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  • Nipples To Kneecaps
    Mandy Brown
    'Nipples to Kneecaps – To Die or Not to Die with Cancer' is the true, inspirational story of Steve, a man who seemed to have it all…until a cancer diagnosis threatened to take it all away.Historians recall that the mid-1980s boasted big hair, loud music, and iconic Hollywood superstars. Mandy recalls, “My dear girl, I have seen many a patient in my time and we cannot he...
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    15,07 €

  • We've Lost My Prostate, Mate! ... And Life Goes On
    Alan White
    Being diagnosed with prostate cancer once in a lifetime is enough. In 2011, Alan White was facing a second round with this life-threatening disease.Alan’s years of experience as a natural health practitioner and counsellor helped him and his wife, Fiona, to make the choice that no man really wants to make – surgical removal of the prostate gland – and to recover, physically and...
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    18,52 €

  • A Hero in a Bandana
    Brad W Hoover
    You are invited to come along on a gripping journey involving one brave boy and his steadfast family. A story from the hand of an ER physician from the opposite end of the white coat, it describes a parent's nightmare yet also a community's uplifting love and undying support. See how this ordinary father's journal transforms into an extraordinary primer on not only survival but...
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    7,25 €

  • The Soul of a Doctor
    Gordon Harper / Sachin H. Jain / Sachin HJain / Susan Pories
    By the time most of us meet our doctors, they’ve been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they’re not all like that, and most didn’t start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal...
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    13,66 €

  • Volver a empezar
    Rosa María Veloz Félix
    En Volver a empezar, Rosa María Veloz Félix nos abre las puertas de su memoria para compartir una historia profundamente personal y entrañable. A través de un recorrido por su infancia y los lazos que unieron a sus padres, la autora rinde un homenaje lleno de afecto, admiración y honestidad. Con una prosa emotiva y cercana, nos muestra cómo el amor y la convivencia familiar se ...
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    9,88 €

  • TRUE LIGHTAWAKENING TO THE SOURCE WITHIN
    Martella
    What if exhaustion, emotional intensity, vivid dreams, and a growing sense of change are invitations to look more deeply within?In True Light: Awakening to the Source Within, Rosanna Martella explores light activation consciousness and the soul’s divine journey toward greater awareness. Blending spiritual reflection, metaphysical teachings, personal guidance, and concepts inspi...
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    53,64 €

  • Tesla
    W. Bernard Carlson
    “The gold standard for Tesla biography.”—Science“Superb.”—NatureThe definitive account of Tesla’s life and workNikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and ...
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    22,45 €

  • Cells of Eternity
    David G. Stone
    The cells were supposed to die. Instead, they changed everything.When Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 complaining of vaginal bleeding, neither she nor her doctors could have imagined the medical revolution about to unfold. The cervical cancer that would claim her life at age 31 harbored an extraordinary secret: her cells could live forever.Without her...
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    24,18 €

  • Miss Dianne’s Jazz and Blues Kitchen
    Jan Alan Eglen PhD
    Jan Alan Eglen, PhD., HSPP, ABPP has never been content with just one story - and his life proves it. Engineer-scientist, inventor, hovercraft pioneer, psychologist, entrepreneur, patent holder, Amateur Radio Extra Class operator (W9JAE), and now the author of more than 110 novels, Jan brings a restless curiosity and genuine love of people to everything he does.He launched his ...
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    11,59 €

  • Thomas Midgley Jr.
    James G. II Edwards / Rick Stupart
    He was hailed as a genius, a visionary who solved some of the most pressing industrial challenges of the early 20th century. But today, Thomas Midgley Jr. is remembered as the man whose inventions did more harm to the Earth’s atmosphere than any single human before him.In this riveting biography, Thomas Midgley Jr.: The Man Who Accidentally Destroyed the Atmosphere, James G. Ed...
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    27,16 €

