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Tesla : his tremendous and troubled life / Marko Perko, Stephen M. Stahl.
"The authors Marko Perko and Stephen M. Stahl, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., propose a "new- style biography" entitled T E S L A: His Tremendous and Troubled Life. They will examine Nikola Tesla in a manner that has yet to be accomplished in publishing history-asking and answering the seminal question: Who was the real man with an extremely complex psyche/personality, who lived with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and a hyperthymic temperament spilling over at times into high flying bipolar mania and then crashing into devastating depression-and not simply the iconoclastic scientist who invented the modern world?"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781633887725
- ISBN: 1633887723
- Physical Description: xxviii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-327) and index. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Branch District Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Bronson Branch | 921 TESLA, NIKOLA (Text) | 35403424192990 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Tesla : His Tremendous and Troubled Life
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Table of Contents
Tesla : His Tremendous and Troubled Life
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | p. vii | |
| Note to the Reader | p. xi | |
| Cast of Characters | p. xv | |
| Timeline of Significant Events | p. xix | |
| Timeline of Psychiatric Events | p. xxiii | |
| Part I | Dreaming | |
| 1 | Lightning and Thunder: Precocious | p. 3 |
| 2 | Halcyon Days: Learning the Basics | p. 23 |
| 3 | On the Continent: Testing the Limits | p. 40 |
| 4 | Home in America: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | p. 61 |
| 5 | War of the Currents: Mania, Wrath, Anger | p. 76 |
| 6 | New Creations: Unhappy, Uncertain | p. 92 |
| Part II | The War Continues | |
| 7 | Searching for the New; Charisma, Showman, Mania Sells | p. 111 |
| 8 | Tour de Force: Triumph, Tragedy | p. 122 |
| 9 | The Show Must Go On: The Glory of AC | p. 138 |
| 10 | The Protectors: Naiveté | p. 156 |
| 11 | The Great Conflagration: Broken Spirit | p. 170 |
| 12 | From Earth to Mars: Bewildered, Betrayed, yet Triumphant | p. 177 |
| 13 | Lightning and Thunder Redux: Explosions in the Mind | p. 196 |
| 14 | The Wardenclyffe Wonder: Narcissism, Hypomania, Vanity | p. 215 |
| Part III | To Lift the Burdens | |
| 15 | Principle over Profit: Grandiosity, Humanity | p. 233 |
| 16 | Strange Brew: Bizarre, Psychosis, Reality Testing, Magical Thinking | p. 248 |
| Part IV | Deep in the Abyss | |
| 17 | Into the Ether: Postmortem | p. 263 |
| 18 | The Brand: Legacy | p. 268 |
| Epilogue | p. 271 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 275 | |
| Appendix A | Patents: Inventions and Discoveries | p. 277 |
| Appendix B | Bibliographical Essay | p. 279 |
| Notes | p. 281 | |
| Bibliography | p. 321 | |
| Index | p. 329 | |
| About the Authors | p. 339 |
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