Autobiography: Science, Technology & Medicine
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Sale On the Move
Oliver Sacks€17.50When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now ab...
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Natalie Cawley€21.99'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' – Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path'Profound and piercing r...
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Sophie A. H. OsbornCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50‘This is a book for the aspiring field biologist in your life’ New Scientist The story of one woman’s remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, ...
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Dr Max Skittle€21.99A POWERFUL FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WORKING FOR THE NHS, BOTH BEFORE AND DURING THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC. We, as GPs, are just one cog in the NHS. Just o...
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In a Flight of Starlings
Giorgio Parisi€17.50From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his ...
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Dr. Quin, Medicine Man
John QuinCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50Surgeons cut, but physicians... what do physicians actually do? And is it true that other doctors really call them 'the magicians'? John Quin wor...
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Angela Gallop€17.50'Endlessly fascinating...meticulously written and thoroughly absorbing book' Financial TimesOut now: *Revised and Updated* The gripping new book by...
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One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward
B. Rosemary GrantCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours...
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When I Wished upon a Star
Brandon Lane Phillips€17.50Growing up as a patient with congenital heart disease, Brandon Lane Phillips often felt alone. He knew no one else who had his heart condition and ...
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Discovery of Insulin
Michael BlissCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921–2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Ins...
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Joshua Mezrich€17.50A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezri...
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Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield€17.99Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories...
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Chris Dombrowski€18.50“We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without excepti...
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Keeping Hope Alive
Dr. Hawa Abdi€19.99For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to sh...
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Sky Is for Everyone
Princeton University Press€21.99An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse col...
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Sky Is for Everyone
Princeton University PressCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse col...
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Letter to a Young Female Physician
Suzanne Koven€18.50In 2017, Dr Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with “imposter s...
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Bad Call
Mike ScardinoCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50"A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on an emergency ambulance in ...
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Bird of Passage
Rudolf Peierls€217.00Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudo...
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Always On
Rory Cellan-Jones€23.99'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory’s writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the rea...
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Brief Candle in the Dark
Richard Dawkins€19.99In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to public...
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Your Hearts, Your Scars
Adina Talve-Goodman€18.50Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with ...
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