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The Man Who Lived My Life - A Neurosurgeon's Trials of Job (Hardcover): Yisrael Bernstein The Man Who Lived My Life - A Neurosurgeon's Trials of Job (Hardcover)
Yisrael Bernstein
R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Path of a Healer - A Time to Reflect (Hardcover): Jacques G LeBlanc Path of a Healer - A Time to Reflect (Hardcover)
Jacques G LeBlanc; Edited by Edwin Stewart
R833 R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
There's A Leak In My Boat! - The Challenges and Gifts of My Journey Through Chronic Illness (Hardcover): Flo Levia There's A Leak In My Boat! - The Challenges and Gifts of My Journey Through Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
Flo Levia; Illustrated by Andre Jolicoeur
R891 R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Francis Bacon and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge (Hardcover): Dennis Desroches Francis Bacon and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge (Hardcover)
Dennis Desroches
R5,609 Discovery Miles 56 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While Francis Bacon continues to be considered the 'father' of modern experimental science, his writings are no longer given close attention by most historians and philosophers of science, let alone by scientists themselves. In this new book Dennis Desroches speaks up loudly for Bacon, showing how we have yet to surpass the fundamental theoretical insights that he offered towards producing scientific knowledge. The book first examines the critics who have led many generations of scholars - in fields as diverse as literary criticism, science studies, feminism, philosophy and history - to think of Bacon as an outmoded landmark in the history of ideas rather than a crucial thinker for our own day. Bacon's own work is seen to contain the best responses to these various forms of attack. Desroches then focuses on Bacon's "Novum Organum, The Advancement of Learning and De Augmentis", in order to discern the theoretical - rather than simply the empirical or utilitarian - nature of his programme for the 'renovation' of the natural sciences. The final part of the book draws startling links between Bacon and one of the twentieth century's most important historians/philosophers of science, Thomas Kuhn, discerning in Kuhn's work a reprise of many of Bacon's fundamental ideas - despite Kuhn's clear attempt to reject Bacon as a significant contributor to the way we think about scientific practice today. Desroches concludes, then, that Bacon was not simply the 'father' of modern science - he is still in the process of 'fathering' it.

Captured by COVID - Deceit, Conspiracy & Death-A True Story (Hardcover): Michael E Bowers Captured by COVID - Deceit, Conspiracy & Death-A True Story (Hardcover)
Michael E Bowers
R577 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot Volume 2 - From Heroic Fantasy to Human Reality-An Approximate Autobiography (Hardcover): Evelyn Wolff Calming Dr. Twitch-A-Lot Volume 2 - From Heroic Fantasy to Human Reality-An Approximate Autobiography (Hardcover)
Evelyn Wolff; Edited by Sarah Trevor -Editor; Illustrated by Bill Dahl
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Healthy Girl's Guide to Breast Cancer (Hardcover, New): Christine Egan The Healthy Girl's Guide to Breast Cancer (Hardcover, New)
Christine Egan
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cancer stories usually start with some kind of struggle or fight. This story starts with a song. "You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? You may say to yourself, my God, what have I done?" These words rang true for Christine Egan. Many questions and stories circulate about cancer. Are you telling yourself you are a victim of cancer? Are you worried the cancer will come back? Are you stuck in the role of being sick? Egan made a conscious choice to tell a different story. The Healthy Girl's Guide to Breast Cancer is part memoir and part guide revealing the all-too-true story of cancer in this country with a healthy twist. Rest assured-this is not a cancer story; it's a story about health and wellness.

