Catálogo de libros: Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina

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  • A Breast Cancer Journey
    Jennifer A. Douglas
    Breast cancer is a journey none of us wants to take. When we hear the words, 'You have breast cancer,' our lives freeze. What do we do now?Douglas was diagnosed with DCIS, stage zero breast cancer, after her second annual mammogram and quickly found herself navigating a new world filled with biopsies, treatment decisions, and overwhelming emotions. She discovered that stage zer...
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    15,89 €

  • A Different Time of Day
    Roger Cody
    A Different Time of Day is a collection of 12 creative, non-fiction stories that take place in New Hampshire and Massachusetts during the early 1990’s.The subjects vary from snapshots of everyday life, to enterprising trials and quixotic quandaries, to more salient, sober reflections - all are told with keen observation, wit, and the good humor of a native New Yorker turned cou...
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    9,63 €

  • The day the doctors broke my vagina and brain
    Tania De Palo
    A broken body and soul finding the healing of the spirit through trauma and pain.This powerful book chronicles Tania’s life of unimaginable trauma, captured in stunning poetic form. From the young age when a brick was thrown at her head, to the brutal medical procedure that left her with the worst pain imaginable, Tania’s journey has been a constant battle. But through it all, ...
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    13,08 €

  • Of Men and Numbers
    Jane Muir
    Of Men and Numbers, first published in 1963, is a fascinating look at the lives and works of history’s greatest mathematicians. Beginning with the early Egyptians and Greeks such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes, author Jane Muir then describes, in non-technical terms, the discoveries and personal stories of math greats such as Descartes, Pascal, and Newton, and continues w...
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    16,11 €

  • AFFIDAVIT 747
    Asafoatse Nii Adama Djata / Laremy Wade
    747 Facts From The Ten Year Curriculum Vitae of Asafoatse Nii Adama Djata (Laremy Wade): 2013-2023. ...
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    78,42 €

  • Mill Hill Scientist
    James L. Stevens
    All of us upon remembering a brilliant, quiet, perhaps socially apprehensive classmate in high school have wondered, 'I wonder whatever happened to him or her?' This is the story of one of those anonymous wunderkinds. Every class had at least one person who left their classmates impressed by their intellect. While the star quarterback of the football team and the slam-dunking c...
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    34,83 €

  • Mill Hill Scientist
    James L. Stevens
    All of us upon remembering a brilliant, quiet, perhaps socially apprehensive classmate in high school have wondered, 'I wonder whatever happened to him or her?' This is the story of one of those anonymous wunderkinds. Every class had at least one person who left their classmates impressed by their intellect. While the star quarterback of the football team and the slam-dunking c...
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    19,69 €

  • Hypatia of Alexandria
    Laurel A. Rockefeller
    Alexandria Burns! Born in 355 CE in the aftermath of Constantine’s reign, Hypatia of Alexandria lived in a collapsing Roman Empire, a world where obedience to religious authorities trumped science, where reason and logic threatened the new world order. It was a world on the edge of the Dark Ages, a world deciding the question of science verses religion, freedom verses orthodoxy...
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    14,40 €

  • Science Titans
    A.J. Kingston
    Are you ready to delve into the fascinating world of science and technology with the greatest minds of all time? Look no further than the Science Titans bundle, featuring four iconic scientists who have revolutionized our understanding of the universe and shaped the course of history.Book 1 takes you on a journey through the life and work of Albert Einstein, whose theory of rel...
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    50,92 €

  • A Mind That Found Itself
    Clifford Whittingham Beers
    In 1905, after suffering a relapse and spending a few months at The Hartford Retreat, Clifford Whittingham Beers elected to write a book about his experiences living with mental illness and being subject to cruel treatment and physical abuse while being institutionalized.Titled, A Mind That Found Itself, the 1908 autobiography told the story of a young man who had suffered a li...
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    12,39 €

  • Into The Unknown
    Ann M Connelly
    This is a memoir about my work as a Public Health Nurse both in Scotland and Canada. It gives some insight into the diverse areas I lived and the interesting people I met. Public Health is a vastly different career from one of a hospital nurse. Working in isolation, although frightening at times, allowed for ingenuity and trying out many ideas and various ways of getting the jo...
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    22,45 €

  • The Generative 'Source-Mind'
    Marieka Easterley
    This exciting and intriguing new book in the Generative MIND series will reveal a personal (auto-ethnographic) account of curiosity-driven, experiential research based on the discovered seemingly inherent and consistent properties of a reactive blink-action phenomenon. Read how triggered blink-action events can be used as a probing analytical device and an ’inner-wise’ decision...
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    50,20 €

  • The Generative 'Source-Mind'
    Marieka Easterley
    This exciting and intriguing new book in the Generative MIND series will reveal a personal (auto-ethnographic) account of curiosity-driven, experiential research based on the discovered seemingly inherent and consistent properties of a reactive blink-action phenomenon. Read how triggered blink-action events can be used as a probing analytical device and an ’inner-wise’ decision...
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    62,37 €

  • Beyond the Ledger-Exploring the Revolutionary Technology Reshaping Our World
    Herman Strange
    As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the need for secure and efficient systems for storing and sharing information has never been greater. And in recent years, one technology has emerged as a game changer in this space: blockchain.In 'Beyond the Ledger: Exploring the Revolutionary Technology Reshaping Our World,' readers are taken on a journey through the world of block...
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    10,50 €

  • The Flashing Light
    Irving Fox / Irving H. Fox
    In the fall of 1968, Dr. Irving Fox was twenty-four years old, happily married, and living the heady and intense life of a medical resident in a Montreal hospital. His future was bright and promising...that is, until a pulsating blue light appeared in front of his eyes. It was the beginning of a terrifying three-month ordeal of mysterious physical and psychiatric symptoms that ...
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    26,74 €

