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  • A Mind That Found Itself
    Clifford Whittingham Beers
    In 1905, after suffering a relapse and spending a few months at The Hartford Retreat, Clifford Whittingham Beers elected to write a book about his experiences living with mental illness and being subject to cruel treatment and physical abuse while being institutionalized.Titled, A Mind That Found Itself, the 1908 autobiography told the story of a young man who had suffered a li...
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    12,39 €

  • Into The Unknown
    Ann M Connelly
    This is a memoir about my work as a Public Health Nurse both in Scotland and Canada. It gives some insight into the diverse areas I lived and the interesting people I met. Public Health is a vastly different career from one of a hospital nurse. Working in isolation, although frightening at times, allowed for ingenuity and trying out many ideas and various ways of getting the jo...
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    22,45 €

  • The Generative 'Source-Mind'
    Marieka Easterley
    This exciting and intriguing new book in the Generative MIND series will reveal a personal (auto-ethnographic) account of curiosity-driven, experiential research based on the discovered seemingly inherent and consistent properties of a reactive blink-action phenomenon. Read how triggered blink-action events can be used as a probing analytical device and an ’inner-wise’ decision...
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    50,20 €

  • The Generative 'Source-Mind'
    Marieka Easterley
    This exciting and intriguing new book in the Generative MIND series will reveal a personal (auto-ethnographic) account of curiosity-driven, experiential research based on the discovered seemingly inherent and consistent properties of a reactive blink-action phenomenon. Read how triggered blink-action events can be used as a probing analytical device and an ’inner-wise’ decision...
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    62,37 €

  • Beyond the Ledger-Exploring the Revolutionary Technology Reshaping Our World
    Herman Strange
    As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the need for secure and efficient systems for storing and sharing information has never been greater. And in recent years, one technology has emerged as a game changer in this space: blockchain.In 'Beyond the Ledger: Exploring the Revolutionary Technology Reshaping Our World,' readers are taken on a journey through the world of block...
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    10,50 €

  • The Flashing Light
    Irving Fox / Irving H. Fox
    In the fall of 1968, Dr. Irving Fox was twenty-four years old, happily married, and living the heady and intense life of a medical resident in a Montreal hospital. His future was bright and promising...that is, until a pulsating blue light appeared in front of his eyes. It was the beginning of a terrifying three-month ordeal of mysterious physical and psychiatric symptoms that ...
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    26,74 €

  • The Flashing Light
    Irving H Fox / Irving H. Fox
    In the fall of 1968, Dr. Irving Fox was twenty-four years old, happily married, and living the heady and intense life of a medical resident in a Montreal hospital. His future was bright and promising...that is, until a pulsating blue light appeared in front of his eyes. It was the beginning of a terrifying three-month ordeal of mysterious physical and psychiatric symptoms that ...
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    25,81 €

  • The Runner Who Never Ran
    Karen Swasey
    In her book, The Runner Who Never Ran, Karen Swasey expresses her belief that one should value their roots and the foundation of their heritage. She takes us on a journey through the stories of her life and teaches us that we should embrace our own journey.'Focus on the perseverance of finding the 'good' or learning experiences in your journey no matter what trail you are on. ...
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    25,13 €

  • The Runner Who Never Ran
    Karen Swasey
    In her workbook reflections edition, The Runner Who Never Ran, Karen Swasey expresses her belief that one should value their roots and the foundation of their heritage. She takes us on a journey through the stories of her life and teaches us that we should embrace our own journey..'Focus on the perseverance of finding the 'good' or learning experiences in your journey no matter...
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    25,17 €

  • My Inventions, Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futuristwho changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism forever. Tesla’s major discoveries andinnovations include the rotating magnetic field, magnifying transmitter and Tesla coil. His researchlaid much of the groundwork for modern electrical system, and the alternating cu...
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    12,82 €

  • Living
    Jeff Stewart
    'This morning I tried to donate my kidney. This afternoon the transplant team told me I can’t. I have cancer.' That’s the opening to the remarkable book Living: Inspiration from a Father with Cancer.Living is for anyone whose family has been touched by cancer. What inspiration would you leave your kids if you might be dying from cancer? That’s what Jeff Stewart, a molecular bio...
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    15,66 €

  • Let There Be Life
    Roger Gosden
    The authorized biography of Sir Robert Edwards, a coal miner’s son who pioneered in vitro fertilization for infertility, embryonic stem cell research for regenerative medicine, and the medical ethics of embryology (Nobel Prize, 2010). "Robert Edwards changed the world, bringing life, hope, and joy to millions of people. I owe him everything," Louise Brown. An improbable hero of...
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    22,64 €

  • MEMORIES FROM PARIS TO STANFORD
    Gregory A. Loew
    This memoir comes in three parts:Part 1, which includes Chapters 1 and 2, presents the highlights of my personal life, my education, and my marriage.Part 2, which includes chapters 3 to 18, is a description of my fifty-year professional career at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where I participated in some fascinating accelerator and particle physics research. Many people ...
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    45,54 €

  • A License to Heal
    M. D. Steven Bentley
    An emergency room physician recalls his eventful career in this insightful, occasionally harrowing, memoir. Despite the subtitle, debut author Bentley’s reminiscences are hardly random. They have been selected to succinctly or dramatically convey the progression of a decades-long career. Leaving out personal details unless relevant to his anecdotes, Bentley emerges as a compa...
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    16,55 €

  • A License to Heal
    M. D. Steven Bentley
    An emergency room physician recalls his eventful career in this insightful, occasionally harrowing, memoir. Despite the subtitle, debut author Bentley’s reminiscences are hardly random. They have been selected to succinctly or dramatically convey the progression of a decades-long career. Leaving out personal details unless relevant to his anecdotes, Bentley emerges as a compa...
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    21,00 €

