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  • Changing Faces II
    Darrel Dabbs
    Dabbs wasn’t quite a teenager when his vitiligo surfaced.  It showed up as a little patch around his eyes when he was in sixth grade, Dabbs said.  It spread to his lips, mouth, hands and then across his body.            For years, he wore makeup to avoid stares and have a consistent skin tone. He had his lips tattooed so they wouldn’t be pink.  “It made me look so much better,”...
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    23,23 €

  • TU YOUYOU’S JOURNEY IN THE SEARCH FOR ARTEMISININ
    DAN LI MANYUAN WANG LAN Y ZHIQIANG HU / HU ZHIQIANG / Wenhu Zhang / Yiran Shao / Junxian Yu
    Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, r...
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    84,07 €

  • Nipples To Kneecaps
    Mandy Brown
    'Nipples to Kneecaps – To Die or Not to Die with Cancer' is the true, inspirational story of Steve, a man who seemed to have it all…until a cancer diagnosis threatened to take it all away.Historians recall that the mid-1980s boasted big hair, loud music, and iconic Hollywood superstars. Mandy recalls, “My dear girl, I have seen many a patient in my time and we cannot he...
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    15,07 €

  • We've Lost My Prostate, Mate! ... And Life Goes On
    Alan White
    Being diagnosed with prostate cancer once in a lifetime is enough. In 2011, Alan White was facing a second round with this life-threatening disease.Alan’s years of experience as a natural health practitioner and counsellor helped him and his wife, Fiona, to make the choice that no man really wants to make – surgical removal of the prostate gland – and to recover, physically and...
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    18,52 €

  • A Hero in a Bandana
    Brad W Hoover
    You are invited to come along on a gripping journey involving one brave boy and his steadfast family. A story from the hand of an ER physician from the opposite end of the white coat, it describes a parent's nightmare yet also a community's uplifting love and undying support. See how this ordinary father's journal transforms into an extraordinary primer on not only survival but...
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    7,25 €

  • Eco-Logical Lives. the Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley /Plumwood.
    Dominic Hyde
    Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood were eminent twentieth-century Australian philosophers who, in the way of philosophers, devoted their lives to examining fundamental assumptions about thought and the world. Though they were both renowned logicians - and probed metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, social and political theory and economics - it was their determination to fuse the pr...
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    109,13 €

  • The Soul of a Doctor
    Gordon Harper / Sachin H. Jain / Sachin HJain / Susan Pories
    By the time most of us meet our doctors, they’ve been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they’re not all like that, and most didn’t start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal...
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    13,66 €

  • My Inventions
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic and eccentric behavior. Tesla was never able to fit into the world that he found h...
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    20,52 €

  • Passage to Persia - Writings of an American Doctor During Her Life in Iran, 1929-1957
    In 1929 Adelaide Kibbe was a 27-year-old missionary physician who set out from New York, on the steamer SS American Banker, headed for Iran. Her route to Persia took her through England, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. It would be 28 years before she returned home, and during the ensuing decades she would see huge changes in her adopted country: the development of ...
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    17,13 €

  • Volver a empezar
    Rosa María Veloz Félix
    En Volver a empezar, Rosa María Veloz Félix nos abre las puertas de su memoria para compartir una historia profundamente personal y entrañable. A través de un recorrido por su infancia y los lazos que unieron a sus padres, la autora rinde un homenaje lleno de afecto, admiración y honestidad. Con una prosa emotiva y cercana, nos muestra cómo el amor y la convivencia familiar se ...
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    9,88 €

  • The Devil Disguised as Covid-19 Tried to Kill Me, but Thank God, Jesus Healed Me!
    Sheila J. Brooks
    Hopefully, this book will be the closest that ANY reader will get to an experience with COVID-19. This book will place you inside of the very grip of death as it exists inside of a COVID-19 reclusive medical ward! This book will take you from the very edge of DEATH (within moments-even seconds of DEATH!) to complete recovery and total victory over the DEVIL DISGUISED AS COVID-1...
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    13,29 €