Mashed Potatoes and Gravy - A Woman's Journal Through Surviving Cancer (Hardcover): Barbara Maddox Mashed Potatoes and Gravy - A Woman's Journal Through Surviving Cancer (Hardcover)
Barbara Maddox
R719 R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Barbara Maddox was living a fairly normal and happy existence. Newly married, she was reaching the pinnacle of success as a regional sales manager at a large corporation and enjoying a fun social life with family and friends. And then her body started to betray her with what she thought were work-related, stress-induced health problems. After several months of worsening symptoms and a frustrating search for answers, she found herself in the emergency room one Sunday afternoon, completely exhausted and missing half of her blood. Within two hours of testing and prodding, she learned her fate: Cancer had spread throughout her lymph nodes. Mashed Potatoes and Gravy is Barb's brave and poignant accounting of how she managed through months of aggressive chemotherapy, three hospital stays, two serious blood infections, and acute mental depression. Along the way she discovers the importance of love, family, and friends as her spiritual world expands and she asks some deep, penetrating questions about life and our very existence. Written with raw emotion, and sprinkled with a good dose of humor, her story will leave readers inspired as they cheer her on through the unpredictable twists and turns on her journey toward conquering stage IV Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Life's Lessons and the Art of Nursing - Wisdom from the Living and Dying (Hardcover): R.N. Kathy Mercurio Life's Lessons and the Art of Nursing - Wisdom from the Living and Dying (Hardcover)
R.N. Kathy Mercurio
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Along her 30 year nursing career path, Kathy Mercurio has been privileged to learn some of life's most important lessons. Often, the "teachers" were unsuspecting, unintentional educators in the form of patients, their family members and friends. Join Kathy in learning and sharing some light moments, dark days and hard-learned lessons in the pages of this intimate look at the Art of Nursing and the Life's Lessons that are imparted.

Einstein for Anyone - A Quick Read (Hardcover): David Topper Einstein for Anyone - A Quick Read (Hardcover)
David Topper
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dr. Francis T. Stribling (Hardcover): Alice Davis Wood Dr. Francis T. Stribling (Hardcover)
Alice Davis Wood
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dr. Stribling was only twenty-six years old in 1836 when he became head of Western State hospital. Then, every institution for the insane in the South, and all but a very few in the remainder of the country, were little more than penitentiaries. Dr. Robert Hansen, superintendent of Western State Hospital, wrote in 1967, "In an age of the common man, Dr. Stribling possessed an uncommon and profound knowledge of human nature, and the importance of human relationships. He believed that the drives, interests, and needs of the insane were the same as those of others, and that satisfaction of them through human relationships, would help restore their reason." Stribling recognized that insanity was a disease that if treated early, was curable. He used medical and moral therapy, separately or in concert, to cure his patients. Moral medicine included early treatment, separating the violent from those who could be cured, eliminating restraints whenever possible, providing patients with nutritious food, occupation, exercise, amusements and religious services. Caretakers were instructed how to increase their patients' self-esteem, especially by being their friend. Stribling's efforts to admit only patients who could be cured resulted in a bitter dispute in the early 1840s between him and Dr. John Minson. Galt was head of Eastern State Hospital, the first institution in the Colonies built for the treatment of the insane. Soon thereafter, Stribling rewrote Virginia's laws concerning the insane to conform to his admission policies. In 1852, Stribling and his directors defended themselves against charges by Captain Randolph that they abused their patients. Randolph's son had been a patient at Western State. During the Civil War Stribling managed to provide for his patients even after Sheridan's troops sacked his hospital. The daily lives of slave servants are described and also the different approaches taken by Stribling and Galt provide for insane free blacks and insane slaves. The similarities and differences between the two young doctors are examined. (Stribling was twenty-six and Galt twenty-two when they assumed their positions.) Letters between Dr. Stribling and Dorothea Dix from 1849 until 1860 describe a deep and intimate friendship. Mrs. Stribling's letter to her eighteen-year-old son while he was a prisoner of war is probably representative of many letters from other mothers in the South and North who were in a similar situation. After the war, Stribing was successful after he petitioned Congress to keep his job. His reconciliation speech at the superintendents' meeting in Boston in 1868 was highly praised by his fellow superintendents and the Boston press. Dr. Stribling died in 1874.

