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  • In Their Hands
    Emma Innes / Jamie Innes
    As they enter the labour ward, Emma and Jamie have no idea that their unborn baby is critically ill. Expecting soon to be cuddling their longed-for first child, the couple instead find themselves in the middle of a grave medical emergency. They watch their daughter try, and fail, to take a first breath, witness her being resuscitated, sit beside her as she fights for her life i...
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    15,65 €

  • BEHIND THE LOCKED DOOR
    Gregg M. Schultz RN
    One man, not sure where his next job would come from, is employed by God where he will compassionately care for society’s least fortunate--the mentally or emotionally ill, when they transition into the psychiatric hospital system. I am that man. This is my story of working in the psychiatric system, usually in a hospital setting.This volume is a telling of twenty-nine years of ...
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    15,92 €

  • Broken Is A State Of Mind
    Sandy Gagnon
    Memoirs of an FND Warrior, Sandy’s story started when she suddenly is struck with a disabling affliction and her world becomes chaotic when she has to navigate through the medical community, who treats her poorly because they can’t figure out what her ailment is. ...
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    10,19 €

  • A Doctor’s Reflections on Change
    Eric Walker
    A precious account of an interesting life. Eric Walker like many others boys born during World War II constructed Spitfire models, got lost in the fog as a scout and was excited about the first car of his parents. But already in childhood he was an exceptional kid with broader interests. He then started to keep honeybees and he won an early prize for ’six brown eggs’ as a very ...
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    17,50 €

  • The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla is the true unsung prophet of the electric age, without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, television, and alternating current power generation and transmission would all have been impossible. Yet his life and times have vanished largely from public access. This autobiography is released to remedy this situation, and to understand the life and the mind of Ni...
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    6,74 €

  • Through The Knothole
    Nel Ward / Sue Hardesty
    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a small seaside town on the Oregon coast? Here’s over a decade’s worth of observations and musings 'through the knothole' about shipwrecks and whales, murals and snails, sea lions and trains, birds and aeroplanes, coast industry, fishing, and rough road trips - all sprinkled with the potpourri of life.  ...
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    111,78 €

  • The Journal of a Six-Time Stroke Survivor
    Darrell L. Craft
    Darrell Craft survived six strokes during a fifteen-month period. This is the miraculous story of how God carried him through the six strokes to a year stroke-free and beyond. With assistance, he made a presentation at a support group meeting and later rewrote the presentation eight times, remembering more each time. As difficult as it was, with two distinct cases of double vis...
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    12,21 €

  • The Fight for My Life
    Karen Wasoba
    It’s December 2020, and Karen Wasoba is so weak she collapses to the floor with flu-like symptoms. Her husband rushes her to the hospital where she thinks she will stay for a few hours of treatment. It’s probably just the flu, she reassures herself. Even if it’s Covid-19, I’m a healthy sixty-plus-year-old. I’ll be OK. But then the doctor breaks the news: It is Covid-19, and she...
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    11,18 €

  • Pete’s Bogus Journey
    Peter Cackett
    There is no doubt that life is a bogus journey and it does not end well for any of us. However, join eye surgeon Pete Cackett on his eventful pathway through life and career in medicine and learn from his own unfortunate mishaps. Discover how it is possible to make your own journey less bogus, especially if you follow his advice and tips from his 'Hidden Curriculum'. This book ...
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    83,03 €

  • Space Rogue
    Cris Thomas
    In May 1998, the US Congress invited the seven members of the L0pht to testify on the state of government computer security. Two years later, that same group rode the Dot-com bubble to create the preeminent security consultancy the industry has ever known, @stake. Along the way, they stood up against tech giants like Microsoft, Oracle, Novell and others to expose weaknesses in ...
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    28,29 €

  • Henri Poincaré
    Jeremy Gray
    A comprehensive look at the mathematics, physics, and philosophy of Henri PoincaréHenri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time-he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century lat...
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    45,98 €

  • Forbidden Science 5, Pacific Heights
    Jacques Vallée
    A Reframing of Unidentified PhenomenaAs the world entered the 21st century, unresolved mysteries from earlier times were reframed with new clarity. While civilization had matured in technical depth and global cooperation, research on frontier phenomena expanded across the globe. The early pioneers of the scientific study of UFOs (Allen Hynek, Donald Keyhoe, Aimé Michel, James M...
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    29,98 €

  • Keith’s Inspirational Story Negotiating Cancer-Survive Revive Thrive
    Maryla Mary Storm
    An Inspirational Story of Grit, Determination & LoveThe Miracle Isn’t Surviving Cancer-The Miracle is Thriving While Fighting CancerIn a world filled with blockbuster superhero movies and a new superhero TV show every week, it’s easy to forget that our real world is filled with heroes too.This is the story of one of those real-life superheroes, Keith Storm. Keith’s superpower w...
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    12,40 €

  • Unwillable
    Jackie M. Stebbins / Jackie Stebbins
    When Jackie M. Stebbins had reached the pinnacle of success as a young trial lawyer, she desperately tried to hide her anxiety and depression. But her shaking hands, endless insomnia, and white noise in her ears told her it was true: she had burned herself out. After she pleaded to be committed to a psychiatric ward, her world went black. She awoke a month later to learn that s...
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    14,90 €

  • Musings of a Grieving Mam
    Maire Kyriacou
    It’s humbling to realise that everything I’ve taken for granted over the last 13 years, touching Lils, holding her, being beside her, I now have to ask permission to do it.That now, other mothers’ hands have the unspoken right to touch my daughter.I have to ask permission to perform the most basic of ’mum duties’ for my own child.My. Own. Child.16 days in the head of a mum duri...
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    13,07 €

