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  • SUDDENLY MY ZODIAC SIGN CHANGED FROM GEMINI TO CANCER
    Ben Anderson / Scott G. Halversen
    Thrown for a loop by stage 4 lymphoma and a secondary brain tumor, a cancer patient recounts how he landed on his feet with a positive attitude and an offbeat sense of humor. He’s put together a mixed bag of suggested activities, attitudes, and nitty-gritty hospital tips to help you get through chemo. ...
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    22,66 €

  • SUDDENLY MY ZODIAC SIGN CHANGED FROM GEMINI TO CANCER
    Halversen Illustrations by Ben Anders... / Scott G. Halversen
    Thrown for a loop by stage 4 lymphoma and a secondary brain tumor, a cancer patient recounts how he landed on his feet with a positive attitude and an offbeat sense of humor. He’s put together a mixed bag of suggested activities, attitudes, and nitty-gritty hospital tips to help you get through chemo. ...
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    30,30 €

  • Nursing, Yes I Do!
    Aubrey Labalia
    Nursing, Yes I Do! Is a compelling story of a high school graduate who had an aspiration to become a nurse, without knowing the hardship, drama, heroism, or heartache that comes from being a medical professional. Follow Aubrey in her memoir of entering the healthcare workforce and experiencing being commended by some, abused or criticized by others, while seeing the birth of a...
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    18,44 €

  • Urgent Calls from Distant Places
    Marc-David Munk
    A profound exploration of emergency medicine practiced at the most remote and challenging frontiers of East Africa. This inspiring memoir finds hope and meaning in the face of extraordinary odds as a young physician asks: What are the ethical and moral dimensions of saving one life knowing countless others will die?In 2008, a young doctor set out for Kenya to volunteer with th...
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    22,71 €

  • Urgent Calls from Distant Places
    Marc-David Munk
    A profound exploration of emergency medicine practiced at the most remote and challenging frontiers of East Africa. This inspiring memoir finds hope and meaning in the face of extraordinary odds as a young physician asks: What are the ethical and moral dimensions of saving one life knowing countless others will die?In 2008, a young doctor set out for Kenya to volunteer with th...
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    14,54 €

  • Addiction’s Grip
    Armando Fuentes
    Welcome to my book, specifically tailored for parents and teenagers who are seeking to understand the devastating consequences of fentanyl overdoses and the impact of this administration’s open Southern border on the loss of my son. In the pages that follow, I will explore a heart-wrenching story that sheds light on the realities and dangers associated with drug abuse and flawe...
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    19,02 €

  • Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia
    Amanda LaPera
    No drugs. No alcohol. So, how does a fifty-three-year-old develop schizophrenia? That question puzzles Joseph’s family when his mind descends into madness, filled with delusions and paranoia. He roams the world as a self-proclaimed prophet-of-God-purportedly arrested in Israel, advised the Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. When he returns to the United States...
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    37,97 €

  • Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia
    Amanda LaPera
    No drugs. No alcohol. So, how does a fifty-three-year-old develop schizophrenia? That question puzzles Joseph’s family when his mind descends into madness, filled with delusions and paranoia. He roams the world as a self-proclaimed prophet-of-God-purportedly arrested in Israel, advised the Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. When he returns to the United States...
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    25,71 €

  • Through the Lens of Humanity (a memoir)
    Mark E. Anderson
    In Through the Lens of Humanity, we are invited to accompany Mark Anderson on his humanitarian and spiritual journeys into a world of unfamiliar countries and cultures, where the marvels of beauty and shared community often clash with unspeakable tragedies of poverty, war and intolerance.  Drawn from Anderson’s own experiences, we are privy to conversations with some of the mos...
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    40,34 €

  • Addiction’s Grip
    Armando Fuentes
    Welcome to my book, specifically tailored for parents and teenagers who are seeking to understand the devastating consequences of fentanyl overdoses and the impact of this administration’s open Southern border on the loss of my son. In the pages that follow, I will explore a heart-wrenching story that sheds light on the realities and dangers associated with drug abuse and flawe...
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    16,52 €

  • Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
    Antonio Moreno González
    La vida y la obra de Alejandro Volta (Como, 1745-1827) son poco conocidas a pesar de haber sido el inventor de la pila eléctrica, hecha pública en 1799, de tanta trascendencia en su tiempo y a lo largo de los tiempos hasta llegar a nuestros días en que la electricidad y sus múltiples aplicaciones condicionan la vida en y de nuestro planeta y la navegación exploratoria del espac...
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    23,96 €

  • Hippocrate
    Paul de Rémusat
    ' ... On ne peut pourtant prétendre qu’Hippocrate ait été le premier médecin et qu’avant lui il y eut à peine des empiriques. Il est sans exemple qu’un homme, quel que soit son génie, ait pu créer une science et la rendre telle qu’apparaît la médecine dans les livres dont nous allons parler. Cela n’arrive pas même pour les découvertes les plus simples, qui, pour être complètes,...
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    9,65 €

  • Newton
    Paul de Rémusat
    ' ... À quoi sert de savoir que la chute d’une pomme a mis Newton sur la voie de la gravitation ? Un tel exemple ne peut être utile à personne, et Newton, n’eût-il jamais vu de pommier, n’aurait probablement pas moins découvert la cause du mouvement des astres. Chaque inventeur a des procédés d’esprit différents, et, par cela même qu’il est inventeur, n’emprunte rien à personne...
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    10,19 €

  • Valleys and Mountains
    Merilee Kaufman
    Have you ever traveled life’s treadmill of disasters: hit valleys such as parental split and career aspirations? Then, did serious diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes and heart disease become your everyday partner?  Ascending mountains, the author has achieved academic and artistic accomplishments, developed lasting friendships, and found love.Award-winning writer/poet/...
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    13,62 €