  • Not Just a Nurse
    Leigh Black
    A beautiful retelling of stories that make up the tapestry of rural and remote nursing. - Ruth Ni Scanlain Hackett, Emergency Nurse PractitionerFrom the Warrumbungle Mountains to the red earth of the Pilbara, the Island of Lemnos to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge, this memoir spans seventy years of a life dedicated to family, adventure and service to others. Leigh left her ...
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    14,76 €

  • What’s up Doc?
    Dr. David P. Kalin MD MPH
    'What’s Up, Doc?' by Dr. David P. Kalin is an enthralling and thought-provoking collection of essays that probe modern medicine’s complications with wit and a touch of humor.Dr. Kalin keenly analyzes the most pressing health queries, combining expert medical knowledge with real-world scenarios that make the science of healing both unrestricted and alluring.Each chapter spotligh...
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    21,30 €

  • Calls in the Life of a Medic
    Jacqueline Patricks
    Volume 1 of my Paramedic Short Stories Based on True Events Collection:Ride along with four calls in my career. Each one is based on true events, names and specific details have been changed for legal and privacy purposes. Otherwise, these calls are what happened based on my experience. You will ride along in my deep first-person perspective. It is intense. It is adult. It is l...
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    10,91 €

  • David Bohm. Um homem fora do lugar
    Bruno Del Medico
    No panorama da física e da filosofia do século XX, David Bohm surge como uma figura de primeiro plano, capaz de ultrapassar as fronteiras entre a ciência e a espiritualidade. As suas ideias sobre a ordem implícita e a holografia não só influenciaram o campo da física quântica, como também abriram novas vias para o pensamento filosófico contemporâneo. Bohm nasceu em 1917 em Wilk...
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    23,11 €

  • David Bohm. Wetenschapper, filosoof, humanist
    Bruno Del Medico
    In het panorama van de 20e-eeuwse natuurkunde en filosofie komt David Bohm naar voren als een leidende figuur die in staat is de grenzen tussen wetenschap en spiritualiteit te overschrijden. Zijn ideeën over impliciete orde en holografie beïnvloedden niet alleen het gebied van de kwantumfysica, maar openden ook nieuwe wegen voor het hedendaagse filosofische denken. Bohm werd in...
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    23,02 €

  • Carl Jung e Wolfgang Pauli. O entrelaçamento da alma
    Bruno Del Medico
    A história da cultura europeia do século XX oferece poucos encontros tão fascinantes e improváveis quanto o entre Carl Gustav Jung, psiquiatra suíço e fundador da psicologia analítica, e Wolfgang Pauli, físico teórico austríaco, um dos pais da mecânica quântica. A sua colaboração, iniciada em 1932 e que durou mais de vinte anos, representa uma das explorações mais ousadas dos t...
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    19,08 €

  • Family Shattered
    Piper-Lynn
    'So,' I would ask, again and again, 'you actually believe this is acceptable? That it’s normal for a caregiver to become this embedded, this involved?'The worst part was hearing it from the people closest to me. 'But your dad seems happy,' they’d say. 'Why not just let it be?'If only it were that simple.It wasn’t just about happiness. It was about safety. Boundaries. Long-term ...
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    20,53 €

  • David Bohm. Un hombre fuera de lugar
    Bruno Del Medico
    En el panorama de la física y la filosofía del siglo XX, David Bohm emerge como una figura de primer orden, capaz de traspasar las fronteras entre ciencia y espiritualidad. Sus ideas sobre el orden implícito y la holografía no sólo influyeron en el campo de la física cuántica, sino que abrieron nuevas vías al pensamiento filosófico contemporáneo. Bohm nació en 1917 en Wilkes-Ba...
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    27,72 €

  • David Bohm. Un homme pas comme les autres
    Bruno Del Medico
    Dans le panorama de la physique et de la philosophie du XXe siècle, David Bohm apparaît comme une figure de proue, capable de franchir les frontières entre science et spiritualité. Ses idées sur l’ordre implicite et l’holographie ont non seulement influencé le domaine de la physique quantique, mais ont également ouvert de nouvelles voies à la pensée philosophique contemporaine....
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    27,67 €

