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Personal essays from an inventor and polymer chemist take you behind the scenes of Cold War defense, aerospace, and biomedicine. A rare combination of heart and science, this collection shows what happens when curiosity leads to inventions with worldwide impact.
This genre-blending collection of personal essays, from a self-made inventor and polymer chemist, takes both science buffs and historians alike behind the scenes and alongside the lab benches of Cold War defense development, aerospace engineering, and entrepreneurial biomedicine. A rare combination of heart and science, the author’s writing demonstrates what happens when life’s curiosities guide one’s path.
From his childhood basement laboratory in Brooklyn, New York, to the deserts of California, the author reveals his greatest inventions and “Eureka!” moments, culminating in his lasting legacy: I-Sorbe, a revolutionary controlled-released iodophor that harnesses iodine’s antimicrobial power with superabsorbent starch polymers, technology with monumental worldwide health impacts.
Touching on polymer science, materials science, Cold War technology, and space exploration, this chronological collection of the author’s personal essays offers an unprecedented glimpse into an inventor’s personal life, the history he witnessed, and the technical achievements that emerged from seven decades of relentless curiosity.
This history documents the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Europe. It compares their survival under different political systems, from dictatorships to modern Russia, where a renewed ban has returned Soviet-era conditions of repression.
They are Third Culture Kids. While their global lifestyle offers an expanded worldview, it brings recurring losses. In this collection, writers from around the world explore the search for identity, belonging, and a place to call “home.”
Under the guise of protection, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom of Buganda. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs the machinations of British rule in Uganda, demonstrating how its colonial past shapes its future.
Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.
Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
This book combines the history of religions with Byzantine studies to analyze kings, symbols, and cities. It demonstrates how the ancient pagan ruler cult was gradually replaced by the ruler becoming subordinate to Christ, the ‘Master of All’ (Pantokrator).
This anthology examines artwork and sites in East and Southeast Asia through the lens of eco–art history, exploring the mutual impact of artistic expression and local environments. Case studies range from the Little Ice Age to contemporary responses to climate change.
This book examines the Pioneer Health Centre, a world-renowned experiment in health-creation. Forced to close in 1950, its ideas continue to inspire. It investigates why such initiatives struggle against a culture that values cure more than prevention.
This book frees women from the margins of Nigeria’s history, chronicling their resistance movements. From protests against colonial taxation to contemporary struggles against oil exploitation and mass abductions, it highlights the voice and agency of Nigerian women.
This book is an examination of the pivotal alliance between Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Archbishop Daniel Mannix. It explores how their bond aided Ireland’s push for independence and why Mannix, once revered, became an isolated figure after 1925.
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