  • Lincoln’s Physician
    Donald Motier
    Donald Motier is the author of over 20 books including poetry, historical fiction, novellas, biographies and travel. Lincoln’s Physician, a Biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace was inspired by Dr. Wayne C. Temple, retired Deputy Archivist of the Illinois State Archives and leading living authority on the life and family of Abraham Lincoln and is the author of many scholarly w...
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    11,98 €

  • Vladimir Keilis-Borok
    Anna Kashina
    V. I. Keilis-Borok (1921-2013) is the founder of computational seismology and the pioneer of advance predictions of critical events in complex systems, including earthquakes, presidential elections, economic recessions, surges of unemployment, and crime waves. Among his successful advance earthquake predictions are Irpinia earthquake in Italy (1980), Loma Prieta earthquake in C...
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    21,98 €

  • Another Tiny Prick
    Geoffrey Hackett
    WARNING - THIS BOOK MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE. This is a book for men AND WOMEN. The content is up to date and contains important advice for patients and health care professionals. Unfortunately, sometimes topics have to get slightly political, hence the title. Some of the case histories appeared in my previous book,' Just a tiny prick', but this new book contains many new, and I ho...
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    18,16 €

  • Victors Over Leukemia
    Estrellita H. Redmon
    The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society statistics show every three minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, or myelodysplasia. Unfortunately, my family was no exception when my son was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Our experience inspired me to write Victors Over Leukemia to relate my son’s and fa...
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    30,97 €

  • Le spectacle utile
    Amedeo Pitzoi
    « De tous les moyens pour ouvrir l’intelligence, il n’y en a point de meilleur que la curiosité. »– Abbé PlucheAujourd’hui, tout le monde peut connaître les résultats de la science… mais il a fallu beaucoup de temps pour y arriver.Cicéron a été le premier à traduire le langage scientifique pour que ses concitoyens puissent le comprendre.Ensuite, Galilée a utilisé le dialogue po...
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    16,02 €

  • The Useful Spectacle
    Amedeo Pitzoi
    'There’s no better way to open the mind than curiosity.'— Abbot Pluche Today, everyone enjoys the results of science… but it took so long to get there.Cicero was the first to translate scientific language so that his fellow citizens could understand it.Then, Galileo used dialogue to try convincing the Aristotelians that Earth moved. He failed, but his example lived on and inspi...
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    16,07 €

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Thomas De Quincey
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The first half of the book is devoted to De Quincey’s childhood and youth. It concentrates on the emotional and psychological factors that underlie his future opium addiction - especially the period in his late teens that De...
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    41,61 €

  • A Second Chance at Me
    Sweet P
    This book is about a young woman who was struggling with addictions, toxic people, and not noticing the red flags that were going on right in front of her face. It is not never easy to cut off people, places, or things that you are used to having in your life, but in this book, it will show you all the ways of getting out and finding yourself again. You are not going to tell me...
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    12,21 €

  • Grab the Spark
    Joe W. van Koeverden
    Joe W. van Koeverden, MBA, PwP, has lived with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) for ten years. For the last twenty years, he worked in senior management as a CEO, president, and CAO. He’s twenty years cancer free and has been clean and sober for over thirty-five years. My Parkinson’s Journey and Finding My Creative Spark is his first book. He hopes to motivate and provide a positive me...
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    27,11 €

  • Memoirs of a Doctor
    Dr Andrew C S Koh
    Dr. Andrew C. S. Koh shares his personal journey, from his birth in the 1950s to his retirement in 2020, in Memoirs of a Doctor. Through eight captivating chapters, readers experience the joys and struggles of his life, including photos and poetry that relate to the themes of each period. As he progresses, he shares valuable lessons and encourages readers to believe in God, exc...
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    14,47 €

  • Looking Back
    Adewale Ayodele Olusesan Laditan
    In this autobiography, Looking Back: The History of an Oke Padi Resident, Professor Laditan travels back in time to tell the story of his life that spans over eight decades. It is the story of his birth, early childhood, education, marriage, and career. The book deals with his polygamous upbringing and describes how he spent early childhood with his mother and grandmother in Ib...
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    53,55 €

  • That Time I Got Cancer
    Jim Zervanos
    One minute Jim Zervanos was carrying his one-year-old boy to a baseball game; the next, he was in the ER, where for days he lay in limbo, being strangled from the inside. Teams of the best doctors were stumped by his worsening condition, before telling him there was nothing they could do.That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story is about experiencing joy even in desperate times. It...
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    16,61 €

  • That Time I Got Cancer
    Jim Zervanos
    One minute Jim Zervanos was carrying his one-year-old boy to a baseball game; the next, he was in the ER, where for days he lay in limbo, being strangled from the inside. Teams of the best doctors were stumped by his worsening condition, before telling him there was nothing they could do.That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story is about experiencing joy even in desperate times. It...
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    24,01 €

  • Contagion Chaser
    Lee F. Walters
    Picking up where his previous book, Rescues from the Sky, left off, Contagion Chaser details Dr. Lee F. Walters’ transition from saving lives at sea as part of an air medical rescue team with the US Coast Guard to becoming an infectious disease 'detective.' Starting with a one-year medical residency at the University of Wisconsin, he moved on to a two-year fellowship in infecti...
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    44,36 €

  • Contagion Chaser
    Lee F. Walters
    Picking up where his previous book, Rescues from the Sky, left off, Contagion Chaser details Dr. Lee F. Walters’ transition from saving lives at sea as part of an air medical rescue team with the US Coast Guard to becoming an infectious disease 'detective.' Starting with a one-year medical residency at the University of Wisconsin, he moved on to a two-year fellowship in infecti...
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    35,33 €


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