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On A Winter Day In 1903, In The Outer Banks Of North Carolina, Two Unknown Brothers From Ohio Changed History. But It Would Take The World Some Time To Beli...

A study of the distinguished American author provides insight into her struggles as a spokeswoman for conservationCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Prof...

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodivers...

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous P...

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...

Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, renowned pediatrician and author advises parents on home treatment and diagnosis of colds and flus, childhood illnesses, vision and h...

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In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This...

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s gr...

In This Intimate And Humorous Memoir About How Childhood Passions Shape Our Adult Selves, Cathal Kelly Probes His Youthful Obsessions--from Star Wars To The...

How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habi...

Traces The Author's Post-retirement Work As A Surgeon And Teacher In Such Remote Areas As Nepal And Ukraine, Illuminating The Challenges Of Working In Diffi...

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...

Goodall Continues Her Story Of The Study Of Chimpanzees And Their Society In The Gombe Stream National Park In Tanzania. Goodall's First 10 Years At Gombe I...

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...

An Emergency Wilderness Physician And Member Of The Hood River Crag Rats Rescue Operation Presents A Series Of Rescue And Recovery Stories, Offering Insight...

The 60 Minutes Commentator Brings Together His Greatest Pieces Of Writing Spanning A Half-century. I. The Beginnings Of A Writing Life. Drafted -- Meeting M...

An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore and fulfill the...

A century after Albert Einstein began postulating his "Big Idea" about time, space, and gravity, a new biography examines the scientist whose public idoliz...

'april 28, 2014: I Won't Be Coming In Today, I Have Leukemia.' That's The Message Manjusha Pawagi, A Family Court Judge In Brampton, Ontario Relayed To Her ...

Here is the riveting story of how a second-rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only to become a casualty of war-a civil war within the family that ow...

Elon Musk: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success What can't Elon Musk do? As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of O...

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sen...

a Groundbreaking And Controversial Narrative Investigation Into The Science, History, Medical Politics, And Patient Experience Of Lyme Disease Told By A S...

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 200...

'She's not going anywhere. Her heart is struggling. She's not stable enough to move' Lizzie couldn't believe it. She had just gone to the hospital for a qui...

Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a...

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-sca...

For The Past Twenty-five Years, Alexandra Morton Has Been At The Forefront Of Whale And Dolphin Research, Dedicating Her Life To The Study Of Orcas (also Kn...

Mad Men meets The Wire in this gripping true crime memoir by a former agent at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1960s New York From 1950 through the late...

Nansen: The Explorer as Hero is a well-crafted, masterfully researched biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian doctor-scientist some consider the great...

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and...

His Name Was Bernard Spilsbury - And, Through His Use Of Cutting-edge Science, He Single-handedly Brought Criminal Investigations Into The Modern Age. Start...

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse ('Rehab,' 'Back to Black') is...

A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secr...

On July 22, 2009, A Special Meeting Was Held With Twenty-four Leading Scientists At The National Institutes Of Health To Discuss Early Findings That A Newly...

Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has l...

For More Than Forty Years, Katie Couric Has Been An Iconic Presence In The Media World. In Her Brutally Honest, Hilarious, Heartbreaking Memoir, She Reveals...

Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain’s first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine...

When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find her...

her Name Was Henrietta Lacks, But Scientists Know Her As Hela. She Was A Poor Southern Tobacco Farmer Who Worked The Same Land As Her Slave Ancestors, Yet...

she Showed Me What One Set-on-fire Human Being Can Do To Shift The Consciousness Of The World. —sister Helen Prejean, Author Of dead Man Walking kirkus Rev...

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipu...

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very definition of "humanity." Now, in a poignant an...

Product Description En exclusivité, l'histoire d'Edith Blais, enlevée par Al-Qaïda au Sahel.En janvier 2019, les familles d'Edith Blais et de Luca T...

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents...

GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion-dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat. Hungry and tired one night, M...

ICU nurse and bestselling author Tilda Shalof learns what nursing beyond the hospital really means. For the 350,000 professional nurses in Canada and 3 mill...