Catálogo de libros: Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina

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  • Aerial Nurse Corps of America
    Cynthia Broze
    If we are sick and require air transport, we expect a skilled flight nurse will assist us. Before 1936 this was far from reality. Air transportation of critically ill patients began sporadically during World War I, but they crammed the wounded behind the pilot’s area with no one to attend to them-the sick and dying patients had to fend for themselves. Lauretta Schimmoler realiz...
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    46,75 €

  • River of Dementia
    Pauli Pedersen
     As the butcher knife flew from Dad’s hand through the air, I visualized it slicing into the back of the retreating social worker. Like a Banty rooster, my dad stood on the back stoop, preening with power.What happened to the kind, lighthearted gentleman whose strong faith had grounded him for eighty years? When I was growing up, Dad was a playful, happy man who enjoyed bringin...
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    11,70 €

  • The Journey of a Certified Nurse Assistant
    Barbara Ali
    Working as a certified nursing assistant in the fast lane. Real life experiences of hardship and happiness.The biggest burden that we carry are the thoughts in our head. Maintaining a positive attitude to achieve peak performance and personal success isthe goal. Avoid feelings of inferiority. It is your journey to share your talents in ways that will benefit others. Start each ...
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    15,25 €

  • Searching for Truth
    Jacques G. LeBlanc
    Searching for truth is not a search for God. It is a journey into the self and what shapes humanity on earth. Truth seeking involves deep introspection and reflection, an open mind and the courage to look into life in our society and our earth. Experiences are examined with the intention of drawing on the knowledge and experience of others to illuminate the self. Considering cu...
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    26,02 €

  • I’m Alive
    Christine Holubec-Jackson
    You will laugh, cry and be inspired while reading Christine Holubec-Jackson’s memoir, I Am Alive.This gentle wife and mother tells her story of survival through an unbelievable host of trials and tribulations as she hangs on for dear life on the roller coaster of life. She shares the lessons she has learned and the many gifts she has received.In the author’s own own words: 'My ...
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    15,69 €

  • From the Sidelines to the Finish Line
    Emily Falcon
    In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed forty percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, and hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious cond...
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    24,91 €

  • NO WISDOM WITHOUT FOLLY
    DANIELLE LOSMAN
    This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his ch...
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    83,29 €

  • NO WISDOM WITHOUT FOLLY
    DANIELLE LOSMAN
    This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his ch...
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    35,46 €

  • My Downward Spiral To Happiness
    Dean Roberts
    This is the ultimately uplifting story of a young man’s struggle for survival in the midst of physical and mental abuse, learning difficulties, homelessness, depression and suicidal tendencies. All of those things were thrown into his life pot along with the usual issues and relationships surrounding the coming of age, including the highs and lows of teenage love affairs. It is...
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    47,98 €

  • Women and Children First
    Susan Wilson
    In 19th-century America, it was assumed that woman patients would be treated by male doctors. The idea of a 'woman doctor' was deemed by many to lie somewhere between unfathomable and repugnant. Then along came Susan Dimock. A young North Carolinian who dreamed of becoming a physician, and grew up to practice medicine in Boston, Dimock was not the first American woman to bat...
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    57,35 €

  • Refreshed
    Gary Franks
    This book is inspired by a Bible Proverb:’The generous prosper and are satisfied, those who refresh others,will themselves be refreshed’Candid reflections, personal insights and humour found in the stories of a family general practitioner, husband, father and grandfather. An ordinary man whose belief in an extraordinary God helped him overcome the trials in his life. For over 4...
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    13,52 €

  • Stabbed in the Back
    Jacqueline Haigh / Samara Jones
    Strap yourself in ...The astonishing true story of medical Arachnoiditis. 'It’s impossible not to think of Henry Marsh’s super-selling Do No Harm'- Positive TV A young woman with big dreams and a great career in IT emigrates from Russia to London, falls in love, marries, and goes to the hospital to have her first baby, a happy and healthy little girl. It’s a modern-day fairy ta...
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    9,24 €

  • Breaking All The Rules
    Jim Cantrell
    Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960’s US-Soviet space race and eventually led to SpaceX and the explosive growth in commercial space being seen today. The story covers how this revolution began with a band of misfit engineers and scientists and the inside story of how this ...
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    21,05 €

  • Come Ride With Me
    Steve Kawamura
    Hop on the ambulance with veteran paramedic Steve Kawamura as he navigates his way through over twenty years of paramedic calls. Compelling stories of life, death and overcoming adversity are told in a fast-paced format that will have the reader feeling like they are right beside a paramedic. Witness the challenges Steve faces as he provides care to patients in an ever-changing...
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    24,17 €

  • Come Ride With Me
    Steve Kawamura
    Hop on the ambulance with veteran paramedic Steve Kawamura as he navigates his way through over twenty years of paramedic calls. Compelling stories of life, death and overcoming adversity are told in a fast-paced format that will have the reader feeling like they are right beside a paramedic. Witness the challenges Steve faces as he provides care to patients in an ever-changing...
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    31,72 €

  • The Quad Life
    Joel Vander Molen
    At three years old, Joel was involved in a motor vehicle accident and received a high-level spinal cord injury. Unable to breathe independently, feel or control anything below his shoulders, life changed instantly.Being paralyzed from the neck down didn’t stop Joel from achieving everything he put his mind to. With determination, a loving family, multiple caregivers, and a stro...
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    14,74 €

