Medical

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

Stories Are All We Have -- His Beautiful Eyes And My New Shoes -- In Rwanda, We Danced -- Searching For Humanitarian Space: Msf In Somalia -- Afghanistan: N...

Gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catheri...

There are many books about overcoming obstacles, but this quintessential story of victory over limitations is unique. How many doctors have cerebral palsy? ...

International Bestseller A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Mark...

When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric l...

"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [Mc...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Tracy Kidder Returns With The Extraordinary True Story Of Deo, A Young Man Who Arrives In America From Burundi In Search O...

When Jose Canseco Burst Into The Major Leagues In The 1980s, He Changed The Sport--in More Ways Than One. No Player Before Him Possessed His Mixture Of Spee...

The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his mena...

A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.In this follow up to CALL THE ...

francis Crick, Who Died At The Age Of Eighty-eight In 2004, Will Be Bracketed With Galileo, Darwin, And Einstein As One Of The Great Scientists Of All Tim...

The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumasIn 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a conc...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURESTARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . rive...

In This Moving Memoir, A Renowned Feminist Scholar Explores The Physical And Psychological Ordeal Of Living With Ovarian Cancer. Diagnosis -- Ovariana -- Th...

Famed American Actress Demi Moore At Last Tells Her Own Story In A Surprisingly Intimate And Emotionally Charged Memoir. For Decades, Demi Moore Has Been Sy...

An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, writt...

Bestselling Author Mitch Albom Returns To Nonfiction For The First Time In More Than A Decade In This Poignant Memoir That Celebrates Chika, A Young Haitian...

Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling, and one of the most important, fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline respond...

"a Powerful, True Story Of Life And Death In A Major Metropolitan Hospital...harrowing... An Important Book."the New York Times What Is Life Worth? And Wha...

In July 2020, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif sent shockwaves through the sports world by becoming the first NFL player to opt out of the upcoming season during the...

New York Times Bestseller * A Meditation On Sense-making When There's No Sense To Be Made, On Letting Go When We Can't Hold On, And On Being Unafraid Even W...

In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relations...

For The First Time, Mcgraw Will Share The Details Of The Mental And Physical Routine That Got Him In The Best Shape Of His Life. He Suggests That There Is N...

Enthusiastically praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her ba...

In 1961, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Judah Folkman saw something while doing medical research in a United States navy lab that gave him the first glimmering...

No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot beca...

Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Recently diagnosed again with...

The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the major...

One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or sp...

As Soon As Adam Kay Set Foot On A Hospital Ward For The First Time, He Realised There's Quite A Lot They Don't Teach You At Medical School ... His Diaries F...

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.TRAUMA is Dr. Cole'...

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Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith d...

Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadi...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon es...

Cory Friedman Woke Up One Morning When He Was Five Years Old With The Uncontrollable Urge To Twitch His Neck. From That Day Forward His Life Became A Hell O...

An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tri...

Welcome To New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485). Michael Perry Loves This Place. He Grew Up Here, And Now -- After A Decade Away -- He Has Returned. Unab...

As Soon As Adam Kay Set Foot On A Hospital Ward For The First Time, He Realised There's Quite A Lot They Don't Teach You At Medical School ... His Diaries F...

The Unlikely Story Of Dr. Bennet Omalu, The Pathologist Who Made One Of The Most Significant Medical Discoveries Of The Twenty-first Century, A Discovery Th...

A Transformative And Compassionate Memoir By A Leading Pioneer In Medically Assisted Dying Who Began Her Career In The Maternity Ward And Now Helps Patients...

A Riveting Medical Mystery About A Young Woman's Quest To Uncover The Truth About Her Likely Fatal Genetic Disorder That Opens A Window Onto The Exploding F...

In Nothing General About It, Maurice Looks Back To His Youth In A Small Town And His Tenuous Relationship With His Father. He Describes How His Bipolar Diso...

The Remarkable Untold Story Of A Miracle Drug, The Forgotten Pioneer Who Discovered It, And The Fight To Bring Lithium To The Masses. The 1949 Discovery Of ...

Margaret Jacobson Was A Sweet-natured Young Girl Who Played The Accordion And Had Dreams Of Becoming A Teacher Until She Had A Psychotic Break In Her Teens,...

Better Eyesight Without Glasses is not only the definitive source for the classic Bates Method, it is in itself a remarkable phenomenon. Dr. William H. Bat...