ilość książek w kategorii: 4507
Just Say Thank You: A Real Life Story of a New York City Emergency Medical Technician
ISBN: 9780595375196 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I get the long board, c-collar, and stretcher out of the bus. We roll the patient onto the long board and put him on the stretcher. There is a large crowd and numerous police officers on the scene. People are asking use 'Is he alive?"
We place him in the back of the ambulance. Bob starts to clear his airway using a suction unit. I can hear the gurgle sound it makes clearing his airway." For eleven years, author James Thompson worked on the streets of New York City as an emergency medical technician (EMT). In his touching and powerful memoir, "Just Say Thank You," Thompson shares his... "I get the long board, c-collar, and stretcher out of the bus. We roll the patient onto the long board and put him on the stretcher. There is a large ...
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72,44 zł |
Alphabet Blessings: Conceiving with In Vitro Fertilization
ISBN: 9780595395248 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,53 zł |
High Jinks of a Feckless Youth
ISBN: 9780595399741 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "High Jinks of a Feckless Youth" is the true story of the hilarious antics of the mischievous young Rolla Campbell and his best friend, Red Simms, growing up in West Virginia in the late 1920's and early 1930's.
All through his long and illustrious career as an orthopaedic surgeon while working in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery, his love of merriment and a good joke has tempered his serious profession with fun and laughter. Movie stars, legends from the golfing world and other world celebrities chose him to be their doctor and later became his friends.... "High Jinks of a Feckless Youth" is the true story of the hilarious antics of the mischievous young Rolla Campbell and his best friend, Red Simms, gro...
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80,99 zł |
Some Different Noise: The Memoir of an Unstandard Man
ISBN: 9780595404896 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpt from Amazon.com review of Barker's previous book: "I happened across this book one morning and ended up hiding from my boss the entire day so that I could read the whole thing. Mr. Barker allows you to see a whole new world through his eyes. At times the stories were so fantastic/riotous that I had to remind myself that it was not fiction! I was so intrigued by this book that I recommended it to my book club. It made for some very lively discussion about sex, marriage, travel and physical disability."
-Brooke Brooks from Dallas, TX Life with cerebral palsy. Three years in... Excerpt from Amazon.com review of Barker's previous book: "I happened across this book one morning and ended up hiding from my boss the entire day so ...
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98,08 zł |
Smile...You're on Candid Cancer: My Picture of Life at its Best
ISBN: 9780595406111 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essentially, this is a story of hope, faith and love. These pages expose a war with cancer in a humorous, while brutally honest manner. The story is laid out in a sequential format representing the events as they occur. It details the immediate and ongoing trials triggered by the disease as seen through the eyes of a married couple, John and Georgetta Warner.
As treatments fail and different medications are employed in the conflict, John and Georgetta write about how they are changed by the ever shifting face of cancer. They come to appreciate the value of time, friends and family as they... Essentially, this is a story of hope, faith and love. These pages expose a war with cancer in a humorous, while brutally honest manner. The story is l...
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55,35 zł |
A Drop in the Bucket: The Joys, Sorrows, and Horrors of Medical Missions
ISBN: 9780595415991 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incorporating vignettes, interviews, and excerpts from letters, "A Drop in the Bucket: The Joys, Sorrows, and Horrors of Medical Missions" recounts the selfless acts performed by author and nurse Dolores Edwards with her surgeon husband, Robert.There is such a great call for these medical missionaries' assistance, first in Colombia and later in Iraq, that they cannot fill every need-what they accomplish is just a drop in the bucket. But as they diligently work to help others, the couple must remember that each drop or need they meet serves to fill the bucket. Whether it be a dangerous...
Incorporating vignettes, interviews, and excerpts from letters, "A Drop in the Bucket: The Joys, Sorrows, and Horrors of Medical Missions" recounts th...
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68,17 zł |
The Heroics of Falling Apart: One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey
ISBN: 9780595419111 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves. " Conventional wisdom says one must "fight" breast cancer, but fighting is not for everyone. For some, falling apart proves to be the better response. "The Heroics of Falling Apart: One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey "is the story of how one couple found their own authentic way to survive the ordeal of coping with a life-threatening illness. In separate voices, Judy and Dan Gordon relate and reflect on their yearlong journey with Judy's cancer,... "Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves. " Conve... |
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63,89 zł |
It's Not About Adversity: It's About Living Your Dream!
ISBN: 9780595429103 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,80 zł |
Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
ISBN: 9780595437146 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts Dorothea Dix's lifelong fight to improve the lives of others, such as her own family, the mentally ill, prisoners, the physically ill, and the retarded.
Recounts Dorothea Dix's lifelong fight to improve the lives of others, such as her own family, the mentally ill, prisoners, the physically ill, and th...
