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A Field Guide for Science Writers

A Field Guide for Science Writers

Deborah Blum

VICTOR K. MCELHENY Victor K. McElheny, Director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT In a world where the discoveries and designs and inventions of scientists and engineers and doctors continue to multiply, there's no  ...
Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution

Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution

Victor K. McElheny

Victor McElheny probes brilliantly behind the veil of Watson's own invented persona, bringing us close to the relentless genius and scientific impresario who triggered and sustained a revolution in science.
Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project

Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project

Victor K. McElheny

Franklin Philip (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1995); Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery ( New York, Basic Books, 1988); Victor K. McElheny, Watson and DNA: Making a ...
Yearbook - New York County Lawyers' Association

Yearbook - New York County Lawyers' Association

New York County Lawyers' Association

That was before the Federal Bankruptcy Act, and McElheny's functions as assignee under the State statute embraced both ... established in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and Victor K. McElheny personally soon attained national recognition as a ...
The Economic Value of the Auction As a Distributor of ...

The Economic Value of the Auction As a Distributor of ...

Victor K. Mcelheny

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land, ...

Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land, ...

Victor K. McElheny

The major innovations that Land was able to achieve in photography and optics carry priceless lessons for readers today.
Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land

Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land

Victor K. McElheny

The major innovations that he was able to achieve in photography, optics, industry, and science policy carry priceless lessons for readers today.Insisting on the Impossible is the first full-scale biography of this Magellan of modern ...
Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, ...

Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, ...

Kelly Moore

... December 29, 1969, p. 20; “Science Criticized for Serving Industry's Planned Obsolescence,” Chicago Tribune, December 29, 1969, p. 1. 9. Victor K. McElheny , “AAAS Mulls Steps to Stop Disrupter,” Boston Globe, December 28, 1969, p. 1.
Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project

Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project

Victor K. McElheny

... 2008; Rubin, “L.A. County Sheriff's Officials Acknowledge That Genetic Evidence in 5,635 Rape Cases May Be Untested,” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2008; Maura Dolan and Jason Felch, “DNA: Genes As Evidence; Tracing a Crime ...
The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, ...

The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, ...

Michael J. Graetz

... 71; Victor K. McElheny, “'Breeder' Reactor Plan Facing Delays,” New York Times, December 19, 1973, 89; “New Sources of Energy Sought in Expanded Funding for A.E.C.,” New York Times, February 5, 1975, 22; “Breeder Reactor Expected ...
Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair

Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair

Jarrod Meistle

Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair Look for other books in this series Victor the Vampire Victor the Vampire and the Bully Coming Soon Victor the Vampire and Albert’s Allergies Visit Victor on his website www.VictortheVampire ...
Fundamental Behavior

Fundamental Behavior

Hank Manley

he called. “It's Victor Torres. Who is with you at this position?” “Victor Torres?” the guard repeated. “That's impossible. Victor Torres is in prison in the United States. ” “Who is the other guard?” Victor asked again as he halted his advance five ...
Victor the Vampire

Victor the Vampire

Jarrod Meistle

The Victor the Vampire books will chronicle the adventures of Victor, Vivienne, his best friend Albert and the lessons they learn.
Victor Hugo and His Times

Victor Hugo and His Times

Alfred Barbou

This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages, and is generally considered to be the best life of Victor Hugo.
The Works of Victor Hugo

The Works of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

This collection includes: The History of a Crime The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables The Man Who Laughs The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Napoleon the Little
Victor Mollo's Bridge Club

Victor Mollo's Bridge Club

Victor Mollo

Renowned bridge expert Victor Mollo has another card up his sleeve! Advance technique and simple bridge psychology, closely linked, are the salient features of the many brilliant plays described in Victor Mollo's Bridge Club.
The Best of the Victor Book for Boys

The Best of the Victor Book for Boys

Morris Heggie

Following 2010's successful publication of The Best of the Victor, Prion's sequel is this rip-roaring anthology of the best stories from The Victor Book for Boys, which was the bestselling DC Thomson annual published from 1964 to 1994.
Creative Pet Project: Animals and their artists drawn to one ...

Creative Pet Project: Animals and their artists drawn to one ...

Preview

Victor Torres was born in Colombia in 1978. He grew up in a little city caled Ibague. His artistic interest started around the age of seven, when Victor recals trying to draw a robot he was watching on a local television progr amme. When Victor ...
Oral history interview with Victor D. Spark

Oral history interview with Victor D. Spark

Victor David Spark

An interview of Victor D. Spark conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art.
Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective

Victor E. Kappeler

A Contemporary Perspective Victor E. Kappeler, Larry K. Gaines ... Victor Strecher (1997:73-74) extracted and summarized the major findings of the study in the following list: • On investigative effectiveness: Differences in investigative training, ...
Victor's, Beyond Limits

Victor's, Beyond Limits

Janet Enos

Continuing from Series 1, Victor has tried to move on with his new life.
Victor

Victor

Babette Mann Huber

Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region, just south of Rochester.
The Victor: A Tale of Betrayal, Love, and Sacrifice

The Victor: A Tale of Betrayal, Love, and Sacrifice

Marlayne Giron

Who shall emerge as the victor in this epic struggle between good and evil to govern the lives of hapless men?
The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to ...

The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to ...

Hugh (of Saint-Victor)

This is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of Saint Victor's Didascalicon.
History of the Vandal Persecution

History of the Vandal Persecution

Victor

By far the fullest narrative of their doings prior to the time of Justinian is that provided by Victor of Vita, who in 484 wrote the greater part of the work here translated.
Midnight in the Century

Midnight in the Century

Victor Serge

In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin’s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days.
Les misérables

Les misérables

Victor Hugo

This expansive French tale of injustice and social unrest is widely considered to be writer Victor Hugo's masterpiece.
The Circle of the Gods

The Circle of the Gods

Victor Canning

The Crimson Chalice trilogy, first published between 1976 and 1978, is Victor Canning’s classic retelling of the story of King Arthur.
Witness to the German Revolution

Witness to the German Revolution

Victor Serge

Victor Serge is best known as a novelist and for his Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

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