La biograf a definitiva de Steve Jobs, el fundador de Apple, escrita con su colaboraci n.La muerte de Steve Jobs ha conmocionado al mundo. Tras entrevistarlo en m s de cuarenta ocasiones en los ltimos dos a os, adem s de a un centenar de personas de…
All royalties of this book are donated to The Sustainable Nitrogen Foundation - UK Charity no. 1180511. History has shown that none of the previous farming revolutions attempting to provide better-fed crops, have been sustainable. This is particular…
This fourth volume of the critical edition of the medical aphorisms compiled by Maimonides (1138-1204) covers treatises sixteen to twenty-one. The central subjects of these treatises include women's diseases, physical exercise, bathing, foods, and t…
Per Fugelli er en skikkelse Norge har vent seg til å se i offentlige roller: som lege, forsker, samfunnsrefser og i det siste - som en kreftpasient som vet han lever på lånt tid. Aksel Fugelli har vokst opp med en far som har vært til stede. I medie…
From poverty to great wealth and obscurity to world fame, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. While giving full treatment to their great engineering exploits, this authoritative biography also explores their domestic li…
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community.When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people…
Auf dem Bauplatz im Urwald ähnelt er dem alten Faust, der am Meeresufer Land kultiviert. Aber seine Worte sind nicht klassisch, sondern selbstverspottend, anekdotensicher zugespitzt. "Hat einer der Schwarzen bei mir im Spital gearbeitet, gilt e…
Throughout his academic and medical careers, David Penington has been an agent of change. In his fascinating memoirs, one of Australia's leading public health experts and the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne reveals his ethos, d…
Francis H Harlow (1928-present) is a world class physicist, an expert on Pueblo Indian pottery and Southwest sea fossils, an accomplished painter and cellist. In this memoir, the retired Los Alamos scientist and scholar looks back on his life and ca…
This book, "Автобиографические записки Ивана Мих…
Patient ambushes Clinician pratfalls Community curveballs Practice, Practice, Practice: This Psychiatrist's Life gives you a fly-on-the-wall view of therapy sessions along with actual transcripts of what's going through this therapist's mind as she'…
Originally published in 1939, this book contains the autobiography of the well-travelled Victorian engineer John Brunton (1812-99), which he wrote for his grandchildren. Much of the text is taken up with Brunton's description of his adventures betwe…
Candid Science VI concludes the series by narrating the conversations with famous scientists from the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. There are 31 Nobel laureates and 11 other luminaries among them. The scientists are in the field of bi…
Pediatrician David Hellyer (b. 1913) records his family history and the life experiences that led to his founding of the 600-acre Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, a wildlife sanctuary in Eatonville, Washington.
This text owes its existence to a 1923 psycoanalytic session conducted by Dr O. Pfister with the then 49-year-old Schweitzer. Immersed in Christianity and covering his first 19 years, this reveals what led him to serve his life's work in Africa as a…
Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White's Isaac Ne…
Being poor has limited us to doors given to those more privileged. Now I write, hoping that at least my life story will mean something to someone, someday. Maybe prevent somebody from making those wrong choices I've made that's lead me to this point…
A scientist's case for the afterlife... Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs…
A father's account of his daughter's brief life details the extraordinary courage and spirit of his child, a victim of cystic fibrosis
Die jüdische Philosophiestudentin und der Jahrhundertphilosoph, der mit den Nazis paktierte - Antonia Grunenberg erzählt die Geschichte einer unmöglichen Liebe in einer Zeit gewaltiger Widersprüche. Ihre Doppelbiografie entwirft…
Having your father die and your mother come to live with you is bad enough, especially when she is diagnosed with cancer. How will you manage with her in your house? What about organising all the support she needs? How do you balance her needs again…
