Science and Technology in Medicine - An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries by Andras Gedeon
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The history and evolution of the fields of science and medicine are symbiotically linked and thus are mutually dependent. Discoveries in one domain have allowed for progress in the other, and it is nearly impossible to study one area in isolation. The influence of science and technologic discoveries on ...Show more
The Boy Who Loved Books by John Sutherland
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This book is a memoir in the tradition of Lorna Sage's "Bad Blood" and Blake Morrison's "When Did You Last See Your Father?" John Sutherland's childhood ended abruptly the day his father was killed at the beginning of World War Two - happily before he could kill any Germans. John's widowed mother fell i ...Show more
The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
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Thomas Young (1773-1829) was the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed. In any book on the eye and vision, Young is the London physician who showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-color theory of vision confirmed only in 1959. ...Show more
Stravinsky : The Second Exile - France and America 1934-1971 by STEPHEN WALSH
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Poverty and Benefit Dependency by David Green
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In his book "Poverty and Benefit Dependency" Dr David Green undertakes two main tasks. First, he examines the claims of those who analyse recent social changes using concepts such as poverty and social exclusion. He points out that reaching valid conclusions about trends in poverty is no simple matter. ...Show more
The Cold War in Welfare - Stock Markets Versus Pensions by Richard Minns
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A new Cold War has developed between competing blocs of countries over the role of financial markets versus the state in the provision of pensions and the financing of the economy generally. An Anglo-American bloc, which has spread into South America, Australia, Canada and Japan, favors private pension ...Show more
Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand : Problems, Policies, Prospects by Jonathan Boston et al
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Since 1990, New Zealand has sought to redesign its welfare state with radical changes in industrial relations, health, accident compensation, education, housing, social welfare, employment assistance and superannuation. This book contains an authoritative record and analysis of these changes.