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  • Changing Faces II
    Darrel Dabbs
    Dabbs wasn’t quite a teenager when his vitiligo surfaced.  It showed up as a little patch around his eyes when he was in sixth grade, Dabbs said.  It spread to his lips, mouth, hands and then across his body.            For years, he wore makeup to avoid stares and have a consistent skin tone. He had his lips tattooed so they wouldn’t be pink.  “It made me look so much better,”...
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    23,23 €

  • TU YOUYOU’S JOURNEY IN THE SEARCH FOR ARTEMISININ
    DAN LI MANYUAN WANG LAN Y ZHIQIANG HU / Wenhu Zhang / Yiran Shao / Junxian Yu
    Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, r...
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    82,76 €

  • 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 €

  • Eco-Logical Lives. the Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley /Plumwood.
    Dominic Hyde
    Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood were eminent twentieth-century Australian philosophers who, in the way of philosophers, devoted their lives to examining fundamental assumptions about thought and the world. Though they were both renowned logicians - and probed metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, social and political theory and economics - it was their determination to fuse the pr...
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    109,13 €

  • 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 €

  • My Inventions
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic and eccentric behavior. Tesla was never able to fit into the world that he found h...
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    20,52 €

  • Passage to Persia - Writings of an American Doctor During Her Life in Iran, 1929-1957
    In 1929 Adelaide Kibbe was a 27-year-old missionary physician who set out from New York, on the steamer SS American Banker, headed for Iran. Her route to Persia took her through England, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. It would be 28 years before she returned home, and during the ensuing decades she would see huge changes in her adopted country: the development of ...
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    17,13 €

  • The Armchair Activist's Handbook
    Ruth Stokes
    Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to prove a point? Are you frustrated because you're not making a difference but don't want to turn your life upside down in the name of action? Then this is the book for you. THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK will help you find easy ...
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    15,01 €

  • Life and Character of the Celebrated Mr. Martin Van Butchell
    Anonymous
    In 18th-century London, eccentric surgeon and dentist Martin Van Butchell was a memorable sight, riding his self-painted spotted pony and sporting an eight-inch beard. A student of renowned surgeon John Hunter, Van Butchell shared a fascination with anatomy. After his wife Mary’s death in 1775, he had her embalmed by Hunter’s brother William and anatomist William Cruikshank, as...
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    7,66 €

  • Echoes Across Continents
    Krishna Das Ray
    Echoes Across Continents A Memoir of Resilience Through Tumultuous TimesA sweeping saga that spans three continents and four decades.K. D. Ray’s remarkable journey begins in 1931 with the death of his father, a prominent judge in India. At just eight years old, he returns to his father’s ancestral home with his mother and brother. Defying the family matriarch, his mother is cut...
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    26,43 €

  • Biografia De Rosina M. Antoniette Balzano, Tamanho A5
    Itamar Bueno Coutinho
    LEGADO de RosinaPor meio do evangelismo de Rosina, várias famílias em Los Angeles deixaram um registro de conversão. Foimissionária assistente para seu marido, realizando o trabalho missionário geral, visitando e ajudando os enfermos, orando por cura e ensinando mulheres. Yuasa destaca que enquanto Francescon e os irmãos da igreja de Chicago estavam ausentes, ela dirigia reuniõ...
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    16,64 €

  • Chambers of the Heart
    Jerry Libbin
    Jerry Libbin is here to tell you the story of the chambers of his heart-the precious kind in the form of life lessons that help promote longevity and fulfillment. 'He may have been a little stubborn about listening to his doctors and agreeing to a transplant of his heart followed by a kidney-in fact, two back-to-back-and I don’t downplay how terrifying these surgeries are. Howe...
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    15,59 €

  • To Be A Rose
    E.B. Mason
    It is 2005 and Ed, a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, has been hired as a Senior Logistics Expert to work with the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense as an advisor and mentor to two senior Afghan officers. However, soon aft er Ed has settled into his new working routine, he finds himself being tended to in a treatment area just outside of Kabul and trapped in an eight-we...
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    15,93 €

  • Fundamentos De Engenharia De Software E Gestão De Projetos
    Rubio Sergio Torquato De Melo
    Fundamentos de Engenharia de Software e Gestão de ProjetosEste é o primeiro volume de uma série inovadora que explora a interconexão entre tecnologia, gestão e desenvolvimento de software, oferecendo uma visão abrangente para profissionais e entusiastas que desejam entender como diferentes disciplinas se complementam na criação de sistemas modernos. Fundamentos de Engenharia de...
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    21,79 €

  • Cancer Ramblings
    Sandy Duarte
    In Cancer Ramblings: From Why to Why Not?, Sandy Duarte invites readers on an intimate journey through the absurdity of cancer and the complexities of life. This heartfelt memoir is not just a chronicle of her battle with stage-four lymphoma; it is a testament to resilience, hope, and the transformative power of perspective.Duarte’s candid reflections guide us from the moment s...
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    20,27 €

  • Chosen
    Walter T. Jr. Byrd
    Step into the extraordinary journey of Walter T. Byrd Jr., a filmmaker, author, and survivor who overcame insurmountable odds to find resilience, hope, and purpose. In this deeply personal memoir, Walter shares his battle with a rare medical condition, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, and his harrowing fight against COVID-19-a fight that left him on a ventilator for 59 days.More th...
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    30,19 €

