Biography: science, technology and medicine

A practical guide to helping those living with dementia live their best life in a way that makes sense to them.

One cold winter night, on my way to have dinner with friends, I got stuck in traffic.

Americans kept working their way through the tunnel of the Vietnam War, seeking the light at the end our leadership kept telling us was there.

This is the true story of a nurse's life.

Ever wondered what it's like to be hit by lightning or to lose your sense of smell?

Escribo este libro para compartir la experiencia que tuvo mi hijo y para poder evitar una tragedia mas a causa de las motocicletas.

The beloved sportscaster recounts how he maintained a positive outlook on life in the face of battling leukemia in this moving and inspiring memoir.

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

Sauls Damascus Road event is one of the most dramatic events in the Bible, and for so many different reasons that can and has directly impacted the lives of so many Christians.

A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis.

This story follows the life of one paramedic as he is transformed from a wet behind the ears and new EMT to a knowledgeable and experienced paramedic.

Healing Faith is about life's little and big surprises.

Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical experiences of other people.

On any given day any one of us could awaken to an event that may change our lives forever.

This is a story of pain, agony, and torture suffered by those afflicted with ALS.

Paget's disease is a rare and painful bone disease for which there is no cure.

My life has grown in wholeness with the writing of this book.

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.

Two Rivers, a World Apart is an autobiography of a young boy who spent most of his life by the banks of two rivers, namely the Pigalo River in his native country, the Philippines, and Ohio River in continental USA, where he took permanent residence and eventual retirement.

The book tells an uncommon story of a distinguished particle astrophysicist and accelerator scientist, beginning with his illegitimate birth to an adventurous mother in Pecos, New Mexico, and culminating with his retirement as a distinguished scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois.

An ironman triathlon is seen as the hardest one-day endurance event in the world.

Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorderWhen Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the disorder.

Simple beginnings.

Silent Songs of Nursing, through short stories about the nurse-patient relationship, depict an authentic compassion for patients through the simple art of caring.

Adventures in the English countryside and beyond with the Yorkshire veterinarian and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of All Creatures Great and Small.

"e;The dramatic life of a German Jewish scientist caught, of his own will, between the promise of science and the annihilation of war.

Imagine losing a child because of lack of health insurance.

En esta lectura les voy analizando como sufri por anos, con dolor en mis tendones, sin tener ninguna salida.

It was eighteen months into my marriage when my sight began to deteriorate.

For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery.

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.

New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books).