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Albes, Claudia. “Der Autobiograph als Botaniker. Zur poetologischen Funktion von Linnés Systema naturae in Rousseaus Les Ręveries du Promeneur Solitaire.” In Scheffel ( Collections ), pp. 213-138. [2001]
Biological Sciences
Keywords: biography | Biological Sciences | Carl Linnaeus | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Allister, Mark. Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Popular Sciences
Keywords: Bill Barich | biography | Gretel Ehrlich | Peter Matthiessen | popular sciences | Sue Hubbell | Terry Tempest Williams | William Least Heat-Moon
Angier, Carole. The Double Bond: Primo Levi: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: biography | chemistry | literature--20th C | physical and mathematical sciences | Primo Levi
Atalay, Bülent. Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: biography | golden ratio | Leonardo da Vinci | mathematics | physical & mathematical sciences | physics | quantum physics | science & technology studies | visual art—medieval
Aune, Mark. "An Englishman on an Elephant: Thomas Coryate, Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Early Modern England. Ph.D. Dissertation: Wayne State University, 2003.
Literature, Science & the Arts
Keywords: biography | colonialism | culture studies | exploration, discovery, and travel | literature-Renaissance | narrative | rhetoric of science | social sciences | Thomas Coryate
Bernstein, Jeremy. Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: biography | J. Robert Oppenheimer | nuclear science | physical & mathematical sciences
Black, Naomi. Virginia Woolf as Feminist. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: biography | feminism | gender studies | literature—20th C | social sciences | theory | Virginia Woolf
Block, Seymour Stanton. Benjamin Franklin, Genius of Kites, Flights and Voting Rights. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2004.
Technology
Keywords: Benjamin Franklin | biography | electricity | invention | printing | technology
Brown, David E. Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Science & Technology Studies
Keywords: biography | inventions | science and technology studies
Brown, Don. Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: Albert Einstein | biography | physical & mathematical sciences | physics | relativity
Burns, Brian Edward. Confessional Discourse as Autoethnography. Ph.D. Dissertation: Michigan State Univesity, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: anthropology | autoethnography | biography | Bronislaw Malinowski | colonialism | confession | culture studies | discourse | Edward Said | epistemology | Jan Myrdal | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | literature—18th-20th C | Margaret Mead | Mary Shelley | poetics | postcolonialism | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | rhetoric of science | rhetoric of science | social sciences | theory | Thomas De Quincey
Casale, Frank D. "Dr. Franklin's School of Politics”: Community and "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin." Ph.D. Dissertation: City University New York, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: autobiography | Benjamin Franklin | biography | community | dialog | monologue | politics | social sciences | theory
Cropper, William H. Great Physicists: The Life and Time of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: Albert Einstein | biography | Edward Hubble | Enrico Fermi | Ernest Rutherford | Erwin Schrödinger | Galileo Galilei | Hermann von Helmholtz | Isaac Newton | James Clerk Maxwell | James Joule | Lise Meitner | Lord Kelvin | Louis de Broglie | Ludwig Boltzmann | Marie Curie | Max Planck | Michael Faraday | Murray Gell-Mann | Nils Bohr | Paul Dirac | physical and mathematical sciences | Richard Feynman | Robert Mayer | Rudolf Clausius | Sadi Carnot | Stephen Hawking | Subrahmanyan Chaudrasekhar | Werner Heisenberg | Willard Gibbs | William Thomson | Wolfgang Pauli
Davis, Cynthia J., and Denise D. Knight, eds. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts. Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: aesthetics | Ambrose Bierce | biography | birth control | Catharine Beecher | eugenics | gender studies | George Bernard Shaw | Inez Haynes Gillmore | Marxism | Mary Austin | Owen Wister | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | race | race studies | social sciences | suffrage | William Dean Howells | William Randolph Hearst | women's rights | xenophobia
Dawson, Ruth, and Waltraud Maierhofer. German Rediscovery of Life Writing: Introduction to Essays on German-Speaking Women as Rulers, Consorts, and Royal Mistresses in the Long Eighteenth Century. Biography 27.3 (2004): 483-494.
Social Sciences
Keywords: 20th C | autobiography | biography | class studies | creativity | gender studies | genre studies | literature—19th | social sciences
De Veaux, Alexis. Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: Audre Lorde | biography | gender studies | identity | literature—20th C | poetry | race studies | social sciences
Demy, Timothy James. Technology, Progress, and the Human Condition in the Life and Thought of C. S. Lewis. Ph.D. Dissertation: Salve Regina University, 2004.
