Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you.
The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a "e;gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world"e; and our place in it (Vancouver Sun).
The acclaimed author's memoir of life with an African grey parrot offers "e;a thoughtful and generous celebration of minds and bodies different from our own"e; (Times Literary Supplement, UK).
Amy Post's Out of the Gray, into the Light is a gut-wrenching story of parental helplessness following their daugther's diagnosis of malignant liver cancer, and it shares the raw, unfiltered emotions of a family suddenly sucked into a healthcare system that often leaves weakened patients to stand silent and alone, in desperate need of an advocate.
In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice and palliative care team members-especially social workers and counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care to individuals who are dying or bereaved.
Liliane Weissberg und Ernst Osterkamp widmen sich dem Leben und dem Werk des berühmten Gelehrten Michael Bernays, der im Mai 1873 ein Extraordinariat an der Universität München antrat und ab Februar 1874 ebendort Ordinarius war.
* Die Autorin legt mit diesem Band die zweite Veröffentlichung einer Reihe vor, in der in loser Folge Ergebnisse ihrer biografischen Forschungen zu der Mathematikerin Emmy Noether publiziert werden sollen.
In seinem Buch 'Einstein: Historischer Roman' wirft Alexander Moszkowski einen faszinierenden Blick auf das Leben und Werk des berühmten Physikers Albert Einstein.
Alexandre Yersin, Arzt, Forscher, Seefahrer, Landwirt, Geograf und Mitarbeiter Louis Pasteurs, wird von einer unbändigen Neugier um die Welt getrieben.
Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.
Das Leben Benjamin Franklins ist eine faszinierende Autobiografie, die einen Einblick in das Leben dieses einflussreichen amerikanischen Politikers, Erfinders, Schriftstellers und Wissenschaftlers bietet.
Die Biografie 'Albrecht Dürer - Biografie mit Illustrationen' von Willy Pastor bietet dem Leser einen tiefen Einblick in das Leben und Werk des berühmten deutschen Künstlers.
Refreshingly forthright New York Times | Extraordinary Laura Lynne Jackson | Beautifully written Katy Butler | Tender and transformative Christie Tate | Meaningful and sublime Theresa BrownWhat can life s final moments teach us about living well today?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' Will Storr'Witty, lively and best of all, extremely nerdy.
Die in diesem Band versammelten Geschichten sind alle unterschiedlich und doch haben sie einen gemeinsamen Kern: eine Liebe für die Gegensätzlichkeit der Existenz.
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EXPLAINING HUMANS'A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and richer lives' Prof.
The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidestepsnot the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology.
Eines weiß sie genau, als sie heranwächst: Heiraten will das Mädchen von der Insel Rügen auf keinen Fall, der große Bruder Carl genügt ihr als Vertrauter.
This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.
