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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
    Phillip Tomasso
    After two decades in the corporate world, author Phillip Tomasso found himself tossed into the realm of public safety. He went from handling legal employment issues to working for a busy 911 Center.In this collection, Tomasso shares impactful stories from thirteen years of dispatching on the overnight shift.The work is salted and peppered with funny, heartbreaking, quirky and b...
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    23,96 €

  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
    Phillip Tomasso
    After two decades in the corporate world, author Phillip Tomasso found himself tossed into the realm of public safety. He went from handling legal employment issues to working for a busy 911 Center.In this collection, Tomasso shares impactful stories from thirteen years of dispatching on the overnight shift.The work is salted and peppered with funny, heartbreaking, quirky and b...
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    13,06 €

  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
    Phillip Tomasso
    After two decades in the corporate world, author Phillip Tomasso found himself tossed into the realm of public safety. He went from handling legal employment issues to working for a busy 911 Center.In this collection, Tomasso shares impactful stories from thirteen years of dispatching on the overnight shift.The work is salted and peppered with funny, heartbreaking, quirky and b...
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    13,38 €

  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
    Phillip Tomasso
    After two decades in the corporate world, author Phillip Tomasso found himself tossed into the realm of public safety. He went from handling legal employment issues to working for a busy 911 Center.In this collection, Tomasso shares impactful stories from thirteen years of dispatching on the overnight shift.The work is salted and peppered with funny, heartbreaking, quirky and b...
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    26,26 €

  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
    Phillip Tomasso
    After two decades in the corporate world, author Phillip Tomasso found himself tossed into the realm of public safety. He went from handling legal employment issues to working for a busy 911 Center.In this collection, Tomasso shares impactful stories from thirteen years of dispatching on the overnight shift.The work is salted and peppered with funny, heartbreaking, quirky and b...
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    16,63 €

  • From Survivor to Surgeon
    Paul Luu
    In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Paul Luu’s life was thrown into chaos. At just sixteen years old, he left his home in Saigon with his belongings packed into a single duffel bag. Separated from his family, he became one of hundreds of thousands of 'boat people' fleeing communist rule, political instability, and poverty.​After enduring days at sea in an overcrowded boat and ...
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    15,95 €

  • Eye to Eye
    John S. Jarstad MD
    Eye to Eye: Memories of a Mayo-Trained LDS Medical Missionary is the story of Dr. John S. Jarstad. From humble beginnings as a commercial fisherman to his becoming an international expert in eye surgery and an inventor, this book tells the remarkable stories of doctors and patients whose lives were changed by faith, prayers, persistence, and hard work. ...
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    38,25 €

  • Eye to Eye
    John S. Jarstad MD
    Eye to Eye: Memories of a Mayo-Trained LDS Medical Missionary is the story of Dr. John S. Jarstad. From humble beginnings as a commercial fisherman to his becoming an international expert in eye surgery and an inventor, this book tells the remarkable stories of doctors and patients whose lives were changed by faith, prayers, persistence, and hard work. ...
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    42,43 €

  • Sakharov and Power
    Boris Altshuler
    This book is a testimony to the amazing life of Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) - the great scientist and great man, the creator of the most terrible weapon in the history of mankind and at the same time the Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Sakharov’s life is, one might say, an exciting detective story, a chain of incredible events, not accidental however, but dictated by the genius and f...
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    116,05 €

  • Trust Me, I’m a Nurse...
    Moira McGregor
    'This book proves that we are never too old to follow our dream. It is an interesting and inspiring read, which will keep you wanting more. I thoroughly enjoyed it.'Lisa Plutoni, best-selling authorThe first time Moira was taking out internal surgical packing, she felt like a magician’s assistant pulling on never-ending bunting; except it wasn’t out of a hat, it wasn’t rainbow-...
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    11,46 €

  • The Parkinson’s Effect
    Jamie Johnston
    You find out your loved one has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. What do you do now?Just the diagnosis alone can be overwhelming. There is a lot of information on the Internet that can help you, but sometimes it is hard to know what to look for, especially initially. This book contains what we discovered while taking care of my mother-in-law, Judy. She was diagnosed wit...
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    21,98 €

  • Cracking Chests
    MD Alex G. LIttle
    Cracking Chests is a tale of the origins and development of chest surgery-its inner workings, told by a prominent chest surgeon. Interspersed with humorous self-reflection are insights into the field’s pioneers both in and out of the operating room, told with zestful detail about the challenges posed by their times, cultures, and the typically rudimentary state of medical scien...
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    21,51 €

  • Howard Hiatt
    Mark Rosenberg
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    27,20 €

  • Alzheimer’s Canyon
    Jane Dwinell / Sky Yardley
    2023 IPNE Award Winner, Narrative Nonfiction2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, Health (Adult Nonfiction)2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist5-Star Readers’ FavoriteWhat do you do when your reality slips away? If you’re Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write.When Sky was diagnosed with 'probable early stage Alzheimer’s' at ...
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    14,98 €

  • Alzheimer’s Canyon
    Jane Dwinell / Sky Yardley
    2023 IPNE Award Winner, Narrative Nonfiction2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, Health (Adult Nonfiction)2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist5-Star Readers’ FavoriteWhat do you do when your reality slips away? If you’re Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write.When Sky was diagnosed with 'probable early stage Alzheimer’s' at ...
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    21,24 €

  • Rise Unafraid
    Janine Fattaleh Diliani
    Janine takes us on a journey into the truth behind epilepsy. She writes poignantly about her 25-year cycle of suffering from seizures, the challenges she encountered along the way, and the surgery that ultimately gave her back her life. She reflects on how perseverance, ambition, and courage, unknowingly back then, were part of her resistance to accept defeat. Writing poetry a...
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    29,94 €


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