Vilcek jan 1933 (1 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, small tear at top right front corner, cover price $27.95, near fine blue hardcover, appears little used if at all, slightest skew from shelving. VILCEK, JAN. Love and science: a memoir. By Jan Vilcek. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2016, A Seven Stories Press first edition but with 2d printing number line ending in 2, vii, 264pp., . CONTENTS: PART ONE: THE WONDER OF SCIENCE. The Cure for Cancer that Wasn't -- From TNF to Remicade -- Miracle Drug -- PART TWO: A TUMULTUOUS CHILDHOOD. Early Life -- War -- Peacetime Under a New Regime -- PART THREE: A SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION. Microbe Hunting -- Like a Country Vicar in Rome -- PART FOUR: IN PURSUIT OF A NEW LIFE. Marriage and Defection -- America Is Different -- PART FIVE: NEW EYES. Dreaming in English with an Accent -- Sorting Out Interferon -- PART SIX: IN SEARCH OF A LEGACY. Philanthropy -- Vilcek Foundation -- Ars Longa, Vita Brevis -- Postscript -- Appendix: Glossary of Medical and Scientific Terms. ISBN 9781609806682 19.00. …