ilość książek w kategorii: 4543
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Rabid Dogs in the East: Behind the Patient's back
ISBN: 9780595267644 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,33 zł |
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The Real Tom Jones: Handicapped? Not Me
ISBN: 9780595271665 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,48 zł |
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Footprints
ISBN: 9780595274192 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This gate guarded the entrance to the Rivers Ranch at the top of Mountain Avenue in Monrovia, California. It was built in France in 1862 and was shipped around the Horn to San Francisco. Soldering was unknown then so it was assembled with rivets. Since 1962, it has stood sentry at the JRK Ranch, JR's "Dream House" in Templeton.
FOOTPRINTS is a must read about a doctor's dream which came to fruition with the support if his loving wife as they parleyed their uniquely varied interests into a happy, family life, a thoroughbred horse farm, flying a Cessna Skylane 182, and building an adobe... This gate guarded the entrance to the Rivers Ranch at the top of Mountain Avenue in Monrovia, California. It was built in France in 1862 and was shipp...
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94,04 zł |
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Living with Multiple Sclerosis: A Caregiver's Story
ISBN: 9780595283835 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,62 zł |
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Letting Go: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780595292073 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would you do if you were granted your heart's desire--the one thing in life that you wanted the most--but then found out that you had only a limited time in which to enjoy it?
What would you do if you were given knowledge and power, even to the point of delaying death, but then found out that such a gift might cost you your soul? A young man in Chicago faced the first question. At the same time and the same age, a young man in Boston faced the second one. Years later, in Seattle, as both men approached mid-life, they began a ten-year relationship. During those years, as each... What would you do if you were granted your heart's desire--the one thing in life that you wanted the most--but then found out that you had only a limi...
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89,75 zł |
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As It Was and Is: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780595303700 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Is medical education's mission to increase the earning capacity of the profession or is it to improve the public welfare and to advance medical knowledge?" To answer this question, the author has let the "great ones" of medicine's past address the reader directly. Flexner divided MDs into two groups: those in academic medicine and those in private practice and concluded that the two groups are inherently at war with one another. And, Flexner observed: without the faculty controlling patient beds, "the school cannot even organize a clinical faculty in any proper sense of the term." The author...
"Is medical education's mission to increase the earning capacity of the profession or is it to improve the public welfare and to advance medical knowl...
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55,48 zł |
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Treasures In My Heart: A true WWII love story
ISBN: 9780595308187 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paula Freeman was the sweetheart and eventually the wife of Sgt. John Ray, who was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. He participated in the invasions of Africa and Italy and then was sent into France on D-Day. The inspiration for this story comes from 333 love letters written to Paula by John from January 1941 through June 6, 1944, when he made his fatal jump into Ste. Mere Eglise, France. Using these letters, along with her thoughts, memories, and a diary, Paula has reconstructed a beautiful love story that stirs up memories of World War II and what it was like to send a loved...
Paula Freeman was the sweetheart and eventually the wife of Sgt. John Ray, who was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. He participated in t...
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102,61 zł |
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Living with a Miracle: A Mother and Child's Journey
ISBN: 9780595310678 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,33 zł |
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Adam's Story: The miracle you pray for isn't always the miracle you get...
ISBN: 9780595313136 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allison's story of her youngest son, Adam's, life before and after his heartbreaking brain injury at the age of two years old, will make the reader cry, laugh and get angry as Adam and his family struggle to live as normally as possible and to search for healing for their beautiful son.
Allison's story of her youngest son, Adam's, life before and after his heartbreaking brain injury at the age of two years old, will make the reader cr...
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42,63 zł |
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The Good Doctor Is Naked: Finding the Human Beneath My Mask
ISBN: 9780595315758 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don't say a word. Bobby Barnes was ten the day his father shot himself, and the first lesson he learned about it was that he should never tell a soul because people might reject him. From that day forward, he hid his secret behind a series of masks--the mask of the Eagle Scout, the wise doctor, community and church leader--and feared that one day his mask would be torn off and he would be naked amid his humiliation and self-doubt. This is the story of a man who achieved the outward signs of success but yearned for inner peace. It took Bob Barnes many years and an unexpected turn of events to...
Don't say a word. Bobby Barnes was ten the day his father shot himself, and the first lesson he learned about it was that he should never tell a soul ...
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85,47 zł |
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Thorny Road to Dignity: Surviving Mao: A Chinese Psychiatrist Embraces a Miracle in America
ISBN: 9780595319770 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author had a strong bond with American establishments, where he had all his education in China before 1949 revolution. This cost him an enduring ordeal as he had been ostracized into countryside to embark on primary farming labor and health services. Firmly believing his fate would change after Mao, he never ceased preparing for just that by learning foreign languages and new medical developments in countryside. Surely enough he had it after Mao's death when he resumed teaching job in a medical school, where he often served the English interpreter for American visiting professors....
