Product Description: The Pisan scholar Hugh Eteriano was adviser on western church affairs to Manuel Comnenus, and lived in Constantinople from c.1165 82, where he encountered an heretical group among the western inhabitants of the city, which prompted him to write the Contra Patarenos...read more

A biography of James Watson, one of the scientists who helped discover the structure of DNA, the carrier of heredity in higher organisms.

Profiles the life and career of physicist Lisa Meitner, discussing her discovery of nuclear fission despite prejudice against women in the field of science during that time. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Christian dualism originated in the reign of Constans II (641-68). It was a popular religion, which shared with orthodoxy an acceptance of scriptual authority and apostolic tradition and held a sacramental doctrine of salvation, but understood all these in a radically different way to the Orthodox Church...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)