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63,89 zł |
She Doesn't Sing Anymore: A Daughter's Journey with Her Mother Who Has Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9780595444069 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life is full of adventures that lead to various changes that often times make us realize how short life really is-The longer we live, it seems we've only lived a short time. As the baby boomers take the leading role in society, many are finding themselves as caregivers to aging parents. Ernestine shares her heartfelt and challenging journey with Alzheimer's disease as her mother's caregiver. Included is some background on the disease and its effect from a caregiver's perspective. Through her journey, she begins making note of the changes her mom faces and the effects of the disease on... Life is full of adventures that lead to various changes that often times make us realize how short life really is-The longer we live, it seems we'v... |
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51,07 zł |
Soaring on Eagle's Wings: An Inspiring Story of Faith Renewed Through Answered Prayers.
ISBN: 9780595458271 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,89 zł |
Rediscovering My Inner Bitch
ISBN: 9780595461226 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,44 zł |
Miracles & Memories
ISBN: 9780595470563 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""He sent his word and healed me" Psalms 107-20" In the year of 1995 I was in great need of a healing. Doctors were not giving me any hopes of survival. I was told I had three months of less to live. I have been asked many times to write a book on my supernatural healing. I believe this is the appointed time. As I lay in the hospital paralyzed from salmonella blood poisoning with amyloidosis in my liver and multiple myeloma cancer in my bone marrow, Jesus sent me a message by the "Holy Spirit" in a very unique way. This book tells exactly what happened word by word as I heard it. My... ""He sent his word and healed me" Psalms 107-20" In the year of 1995 I was in great need of a healing. Doctors were not giving me any hopes of s... |
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63,89 zł |
When Down Is Up: ...Life with a Down Syndrome son.
ISBN: 9780595670796 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "When Down is Up" is the story of John Albert Wilkat, a courageous young man with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.
"He never wanted people to see him as different, even though he did realize, to some extent, that he was. He always wanted to be accepted as "one of the crowd." It was when people were talking about him saying, "John has Down Syndrome," that he would always correct them saying, "I'm not Down Syndrome. I'm UP SYNDROME." And "Up Syndrome" he was, in so very many ways. From John you could learn that the world is a place of many different people. It is a world where sometimes... "When Down is Up" is the story of John Albert Wilkat, a courageous young man with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.
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102,35 zł |
Against the Grain: An Autobiography of William J. Nicol, doctor, surgeon, Minister and pilgrim with Avril
ISBN: 9780595677719 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School days in Guiana, Glasgow and Fife, two years in the Army and six years studying Medicine turned the boy into a doctor. Dreaming dreams with Avril, their marriage, their family and their affinity for common spiritual and material values set them on a pilgrimage of repeated challenges. Three years in a mission hospital in apartheid South Africa, conflicting interests of specialization and family responsibilities didn't deter the writer from returning to South Africa to develop the Orthopaedic Service for the Transkei before settling in Halifax, West Yorkshire. In time another phase of...
School days in Guiana, Glasgow and Fife, two years in the Army and six years studying Medicine turned the boy into a doctor. Dreaming dreams with Avri...
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187,82 zł |
Rediscovering My Inner Bitch
ISBN: 9780595699407 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,17 zł |
Possessed Mentalities
ISBN: 9780595799282 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Possessed Mentalities" is an honest account of a very painful tragedy. Two of Maxene Kleier's daughters developed schizophrenia; then one killed the other. Ms. Kleier recounts the circumstances and makes the reader realize how cruel the disease schizophrenia can be. She reminds us that many individuals, despite, modern medications, do not respond well and require extensive psychiatric monitoring. Ms. Kleier is brave to tell her story. I recommend it to all families with a seriously ill family member."--E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. Author of "Surviving Schizophrenia" and other outstanding books
... ""Possessed Mentalities" is an honest account of a very painful tragedy. Two of Maxene Kleier's daughters developed schizophrenia; then one killed the...
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123,72 zł |
All My Patients Are Under the Bed
ISBN: 9780671554507 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,33 zł |
Suppressing the Diseases of Animals and Man: Theobald Smith, Microbiologist
ISBN: 9780674012202 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theobald Smith (1859-1934) is widely considered to be America's first significant medical scientist and the world's leading comparative pathologist. Entering the new field of infectious diseases as a young medical graduate, his research in bacteriology, immunology, and parasitology produced many important and basic discoveries. His most significant accomplishment was proving for the first time that an infectious disease could be transmitted by an arthropod agent. He also made significant discoveries on anaphylaxis, vaccine production, bacterial variation and a host of other methods and...
Theobald Smith (1859-1934) is widely considered to be America's first significant medical scientist and the world's leading comparative pathologist. E...
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212,26 zł |
Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion
ISBN: 9780743200028 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world and freed her from the bonds of her privileged but stifling upbringing. Leaving her peripatetic, party-girl lifestyle behind her, she drank a last cocktail at her friend Gladys's chateau, locked the door behind her and walked into history. Here for the first time, the life story of the only woman to fight for the French Legion is one that few dare to even imagine. Born to a life of privilege, Susan spends her childhood longing for excitement. After being...
Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world and freed her fr...
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93,81 zł |