  • Anil Bhansali’s Journey as Microsoft India Managing Director
    Tali J Lingam
    This is Volume I in the book collection about Anil Bhansali. This book traces the journey of Anil Bhansali as Microsoft India Managing Director and should be an eye-opener to everyone to understand what goes inside the glorified facade of one of the famous offices in India and arguably the world. ...
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    7,10 €

  • Satya Nadella’s Journey as Microsoft Chairman and CEO
    Tali J Lingam
    Get a special glimpse into the secretive world of Satya Nadella who is widely considered the richest non-founder CEO with earnings estimated over one billion U.S. dollars. Ruthless and Manipulative. These two words effectively describe Satya Nadella at Microsoft. But how did it come to be like this? How did Nadella who as a child was less interested in academics during his scho...
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    4,45 €

  • Elon Musk
    Stellar Stories
    Unlock the Secrets of a Modern VisionaryA Visionary’s Journey isn’t just a book; it’s a voyage through the mind of one of the most extraordinary entrepreneurs of our time. Are you ready to dive deep into the world where bold ideas meet relentless execution? Why This Book? Why Now?For Innovators & Dreamers: If you’ve ever dared to dream big or push boundaries, Musk’s story isn’t...
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    6,96 €

  • Mario Roso de Luna | Poeta de los cielos
    Mario Roso de Luna
    A Mario Roso de Luna se le considera astrólogo más que astrónomo aunque lo que más le hubiera gustado ser y sobre lo que más investigó y publicó en este terreno fue sobre astronomía. También se le considera más ocultista y mago que científico aunque era licenciado en Ciencias Fisicoquímicas, y muchos le tildan de pitagórico y filósofo aunque su doctorado académico en la Univers...
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    22,87 €

  • They Are Going To Kill Us All
    Dr. Kevin Ford
    The book started out as a medical autobiography using alternative health and unusual medical lab testing to investigate various chemicals, toxins and poisons and other nutritional, metabolic, and neurologic functions. Then I added some medical history for a larger overview on health. I updated it and changed the title so include the recent current events including COVID, Dr. Fa...
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    13,42 €

  • An Alert, Well-Hydrated Artist in No Acute Distress
    Catherine Armsden
    Two Artists, a Singular Friendship, and a Six-State Quest for a DiagnosisHadley Ferguson and Catherine Armsden, a painter and a writer, have each spent years seeking a diagnosis for their troubling symptoms. When they are finally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, they meet in an online support group and quickly become long-distance friends. But for Hadley, the shared diagnosi...
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    25,10 €

  • Aerial Nurse Corps of America
    Cynthia Broze
    If we are sick and require air transport, we expect a skilled flight nurse will assist us. Before 1936 this was far from reality. Air transportation of critically ill patients began sporadically during World War I, but they crammed the wounded behind the pilot’s area with no one to attend to them-the sick and dying patients had to fend for themselves. Lauretta Schimmoler realiz...
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    46,75 €

  • Searching for Truth
    Jacques G. LeBlanc
    Searching for truth is not a search for God. It is a journey into the self and what shapes humanity on earth. Truth seeking involves deep introspection and reflection, an open mind and the courage to look into life in our society and our earth. Experiences are examined with the intention of drawing on the knowledge and experience of others to illuminate the self. Considering cu...
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    26,02 €

  • From the Sidelines to the Finish Line
    Emily Falcon
    In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed forty percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, and hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious cond...
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    24,91 €

  • Visions of Linus Pauling
    Chris Petersen
    His life thrown into chaos by the death of his father in his youth, Linus Pauling persevered through an impoverished childhood to become one of the great scientists and humanitarians of the 20th century. In a stunningly original examination of the two-time Nobel Laureate, Oregon State University archivist Chris Petersen touches upon the major eras of Pauling’s life and dials in...
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    57,20 €

  • My Downward Spiral To Happiness
    Dean Roberts
    This is the ultimately uplifting story of a young man’s struggle for survival in the midst of physical and mental abuse, learning difficulties, homelessness, depression and suicidal tendencies. All of those things were thrown into his life pot along with the usual issues and relationships surrounding the coming of age, including the highs and lows of teenage love affairs. It is...
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    47,98 €

  • No Wisdom without Folly
    Danielle Losman
    This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his ch...
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    83,29 €

  • No Wisdom without Folly
    Danielle Losman
    This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his ch...
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    35,46 €

  • Stephen Hawking
    United Library
    Stephen Hawking es una cautivadora biografía que profundiza en la extraordinaria vida y las innovadoras contribuciones científicas de una de las mentes más brillantes de nuestro tiempo. Nacido en Oxford en el seno de una familia de médicos, Stephen Hawking desafió todas las probabilidades y superó los efectos debilitantes de la enfermedad de la neurona motora para convertirse e...
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    9,05 €

  • Stabbed in the Back
    Jacqueline Haigh / Samara Jones
    Strap yourself in ...The astonishing true story of medical Arachnoiditis. 'It’s impossible not to think of Henry Marsh’s super-selling Do No Harm'- Positive TV A young woman with big dreams and a great career in IT emigrates from Russia to London, falls in love, marries, and goes to the hospital to have her first baby, a happy and healthy little girl. It’s a modern-day fairy ta...
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    9,24 €

  • Breaking All The Rules
    Jim Cantrell
    Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960’s US-Soviet space race and eventually led to SpaceX and the explosive growth in commercial space being seen today. The story covers how this revolution began with a band of misfit engineers and scientists and the inside story of how this ...
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    21,05 €


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