  • Modern Applications Strategy
    Jaime Nagase
    Explore how a Modern Application Strategy book can take your organization from the basics to the cutting edge of innovation. Learn practical ways to modernize old systems with real-world examples from containers, serverless computing, and microservices. Your guide to technological evolution is here. ...
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    19,71 €

  • Explorador Interplanetário
    Daniel Costa De Santana
    Explorador Interplanetário transporta o leitor para uma missão de colonização sem precedentes, onde uma equipe de especialistas é enviada à inóspita lua Europa, em Júpiter. O plano: estabelecer uma colônia e desbravar mistérios de um ambiente coberto de gelo e marcado por fenômenos surpreendentes. No entanto, o que a tripulação descobre está além de qualquer previsão.Capitão Ma...
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    16,12 €

  • Ser, Viver E Existir No Universo
    Verônica Paz Wells
    Ser, Viver e Existir no Universo , de Verônica Paz Wells, é uma obra instigante que propõe uma reflexão profunda sobre a natureza da criação e a complexidade da existência. A autora desafia os leitores a ultrapassar os paradigmas humanos convencionais, mergulhando na fascinante ideia da existência de universos paralelos e como estes influenciam diretamente nossas vidas.Explora ...
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    19,24 €

  • Start
    Graham Morgan / Graham Morgan MBE
    Start is a journey into love, a journey from the worst of relationships, from loss, from the belief that life is over, into joy and acceptance; an unexpected bliss.It’s about madness, about schizophrenia, about compulsory treatment that lasts for year on year. Being shadowed for weeks by nurses to keep Graham safe.It’s a celebration of the Highlands, its mountains, lochs and be...
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    16,63 €

  • Unruly
    Antoinette Cooper
    A powerful fusion of poetry, memoir, and history, this groundbreaking collection makes visible the stories of Black women’s experiences with medical racism and bodily autonomy. From a TEDx speaker, collective trauma facilitator, and advisory board member for City University School of Medicine’s Narrative Medicine Track-this is more than a book; it’s a reckoning.'Cooper’s astoni...
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    13,05 €

  • Forbidden Science 6
    Jacques Vallee
    ONE DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO, Jacques Vallee realizes why the highly classified project he joined two years earlier will never solve the many-dimensional mystery it investigates. That insight into UFO phenomena leads him into a deeper independent field exploration of cases in Brazil and Argentina, Europe and Russia. Back home in Silicon Valley, his professional fascination for new ...
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    33,94 €

  • The Covid Coach
    Paul Edwards
    This is the story of a Senior Radiology Technician (Paul Edwards)and his experience during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020. His life completely changed as fear was a constant at work and home. Student Radiology Techs were the unsung heroes. While not being paid for the clinical residency, they placed their health at risk to save lives. This story is about the lives ...
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    16,65 €

  • Aviatrix
    Mary Bush Shipko
    Aviatrix is the captivating story of one of the first women pilots to break into the all-male airline flight cockpit. Hired in 1976 at Hughes Airwest, Mary Bush made a herculean effort to overcome the resistance and harassment she faced in such a position, but it was to no avail.Mary was introduced to flying at an early age. She started flying as a teenager, studying and traini...
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    21,21 €

  • Recovery
    Daniel Adewale Adegoke
    Dr. Daniel Adegoke was on track for a promising career in emergency medicine when his life took an unexpected turn. A series of devastating events left him jobless, homeless, bankrupt, and battling schizophrenia.Recovery offers a candid and unflinching look at one man’s fight to rebuild his life after hitting rock bottom. With striking honesty, Daniel reflects on his struggles ...
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    20,95 €

  • Recovery
    Daniel Adewale Adegoke
    Dr. Daniel Adegoke was on track for a promising career in emergency medicine when his life took an unexpected turn. A series of devastating events left him jobless, homeless, bankrupt, and battling schizophrenia.Recovery offers a candid and unflinching look at one man’s fight to rebuild his life after hitting rock bottom. With striking honesty, Daniel reflects on his struggles ...
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    11,32 €

  • Cálculo Para Iniciantes: Derivadas E Integrais De Funções Com Uma Variável Real
    Antônio Gabriel André De Melo Trevisan / Richard Trevisan
    Estatisticamente, a disciplina de Cálculo Diferencial e Integral é a que mais reprova alunos no mundo, como mostraremos na introdução deste livro, por isso é tão temida pela maioria dos universitários.Este livro procura mostrar o cálculo de forma extremamente clara e facilitada, para apoiar os alunos nos estudos relativos aos anos iniciais de cursos superiores, bem como auxilia...
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    16,59 €

  • Hominoides
    Augusto Souza
    Como resultado de uma obsessão temporária do autor com distopias, as dez novelas distópicas reunidas nesta obra retratam, de maneira mais contundente do que elegante, diferentes cenários políticos e sociais que talvez venham a se materializar se a sabedoria quanto ao uso que o homem faz da tecnologia vier a se perder por completo. Até que ponto é possível dizer que controlamos ...
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    42,12 €


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