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Questo libro raccoglie gli appunti della vita professionale di Bruno P. Pieroni, decano dei giornalisti medici. L'idea nasce da una chiacchierata con amici in vista del suo 90esimo compleanno, durante la quale una collega, dopo aver ascoltato alcuni episodi della sua lunga attività giornalistica, riguardanti esperienze e personalità di vario genere - da Gina Lollobrigida a Nino Manfredi, da innovatori delle scienze mediche come Edmondo Malan e Lucio Parenzan ad altri protagonisti del mondo scientifico - gli ha suggerito di trasformare i suoi racconti verbali in appunti scritti. Durante le vacanze estive Pieroni si è quindi dedicato a scrivere queste pagine, con grande impegno ma anche con grande divertimento. L'autore esprime la speranza che anche chi avrà la ventura di leggerle, a sua volta, possa in qualche modo divertirsi.

Science --- popularisering wetenschap --- geneeskunde

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They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth, governments keep on taxing sales, restaurant patrons, renters of automobiles, and hotel visitors in order to build ever more elaborate cathedrals of professional sport often in order to satisfy an owner who has threatened to move his team to greener, more subsidy happy, pastures.  This book is a sweeping survey of the literature in the field, the history of such subsidies, the politics of stadium construction and franchise movement, and the prospects for a re privatization of ballpark and stadium financing. It ties together disparate strands in a fascinating story, examining the often colorful cases through which governments became involved in sports. These range from the well known to the obscure from Yankee Stadium and the Astrodome to the Brooklyn Dodgers' move to Los Angeles (to a privately built ballpark constructed upon land that had been seized via eminent domain from a mostly Mexican American population) to such arrant giveaways as Cowboys Stadium. It examines alternatives that might lessen the pressure for public subsidies, whether the Green Bay Packers model (in which the team's owners are local stockholders) or via league expansions. It also takes a look at little-known, yet significant, episodes such as President Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in the collegiate football crisis of 1905 a move that indirectly put the federal government on the side of such basic rule changes as the legalization of the forward pass.      They Play, You Play is a fresh look at a political and economic puzzle: how it came to be that Joe and Jane Sixpack in the Bronx and Dallas subsidize the Steinbrenners and Jerry Joneses of professional sport.

Science --- Economics --- popularisering wetenschap --- economie

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The Elephant in the Room is a collection of real life short stories about cancer patients and their doctors.  These stories comfort and entertain, inform and engage, and are a treat to read. With humour and empathy, Jonathan Waxman explores the human side of cancer.

Science --- Oncology. Neoplasms --- popularisering wetenschap --- geneeskunde --- oncologie

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Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms.  This book is intended to contribute to grasping how much that is interesting and new is happening in the relationships between mathematics, imagination and culture. With a look at the past, at figures and events, that help to understand the phenomena of today. It is no coincidence that this volume contains an homage to the great Italian artist of the 1700s, Andrea Pozzo, and his perspective views. Theatre, art and architecture are the topics of choice, along with music, literature and cinema. No less important are applications of mathematics to medicine and economics. The treatment is rigorous but captivating, detailed but full of evocations, an all-embracing look at the world of mathematics and culture  

Science --- Mathematics --- popularisering wetenschap --- toegepaste wiskunde --- wetenschappen

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Science --- Computer. Automation --- popularisering wetenschap --- informatica --- wetenschappen