  • Where the Soil Meets the Soul
    Prof. Dr. K. K. Krishnamurthi
    The invaluable experiences gained by the author for more than fifty years in teaching, research, extension education and in diversified fields like Agriculture, soil science & agricultural chemistry, pollution control, environmental protection, human resources development and welfare and administrative acumen are described by the author for the benefit of the young readers. The...
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    16,42 €

  • Margaret Hamilton
    Steven Patterson
    Long before smartphones ruled our pockets or code managed our global infrastructure, a quiet revolution was forged inside the fluorescent-lit laboratories of mit. The code that touched the moon is the riveting biography of margaret hamilton, a pioneering mathematician and systems thinker who walked into the male-dominated world of mid-century aerospace and fundamentally invente...
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    24,87 €

  • SCAMS
    Shelby Wagner
    SCAMS: A Resource Guide is the best tool in your budgeting system for it can help protect your future.Knowledge is your best defense against financial loss. Technology scams, romance scams, and cybercurrency scams cost Americans $10B last year. This is a huge problem and you can help by understanding what is happening here. There are several reasons that people become vulnerabl...
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    25,46 €

  • Alexander von Humboldt
    Andreas W. Daum / Robert Savage
    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 Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and Charles Darwin. As a na...
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    20,02 €

  • Daron Acemoglu and the Future of Prosperity
    Betty D. Surratt
    'The future of prosperity will not be decided by technology alone, but by the institutions, choices, and ideas that determine who benefits from progress. Explore the mind of the economist whose work reveals why nations rise, why societies struggle, and how humanity can build a more inclusive future.''Daron Acemoglu and the Future of Prosperity' takes readers inside the groundbr...
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    21,01 €

  • A boys’ life of Booker T. Washington
    Walter Clinton Jackson
    A boy stands at the edge of a dusty Virginia road, watching the world change around him in the aftermath of the American Civil War. From these humble beginnings, a life of extraordinary purpose unfolds-a journey shaped by hardship, hope, and the relentless pursuit of education. This compelling biography traces the early years and remarkable rise of one of the most influential b...
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    18,72 €

  • Walking in a Scientist’s Shoes
    A. Martin Gerdes
    What does it really take to turn one scientific question into a lifetime of discovery?In Walking in a Scientist’s Shoes: The People You Will Meet and the Places You Will Go, distinguished cardiovascular scientist A. Martin Gerdes, PhD, takes readers behind the laboratory doors to reveal the fascinating, unpredictable, and deeply human world of biomedical research.Growing up in ...
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    15,94 €

  • Through the Labyrinth
    Erin Stoneman
    She finally had the life she’d always dreamed of...then everything changed.You know that feeling when you’ve fought for years to build a life worth living? When you’ve overcome the odds, silenced the doubts, and finally feel safe enough to exhale? Imagine reaching that hard-won peace only to have a doctor sit beside you in a recovery room, her eyes full of sadness, and tell you...
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    11,94 €

  • Cuando pesa otro latido
    Beatriz García Marañón
    Beatriz nos ofrece un ensayo íntimo, donde narra cómo ha sido su vida con trastorno bipolar. Abre las ventanas de sus experiencias, desde que fue diagnosticada hasta la fecha, pasando por los ciclos de su vida: su familia, su trabajo y su obra literaria.Este libro acompaña, entiende, viene de la experiencia en primera persona de vivir con este trastorno, por lo que lejos de ser...
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    21,32 €

  • The Testimony Papers
    Richard Hernandez
    Some houses keep more than furniture.They keep fear. Silence. Absence. The things children learn to survive before they are old enough to name them.The Testimony Papers is a memoir about family wounds, illness, grief, marriage, identity, guilt, mercy-and the quiet ways God remains present through all of it.Richard Hernandez writes honestly about childhood fear, complicated fami...
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    13,89 €