Technology
Keywords: bioethics | biography | C. S. Lewis | literature—20th C | medicine | power | progress | space | technology | theology | theory | war
Eller, Jonathan R., and William F. Touponce. Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2004.
Literature, Science & the Arts
Keywords: biography | carnivals | culture studies | popular science | Ray Bradbury | science fiction | social sciences
Fara, Patricia. Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Exploration Discovery & Travel
Keywords: biography | Biological Sciences | botany | Carl Linnaeus [Carl von Linné] | exploration discovery & travel | Joseph Banks
Fichman, Martin. An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2004.
Biological Sciences
Keywords: Alfred Russel Wallace | biography | Biological Sciences | Charles Darwin | culture studies | evolution | gender studies | humanism | literature—19th C | natural selection | religion | science & technology studies | social sciences | socialism | theory
Foley, William E. Wilderness Journey: A Life of William Clark. Columbia: University Missouri Press, 2004.
Exploration Discovery & Travel
Keywords: biography | diplomacy | exploration discovery & travel | Meriwether Lewis | politics | wilderness | William Clark
Gershenhorn, Jerry. Melville J. Herskovits: And the Racial Politics of Knowledge. Lincoln: University Nebraska Press, 2004.
Theory
Keywords: anthropology | biography | ethnography | knowledge | Melville J. Herskovits | politics | propaganda | race studies | social sciences | theory
Hardwick, M. Jeffrey. Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. Philadelphia: University Pennsylvania, 2004.
Technology
Keywords: architecture | biography | malls | science & technology studies | technology | Victor Gruen | Worlds Fair
Harman, Oren Solomon. The Man Who Invented the Chromosome: A Life of Cyril Darlington. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Biological Sciences
Keywords: biography | Biological Sciences | chromosome | culture studies | Cyril Darlington | evolution | genetics | Marxism | science & technology studies | social sciences | theory | Trofim Lysenko
Hsi, Steven D., Jim Belwhaw, and Beth Corbin-His. Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine. Albuquerque: University New Mexico Press, 2004.
Medicine
Keywords: biography | death | illness | medicine | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | religion
Huler, Scott. Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. New York: Crown Publishers, 2004.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: biography | Francis Beaufort | hydrography | meteorology | physical & mathematical sciences
Jones, Landon Y. William Clark and the Shaping of the West. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Exploration Discovery & Travel
Keywords: biography | exploration discovery & travel | Meriwether Lewis | William Clark
Kerner, Charlotte. Nicht nur Madame Curie . . . Frauen, die den Nobelpreis bekamen . Weinheim: Beltz, 2001.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: biography | gender studies | Marie Curie | physical and mathematical sciences
Kluger, Jeffrey. Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004.
Medicine
Keywords: biography | Jonas Salk | medicine | medicine | polio | vaccine
Lambert, Ladina Bezzola, and Balz Engler, eds. Shifting the Scene: Shakespeare in European Culture. Newark: University Delaware Press, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: biography | culture studies | drama | literature—Renaissance | social sciences | William Shakespeare
Leibman-Klix, Albina. Arabesques: Otto Weininger and His "1901--02 Studien" (Analysis and Translation). Ph.D. Dissertation: State University New York Binghamton, 2004.
Psychological & Cognitive Sciences
Keywords: biography | body | character | chemistry | duality | gender studies | genius | morality | Otto Weininger | phenomenology | philosophy | psyche | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | rhetoric of science | suicide | theory
Mandel, Norma H. Beyond the Garden Gate: The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter. Hanover, NH: University Press New England, 2004.
Environmental Sciences
Keywords: aesthetic | Annie Fields | biography | Celia Laighton Thaxter | Childe Hassam | environmental sciences | gardens | JamesFields | John Greenleaf Whittier | Julius Eichberg | literature—19th C | music | poetry | Sarah Orne Jewett | spiritualism | visual art—19th C | William Mason | William Morris Hunt
Markel, Howard. “Medicine and the Arts: The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams .” Acad Med 76 (2001): 48-49.
Medicine
Keywords: biography | medicine | William Carlos Williams
Mazierska, Ewa. The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries. London & New York: Wallflower, 2004.
Psychological & Cognitive Sciences
Keywords: biography | diary | dreams | film | gender studies | irony | postmodernism | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | Sociological Sciences | technology | theory | tragicomedy
Meloy, Ellen. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002.
Exploration Discovery & Travel
Keywords: biography | Ellen Meloy | exploration discovery & travel | visual arts--general | wilderness
Millon, Theodore. Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004.
