by
Selgin, Peter.
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813.6 22
Publication Date
2011
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℗¡Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants & mdash;his father an electronics inventor and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes to see her & mdash;Selgin spent his formative years scrambling among the hat factory ruins of a small Connecticut town, visiting doting & mdash;and dotty & mdash;relatives in the & ldquo;old world, & rdquo; watching mental giants clash at Mensa gatherings, enduring Pavlovian training sessions with a grandmother bent on & ldquo;curing & rdquo; his left-handedness, and competing savagely with his right-handed twin.
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Winsbury, Rex, author.
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873.01 B
Publication Date
2013
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Pliny the Younger who lived c. 100 AD, left a large collection of letters, thanks to which we know him better than almost any other Roman. He is best known as witness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 that destroyed Pompeii, and for his dealings with the early Christians when a regional governor. He was not an emperor or general, but a famous lawyer of his time specialising in private finance and later a senior state official specialising in public finance. His life straddled both a 'bad'; emperor (Domitian) and a 'good'; emperor (Trajan), so his life and letters are relevant to perennial political questions like how an honourable man could serve an absolute autocracy such as Rome, and how justice could live alongside power.
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Slack, Nancy G.
Call Number
570.92 22
Publication Date
2010
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"Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E.O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius." In this fascinating book, Nancy G. Slack presents for the first time the full life story of this brilliant scientist who was also a master teacher, a polymath with interests ranging from medieval art to the dangers of eutrophication, and a delightful friend and correspondent" "Slack enjoyed full access to Hutchinson's archives and conducted extensive interviews both with Hutchinson himself and with his students, colleagues, and friends. She evaluates his contributions to theoretical ecology, limnology (the study of fresh-water ecosystems), biogeochemistry, population ecology, and the creation of the new fields of systems ecology and radiation ecology, and she discusses his profound influence as a mentor. The book also looks into his personal life, which included three very different wives, a refugee baby under his care during World War II, friendships with such contemporaries as Rebecca West, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson, and a host of colleagues and friends on four continents. Filled with information available nowhere else, this book draws a vibrant portrait of a giant in the discipline of twentieth-century ecology who was also a man of remarkable personal appeal."--Jacket.
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