My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir

By Jenifer Glynn(Hardback)

In this memoir of Rosalind Franklin, her sister, the writer and historian Jenifer Glynn, tells the story of Rosalind's life; her relationship with her family, her part in the DNA story, and her early death from cancer. Using Rosalind's letters and family photographs, Glynn reveals sides of her sister's life that will surprise and delight readers.

The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry

By Joe Wilkins(Hardback)

"The Mountain and The Fathers" explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world, raised by a young mother and elderly grandfather following the....

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

By Kitty Ferguson(Hardback)

Stephen Hawking has been an iconic figure in physics for the last half a century, making many groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of the universe. Yet while his mind roams to the farthest corners of reality, his body has become increasingly trapped by the advance of Lou Gehrig's disease, which has bound him to a wheelchair, without speech or movement....

How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America

By Otis Webb Brawley & Paul Goldberg(Hardback)

Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

By Sir Archibald Geikie(Paperback)

Published in 1895, this biography covers the active and sometimes controversial career of a leading Victorian field geologist.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science

By Laurence Plevert(Hardback)

Best known outside the scientific community for the Nobel Prize in Physics he won in 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was exceptional amongst scientists for the breadth and depth of his contributions in multiple fields of physics. This title retraces the influences and experiences that moulded this complex, charismatic, charming and eclectic genius.

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Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso

By Peter Wells(Hardback )

'I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope.' Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonisation, maintaining his dissident voice throughout....

The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen

By Paul Schilperoord(Hardback)

The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikafer (German for "May bug"). Seven years later, Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car--their production model even ended up bearing the same nickname. The Beetle incorporated many of the features....

River of Stone, River of Sand

(Paperback / softback)

In 1964, newly-minted physician Stephen C. Joseph, just out of his internship, undertakes a two-year assignment as the Peace Corps Physician in Nepal. The job has two facets: responsibility for the health and medical care of a hundred young Peace Corps Volunteers scattered over the roadless hills and valleys along the uplift of the Himalayas, and "do whatever else you....

The Doc's Side: Tales of a Sunshine Coast Doctor

By Eric Paetkau(Paperback / softback)

In September 1959, freshly minted physician Eric Paetkau and his new bride traveled the narrow, winding road on BCs Sunshine Coast. The road suddenly ended at a twin-gabled, two storey building perched on a bluff overlooking picturesque ocean bays dotted with islands. The young doctor gazed up at St. Marys Hospital and thought, this is for me.

Entschuldigung, Aber Ich Bin Nur Kinderarzt

By Kim Neumann & Kim Maya(Hardback)

Die spannende und lustige, ernste und traurige, ergreifende Biografie von Eberhard Neumann

Life and Lectures of Lent Johnson, MD

(Paperback / softback)

The Life and Lectures of Lent Johnson, M. D. arose because of my high regard for this pathologist who was chief of pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) for 50 years. The AFIP is the referral center for all tissues taken from members of the military. By peering through his microscope at samples sent to him by....

Love Cures It All

(Paperback / softback)

Courageous. Inspired. Self Assurance. The story of Josephine M. Yorke (Senator Yorke), is a classic of an American and Caribbean heritage. Uprooted from the unspoiled island of Carriacou, Grenada, West-Indies, in the village of Lower St. Pierre, the child born Josephine Muriel Allert according to her birth certificate from Carriacou, Grenada, would not encounter any shattered dreams of what she....

Liverwurst: Work Made at the Onset of End-Stage Liver Failure Until Live-Donor Organ Transplantation (December 2007-June 2009)

(Paperback / softback)

"The process of transplantation is a grueling one- demanding physical participation in a batteryof tests and procedures as well as an emotional commitment to oneself and acceptance of the unknown.This is a beautiful catalogue of stories, photographs and drawings that tell Ella's story of chronic illness and her journey towards transplant. Throughout this process she demonstrates a remarkable spirit and....

Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook

By Jerome Maida(Paperback)

As the brains and driving force behind Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has become the youngest billionaire in the history of the planet. As this comic reveals, the road to success for both his creation and himself was not preordained, nor was it always a smooth ride.

John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England

By Audrey T. Carpenter(Hardback)

John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. Based on original research, this title describes this charismatic character who was a major figure of his age.

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They Shoot Doctors Don't They: A Memoir

By Jack Fainman & Roland Penner(Paperback / softback)

Bitter debate about abortion in the 1990s led to the attempted murder that shattered Dr. Jack Fainman's shoulder and life. At the time, Fainman was the head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Winnipeg's Victoria Hospital. He had performed therapeutic abortions but he had also delivered more than 5,000 babies. This memoir of Fainman's life as a doctor begins in Winnipeg's....

Robert Fulton and the Submarine

By William Barclay Parsons(Paperback / softback)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into....

Fear Itself

By Candida Lawrence(Paperback / softback)

Unwittingly exposed to low-level radiation in the 1940s, Candida Lawrence has lived courageously with its effects throughout her life. Fear Itself traces her years struggling to have a child and her slow waking to the secrets that governments and institutions withheld from the women of her generation. The task for her and for women who have shared her experience has....

Trauma: Restoring Harmony to a Wounded Mind

By Professor Gordon Turnbull(Paperback)

Dr Gordon Turnbull has been instrumental in the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD - post-traumatic stress disorder, recognising that it has the power to completely destroy the lives of its victims and those close to them. He has been doing this invaluable and pioneering work behind the headlines for more than 30 years.