering; Henry Ford; Industrial relations; Industrialists; Mechanical Engineering; United States; Work ethic

'Jacques Loeb, the mechanist', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1923; 1923-1-1; Biography; Biology; Biophysics; Jacques Loeb; Kruif, Paul De; Other; United States

'Some reminiscences of Charles Darwin', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1909; 1909-12-1; Biography; Biologists; Biology; Bryce, James Bryce Viscount; Charles Darwin; England; Natural selection; Religion and science