%0 Book %E Glimm, Adele %T Gene Hunter: The Story of Neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler %@ 978-0-309-09558-7 %D 2006 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11548/gene-hunter-the-story-of-neuropsychologist-nancy-wexler %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11548/gene-hunter-the-story-of-neuropsychologist-nancy-wexler %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Explore Science %K %P 128 %X Nancy Wexler is a hunter. Her quarry is the gene responsible for a fatal, inherited sickness called Huntington's disease. Nancy's work is a breathtaking race against time not only for others but maybe for herself, as well. Nancy Wexler is the daughter of a Huntington's patient and is at risk for this disease. Finding this gene is a vital step toward preventing or curing Huntington's and thus saving lives. Nancy's work takes her all over the world, specifically to small villages in Venezuela where the mysterious gene affects more people than anywhere else on the globe. Blood samples generously donated by the villagers hold the clues to discovering the gene. Hunter, detective, scientist: Nancy is all these, plus a friend to people everywhere who are affected by Huntington's and other diseases of the brain. Gene Hunter is the powerful story of a courageous and dedicated woman whose passion for science is both personally and intellectually satisfying. Author Adele Glimm draws on firsthand accounts from Nancy and her friends, family, and colleagues to tell us how a curious, strongminded woman became an accomplished neuropsychologist. This title aligns to Common Core standards: Interest Level Grades 6 - 8; Reading Level Grade level Equivalent: 7.1: Lexile Measure: 1080L; DRA: Not Available; Guided Reading: Z %0 Book %E Hopping, Lorraine Jean %T Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France %@ 978-0-309-09550-1 %D 2006 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11546/bone-detective-the-story-of-forensic-anthropologist-diane-france %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11546/bone-detective-the-story-of-forensic-anthropologist-diane-france %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Explore Science %K %P 128 %X Diane France loves bones. Why? Because they talk to her. Every skeleton she meets whispers secrets about the life—and death—of its owner. Diane France can hear those secrets because she's a forensic anthropologist, a bone detective. She has the science skills and know-how to examine bones for clues to a mystery: Who was this person and how did he or she die? Bones tell Diane about the life and times of famous people in history, from a Russian royal family to American outlaws and war heroes. They speak to her about murders, mass disasters, and fatal accidents. One day she's collecting skeletal evidence at a crime scene. A phone call later she's jetting to the site of a plane crash or other unexpected tragedy to identify victims. Young readers will be captivated by the thrilling real-life story of this small-town girl full of curiosity and mischief who became a world-famous bone detective. This title aligns to Common Core standards: Interest Level Grades 6 - 8; Reading Level Grade level Equivalent: 7.1: Lexile Measure: 1080L; DRA: Not Available; Guided Reading: Z %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 57 %@ 978-0-309-03729-7 %D 1987 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1000/biographical-memoirs-volume-57 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1000/biographical-memoirs-volume-57 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 560 %X This distinguished series contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. A cumulative index for all 57 volumes is now included. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. Volume 57 includes biographies of: Arthur Francis Buddington, J. George Harrar, Paul Herget, John Dove Isaacs III, Bessel Kok, Otto Krayer, Rebecca Craighill Lancefield, Harold Dwight Lasswell, Jay Laurence Lush, John Howard Mueller, Robert Franklin Pitts, John Robert Raper, Karl Sax, Gerhard Schmidt, Leslie Spier, Hans-Lukas Teuber, and Warren Weaver. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 86 %@ 978-0-309-10369-5 %D 2005 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11429/biographical-memoirs-volume-86 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11429/biographical-memoirs-volume-86 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 408 %X Biographic Memoirs Volume 86 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %A National Academy of Engineering %T Memorial Tributes: Volume 1 %@ 978-0-309-02889-9 %D 1979 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/578/memorial-tributes-volume-1 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/578/memorial-tributes-volume-1 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 315 %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 45 %@ 978-0-309-02239-2 %D 1974 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/568/biographical-memoirs-volume-45 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/568/biographical-memoirs-volume-45 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 486 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 45 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 60 %@ 978-0-309-07865-8 %D 1991 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6061/biographical-memoirs-volume-60 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6061/biographical-memoirs-volume-60 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 432 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 60 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 50 %D 1979 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/573/biographical-memoirs-volume-50 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/573/biographical-memoirs-volume-50 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 416 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 50 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 51 %@ 978-0-309-02888-2 %D 1980 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/574/biographical-memoirs-volume-51 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/574/biographical-memoirs-volume-51 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 418 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 51 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %E Bailey, J. Michael %T The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism %D 2003 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10530/the-man-who-would-be-queen-the-science-of-gender %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10530/the-man-who-would-be-queen-the-science-of-gender %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 249 %X Gay. Straight. Or lying. It's as simple and straightforward as black or white, right? Or is there a gray area, where the definitions of sex and gender become blurred or entirely refocused with the deft and practiced use of a surgeon's knife? For some, the concept of gender – the very idea we have of ourselves as either male or female beings – is neither simple nor straightforward. Written by cutting-edge researcher and sex expert J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen is a frankly controversial, intensely poignant, and boldly forthright book about sex and gender. Based on his original research, Bailey's book is grounded firmly in science. But as he demonstrates, science doesn't always deliver predictable or even comfortable