Peeling Onions (Hardcover): Eden Ray-Thomas Peeling Onions (Hardcover)
Eden Ray-Thomas
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life on My Terms - A Physician's Autobiography (Hardcover): Norman E. Levan M. D., Gordon Cohn Life on My Terms - A Physician's Autobiography (Hardcover)
Norman E. Levan M. D., Gordon Cohn
R584 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It never would have occurred to me to record the story of my life; I believed it to be of little public interest . However, Professor Jonathan Halevy, director general of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where I have helped to establish a center for humanistic medicine, and other friends believed otherwise. They maintained that the men and women who will learn from and be served by the institutions I have been able to help with gifts in support of humanistic values would like some idea of who I am. In response to their urging I have attempted to present an accurate portrait of a fortunate man.

Living with and Surviving Sickle Cell Disease (Hardcover): Juanita Mcclain Living with and Surviving Sickle Cell Disease (Hardcover)
Juanita Mcclain
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Normal (Hardcover): Audrey Elisa Kerr Normal (Hardcover)
Audrey Elisa Kerr
R961 R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Save R144 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Autumn Ivy Cannon - A Mother's Perspective from Struggle to Triumph-Wilms' Tumor (Hardcover): Juliet Knowles Autumn Ivy Cannon - A Mother's Perspective from Struggle to Triumph-Wilms' Tumor (Hardcover)
Juliet Knowles
R827 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R101 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Juliet Knowles began writing a blog about her daughter's fight with cancer as a way to reach out to others in the same situation, and her work became a personal story of survival. Now she offers her perspective on that struggle in Autumn Ivy Cannon. Juliet's daughter, Autumn, is a wonderful, beautiful, and strong little girl who had a very rough and exhausting fourth year of her life. She was diagnosed with a form of kidney cancer just two months after her fourth birthday.

For Juliet, hearing that her child had cancer seemed unbelievable, unmanageable, and unreal. It felt as if she were witnessing someone else's life from a distance, something she believes was a way of protecting her own emotions from the tragedy. Now, looking back, she recalls her experiences of facing that tremendous challenge and learning of her own capacity for strength and endurance.

Juliet began writing during Autumn's cancer diagnosis and treatment in the beginning of 2011. It was an intense year, full of anxiety and frustration as well as moments of truly understanding both life's brevity and its greatness. Sifting through photos and rereading the passages she wrote during the past year throughout Autumn's recovery has helped her to heal, reach out, and share her story with others.

Rebirth (Hardcover): Deborah Ludwig Rebirth (Hardcover)
Deborah Ludwig
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Partners 4 Life - The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant (Hardcover): Jim Uhrig Partners 4 Life - The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant (Hardcover)
Jim Uhrig
R594 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Early in 2008, doing ordinary, mundane things like tying his shoes and walking up steps literally took author Jim Uhrig's breath away. He had trouble breathing, and it seemed as though he could never catch his breath. That was the beginning of a long journey for Uhrig, who shares his story in Partners 4 Life. In this memoir, he narrates the path his life took after being diagnosed with the incurable idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and undergoing a subsequent lung transplant in April of 2009. Uhrig not only discusses his diagnosis and treatment, but also places special emphasis on the partners-from his personal life, his business, and his sports activities-who provided him with inspiration and help and played an integral role in his survival. He includes his partners in medicine, the donor and her family, caregivers, and special angels. Uhrig's story relates how he tackled his lung disease and transplant with the same fervor he lived life. Partners 4 Life communicates the saving grace of an organ transplant as well as the power of positive thinking.

