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Biography: science, technology & medicine
"Sir, your sons have been in a car accident. How quickly can you get here?"Join Pastor Jeremy Freeman as he shares how the harrowing phone call that no parent wants to receive would lead to a miraculous outcome that only God could deliver.W..
22.04£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes________They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school..
14.26£
Brand: Faber & Faber
A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating bre..
18.14£
Brand: NYU Press
A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding s..
21.65£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades … The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation'ADAM NICOLSON'Wonderful, absolutely beguiling … I learnt a lot and really loved it'RICHARD HOLMES'Glorio..
14.12£
Dr. Frances Sage Bradley (1862-1949) was a mediating force between the urban world of her own education and experience, and that of rural Americans. As a widow with four young children, Bradley trained as a doctor and became one of the first women t..
44.36£
A Force for Nature is a biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Bowen Blair tells the story of the activist who fought one of the most fiercely contested conserva..
59.70£
Brand: Canongate Books
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his wo..
13.23£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry' - Sunday Times'Contains a profound mesage for the future at a critical moment for general pratcice and us all' - TLSA..
20.06£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
A "beautifully written" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how ..
21.65£
Brand: C Hurst Co Publishers Ltd
Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the highest mountain in the ..
38.18£
Brand: Seven Stories Press
A dazzling memoir of chronic illness that explores the fraught intersection between pain, language, and gender, a debut author.Emily Wells, a former ballerina, spent her childhood dancing through intense, whole-body pain she assumed was normal for s..
20.01£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman's book takes a big first step in paying that debt. --San Francisco Review of Books Soni and Goodman are at their best when they invoke the w..
21.70£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Fierce, absorbing, and ultimately inspiring. --ELIZABETH KOLBERT[A] riveting book, beautifully written. --Washington PostFrom one of the world's leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in space, and within oneself--e..
18.00£
Brand: Island Press
"Engaging hybrid - part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, kee..
29.62£
The incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the oddsVeteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow Magdi Yacoub's remarkable life from his formative years in Egypt, ..
39.75£
Brand: Princeton University Press
"People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at home anywhere," writes Abraham Pais, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on two continen..
77.33£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard fe..
20.71£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a mu..
33.98£
An intimate memoir of miscarriage, premature birth, and motherhood from a bold and brilliant new voice in Atlantic CanadaI am the space between motherhood and longing for it, bit it's a space that doesn't exist. I can't be both fertile and infertile..
21.08£
Brand: AcornScholastic Inc.
Alan Turing: code-breaker, mathematician, father of modern computing. Award-winning children's author, Joanna Nadin, explores the extraordinary life of code-cracking genius, Alan Turing. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the reader directl..
10.39£
Brand: The History Press
Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stor..
26.80£
Brand: Princeton University Press
In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning in 1897, after Einstein ..
21.98£
Brand: Reaktion Books
The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography, an..
21.27£