Bøger udgivet af G T LABS (MI)

This original graphic novel features famous women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and Hedy Lamarr. The stories offer a human context often missing when we learn about the discoveries attached to these scientists' names. Readers, drawn in by the compelling anecdotes, will discover intriguing characters, while end notes and references will lead them to further information on the scientists they've read about.

Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defyingillusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seemsalmost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very properscientist-magician and the trick's inventor; Harry Kellar, the brash Americanwho fails to buy the illusion, so steals it instead; Howard Thurston, thehandsome and charismatic performer who inherits the act from Kellar; and GuyJarrett, the rough-and-tumble engineer who perfects the levitation and guides usthrough the unfolding drama. But true it is -- you'll never look at magic, or the mysteries of science -- the same way again.

Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parentsabout the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was "love" anyway?Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It tookan outsider scientist to challenge it. When Harry Harlow began his experimentson mother love he was more than just an outside the mainstream, though. He was adeeply unhappy man who knew in his gut the truth about what love -- and itsabsence -- meant, and set about to prove it. His experiments and resultsshocked the world, and Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms will shock youas well.

This book opens with a foreword by special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen(The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) and a biographical essay on Knight by WilliamStout (The New Dinosaurs). The autobiographical pieces featureillustrations by Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales). To round out the volume, it closes with memories from his granddaughter Rhoda Knight Kalt andappreciations from prominent names in the arts and sciences, from Ray Bradburyto Ian Tattersall. Though Knight once said "No one interests me less thanCharles Knight," find out why artists such as Frank Frazetta, Mark Hallett, DougHenderson, Joe Kubert, Al Williamson, and Bernie Wrightson have said that no oneinterests them more!