answers. Indeed, much of what he has to say will be sure to generate as many questions as it does answers. Are gay men genuinely more feminine than other men? And do they really prefer to be hairdressers rather than lumberjacks? Are all male transsexuals women trapped in men's bodies – or are some of them men who are just plain turned on by the idea of becoming a woman? And how much of a role do biology and genetics play in sexual orientation? But while Bailey's science is provocative, it is the portraits of the boys and men who struggle with these questions – and often with anger, fear, and hurt feelings – that will move you. You will meet Danny, an eight-year old boy whose favorite game is playing house and who yearns to dress up as a princess for Halloween. And Martin, an expert makeup artist who was plagued by inner turmoil as a youth but is now openly homosexual and has had many men as sex partners. And Kim, a strikingly sexy transsexual who still has a penis and works as a dancer and a call girl for men who like she-males while she awaits sex reassignment surgery. These and other stories make it clear that there are men – and men who become women – who want only to understand themselves and the society that makes them feel like outsiders. That there are parents, friends, and families that seek answers to confusing and complicated questions. And that there are researchers who hope one day to grasp the very nature of human sexuality. As the striking cover image – a distinctly muscular and obviously male pair of legs posed in a pair of low-heeled pumps – makes clear, the concept of gender, the very idea we have of ourselves as either male or female beings, is neither simple nor straightforward for some. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 47 %@ 978-0-309-02245-3 %D 1975 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/570/biographical-memoirs-volume-47 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/570/biographical-memoirs-volume-47 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 560 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 47 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %A National Academy of Engineering %T Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 %@ 978-0-309-05575-8 %D 1996 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5427/memorial-tributes-volume-8 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5427/memorial-tributes-volume-8 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 313 %X This series presents biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Engineering. %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %A National Academy of Engineering %T Memorial Tributes: Volume 10 %@ 978-0-309-08457-4 %D 2002 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10403/memorial-tributes-volume-10 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10403/memorial-tributes-volume-10 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 297 %X This is the 10th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. Through its members and foreign associates, the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964. Under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering was formed as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies share a responsibility to advise the federal government on matters of science and technology. The expertise and credibility that the National Academy of Engineering brings to that task stem directly from the abilities, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign associates, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in this book. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 69 %@ 978-0-309-05346-4 %D 1996 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5193/biographical-memoirs-volume-69 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5193/biographical-memoirs-volume-69 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 436 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 69 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 70 %@ 978-0-309-05541-3 %D 1996 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5406/biographical-memoirs-volume-70 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5406/biographical-memoirs-volume-70 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 448 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 70 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 65 %@ 978-0-309-07359-2 %D 1994 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4548/biographical-memoirs-volume-65 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4548/biographical-memoirs-volume-65 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 401 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 65 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 48 %@ 978-0-309-02349-8 %D 1976 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/571/biographical-memoirs-volume-48 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/571/biographical-memoirs-volume-48 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 399 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 48 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %T Memorial Tributes: Volume 18 %@ 978-0-309-31291-2 %D 2014 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18959/memorial-tributes-volume-18 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18959/memorial-tributes-volume-18 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 380 %X This is the 18th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. Through its members and foreign associates, the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964. Under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering was formed as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies share a responsibility to advise the federal government on matters of science and technology. The expertise and credibility that the National Academy of Engineering brings to that task stem directly from the abilities, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign associates, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in this book. %0 Book %A National Academy of Sciences %T Biographical Memoirs: Volume 61 %@ 978-0-309-04746-3 %D 1992 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2037/biographical-memoirs-volume-61 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2037/biographical-memoirs-volume-61 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 580 %X Biographic Memoirs: Volume 61 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %A National Academy of Engineering %T Memorial Tributes: Volume 16 %@ 978-0-309-25280-5 %D 2012 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13338/memorial-tributes-volume-16 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13338/memorial-tributes-volume-16 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 404 %X This is the 16th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. Through its members and foreign associates, the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964. Under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering was formed as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies share a responsibility to advise the federal government on matters of science and technology. The expertise and credibility that the National Academy of Engineering brings to that task stem directly from the abilities, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign associates, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in this book.