  • Duress
    Scott Watson
    'I could never do your job'. Well, maybe you could and maybe you couldn’t.A 38-year journey through the front lines of mental health care, where bringing order to chaos isn’t just a metaphor-it’s the daily work.Told through humour and anecdotes, this book offers a rare perspective: the side of healthcare that patients never see-the world of a front-line clinician.Over the decad...
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    18,92 €

  • L’Universo è in me
    Carmelo Spinella
    E se la realtà che percepiamo ogni giorno fosse solo una delle infinite possibilità? Se la materia solida si rivelasse un’illusione e la coscienza fosse il fondamento stesso dell’universo? 'L’Universo è in Me' è un saggio avvincente che accompagna il lettore in un viaggio straordinario attraverso tre mondi apparentemente inconciliabili: la fisica moderna, la metafisica oriental...
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    45,31 €

  • Watersheds
    Michael Guppy
    Research scientists are the people who find out everything we know about our world; physics, chemistry and biology. From the largest, such as the expansion of the universe, to the smallest, like the identity of sub-atomic particles, and to the most profound; is there extraterrestrial life? Michael Guppy is a retired biochemist and in the first five chapters, describes his life ...
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    31,73 €

  • Achieving Success
    Maj. Gen. George Atkins Alexander
    From Brooklyn classrooms to the White House: one doctor’s relentless rise.You dream of a career that matters. You want to break barriers, serve your country, and leave a legacy your family can be proud of for generations. But the path from ambition to achievement is rarely straightforward. Obstacles, setbacks, and systemic challenges can make even the most determined profession...
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    27,37 €

  • In One Peace
    Brooke Cherie Dennis
    Living in fragments, pieces scattered across memories, diagnoses, and places barley held in one frame, without ever knowing what the fractures mean.In In One Peace, Brooke Cherie Dennis opens the door to a life refracted like light through a prism. Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, raised across Brazil and Venezuela, she witnessed a military coup before the age of twelve, navigated...
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    9,01 €

  • My Tiny Spotted Mind
    Diana L. M. Saint Simon
    Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age ten, Diana L. M. Saint Simon shares her deeply personal journey through illness, treatment, cultural identity, faith, and self-discovery. My Tiny Spotted Mind explores how she learned to listen to her body, reclaim her voice, and transform a life defined by uncertainty into one of resilience, awareness, and personal empowerment. ...
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    18,95 €

  • Clocks That Lie on Purpose
    Soren Vantagren
    Every satellite in the Global Positioning System is carrying a lie. Not a malfunction. Not a defect. A precisely calculated falsehood, programmed into its atomic clock before the rocket ever leaves the ground, because the alternative, a clock that tells the truth on the launchpad, would become wildly, dangerously wrong the moment it reached orbit.This is the strange, true story...
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    33,63 €

  • My Journey Through Computer Revolution
    V KRISHNAMOORTHY
    This is the story of a young engineer who entered the world of computers when mainframes filled entire rooms, were written on punch cards, and when India was just beginning to dream of a digital future. From the early days of mainframes to the rise of software services, from building teams to building trust, this memoir captures five decades of experience, challenges, failures,...
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    15,33 €

  • See You Lighter
    Carol Holtz / Debbie Ihler Rasmussen
    Esther Manz was the founder and president of TOPS, a weight-loss support group that started at her kitchen table in Wisconsin, and grew to at one time to 360,000 members. Chapters started all over the United States, Canada, and around the world. TOPS was the first weight loss group in the US, even before Weight Watchers.Decades later TOPS is still going strong and operating the...
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    23,69 €

  • Cómo Sobrevivir Emocionalmente al Cáncer
    Tina Kowalski
    ¿Qué pasaría si pudieras aprender de alguien que ha sufrido el cáncer desde ambos lados de la cama del hospital? ¿Has deseado tener una guía que realmente entienda las complejas dinámicas de ser tanto un paciente como un cuidador? Este poderoso autobiografía cierra esa brecha, ofreciendo perspectivas únicas de alguien que ha recorrido ambos caminos. Cuando el cáncer entra en tu...
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    11,18 €


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