The author had a strong bond with American establishments, where he had all his education in China before 1949 revolution. This cost him an enduring o...
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81,19 zł |
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Defeating Breast Cancer: A Physician's Story of Healing, Martial Arts and Life
ISBN: 9780595336036 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Dr. Stacey Keen, a radiologist, viewed her own screening mammogram, she immediately knew she had cancer. "Defeating Breast Cancer: A Physician's Story of Healing, Martial Arts and Life" maps out her journey through diagnosis, treatment, and triumph. In telling her story, Dr. Keen relays not only her mental and emotional journey, but also her experience with complementary medicine (acupuncture) and her traditional course of treatment (surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy). Dr. Keen is candid, witty, and knowledgeable, and she offers a unique perspective as medical... When Dr. Stacey Keen, a radiologist, viewed her own screening mammogram, she immediately knew she had cancer. "Defeating Breast Cancer: A Physician... |
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55,48 zł |
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Free Rein to Kill: Euthanasia in America
ISBN: 9780595340415 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Free Rein to Kill" chronicles the heart-wrenching true story of an elderly patient who was admitted to the hospital with an impacted bowel and involuntarily euthanized after being incorrectly diagnosed with end-stage cancer.
Coauthors Maddie Kisha and Paula Andrasko allege that the Florida doctors caring for their father, Paul Joseph Vertucci, Sr., neglected his impacted bowel and inaccurately diagnosed end-stage cancer, claiming that the disease had metastasized and was therefore incurable. Released with in-home hospice care, his daughters' determination and love were not enough to save... "Free Rein to Kill" chronicles the heart-wrenching true story of an elderly patient who was admitted to the hospital with an impacted bowel and involu...
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59,77 zł |
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Raising Lazarus: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780595349524 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Raising Lazarus" is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering.
Dr. Pensack's story chronicles his near life-long struggle with a mortal illness, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, or HCM (formally known as IHSS), a genetic illness marked by abnormality of the heart muscle. After the disease claimed the life of his young mother, the adolescent Pensack--and his brother Richard, who also suffered from HCM--went on to become chronic-research heart patients at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. They endured... "Raising Lazarus" is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering.
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94,04 zł |
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Notes on an Emergency: A Journal of Recovery
ISBN: 9780595358502 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most especially, love.
This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the u...
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68,33 zł |
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A Joyful Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me
ISBN: 9780595362110 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In lyrical prose, award-winning author and professional caregiver Lynn Scott shares her insights and the love she found in an unlikely place. "A Joyful Encounter" parallels her experience caring for Marietta, an Alzheimer patient, with that of her own mother, who died twenty years before with dementia. This love story explores the wisdom, wit, and irony that transfers from Scott's patients to her own heart, and allows her to forgive her mother, and more importantly, herself, for their difficult past.
Lynn Scott, senior caregiver and former Director of the Children's Program at the Center... In lyrical prose, award-winning author and professional caregiver Lynn Scott shares her insights and the love she found in an unlikely place. "A Joyfu...
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55,48 zł |
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Just Breathe: My Journey Through Cancer and Back
ISBN: 9780595375301 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the year 2000, Stephen Graham King was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive cancer known as synovial sarcoma, beginning a four-year ordeal of radiation, chemotherapy, physiotherapy, and multiple recurrences. After having trouble with his left knee for much of his adult life, King finally saw a doctor following a bump to the leg that almost made him pass out from the excruciating pain. After the diagnosis, he endured five major, invasive surgeries that cost him a large portion of his left leg and half of his left lung, radically changing his body, mind, and self-image forever. And in the end,...
In the year 2000, Stephen Graham King was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive cancer known as synovial sarcoma, beginning a four-year ordeal of radiatio...
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76,90 zł |
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Finding Dr. Schatz: The Discovery of Streptomycin and a Life It Saved
ISBN: 9780595379972 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor, Selman Waksman, took the credit, relegating Schatz to the footnotes of history.
Over fifty years later, German-born Inge Auerbacher read an article that named Schatz as co-discoverer of the drug. As a young Jewish girl during World War II, Auerbacher was a prisoner at Terezin... As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligent...
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68,33 zł |
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Daring Docs: High Drama in Journal AMA Papers and Other Investigative Reporting
ISBN: 9780595381944 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High drama of investigative reports involving disaster heroism, air crashes, serial murder, hidden American history, childhood and other health disorders, and wartime crises.
High drama of investigative reports involving disaster heroism, air crashes, serial murder, hidden American history, childhood and other health disord...
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55,82 zł |
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My Story: A Bump on the Road
ISBN: 9780595392902 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,75 zł |