Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology
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Trailblazer by Grace: Educational Pursuit
An Autobiography by Basil Orioghae Ikede
Growing up, Basil understood two principles early on – he was not physically or mentally suited to the drudgery that he saw throughout his village, and education could offer him a way out of his situation. After this early realization, young...
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Portraits of the Great Bible-believing Scientists
by Franjo Stvarnik
“More than 60 years ago,” remembered Mr. Stvarnik, “I read the books From Ancient Philosophy to Modern Science of Atoms by prof. dr. Ivan Supek, and the Images from the Lives of Great Scientists by prof. dr. Milutin Milankovic, and for me these...
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A Broader Vision
by John E Burgener
A VISION GIVES PURPOSE AND ENERGIZES A BROADER VISION is a compelling glimpse into an energized and engaged life of 96 years – based on a vision of life that centered on family, community and God. It describes the world of the 20th century with...
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Adventures of a Materials Scientist
Academician, Consultant, Expert Witness with Emphasis on the Steel Industry by Robert D. Pehlke
This book describes the professional experiences of a materials scientist, as an academic and a consultant. From research laboratories and university classrooms, to the engineering departments of major corporations, to large law firms and the...
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To Make the World Intelligible
A Scientist's Journey by Franklin M. Harold
To Make the World Intelligible: A Scientist’s Journey is both a book about a life of science and about the science of life. In it, Franklin M. Harold shares the story of his life as a German immigrant, who lived in the Middle East before coming...
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Itinerant Galitzianers
Galitzia, Buenos Aires, Berkeley, La Plata, Québec by Rodolfo José Slobodrian
Over a century is the period of time described for a galitzian family’s itinerant life in Europe and in the american continent. World War I and the destruction of the ancient kingdom of Galitzia is shown here. Life and migrations of the family...
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America's Leap Into Space
My Time at JPL and the First Explorer Satellites by Henry L. Richter
After the shock of watching Russia’s Sputnik become the world’s first artificial satellite, America’s infant space program hurried to launch one of their own. In just 90 days, Dr. Henry Richter and his colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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Making Waves
Memoir of a Marine Botanist by Marilyn Miler Harlin
At age eight Marilyn Harlin already knew she wanted to be a scientist. Throughout the peaks and valleys in her life—including widowhood when her husband fell off a mountain in Switzerland, and the challenges of raising two children on her...
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Steely Eyed Killers of the Deep
by Tommy Robinson
The sea stories of over 45 submariners who served in USS Nautilus (SSN-571) between 1954 and 1980. What one submarine sailor can imagine and tell in great detail, another submarine sailor can corroborate, expand and improve on, in much greater...
