Professionals & Academics

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Paris, 1933. Three Contemporaries Meet Over Apricot Cocktails At The Bec-de-gaz Bar On The Rue Montparnasse-- And Ignite A Movement, Creating An Entirely Ne...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the ep...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated ...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion PictureRunning with Scissors is the true story of a b...

For readers of Kristine Barnett's The Spark, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surpris...

Farley Mowat.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyNature Writing & Essays

When Dr. Reggie Anderson Is Present At The Bedside Of A Dying Patient, Something Miraculous Happens. Sometimes As He Sits Vigil And Holds The Patient’s Ha...

The First Biography In Over Thirty Years Of Condé Nast, The Pioneering Publisher Of Vogue And Vanity Fair And Main Rival To Media Magnate William Randolph...

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...

#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller--Over 100,000 Copies in Print! "Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

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...

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...

Recent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve...

Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century, including his encounters with Carl Jung,...

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that h...

First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to th...

The instant #1 bestselling book of personal stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation and inspire us to do the same, from...

In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. C...

In This Book, Historian Judith Walzer Leavitt Tells The Remarkable Story Of Mary Mallon, The Woman Known As Typhoid Mary. Combining Social History With Biog...

'the Chinese Believe That Before You Can Conquer A Beast, You Must First Make It Beautiful.' This Chinese Proverb Has Been The Key To Sarah Wilson Understan...

Tells The Heartbreaking Story Of Young Elena Desserich's Battle With Brain Cancer As Told Through The Eyes Of The Parents Who Survived Her. Brooke And Keith...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of ...

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

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...

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...

when The Fuzz From His Sweater Was Pulled Off By A Brick Wall He Was Leaning Against, Maurice Kanbar Had A Brainstorm. Soon He Had Patented, Produced, And ...

I was a Family Doctor/Surgeon on the Fort Peck Indian reservation in Montana for four years in 1962-6.This book is a collection of stories about my experien...

Winner • 2021 An Post Irish Book Award ― Nonfiction Book of the Year • from the judges: “The most remarkable Irish nonfiction book I’ve read in th...

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...

Jonathan D. Spence. Elisabeth Sifton Books. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 319-337.Categories: History AsiaChina

Regarded As One Of The World's Preeminent Biologists, Edward O. Wilson Spent His Boyhood Exploring The Forests And Swamps Of South Alabama And The Florida P...

This book continues the narrative of Ginzburg's nightmarish eighteen-year survival of Soviet prisons and labor camps, following the Stalinist purges of 1937...

Three hundred nautical miles from shore, I‘m cold and sick and afraid. I pray for reprieve. I long for solid ground. And I can‘t help but ask myself, W...

Edited By Aaron Sheedy, Veronica Fox And Regina Marini, . Issued Also In Electronic Formats.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & Academ...

Through The Lens Of Their Decades-long Friendship, The Noted Historian And New York Times-bestselling Author Examines John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Life And Legacy ...

Examines The History Of Behavioral Economics, Discussing The Theory Of Israeli Psychologists Who Wrote The Original Studies Undoing Assumptions About The De...

Title: Sea Shepherd( My Fight for Whales & Seals) Binding: Paperback Author: PaulWatson Publisher: W.W.Norton&CompanyCategories: Biographies & M...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and...

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...

Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life'...