  • The Devil’s Weapon
    Chris Paige
    The wartime construction of nuclear weapons is widely attributed to the United States of America in the form of the Manhattan Project supervised by General Groves. But the story of how Britain had become the first country in the world which had set about conceiving and making an actual nuclear weapon has been overlooked. Details of the British researches, the design of a plant ...
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    27,35 €

  • Living and Loving with Parkinson’s Disease
    Rolf Lulloff
    Annie and Rolf Lulloff were entering an exciting stage of life in 1976 when the first signs of health issues that lie ahead for Annie began to emerge. A sudden loss of sense of smell, severe anxiety attacks, vision issues, and other neurological challenges piled up, eventually culminating in a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease on New Year’s Eve, 1989.But the Lulloffs were not ab...
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    17,61 €

  • A Hard Silence
    Melanie Brooks
    'A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, unforgettable.' Monica Wood, author of When We Were the KennedysIn the mid 1980s, Canada’s worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country’s blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed nationwide, infecting close to two thousan...
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    19,57 €

  • Radium Revolution How Marie Curie’s Discovery Changed the World
    Davis Truman
    Step into the captivating world of scientific discovery and groundbreaking innovation with "Radium Revolution." This extraordinary book unveils the remarkable story of one of history's most iconic scientists, Marie Curie, and her groundbreaking discovery of radium. This revelation forever altered the course of human knowledge and progress.As you turn the pages, you'll w...
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    12,16 €

  • The Water Bearer Who Refused to Drown
    Jordyn Osborne
    A water bearer is the symbol attributed to Aquarius...the 11th sign of the Zodiac-my sign. According to lore, the water bearer not only pours out water, but also wisdom, mercy, and compassion.I am the main character in this memoir, and the story technically begins in 2018 with the onset of 24/7 crippling anxiety. I detail my sifting, wading, struggling through misdiagnosis afte...
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    10,25 €

  • Round the Twist
    Lisa Febre
    'Round The Twist is a memoir about being incredibly alive and deeply loved. Lisa Febre’s journey through the best and worst of what modern medicine has to offer is crackling with detail, intensity, and wit. A balm for the soul, a love story in disguise.' -Strings MagazineIn 2021, as the covid pandemic stretched into its second year, a different kind of disease was brewing insid...
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    28,59 €

  • Tainted
    Leslie Sharp
    'Tainted' is a gripping tale that delves into the devastating true events of the Canadian Blood Disaster, exploring a mother’s courageous battle to save her son’s life. Set in the late 1980s, the story follows Leslie, a loving and resilient mother, and her young son, Jarad, who has been diagnosed with a rare medical condition. Entrusting the healthcare system to help her son, L...
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    23,97 €

  • Bipolar Refugee
    Peter Wiesner
    In 1939, Mary Krotoczynski left Berlin on the Kindertransport while her parents remained to perish in the Holocaust. In this memoir, her son chronicles her courageous struggles as a refugee, first in England and postwar Germany, and then in America. Mary fought to build a new life after losing her family and homeland as she bravely coped with bipolar disorder and the inequities...
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    21,60 €

  • That’s How the Light Got In
    Anne Merriman
    Every person has a calling from deep within, if they listen. Every person must live their own hero’s journey if they are to fulfill it. Anne Merriman’s life shines a beacon of light on how everyone can walk their own true path. Born and raised in Liverpool during World War II, Anne felt called to be a nun and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary. After becoming a doctor and ...
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    16,83 €

  • A Scientist
    Sushant Singh
    A ScientistFrom ancient times to the present, India has been the birthplace of numerous remarkable scientists. The role models of average youth have shifted from scientists and ’Gurus’ to individuals wielding power, fame, and wealth, such as politicians, celebrities, and influential government officials. With changing ’Yugas,’ corruption has seeped into society, becoming the no...
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    14,47 €

  • Incurable Optimist
    Jennifer Cramer-Miller
    Perfect for readers inspired by Between Two Kingdoms, this inspirational memoir of a twenty-two-year-old woman’s sudden autoimmune kidney failure details a resilient journey of chronic illness, unfailing love, and moving forward with joy. ...
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    13,76 €

  • Saul to Paul to Luther
    Dr. Ira E. Williams
    Saul’s 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. The reasons for that event that have so impacted my life are the following: Jesus spoke to Saul, and that alone would be enough, but Jesus also identified Saul as being, 'My perfect tool,' and Saul, the...
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    12,99 €

  • I’m a Lucky Woman
    Leslie Lawrence
    This inspirational debut reveals a compelling portrait of one woman’s triumphant cancer journey. Leslie Lawrence was undaunted by her breast cancer diagnosis and determined to face her illness head-on. Her metamorphosis from breast cancer patient to survivor is a beautiful reminder that a diagnosis is not a death sentence. Leslie had the wits and the drive to chronicle her emot...
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    35,43 €

  • Driving Home Naked
    Melinda G. McCall
    Buckle up for a wild ride in the vet truck with Dr. Melinda McCall, a large animal veterinarian in rural Virginia. No two days are alike as she skillfully deals with the antics of both animals and humans with humor and grit-and makes you howl with laughter along the way. ...
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    13,98 €


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