  • Living With Cancer
    Dr. Gillian Dolansky Presner
    After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time and give advice regarding how to engage with the people in your life with a cancer diagnosis. ...
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    16,89 €

  • Living With Cancer
    Dr. Gillian Dolansky Presner
    After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time and give advice regarding how to engage with the people in your life with a cancer diagnosis. ...
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    28,46 €

  • How I Got Better From A Traumatic Brain Injury
    Madeleine Welton
    Both incredibly informative and deeply heart-rending, How I Survived a Traumatic Brain Injury tells the story of author Madeleine Welton’s recovery after she sustained a traumatic brain injury in 1993. Her moving account of learning to walk, talk, and swallow again while raising two young boys is contextualized within a well-informed look at the struggles that face many TBI sur...
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    32,14 €

  • Jak napsat tisíc knih za rok
    Paul Miller
    Michal Dobrovolný je český spisovatel, novinář, astrofyzik a matematik. Je autorem více než tisíce knih.Narodil se v květnu roku 2007 v Třebíči. Studoval ZŠ Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka, poté na místním gymnáziu. Při studiu napsal téměř tisíc knih. Jeho první publikace (Tabulky goniometrických funkcí) byla vydána v březnu 2022.V 15 letech začal studovat prostřednictvím celoživotníh...
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    6,44 €

  • Cielo de Octubre (Rocket Boys)
    Homer Hickam
    Las memorias best seller que inspiraron la película Cielo de Octubre, Rocket Boys es una autobiografía poderosa y una historia luminosa de la vida en la década de 1960, del amor de una madre y del temor de un padre, de un grupo de jóvenes que soñaban con lanzar cohetes al espacio... y de hacer realidad los sueños. Así comienza la maravillosamente entretenida y extraordinaria au...
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    16,03 €

  • Twisted Path
    Lisa Kathryn Jackson
    What do you do when your life changes in an instant? The appointment changes your life when you hear the words 'you have cancer.' Through this book, I share my experience as a patient and as a person to help those newly diagnosed, or have someone they know in their life who is newly diagnosed. This is not a medical journal, this is advice from one patient to another. From one p...
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    11,94 €

  • Twisted Path
    Lisa Kathryn Jackson
    What do you do when your life changes in an instant? The appointment changes your life when you hear the words 'you have cancer.' Through this book, I share my experience as a patient and as a person to help those newly diagnosed, or have someone they know in their life who is newly diagnosed. This is not a medical journal, this is advice from one patient to another. From one p...
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    17,69 €

  • Beyond the Mailbox
    Pat Gavula
    Living with a chronic illness is not for the faint of heart. Beyond the Mailbox explores the physical, psychological, spiritual, social, and medical aspects of life with Myalgic Encelphalomyelitis, commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The author draws upon her experience and training as a physician assistant and chaplain, and her thirty-five years of life with ME in this...
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    4,82 €

  • 51 Pioneer Scientists of India
    Prakash Manu
    Like religion and spirituality, India has also been a top country in mathematics and science. And today again it is marking a different identity on the map of the whole world. There is amazing achievement in IT i.e. Information Technology and today India has become a superpower in the world in this field.In ancient times India’s physicians like Charaka, Sushruta, Jivaka and ama...
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    14,35 €

  • In Training
    Joan Luckmann
    Recovered and compiled from abandoned boxes of neglected materials after the author’s demise, this revealing narrative describes her traumatic early years and training that prepares her for eventually using her often frustrated talents to produce widely read, highly acclaimed textbooks in her field.Readers interested in learning about hospital life in the 1950s will gather some...
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    11,70 €

  • A Cure For Emma
    Julie Colvin
    A Cure for Emma is a memoir of one woman’s journey through discovery and wonder. Writing with humor and honesty, this devoted mother offers a warm, revealing look at the spiritual questions disease forces into her life while she investigates a world that cannot be proven in a lab. Overnight, Julie Colvin leaves her medical career to become a full-time surrogate pancreas for her...
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    12,63 €

  • The Boy Who Invented Television
    Paul Schatzkin
    In the summer of 1921, Philo T. Farnsworth was not all that different from any other farmer’s son in rural Idaho, until he came up with an idea that would change the world - and thrust him into a titanic struggle with one of the most monolithic monopolies in the world. Farnsworth’s story of divine inspiration facing off against corporate avarice is a compelling - though seldom...
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    36,73 €

  • The Boy Who Invented Television
    Paul Schatzkin
    In the summer of 1921, Philo T. Farnsworth was not all that different from any other farmer’s son in rural Idaho, until he came up with an idea that would change the world - and thrust him into a titanic struggle with one of the most monolithic monopolies in the world. Farnsworth’s story of divine inspiration facing off against corporate avarice is a compelling - though seldom...
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    23,48 €

  • Cáncer de mama
    Cristina Báguena Ruescas
    Estaba atravesando un momento delicado de mi vida y pensaba que las cosas no podían ir a peor. En ese instante, me diagnosticaron cáncer de mama. En esta etapa vital de resiliencia y autoconocimiento quería daros consejos a todas aquellas personas que estáis padeciendo esta horrible enfermedad y a todos sus familiares que también la sufren. En este libro me abro en canal cómo n...
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    17,68 €

  • The Man Who Mastered Gravity
    Paul Schatzkin
    This is the biography of a man whose story cannot be told! The Man Who Mastered Gravity is an intimate profile of Thomas Townsend Brown - a little-known scientist whose unorthodox ideas about electricity and gravity have made him the subject of decades of speculation and intrigue.Brown developed his novel concepts while serving in the U.S. Navy through the 1930s. In the first m...
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    21,84 €


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