Tabla de Contenidos: “…The National Research Council and the Chicago World's Fair -- Committees on Drug Addiction -- National Research Council Studies in Geophysics and Physics -- Changes in the Organization of International Science -- 11 The Academy During the Great Depression -- WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL (1931-1935) -- Reorganization of the National Research Council -- Borderland Science -- Washington Biophysical Institute -- Engineering and Industrial Research -- 12 The New Deal and the Science Advisory Board -- Creation of the Science Advisory Board -- Organization and Activities of the Science Advisory Board -- Recovery Program of Science Progress -- A New Executive Order Expanding the Science Advisory Board -- The National Planning Board and Its Successors -- Division within the Academy Over the Science Advisory Board -- Failure of Compton's "National Program -- FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE (1935-1939) -- Expiration of the Science Advisory Board -- 13 The Academy in World War II -- FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT (1939-1947) -- The Potentialities of Nuclear Fission -- Vannevar Bush and the National Defense Research Committee -- Academy and Research Council Committees Under NDRC -- The Office of Scientific Research and Development -- The NRC and the Committee on Medical Research -- Other Academy and Research Council Advisory Committees -- The Question of an Atomic Bomb -- The OSRD Office of Field Service -- Planning for Postwar Science -- 14 The Postwar Organization of Science -- Research Board for National Security -- The First Kilgore Bill -- Science, the Endless Frontier -- Hearings on Science Legislation -- Atomic Energy Legislation -- New Science Legislation -- The Dispersal of OSRD -- The Steelman Report -- A Restatement of Academy Policy -- 15 The Years Between the Wars -- ALFRED NEWTON RICHARDS (1947-1950) -- The Loyalty Issue -- Establishment of the National Science Foundation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Expert Presentations and Briefings -- Invited Guests and Observers -- Institute of Medicine Staff -- SITE VISITS -- Memphis, Tennessee: July 26-28, 1992 -- Cleveland, Ohio: August 2-4, 1992 -- Des Moines, Iowa: August 26-28, 1992 -- Seattle, Washington: September 9-11, 1992 -- Rochester and Albany, New York: September 21-23, 1992 -- Albany -- Rochester -- Basic Findings of Site Visits -- B Committee on Regional Health DataNetworks Biographical Sketches -- Glossary -- Acronyms -- Index…”

“…Sus vidas se entrelazarán con la de un asesor progresista del presidente de Estados Unidos, Woodrow Wilson, y la de dos hermanos rusos a los que la guerra y la revolución les ha arrebatado su sueño de buscar fortuna en América. Desde Washington hasta San Petersburgo, desde la inmundicia y los peligros de las minas de carbón hasta los candelabros lujosos de los palacios de la aristocracia, pasando por los pasillos de la Casa Blanca y el parlamento de Westminster, Ken Follett, en su novela más ambiciosa, nos ofrece un esmerado retrato de una época y de las pasiones que espolearon la vida de sus personajes…”

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