The 50-Year Secret (Hardcover): Julie Macneil The 50-Year Secret (Hardcover)
Julie Macneil
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sacrificing America's Women - Defeating Breast Cancer the Lavender Way/Procedure (Hardcover): Phillip Bretz Sacrificing America's Women - Defeating Breast Cancer the Lavender Way/Procedure (Hardcover)
Phillip Bretz
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Alicia's Updates (Hardcover): Rene A. Fesler Alicia's Updates (Hardcover)
Rene A. Fesler
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stephen Hawking - A Biography (Paperback): Kristine Larsen Stephen Hawking - A Biography (Paperback)
Kristine Larsen
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stephen Hawking is arguably the most famous physicist since Albert Einstein. His decades-long struggle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), combined with his singular brilliance as a cosmologist, has fascinated both the public and his colleagues in science. In this engagingly written biography, Kristine Larsen, a physicist and astronomer herself, presents a candid and insightful portrait of Hawking's personal and professional life. Avoiding the hero-worship sometimes found in popular works on Hawking, Larsen emphasises that Hawking is first and foremost a scientist whose work has made significant contributions to our understanding of the nature and origins of the universe.Writing in non-technical language for the lay reader, Larsen clearly explains Hawking's complex scientific accomplishments, while telling the story of his challenging life. The topics include Hawking's early lack of focus as a college student; the impact of ALS on his career and personal life; his groundbreaking work on radiating black holes; his later cutting-edge theories of black holes, cosmology, and the anthropic principle; the amazing publishing success of "A Brief History of Time"; and his status as a pop icon and spokesperson for the interplay of science and society. Larsen situates Hawking's sometimes-controversial work within the broader context of scientific peer review and public debate, and discusses his personal life with compassion, respect, and honesty.

When Down Is Up - ...Life with a Down Syndrome son. (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Melba J. Wilkat When Down Is Up - ...Life with a Down Syndrome son. (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Melba J. Wilkat
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"When Down is Up" is the story of John Albert Wilkat, a courageous young man with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.

"He never wanted people to see him as different, even though he did realize, to some extent, that he was. He always wanted to be accepted as "one of the crowd." It was when people were talking about him saying, "John has Down Syndrome," that he would always correct them saying, "I'm not Down Syndrome. I'm UP SYNDROME." And "Up Syndrome" he was, in so very many ways.

From John you could learn that the world is a place of many different people. It is a world where sometimes things are not as they seem, a world where brother turns on brother, and a world where sometimes the smallest gesture can mean everything to another person.

John was a loving, giving, funny, joyful and, for the most part, happy person who was dealt a hand in life that most of us could never imagine. He made the very best of the situation, and John was truly an "UP SYNDROME" young man. "

Author Melba Heim Wilkat shares the story of her son's heartbreaking birth, the joys and trials of raising him, and the deafening silence as the door of his life closed.

Inside Sodom (Hardcover): Herbert Omeje Inside Sodom (Hardcover)
Herbert Omeje
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Inside Sodom, there are several actors; "real-life" actors. Nnedi is a tantalizing black beauty, artist per excellence, prodigy but born into abysmal poverty. She survived serial childhood sexual abuse, teenage motherhood, and unmitigated deprivations during her college years to a life of triumph Her natural endowments contributed in no small way to her ordeals; an object of intense temptations and pressures from the high and mighty. She rose above all odds to be crowned a beauty queen. Eleanor is a living angel; a rich pink rose but planted in an infested garden. Circumstances and fate played their turns early in her childhood, and she found herself in a missionary orphanage. But fate wasn't done yet with her blows; her stepmom was to be the next victim of death's cruelty. All the ropes that bound El to sanity and civility got snapped. She was released to an old beckoning orchestra, and having been commandeered by the mysterious, she became a whore of no mean repute. But then fate began singing an awkward tune. When it reached a crescendo, she came home to motherhood. Her husband was no other but a mogul in the corporate world, son of a preacher of no mean repute. The pages are garnished, foremost with passionate poetry and above all with pidgin English-the "lingua franca" of Sote. With the former, the inner recesses of the actors' and actor-writer's minds were well captured, whereas with the latter garnishing, the grassroots; the flavor of Sote was not left out this real-life drama. The reader is encouraged to imbibe some pidgin verses with which to explore the riches and absurdities of Sote as an emerging tourist destination.

Becoming Part of the Ribbon (Hardcover): Sharon S. Hart Becoming Part of the Ribbon (Hardcover)
Sharon S. Hart
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Becoming part of the Ribbon, My personal journey is just that. It tells, in detail, what I went through during my whole process of getting breast cancer. I have always said that it is all in the attitude and now I can live to tell how true that is. I can remember saying to my Mom, "Let's try to have as much fun with this journey as we can" and I can say that I did do that. I hope that this book gives other women that are diagnosed the courage and strength to get through this terrible disease.

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