Psychological & Cognitive Sciences
Keywords: Alfred Adler | Anna Freud | biography | Carl Jung | Carl Rogers | Charles Darwin | dymentia | Emil Kraepelin | Erich Fromm | Franz Boas | Hippocrates | illness | Ivan Pavlov | Karen Horney | Karl Abraham | Kurt Lewin | madness | Melanie Klein | mind | neurology | Otto Rank | personality | Philippe Pinel | psychoanalysis | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | psychosis | Sigmund Freud | social sciences | William James
Moberg, Carol L. René Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Environmentalist. Herndon, VA: ASM Press, 2004.
Environmental Sciences
Keywords: bioethics | biography | Biological Sciences | disease | environmental sciences | health | Medical Sciences | microbiology | René Dubos | social sciences | vaccines
Nieves, Ervin. Beyond Darwinism: Chicana/o Literature and Modern Scientific Literary Analysis: Rereading Josefina (Josephina) Niggli and Oscar Zeta Acosta. Ph.D. Dissertation: University Iowa, 2004.
Biological Sciences
Keywords: aggression | allegory | anthropology | archetype | biochemistry | biography | Biological Sciences | Charles Darwin | class studies | culture studies | ethnography | evolution | Georg Mendel | Henrik Ibsen | John B. Watson | Jose Vasconcelos | Josefina Niggli | Konrad Lorenz | Leopold Zea. George Bernard Shaw | Mark Twain | Mediz Bolio | neuroscience | Oscar Zeta Acosta | postmodernism | Psychological & Cognitive Sciences | race studies | Robert Ardrey | satire | Sigmund Freud | social sciences | violence | William Shakespeare
Nordmann, Alfred. “Heinrich Hertz: Scientific Biography and Experimental Life.” Stud Hist Phil Sci 31A (2001): 537-549.
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: Albrecht Fölsing | biography | Heinrich Hertz | physical and mathematical sciences
Palladino, Paolo. "Life . . . on Biology, Biography, and Bio-Power in the Age of Genetic Engineering." Configurations 11.1 (2003): 81-109.
Literature, Science & the Arts
Keywords: agriculture | biography | Biological Sciences | genetic engineering | genetics | Giorgio Agamben | medicine | melancholia | Michaelangelo | Michel Foucault | Nicholas Andry | power | psychological and cognitive sciences | Richard Dawkins | Slavoj Zizek | Walter Benjamin
Pitts, Angela Lynn. Prostitute, Muse, Lover: The Biographical Tradition of Sappho in Greek and Roman Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation: University Wisconsin, Madison, 2002.
Social Sciences
Keywords: biography | Catullus | comedy | courtesan | epigram | gender studies | literature--classical | muse | narrative | Ovid | poetry | Sappho | social sciences
Preston, Diana, and Preston, Michael. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier. New York: Walker & Co., 2004.
Exploration Discovery & Travel
Keywords: biography | Biological Sciences | Charles Darwin | environmental sciences | exploration discovery & travel | geography | hydrography | James Cook | physical & mathematical sciences | pirates | species | William Dampier
Ratekin, Thomas H. Finishing the Story: The Impact of Terminal Illness on Autobiographical Writing. Ph.D. Dissertation: Columbia University, 2001.
Psychological & Cognitive Sciences
Keywords: Allon White | biography | Biological Sciences | Derek Jarman | Gillian Rose | Harold Brodkey | Jacques Lacan | Mark Doty | medicine | memoir | narrative | psychological and cognitive sciences | symbolism
Ryall, Anka, Anka Ryall, and Catherine Sandbach-Dahlstr_m. "A Vindication of Struggling Nature: Mary Wollstonecraft's Scandinavia." Mary Wollstonecraft's Journey to Scandinavia: Essays. Stockholm Studies in English. Eds.: Anka Ryall, and Catherine Sandbach-Dahlstrom. Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2003. 117-37.
Literature, Science & the Arts
Keywords: biography | environmental sciences | exploration, discovery, and travel | gender studies | literature--17th C | Mary Wollstonecraft | social sciences
Sacks, Oliver. “Mendeleev's Garden.” American Scholar 70, no. 4 (2001): 21-37.
Medicine
Keywords: biography | Dmitri Mendeleev | medicine | Oliver Sacks
Samuel, Flora. Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist. Chichester, West Sussex, England & Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy, 2004.
Technology
Keywords: aesthetics | architecture | biography | culture studies | fashion | gender studies | Josephine Baker | literature—20th C | Marguerite Tjader Harris | Minette De Silva | Paul Poire | Plato | poetry | Pythagoros | social sciences | technology | theory | visual art—20th C
Sandler, Martin W. Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.
