Bless Up

House, C. R.

ISBN 10: 1449086012 / ISBN 13: 9781449086015

Published by AuthorHouse UK, 2010

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Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThis book is about the origin of a scientist, born into unpromising conditions in Glasgow. Raised by his divorced mother, the author witnessed her hardship and the appalling effects of multiple sclerosis on three family members. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bless Up
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449086012
• ISBN 13: 9781449086015
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is about the origin of a scientist, born into unpromising conditions in Glasgow. Raised by his divorced mother, the author witnessed her hardship and the appalling effects of multiple sclerosis on three family members. Set against those tragedies were the uplifting examples of generosity and humour of fellow Glaswegians. This account charts the course of the author's education at school and university. At school he underwent a dramatic shift from laziness to diligence, the spur being a drive to offset his mother's suffering from divorce. It was a shift that also shaped his academic future. Running in parallel with the author's school and university education was a train of lowly jobs starting at the age of twelve. He learned valuable lessons about human nature as a dishwasher, barman and tram conductor. Indeed, the value of those lessons outdid and outlasted the academic benefits of his lectures at Glasgow University. The theme of this book is that we are often stamped by the others we meet. And those "others" are usually unaware of the unending influence they create in our lives. Sometimes minor events lodge in our memory with their allied emotional tones bringing good or ill. Examples in this book illustrate the paradox that now and again the absence of someone, who should be in your life, has a more profound effect than the presence of most people in your daily life. And those absentees may be totally unaware of their significance. The title and chapter headings come from the author's life in Grenada in the West Indies. Grenada, however, is not discussed in the book but its benign influence on the author is there between the lines in his writing.

About the Author

Randall House is Professor of Neuroscience and Vice Provost for the Keith B. Taylor Global Scholars Program in medicine at Northumbria University in Newcastle. He was raised in a single-parent home in Glasgow at the end of the second world war and educated at Queens Park School and the Universities of Glasgow, Birmingham and Edinburgh, Without advice, he struggled to find a scientific path into his desired field of biophysics and, eventually, neuroscience. During his early years House saw the hardship and humour in ordinary lives and witnessed internationally renowned scientists at work. Though he had a contrasting vision of two worlds, one of the poverty of many and the other of the privilege of a few, House accepted the difference even-handedly because each lent value to his study of how people conduct themselves. Dr House has held posts in Edinburgh University, the University of East Anglia, Columbia University and St. George's University in Grenada in the West Indies. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and a Physiological Society Monograph entitled "Water Transport in Cells and Tissues" published by Edward Arnold. In 1982 House was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2006 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Physiological Society.