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  • The Gift
    Kendall Geneser
    This is the story of one man’s battle with Multiple Sclerosis. The Gift is a compelling personal memoir of both human frailty and the struggle to accept a rather harsh reality. Acceptance comes slowly as the author surrenders his perceived need for confidentiality and slowly turns his efforts from obscuring the truth to embracing it. In its early stages, M.S. often promotes sec...
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    11,62 €

  • Burning Rubber
    Kathryn Larouche Imler
    Burning Rubber tells the compelling story of a registered nurse and single mom of three who took a dying man back to his home in Myanmar, and all the complications that ensued. After returning to Vancouver, her health began to decline to the point of having to retire from her profession. Read about medical conditions like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM)...
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    33,81 €

  • To Carry Wonder
    Emese C. Parker
    Looking to enhance your pregnancy and motherhood experience? You’ve found it, mama! Award-winning To Carry Wonder is a fun new type of pregnancy book, a two-in-one keepsake. It’s a curated blend of story, art, and evidence-based insight--a nurturing companion and guide for mamas and mamas-to-be. Keeping mothers’ unique and varied needs in mind, Parker draws from her own persona...
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    58,39 €

  • To Carry Wonder
    Emese C. Parker
    Looking to enhance your pregnancy and motherhood experience? You’ve found it, mama! Award-winning To Carry Wonder is a new type of pregnancy book, a two-in-one keepsake. It’s a curated blend of story and evidence-based insight--a nurturing companion and guide for mamas and mamas-to-be. Keeping mothers’ unique and varied needs in mind, Parker draws from her own personal and clin...
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    64,88 €

  • Burning Rubber
    Kathryn Larouche Imler
    Burning Rubber tells the compelling story of a registered nurse and single mom of three who took a dying man back to his home in Myanmar, and all the complications that ensued. After returning to Vancouver, her health began to decline to the point of having to retire from her profession. Read about medical conditions like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM)...
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    21,13 €

  • Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect
    Perry Muse
    My mother called me a thrill seeker as a kid. That continued to be a fair assessment throughout my life, but with unforeseen consequences. For 57 years I managed to cheat death as I endured accidents such as a head on car collision that catapulted me through two windshields or hitting a telephone pole at 110 MPH on a motorcycle, to name just a couple. But none of these true-lif...
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    34,57 €

  • The A-Z companion guide to orthopaedic surgery
    Chris Maslin
    As we get older, the likelihood of orthopaedic surgery increases and the NHS is overwhelmed with outstanding hip and knee operations, designed to enable us to age gracefully and pain-free. I am extremely grateful to our NHS for their help with my operation and the experience has inspired me to write this companion guide for those who may also be feeling unsettled and very appre...
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    9,88 €

  • Baikonur Man
    Barry L. Stoddard
    Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the backs of NASA and Congress, with the help of US...
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    16,57 €

  • Baikonur Man
    Barry L. Stoddard
    Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the backs of NASA and Congress, with the help of US...
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    23,51 €

  • How Would You Cope With This?
    Wayne Ramsay
    A happily married couple enjoying the 54th year of marriage ready to enter the highlight of their life; their retirement when all of a sudden, both parties are affected by life changing illnesses. Wayne comes down with an unknown disease called IBM. This disease attacks the muscles in the hands, arms and legs. There is no cure, and no treatment. Once the muscle is affected, it ...
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    10,70 €

  • Từ Kiến Trúc Sư Thành Bác Sĩ Tại Hoa Kỳ
    BS Huỳnh Wynn Trần / PGS. BS. Huynh Wynn Tran
    Tôi cảm ơn ba má đã mang tôi đến cuộc sống này, đó là món quà quý nhất trên đời. Nhờ ba má nuôi nấng và chăm sóc, tôi mới đi xa được như ngày hôm nay. Cảm ơn chị và em đã thay tôi lo lắng cho gia đình trong suốt những năm tôi miệt mài đi học. Tôi đặc biệt cảm ơn má vì đã luôn là chỗ dựa bình yên cho tôi. Cảm ơn rất nhiều thầy cô đã truyền cảm hứng và dạy dỗ tôi. Trải qua nhiều ...
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    16,05 €

  • Confessions of a Surgeon
    MD Paul A. Ruggieri / Paul A. Ruggieri MD / Paul Ruggieri
    As an active surgeon over the last thirty years, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has experienced and lived through the best and the worst of his profession. In his first book, Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated he pushed open the operating room doors to give the public a startling view of what really went on inside the operating room. In Confessions of a Surg...
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    18,52 €

  • Từ Kiến Trúc Sư Thành Bác Sĩ Tại Hoa Kỳ (bản in màu)
    BS Huỳnh Wynn Trần / PGS. BS. Huynh Wynn Tran
    Tôi cảm ơn ba má đã mang tôi đến cuộc sống này, đó là món quà quý nhất trên đời. Nhờ ba má nuôi nấng và chăm sóc, tôi mới đi xa được như ngày hôm nay. Cảm ơn chị và em đã thay tôi lo lắng cho gia đình trong suốt những năm tôi miệt mài đi học. Tôi đặc biệt cảm ơn má vì đã luôn là chỗ dựa bình yên cho tôi. Cảm ơn rất nhiều thầy cô đã truyền cảm hứng và dạy dỗ tôi. Trải qua nhiều ...
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    29,90 €

  • Histoire des Mathématiques
    Jordan Berger
    Dans ce livre, nous aborderons l’histoire des mathématiques.D’Euler à Newton, de Galilée à Einstein, nous couvrirons tout ce qui concerne l’histoire qui a façonné les mathématiques modernes.Nous allons découvrir des secrets et des mathématiques cachées que vous ne connaissez pas encore. Comment les mathématiques ont façonné le monde moderne, de l’ordinateur au casino et aux par...
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    21,69 €