Technology
Keywords: biography | environmental sciences | landscape | photography | portraiture | technology | visual arts--20th C
Schultz, Bart. Henry Sidgwick, Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Theory
Keywords: biography | class studies | gender studies | Henry Sidgwick | imperialism | John Addington Symonds | literature—19th C | morality | Occult Sciences | parapsychology | pedagogy | race studies | social sciences | theory | utilitarianism
Shermer, Michael B. “This View of Science: Stephen Jay Gould as Historian of Science and Scientific Historian, Popular Scientist and Scientific Popularizer.” Social Studies Science 32:4 (Aug. 2002): 489-524.
Popular Sciences
Keywords: biography | Biological Sciences | Charles Darwin | evolution | geology | paleontology | philosophy | popular sciences | science & technology studies | social sciences | Stephen Jay Gould | Thomas Kuhn
Shipman, Pat. To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2004.
Literature, Science & the Arts
Keywords: biography | culture studies | exploration | Florence Baker | gender studies | narrative | race studies | slavery | social sciences | Travel & Discovery
Shulman, Seth. Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Technology
Keywords: aviation | biography | Glenn Hammond Curtiss | science & technology studies | technology
Slotten, Ross A. The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Biological Sciences
Keywords: Alfred Russel Wallace | biography | Biological Sciences | Charles Darsin | class studies | discovery & travel | evolution | exploration | natural selection | popular sciences | social sciences | spiritualism
Smith, Barbara Holler. Skirting Bedlam: Women's Autobiographies of Mental Illness (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Susanna Kaysen, Kate Millett). Ph. D. Dissertation: Rutgers University, 2001.
Psychological & Cognitive Sciences
Keywords: biography | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | gender studies | Kate Millett | madness | psychological and cognitive sciences | Susanna Kaysen | Zelda Fitzgerald
Staskowski, Andréa. Conversations with Experience: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Autobiographical Films of German Women. New York: P. Lang, 2004.
Theory
Keywords: | biography | gender studies | hermeneutics | social sciences | theory
Teucher, Ulrich C. “Writing in the Face of Death: Norbert Elias and Autobiographies of Cancer.” In Salumets (Collections), pp. 159-174. [2001]
Medicine
Keywords: biography | cancer | death and dying | medicine | Norbert Elias
Teuscher, Christof, ed. Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker. Berlin & New York: Springer, 2004.
Technology
Keywords: Alan Turing | biography | computers | inventions | technology
Townsend, Camilla. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: An American Portrait. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: biography | native Americans | Pocahontas | social sciences
Trodd, Colin, and Stephanie Brown, eds. Representations of G.F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian Culture. Aldershot, Hants, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Social Sciences
Keywords: Athena Parthenone | biography | Cecil Rhodes | Colin Trodd | culture studies | Elgin Marbles | Frederic Leighton | G. F. Watts | Henry Tate | Jugh Lupus | literature—19th C | Mary Watts | poetry | Royal Academy | social sciences | visual arts—19th C
VanArsdel, Rosemary T. Florence Fenwick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.
Medicine
Keywords: biography | Florence Fenwick Miller | gender studies | literature--19th C | medicine
Warren, Leonard. Adele Marion Fielde: Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
Social Sciences
Keywords: activism | Adele Marion Fielde | biography | gender studies | missionaries | social sciences | suffrage
Warren, Leonard. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: A Voice in the American Wilderness. Lexington, KY: University Press Kentucky, 2004.
Environmental Sciences
Keywords: Asa Gray | biography | Biological Sciences | botany | botany | environmental sciences | ethnography | exploration discovery & travel | geography | John Torrey | linguistics | literature—19th C | religion | Thomas Jeferson | Thomas Nuttall | Thomas Say | Walam Olum | William Swainson | Zaccheus Collins | zoology
Wehr, Wesley. The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, and Friendships. Seattle: University Washington Press, 2004.
Biological Sciences
Keywords: Bill Cumming | biography | Biological Sciences | Elizabeth Bishop | fossils | Guy Anderson | Helmi Juvonen | Jay Steensma | Mark Tobey | Morris Graves | museums | Otto Seligman | Richard Selig | Susanne Langer | Theodore Roethke | visual arts—20th C | Zoe Dusanne
Wiley, Christopher. 'When a Woman Speaks the Truth About Her Body': Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and the Challenges of Lesbian Auto/biography. Music and Letters 85 (August 2004): 388-414.
Social Sciences
Keywords: autobiography | biography | Ethel Smyth | gender studies | literature—20th C | music | narrative | patriarchy | social sciences | Virginia Woolf