Engineering genius, technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions. L. T. C. Rolt's masterly biography is the definitive work on Brunel, tracing the life, times and monumental achivements of the man who helped to build modern Britain.
Revises the second edition of 1984, integrating advances in the field of antiviral research--advances driven by the devastating experience of AIDS as well as by new approaches in drug development. This edition, for example, witnesses the availability of new drugs such as azidothymidine against AIDS, ribavirin for respiratory syncytial infections, dihydroxy propoxymethyl guanine (DHPG) for ocular cyclomegalovirus infection, and a clinical use for interferon. For students and laboratory researchers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR