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The Kevorkian Oath
ISBN: 9781633931046 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's a doctor's duty to "do no harm," but in a world where healthcare is completely in the hands of the government, meet physicians whose main mission is taking life instead of giving it. Lieutenant Jaye Osgood is lucky to have a good government job. It offers him and his family of five all the comforts of a good life: security, money and access. Until now he had never questioned the tasks he carried out for the Ministry of Health: missions that tore families apart-all in the name of the greater good. But then his own family unit is placed in jeopardy, and Osgood must risk it all to save... It's a doctor's duty to "do no harm," but in a world where healthcare is completely in the hands of the government, meet physicians whose main miss... |
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130,19 zł |
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Island Bluffs
ISBN: 9781937506865 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Island Bluffs is a story of love, forgiveness, and understanding the dark side of the human spirit. It explores the age-old question: are children accountable for the sins of their parents and grandparents? Carly Mason is a successful New York City forensic dentist. She and her widower husband, Gabe Berk, are trying to start a family. Thinking they had exhausted the options by consulting with all of Manhattan's fertility experts, Carly and Gabe learn of an eccentric scientist who runs an exclusive clinic. The doctor commits to helping the couple conceive the baby they so desperately want, but...
Island Bluffs is a story of love, forgiveness, and understanding the dark side of the human spirit. It explores the age-old question: are children acc...
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82,37 zł |
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Without Anesthesia
ISBN: 9781937543709 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt
"Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. In this highly original medical thriller, Tess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, andthe distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question."Without Anesthesia"spanstime periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's... "Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt
"Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tes... |
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82,16 zł |
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Without Anesthesia: a novel (color edition)
ISBN: 9781937543716 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FULL COLOR EDITION, with original art by YALDA ZAKERI.
"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt Original, sobering, and haunting- Mariam Beevi Lam Hallucinatory medical nightmare-Lisa Lutz "Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. WhenTess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, the distinctions between fiction and reality,... FULL COLOR EDITION, with original art by YALDA ZAKERI.
"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt Original, sobering, and... |
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200,83 zł |
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A Raging Dawn
ISBN: 9781939038371 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join New York Times bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons as she returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenching tale of good and evil, despair and hope, and the unexpected gift of grace that comes with embracing our mortality. FATAL INSOMNIA, Book #2 "A heroine you'll never forget and a story that whips by at bullet speed." Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author "CJ Lyons scores a major triumph with FAREWELL TO DREAMS. Totally absorbing and impossible to put down." Douglas Preston, #1... Join New York Times bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons as she returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenc... |
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136,27 zł |
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A Raging Dawn
ISBN: 9781939038388 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join New York Times bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons as she returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenching tale of good and evil, despair and hope, and the unexpected gift of grace that comes with embracing our mortality. FATAL INSOMNIA, Book #2 "A heroine you'll never forget and a story that whips by at bullet speed." Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author "CJ Lyons scores a major triumph with FAREWELL TO DREAMS. Totally absorbing and impossible to put down." Douglas Preston, #1 NYT bestselling author ...Join New York Times bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons as she returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenching tale ... |
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87,59 zł |
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Ananda
ISBN: 9780994305404 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,49 zł |
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Every Fifteen Minutes
ISBN: 9781250010124 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Bestseller Scottoline casts an unflinching eye on the damaged world of sociopaths in this exciting thriller." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve." -Booklist (starred review) "A mounting-stakes actioner." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In a nail-biting stand-alone with two heart-pounding climaxes and several pulse-racing twists, Scottoline grabs her readers by the jugular and won't let go." -Library Journal (starred review) Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at... "Bestseller Scottoline casts an unflinching eye on the damaged world of sociopaths in this exciting thriller." -Publishers Weekly (starred r... |
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95,63 zł |
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Payback
ISBN: 9781504911467 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The breathing difficulty continued, and he couldn't get up. It seemed as if he was being held down. He felt a sense of panic, but at the same time, he felt as if he was drifting into a deeper phase of sleep. For a short time, he fought these conflicting sensations, but eventually he surrendered to the latter feeling. One by one, prominent staff physicians of Covenant Hospital in Chicago are dying under mysterious circumstances. When Dr. Harrison is found dead in bed, it appears to be a tragic heart attack. Then Dr. Spann dies of meningitis. When Dr. Albert is found dead in his garage from an...
The breathing difficulty continued, and he couldn't get up. It seemed as if he was being held down. He felt a sense of panic, but at the same time, he...
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144,80 zł |
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Brainstorm: A Medical Murder Mystery
ISBN: 9781504912983 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One Friday night in Chicago, two friends leave their neighborhood bar and go home. One man never makes it. Stabbed in the heart by a crazed assailant, the victim is brought to a nearby hospital. A respected young carpenter who seems to have it all-wife, children, friends-finds himself in the same hospital. Mysterious stomach pains, violent mood swings, and uncharacteristic forgetfulness have plagued George Gilmer. Though he remembers nothing, it was his knife that killed the man, his blood on the man's body. Brainstorm leads the reader into a world where the human capacity for evil extends...
One Friday night in Chicago, two friends leave their neighborhood bar and go home. One man never makes it. Stabbed in the heart by a crazed assailant,...
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103,20 zł |
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Faux Frere
ISBN: 9781505258868 / Francuski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dans la lignee directe de Robin Cook ou de Michael Crichton, ce thriller medico-scientifique nous emmene dans les marais glaces d'Estonie.
Prime Letzki est sideree: en fouillant dans les archives de l'hopital psychiatrique ou elle travaille, elle tombe sur le dossier d'un enfant psychopathe. Elle observe le petit visage sur la photo. Un petit visage si familier... Cet enfant, c'est elle A la seconde lecture, elle s'apercoit qu'il s'agit en fait d'un frere, dont elle n'a jamais entendu parler. A peine commence-t-elle a se renseigner sur ce mysterieux sosie, que l'apocalypse se... Dans la lignee directe de Robin Cook ou de Michael Crichton, ce thriller medico-scientifique nous emmene dans les marais glaces d'Estonie.
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83,98 zł |
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Dueling in Death's Backyard
ISBN: 9780990943648 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO STOP A HEART AND DUEL WITH DEATH IN HIS OWN BACKYARD WITH A HUMAN LIFE AT STAKE? UNTIL NOW ONLY A CARDIAC SURGEON COULD KNOW. And only a cardiac surgeon with the skills of a Faulkner award winning writer could bring readers not just into the OR but into the heart itself to share that cosmic experience. In Dueling in Death's Backyard, "Doc B" (Thomas J Berger, MD, FCCP - trained by Dr. John Kirklin, the true Father of Cardiac Surgery) does exactly that and does it in the context of a MEDICAL MURDER MYSTERY EXPOSING A VA HOSPITAL SCANDAL FROM DECADES BEFORE THEY BECAME FRONT...
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO STOP A HEART AND DUEL WITH DEATH IN HIS OWN BACKYARD WITH A HUMAN LIFE AT STAKE? UNTIL NOW ONLY A CARDIAC SURGEON COULD KNOW. And o...
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72,80 zł |
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The Danforth State Mental Hospital
ISBN: 9781503000988 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My name is Mike Battaglia. One of the people living inside of me is a writer. I resided in room 331 at the Danforth State Mental Hospital for five years. It's likely you won't believe the things that follow. I know I sure as hell wouldn't. And for all I know I really am insane, and everything I saw and heard was merely a figment of my disturbed imagination. But what is real, anyway? Go on then, define it for me. Real is something that exists? How do we know what exists except based on what we see, hear, feel, smell, or worse yet, what we are told? Our perception of reality is based on how our...
My name is Mike Battaglia. One of the people living inside of me is a writer. I resided in room 331 at the Danforth State Mental Hospital for five yea...
