Perusing for Pioneer Pathways

Perusing for Pioneer Pathways

James D. Spain / James DSpain

34,36 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2020
Materia
Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina
ISBN:
9781716685187
34,36 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Jim Spain dedicated his life to education, teaching over 40 years of college level courses, between Michigan Technological University, University of British Columbia, Eastern Michigan University, and Clemson University.He had obtained a position on the MTU faculty by returning a postcard, but within a few short years he was influential in developing a new Biological Sciences Department and was appointed it’s head. He has been a pioneer in many fields, including the histochemical study of rat liver cancer, discovering precipitation chromatography, using oceanographic techniques to study the estuaries of Lake Superior, publishing texts on the application of personal computers in the study of Biology, starting a university center for instructional computing and ultimately creating leading edge computer software for the study of General Chemistry. Over 750,000 copies of the software programs, such as pictured below, have been sold to College and AP Chemistry students across the country by the Spain’s publishing company over a 16-year period. Follow his life story Perusing for Pioneer Pathways through interesting areas of science and technology to discover what lessons his life might provide.

Artículos relacionados

  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
    ...
  • Co-conspirator for Justice
    Susan M. Reverby
    Alan Berkman (1945–2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by h...
    Disponible

    37,53 €

  • My Life with Cars
    Walter Owen Bentley
    The Cars in My Life, first published in 1963, was authored by car manufacturer Walter Owen ('W. O.') Bentley (1888-1971). Considered by many to be Britain’s most distinguished car designer, he founded Bentley Motors in 1919, and led the marque to multiple victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. After selling his namesake company to Rolls-Royce Limited in 1931, he was employed as ...
    Disponible

    18,89 €

  • Joseph
    Louis R T Mulholland
    Assaulted, Humiliated, Robbed, Abandoned, Exploited, Loathed - are some of the experience Joseph had to unfortunately deal with on a day to day basis. Taking readers on a dark journey back in time when laws and regulations were inadequate leaving people with differences lost and misunderstood. This is a world unlike anything one could imagine today. Where anything out of the or...
    Disponible

    16,05 €

  • Joseph
    Louis R T Mulholland
    Assaulted, Humiliated, Robbed, Abandoned, Exploited, Loathed - are some of the experience Joseph had to unfortunately deal with on a day to day basis. Taking readers on a dark journey back in time when laws and regulations were inadequate leaving people with differences lost and misunderstood. This is a world unlike anything one could imagine today. Where anything out of the or...
  • My Downward Spiral To Happiness
    Dean Roberts
    This is the ultimately uplifting story of a young man’s struggle for survival in the midst of physical and mental abuse, learning difficulties, homelessness, depression and suicidal tendencies. All of those things were thrown into his life pot along with the usual issues and relationships surrounding the coming of age, including the highs and lows of teenage love affairs. It is...
    Disponible

    47,98 €