  • Historia de las Matemáticas
    Jordan Rodriguez
    En este libro cubriremos la historia de las matemáticas.Desde Euler a Newton, desde Galileo a Einstein, cubriremos todo lo relacionado con la historia que creó las matemáticas modernas.Descubriremos secretos y matemáticas ocultas que aún no conoces. Cómo las matemáticas crearon el mundo moderno, desde las computadoras hasta los casinos y las apuestas, desde la energía atómica h...
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    21,83 €

  • Louisa’s Lament
    Annie Graham
    How did Louisa Ingle go from being a hard-working nurse at London’s Guy’s Hospital to despised outcast, shunned and condemned for manslaughter?Caught in a bitter dispute between the hospital’s modernisers and traditionalists, she was a scapegoat for the warring factions when the conflict tumbled out of control in the summer of 1880.  This is the story of that struggle and her d...
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    14,48 €

  • Elon Musk
    Bailey Goodwin
    Ob Sie nun ein Fan von Elon sind oder nicht, es lässt sich nicht leugnen, dass seine Ambitionen und Errungenschaften beeindruckend sind. Er hat es geschafft, unglaublich erfolgreiche Unternehmen aufzubauen, zu entwickeln und zu handeln. Er hat ein Imperium aufgebaut und ein Vermögen in Milliardenhöhe angehäuft. Er hat die Grenzen der wissenschaftlichen, technischen und technolo...
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    12,23 €

  • Brilliance in Exile
    Balazs Hargittai / István Hargittai
    By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present....
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    40,24 €

  • Brilliance in Exile
    Balazs Hargittai / István Hargittai
    By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present....
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    134,26 €

  • The Match And The Spark
    Casey Bradley Gent
    The Match and The Spark offers experience and insight through the lens of a parent, fighting time and protocol to save her chronically ill child. This is not the story of a patient as much as it is the journey of his advocate. Family members and loved ones of a person diagnosed with a serious illness can often battle immense fear, isolation, and guilt. Casey Bradley Gent’s memo...
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    17,80 €

  • Just One
    Nour Akhras
    Dr. Nour Akhras is a pediatric infectious diseases physician, one of only 1,500 in the United States. Just One: A Journey of Perseverance and Conviction chronicles the life of this Syrian American doctor, honestly portraying her struggles as an American Muslim in an Islamophobic climate and as a mother providing humanitarian aid in war-torn countries around the globe. Throughou...
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    23,71 €

  • A Legacy of Faith
    Debra Tunney
    Most people feel a sense of importance and responsibility in leaving a legacy. We want the lessons learned from our circumstances and challenges to affect others positively. Those who went before us lived in a way that impacted our lives for the better today. And there is value in sharing our recollections, as it creates a ripple effect of influence on future generations.Author...
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    22,56 €

  • Reminiscences
    Mark J Poznansky
    This book, appropriately called Reminiscences, describes many of my most important memories that I have, largely focussing on my professional life in Science. It is meant to be read primarily by my 'offspring' and perhaps a few others who might be interested to know how I earned a living and spent my time. ...
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    49,80 €

  • Reminiscences
    Mark J Poznansky
    This book, appropriately called Reminiscences, describes many of my most important memories that I have, largely focussing on my professional life in Science. It is meant to be read primarily by my 'offspring' and perhaps a few others who might be interested to know how I earned a living and spent my time. ...
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    64,74 €

  • Dear Psychosis,
    Sarah Martin
    What would you do if you received a message from a stranger telling you that your daughter, who is travelling alone in Turkey, is having some sort of mental health episode?Dear Psychosis, is a confronting, dramatic and no-holds-barred account of a family’s experience following their daughter’s first-ever psychotic episode in Istanbul, and her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder...
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    12,55 €

  • There are No Answers Here, Only Questions
    Charles Bruce McIntyre
    'This book is a warm and neighborly invitation to join Bruce McIntyre on the weathered teak bench under the giant oak in his yard and be spellbound by the dual stories he spins-how he sold his successful business at the same time he was enduring debilitating cancer treatments. There Are No Answers Here, Only Questions is beautifully crafted, wise, humorous, touching, and inspir...
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    19,19 €

  • E. Graeme Robertson
    Denis G. Robertson
    An upbringing in an industrial suburb of Melbourne would have been unlikely to lead to the productive life of Graeme Robertson. After graduating in medicine from Melbourne University and residency at the Melbourne Hospital, he completed his postgraduate training at Queen Square in London, the world’s leading hospital in neurology. After returning to Melbourne and the Melbourne ...
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    28,54 €

  • The Boy with Half a Brain
    Gibson Huston
    Meet Gibson Huston without really knowing or meeting this wonderful young man.Discover at a young age how he dealt with episodes of seizures and the rareHemimegalencephaly diagnosis and hemispherectomy brain surgery that followed.Hear from friends of his and family from their points of view through the journey.Grow up with Gibson as he learns how he lives with the challenge. It...
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    28,38 €

  • My Life with Hydrocephalus
    Matthew E. Petchinsky
    I have written this book to tell the world my journey and experience with Hydrocephalus, a condition suffered by millions worldwide. It is not talked about much, even in medical journals. I want to be the voice for people who have this condition. Hydrocephalus affects everyone in different ways, but some of the fundamental issues are the same. Come read the story of my journey ...
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    10,77 €

  • My Life with Hydrocephalus
    Matthew E. Petchinsky
    I have written this book to tell the world my journey and experience with Hydrocephalus, a condition suffered by millions worldwide. It is not talked about much, even in medical journals. I want to be the voice for people who have this condition. Hydrocephalus affects everyone in different ways, but some of the fundamental issues are the same. Come read the story of my journey ...
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    20,28 €


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