Biography: science, technology and medicine

Ken and Pat were in their sixties when they discovered each other on an online dating site.

This is not a story about death.

RECALCULATING: Travels Along the Road Through Crisis is offered as comfort for the faithlessly faithful who frequently doubt they will find their way through lifes challenges.

Is your loved one really getting the best care possible in the nursing home?

December 9, 2003, is a day Mary Ann Sheveland will never forget.

Susan and her husband, Jean-Pierre, leave their house on a foggy Friday afternoon to see a movie.

JEFF PINNEY LOOKS BACK AT HIS STRUGGLES WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WHILE HOMESTEADING IN RURAL ONTARIO AS AN ARTIST AND WOOD CARVER.

Reaching for Heaven chronicles Rebecca Browders struggle with the Proteus syndrome, a condition that involves atypical growth of the bones, skin, head, and a variety of other symptoms.

When his 707 cleared the runway, he still did not feel safe and maybe he was holding his breath just a bit.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans survive heart attacks.

Much has been written both about and by people who feel they were assigned the wrong body at conception, exploring the struggles and too often the tragedies that result from that mismatch of nature.

This book is a true adventure story, a lovestory, and a tale that has some meaning.

Growing up in a small mining town in New South Wales, Australia, during World War II, Beverley Keegan knew that she wanted to become a nurse.

Ruth Silvers young life was challenged in ways most of us will never know.

Although a diagnosis of breast cancer is certain to be frightening and life-changing, with faith and support of family, friends, and support groups, its possible to come through triumphant on the other side.

In the last century six discoveries altered the course of human destiny: nuclear fission, the microchip, television, the radio, the telephone and development of the airplane.

Shortly after Alysa Cummings was diagnosed with breast cancer, she sat down at her laptop computer and began keeping a journal.

When Rick Hill, who was diagnosed at the MAyo Clinic with very aggressive embryonal cell carcinoma at a very young age, learned about a nutritional clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, that was treating terminally ill people, he journeyd south.

This memoir describes my experiences during the years following my first year in the Aristotelean University School of Medicine of Thessaloniki, Greece, as I began my college student years in the U.

The optimism and excitement author Joseph K.

Bruce Ross knew something was wrong.

HE GAVE MEN A FIGHTING CHANCE.

It is November 6, 1920, in Chilean Patagonia when Oriana Josseau is born into a lively family with two grandparents, two parents, and sixteen young aunts and uncles, most within easy reach of her robust cries.

I Think I Need to Talk to a Doctor tells author Jason Ventres life storyso far anyway.

If theres one thing author Paul Sybert knows well, its the act of living life in the face of adversity.

Dieses eBook: "Berlins drittes Geschlecht" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dian Fossey's classic account of four gorilla families - one of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural worldFor thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa, establishing an unprecedented relationship with these shy and affectionate beasts.

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'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Extraordinary .

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies.

'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief.

Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown.

Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, TelegraphBased on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers takes science out of its box and introduces us to the men and women who make it happen.

What does it take to be an inventor?

For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes.

'What's for tea, Clarrielove?

BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses.

Julia Buckley needs a miracle.

The book is about the "e;space race"e;, starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon landings of Armstrong and Aldrin.

This twenty-sixth volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together essays on leading figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration.

This twenty-sixth volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together essays on leading figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration.

"e;An engrossing read .

"e;An engrossing read .

Stewart Blacker was a remarkable figure.

One of the most important psychologists alive today tells the story of the transformation of modern psychology through the lens of his own career and change of heart.

With a foreword by Bill Bryson'Compelling .

Charles Darwin's name is among the most recognised in the world, and more than 100 years after his death his books are still best-sellers; there are more than ten modern editions of the most famous, On the Origin of Species, currently available.

Sunday Times bestsellerLessons to live by, without getting up with the lark Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and hadn't set foot on a farm until she was 20-years-old.

Nominated for the Chortle Comedy Book Award 2023'Blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny' Daily Telegraph'Enough to make you die laughing' Daily Mail'Funny and moving' Daily ExpressWhether he's initiating a coup d' tat against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once called him a fat slut, Pope Lonergan's work is infinitely varied.