  • The Flashing Light
    Irving H Fox / Irving H. Fox
    In the fall of 1968, Dr. Irving Fox was twenty-four years old, happily married, and living the heady and intense life of a medical resident in a Montreal hospital. His future was bright and promising...that is, until a pulsating blue light appeared in front of his eyes. It was the beginning of a terrifying three-month ordeal of mysterious physical and psychiatric symptoms that ...
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    25,81 €

  • The Runner Who Never Ran
    Karen Swasey
    In her book, The Runner Who Never Ran, Karen Swasey expresses her belief that one should value their roots and the foundation of their heritage. She takes us on a journey through the stories of her life and teaches us that we should embrace our own journey.'Focus on the perseverance of finding the 'good' or learning experiences in your journey no matter what trail you are on. ...
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    25,13 €

  • The Runner Who Never Ran
    Karen Swasey
    In her workbook reflections edition, The Runner Who Never Ran, Karen Swasey expresses her belief that one should value their roots and the foundation of their heritage. She takes us on a journey through the stories of her life and teaches us that we should embrace our own journey..'Focus on the perseverance of finding the 'good' or learning experiences in your journey no matter...
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    25,17 €

  • My Inventions, Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futuristwho changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism forever. Tesla’s major discoveries andinnovations include the rotating magnetic field, magnifying transmitter and Tesla coil. His researchlaid much of the groundwork for modern electrical system, and the alternating cu...
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    12,82 €

  • Living
    Jeff Stewart
    'This morning I tried to donate my kidney. This afternoon the transplant team told me I can’t. I have cancer.' That’s the opening to the remarkable book Living: Inspiration from a Father with Cancer.Living is for anyone whose family has been touched by cancer. What inspiration would you leave your kids if you might be dying from cancer? That’s what Jeff Stewart, a molecular bio...
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    15,66 €

  • Navigating Life’s Obstacles
    Dr. Jeffery A. Clements
    Navigating Life’s Obstacles is the life story of author Dr. Jeffery A. Clements told in vignettes beginning with the strong, well-intentioned attempts of his parents to shield him and his brother from the knowing of the harsh upbringing they had suffered during the Jim Crow era.  Jeffery’s parents never spoke about the harsh realities of racism that they had experienced and wha...
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    17,64 €

  • Navigating Life’s Obstacles
    Dr. Jeffery A. Clements
    Navigating Life’s Obstacles is the life story of author Dr. Jeffery A. Clements told in vignettes beginning with the strong, well-intentioned attempts of his parents to shield him and his brother from the knowing of the harsh upbringing they had suffered during the Jim Crow era.  Jeffery’s parents never spoke about the harsh realities of racism that they had experienced and wha...
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    29,04 €

  • Let There Be Life
    Roger Gosden
    The authorized biography of Sir Robert Edwards, a coal miner’s son who pioneered in vitro fertilization for infertility, embryonic stem cell research for regenerative medicine, and the medical ethics of embryology (Nobel Prize, 2010). "Robert Edwards changed the world, bringing life, hope, and joy to millions of people. I owe him everything," Louise Brown. An improbable hero of...
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    22,64 €

  • MEMORIES FROM PARIS TO STANFORD
    Gregory A. Loew
    This memoir comes in three parts:Part 1, which includes Chapters 1 and 2, presents the highlights of my personal life, my education, and my marriage.Part 2, which includes chapters 3 to 18, is a description of my fifty-year professional career at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where I participated in some fascinating accelerator and particle physics research. Many people ...
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    45,54 €

  • A License to Heal
    M. D. Steven Bentley
    An emergency room physician recalls his eventful career in this insightful, occasionally harrowing, memoir. Despite the subtitle, debut author Bentley’s reminiscences are hardly random. They have been selected to succinctly or dramatically convey the progression of a decades-long career. Leaving out personal details unless relevant to his anecdotes, Bentley emerges as a compa...
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    16,55 €

  • A License to Heal
    M. D. Steven Bentley
    An emergency room physician recalls his eventful career in this insightful, occasionally harrowing, memoir. Despite the subtitle, debut author Bentley’s reminiscences are hardly random. They have been selected to succinctly or dramatically convey the progression of a decades-long career. Leaving out personal details unless relevant to his anecdotes, Bentley emerges as a compa...
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    21,00 €

  • Living With Cancer
    Dr. Gillian Dolansky Presner
    After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time and give advice regarding how to engage with the people in your life with a cancer diagnosis. ...
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    16,89 €

  • Living With Cancer
    Dr. Gillian Dolansky Presner
    After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time and give advice regarding how to engage with the people in your life with a cancer diagnosis. ...
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    28,46 €

  • Mary Ann Byas-Drake
    Willis L. Drake
    The inspirational story of one woman’s faithful determination in answering God’s call to become a nurse told by her devoted husband who walked alongside her every step of the way.Two words capture the essence of Mary Ann Byas-Drake: predestination and perseverance. A natural nurturer with a heart full of compassion, Mary Ann felt called to become a nurse since she was a young g...
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    19,00 €

  • Mary Ann Byas-Drake
    Willis L. Drake
    The inspirational story of one woman’s faithful determination in answering God’s call to become a nurse told by her devoted husband who walked alongside her every step of the way.Two words capture the essence of Mary Ann Byas-Drake: predestination and perseverance. A natural nurturer with a heart full of compassion, Mary Ann felt called to become a nurse since she was a young g...
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    29,10 €


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