  • David Böhm. Ein Mann, der fehl am Platz ist
    Bruno Del Medico
    In der Landschaft der Physik und Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts stellt David Bohm eine führende Persönlichkeit dar, die in der Lage ist, die Grenzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Spiritualität zu überschreiten. Seine Ideen zur impliziten Ordnung und Holografie beeinflussten nicht nur das Gebiet der Quantenphysik, sondern eröffneten auch neue Wege für das zeitgenössische philosoph...
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    27,50 €

  • The Life and Work of Nikola Tesla
    Andrew Parry
    The life of Nikola Tesla has been told so often, and so selectively, that the man himself has nearly vanished beneath the stories. He is remembered as visionary and victim, genius and ghost, prophet and cautionary tale, depending on who is speaking and why. This book strips away those simplifications and returns Tesla to history as a working engineer navigating a rapidly indust...
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    27,92 €

  • Carl Jung e Wolfgang Pauli. L’entanglement dell’anima
    Bruno Del Medico
    La storia della cultura europea del Novecento offre pochi incontri tanto affascinanti e improbabili quanto quello tra Carl Gustav Jung, psichiatra svizzero e fondatore della psicologia analitica, e Wolfgang Pauli, fisico teorico austriaco, tra i padri della meccanica quantistica. La loro collaborazione, iniziata nel 1932 e durata per più di vent’anni, rappresenta una delle più ...
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    19,13 €

  • Carl Jung y Wolfgang Pauli. El entrelazamiento del alma
    Bruno Del Medico
    La historia de la cultura europea del siglo XX ofrece pocos encuentros tan fascinantes e improbables como el que tuvo lugar entre Carl Gustav Jung, psiquiatra suizo y fundador de la psicología analítica, y Wolfgang Pauli, físico teórico austriaco, uno de los padres de la mecánica cuántica. Su colaboración, que comenzó en 1932 y duró más de veinte años, representa una de las exp...
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    19,05 €

  • Dr. Adventure
    Warren M. Zapol
    Dr. Adventure is the gripping, intimate memoir of Dr. Warren Zapol, a globe-trotting adventurer whose discoveries and drive helped shape a half-century of science and medicine. Zapol’s memoir traces an obsession with adventure, from youthful misadventures in Jewish Brooklyn in the 1940s to decades of travel from pole to pole, from the Arctic to Antarctica. Charting his rise to ...
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    19,26 €

  • Bill Gates, el revolucionario discreto
    Lucía Fabra
    Visionario, estratega y filántropo, Bill Gates no solo transformó la forma en que trabajamos y nos comunicamos: redefinió nuestra manera de entender el mundo. Desde sus años en Harvard hasta la creación de Microsoft, su historia es la de un joven obsesivo de Seattle que convirtió el código en poder y la innovación en influencia global. ...
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    17,16 €

  • Remembering
    John McMillan
    John McMillan began his mechanical engineering career in 1971, joining Combustion Engineering (C-E) as a junior engineer trainee for a six-month probationary period. He describes what engineering life was like in the 1970s when there were no computers, calculators, or the internet, and all the mechanical design work was done manually with pencils and paper.John shares anecdotes...
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    28,28 €

  • Life Under the Sun
    Angelo Miele MD
    When you have been blessed by the Creator, you want to share your story in the hope of encouraging those who read it. I recently retired from a forty-year practice in general internal medicine. My success was measured by the appreciation of those I was privileged to call patients and friends.I have continued to have two strong desires: to share my faith in my Lord and Savior Je...
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    14,53 €

  • Life Under the Sun
    Angelo Miele MD
    When you have been blessed by the Creator, you want to share your story in the hope of encouraging those who read it. I recently retired from a forty-year practice in general internal medicine. My success was measured by the appreciation of those I was privileged to call patients and friends.I have continued to have two strong desires: to share my faith in my Lord and Savior Je...
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    22,47 €

  • MANY WORLDS OF LINUS PAULING, THE
    PETERSEN CHRIS
    From the author of the award-winning Visions of Linus Pauling comes this riveting sequel that chronicles four pivotal but under-studied aspects of Pauling’s epic life:Pauling in Oregon - Uncover the roots of a genius, tracing his difficult childhood, his father’s early death, his mother’s struggles with mental illness, his transformative experiences at Oregon Agricultural Colle...
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    114,22 €


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