Biography: science, technology and medicine

Case Studies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care uses a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with an important learning tool to improve critical thinking skills and encourage discussion toward improving experiences for patients and their families.

Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing The needs of critically ill children are unique and highly specialised.

Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing The needs of critically ill children are unique and highly specialised.

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward.

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward.

Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.

An engaging account of a neurologist''s experience with an Alzheimer''s diagnosis, a disease he spent decades treating in others.

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

An engaging account of a neurologist''s experience with an Alzheimer''s diagnosis, a disease he spent decades treating in others.

A selection of correspondence, much previously unpublished, between Darwin and women in his circle, both family members and colleagues.

A selection of correspondence, much previously unpublished, between Darwin and women in his circle, both family members and colleagues.

Containing never-before-published material, this fascinating account sheds new light on one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from the Adam Kay of mental healthcare (THE TIMES) This is honestly my dream book Fascinating FERN BRADY Fearlessly honest, funny and uplifting JO BRAND Very funny and deeply sympathetic.

The Missing Link is an autobiography and memoir of my life here in the United States since my adoption in 1961.

Elation turns to fear as the young doctor steps into the rundown clinic sixty years ago.

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Simple beginnings.

As a health-care professional, I encountered patients daily in the intensive care unit - "e;circling the drain"e; - as we described their status.

aEURoeThe walls are breathing,aEUR her 20-year-old son said.

The one who wars against our soul has been working to destroy the family unit since Genesis.

In this book, I want to help as many people as I can make better choices and live a better life as a diabetic based on my life story and the things that I went through.

Healing Hands is a part of my life story how I was able to overcome the challenges that I've faced as child and up into adulthood.

Was Einstein Religious or Atheist?

Elon Musk é, sem dúvida, um titã dos negócios.

Elon Musk est indéniablement un titan des affaires.

Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring award-winning actor Ben Whishaw.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

A practical guidebook for healthcare practitioners on how best to support children, young people and families through parental cancer.

A practical guidebook for healthcare practitioners on how best to support children, young people and families through parental cancer.

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar” The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything.

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).

A candid and intimate story of a courageous woman, where Mei talks directly to you.

May I Have This Dance tells the courageous and moving story of Connie Manse Ngcaba, who grew up in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, where she became a nurse, community figurehead and a leading voice of dissent against the apartheid regime.

In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for observation when he wont stop crying.

Set in Uganda of the sixties with bookends in India and New York, this doctors story tells of a turbulent political time when colonial Uganda graduated to self-rule.

Fruitcake Hill is a cleverly written history and personal memoir of an Irish family from the Chicago suburbs that has continuously occupied a single farmhouse property for over 137 years.

One time is ending, but another is just beginning, an entirely new era in the history of the Earth: the noosphere.

When the author was a kid, a big white sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street.

In 2001 Peter Anderson was 37 and had the perfect life: very much in love and recently married with an infant daughter he adored; an intelligent and sensitive man working a job he loved as a popular secondary school teacher and a talented sportsman training for a marathon.