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68,47 zł |
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The Renaissance Gene
ISBN: 9781511702300 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,85 zł |
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L'Assassino Occulto: Quando Qualcosa va Male Nell'esame di Laboratorio
ISBN: 9780986363429 / Włoski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hidden Assassin: When Clinical Lab Tests Go Awry e un'antologia di storie di persone comuni che hanno vissuto esperienze con esami di laboratorio. In alcuni casi, esami del tutto innocenti come la determinazione del glucosio nel sangue, possono uccidere, oppure l'identificazione di un composto chimico nel sangue puo svelare un piano terroristico. I test di laboratorio sono essenziali anche per predire la salute di un nascituro. Gli esami genetici, oggi, possono essere utilizzati per determinare la predisposizione al cancro o la possibilita di sviluppare effetti avversi ad un farmaco. E'...
The Hidden Assassin: When Clinical Lab Tests Go Awry e un'antologia di storie di persone comuni che hanno vissuto esperienze con esami di laboratorio....
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68,42 zł |
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Flashblind
ISBN: 9781517031763 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A half-century after the dawn of the atomic age, the Freedom of Information Act forces the United States government to release the actual records of the Congressional Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. FLASHBLIND exposes the truth behind the final Manhattan Project secret that would change the world forever. Jake Holden, a leading-edge geneticist, returns to the Los Alamos Human Genome Project when his brother, who has Xeroderma Pigmentosa, a rare genetic DNA disorder, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His only hope is to sequence and repair the gene in the Los Alamos...
A half-century after the dawn of the atomic age, the Freedom of Information Act forces the United States government to release the actual records of t...
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63,67 zł |
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The Chimera Sequence
ISBN: 9781943968008 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cole McBride makes a chilling discovery while investigating a mysterious disease causing the deaths of endangered mountain gorillas in war-torn central Africa. When a humanitarian aid hospital nearby diagnoses a disturbingly similar human case, the former Special Forces veterinarian knows he must figure out how to stop this outbreak from spreading--before it blows up into a global pandemic. Halfway across the continent, a massive cargo ship moves out of Sudan's largest port. Buried deep within its hold is one container of urgent significance for its... Cole McBride makes a chilling discovery while investigating a mysterious disease causing the deaths of endangered mountain gorillas in war-... |
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69,51 zł |
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The Chimera Sequence
ISBN: 9781943968015 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cole McBride makes a chilling discovery while investigating a mysterious disease causing the deaths of endangered mountain gorillas in war-torn central Africa. When a humanitarian aid hospital nearby diagnoses a disturbingly similar human case, the former Special Forces veterinarian knows he must figure out how to stop this outbreak from spreading--before it blows up into a global pandemic. Halfway across the continent, a massive cargo ship moves out of Sudan's largest port. Buried deep within its hold is one container of urgent significance for its buyer in... Cole McBride makes a chilling discovery while investigating a mysterious disease causing the deaths of endangered mountain gorillas in war-... |
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130,37 zł |
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The Last Drop of Blood
ISBN: 9781504923521 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the outgrowth of one of J. Stephen Funk's major injury lawsuits, one in the 1970s, where the dishonesty and a "conspiracy of silence" by the medical profession supported a negligent doctor's efforts to maintain his exalted and privileged place in society. In real life, he exposed the doctor's duplicity for all to see, and provided an orphaned child just legal compensation for the loss of her young and innocent mother. In "Last Drop of Blood," the heartless and amoral doctor, his wife and her father will stop at nothing to conceal the truth. The widowed husband and a courageous,...
This book is the outgrowth of one of J. Stephen Funk's major injury lawsuits, one in the 1970s, where the dishonesty and a "conspiracy of silence" by ...
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103,20 zł |
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The Neanderthal Regression
ISBN: 9781517621889 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The newest scientific field of study is synthetic biology: the implanting of the DNA of one organism into another life form. Already this has led to miraculous cures. However, there is a dark side as well. A brilliant geneticist, Jonah Devlin, CEO of Evolution Industries has infused Neanderthal DNA into the Marburg virus. And, using his desalinated water and lab-grown meat as a conduit for the virus, he will infect the entire population. People will devolve to a previous state of nature, and that is Neanderthal. Kelly West, a beautiful woman scientist who works at Evolution Industries brings...
The newest scientific field of study is synthetic biology: the implanting of the DNA of one organism into another life form. Already this has led to m...
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100,19 zł |
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