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America's Leap Into Space - My Time at JPL and the First Explorer Satellites (Hardcover): Henry L. Richter America's Leap Into Space - My Time at JPL and the First Explorer Satellites (Hardcover)
Henry L. Richter
R815 R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Einstein@berlin - The Untraceable Soviet Cable Drop (Hardcover): Giampiero Favato Einstein@berlin - The Untraceable Soviet Cable Drop (Hardcover)
Giampiero Favato
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who would ever believe that absentminded Nobel laureate professor Albert Einstein was a Soviet spy?Albert Einstein's political and humanitarian commitment was almost completely obscured from his popular image by the media since they portrayed him as a weird mathematical genius. J. Edgar Hoover obsessively accumulated 'derogatory information" on Albert Einstein since January 1933, the date of his arrival in California. But it was not until the beginning of the fifties that he set his international trap to 'get Einstein."

Dr. Giampiero Favato delves into this chilling story with his controversial historical narrative, "Einstein@Berlin." He attempts to answer numerous questions, including the following:

  • Who was behind the public defaming of Einstein's humanitarian reputation?
  • Why did Hoover wait for almost twenty years before challenging Einstein's loyalty to the United States?
  • Were Einstein's alleged pro-Communist activities a real threat to the national security of the United States or a simple pretext to take him down as a Communist in front of the nation?Controversial and intriguing, "Einstein@Berlin" propels you to confront a truth long hidden in the shadows.
Confessions of a Trauma Junkie - My Life as a Nurse Paramedic, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Sherry Lynn Jones Confessions of a Trauma Junkie - My Life as a Nurse Paramedic, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Sherry Lynn Jones; Foreword by Victor Welzant
R777 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R91 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 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
R821 R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Save R97 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Never Better - How Legionnaire's Disease Gave Meaning to My Life (Hardcover): Calvin L. King Never Better - How Legionnaire's Disease Gave Meaning to My Life (Hardcover)
Calvin L. King
R624 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R55 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Cal King had it all: charm, affability, a body chiseled by rigorous workouts, and a successful career as a financial service executive. But that all changed dramatically during the first week of August in 2000. On a business trip to Chicago, he contracted Legionnaire's Disease.

Within a few dreadful days of contracting the disease, he narrowly escaped death, lost the ability to speak, and saw his rising star plummet. "Never Better" narrates the story of his efforts to overcome the devastating effects of this disease, including speech impairment, a weakened body, and depression that threatened to consume his life.

It is the story of his single-minded determination to talk, resume his career as a successful call center executive, and rise above the hurtful looks from people who believed he was mentally-challenged in the wake of Legionnaire's Disease. "Never Better" demonstrates the importance of faith, perseverance, and bravery. It reveals the inner spirit of a man destined to overcome nearly insurmountable odds to find new meaning in his life.

Waves of Pink II - Common Ground, Uncommon Courage (Hardcover): Julie Pershing Waves of Pink II - Common Ground, Uncommon Courage (Hardcover)
Julie Pershing
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Doctor's Path - Lessons I've Learned on My Journey through Practicing Medicine (Hardcover): Ernie Pellegrino A Doctor's Path - Lessons I've Learned on My Journey through Practicing Medicine (Hardcover)
Ernie Pellegrino
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sophie Moen suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis and was in a wheelchair for ten years. Desperately seeking a solution, she called upon Dr. Ernie Pellegrino, who suggested joint replacement. After several surgeries, Sophie was able to walk again. This is just one of the medical success stories that author Ernie Pellegrino experienced in more than three decades of medical service. Narrated in a memoir format, "A Doctor's Path" includes emotionally touching examples of the selfless dedication a number of physicians demonstrate to patients. It marvels at patients who have endured incredible disabilities and their willingness to take the risks needed to improve their lives. Not all medical stories, however, have happy endings. Pellegrino gives rare insight into the people and events in his profession. His frank approach exposes some of the shameful individuals and activities that take place in patient care. He's not afraid to confront those he believes have violated the Hippocratic Oath-to practice medicine to the best of their ability and do no harm. Providing fourteen lessons, "A Doctor's Path" helps us understand the limitations of doctors and the medical practice, and demonstrates the will of doctors to nurture and serve humanity.

Somewhere In The Bible - Understanding Bible Scriptures and Creation (Hardcover): Harris F. Allen Somewhere In The Bible - Understanding Bible Scriptures and Creation (Hardcover)
Harris F. Allen
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For all who have found the Bible difficult to read and science hard to understand, this author did too Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone would take the time to study things such as difficult verses? Also, would it be helpful if somebody wrote it in a book?
Have we really found real truth to Noah's flood? Does anyone know the physics that could cause such a global occurrence? Someone has now researched for most of a lifetime, plus three extra years of intensive study.
The answers are not always easy, the solutions not always simple. Modern Science finds more evidence almost daily that there once was a flood of such proportions.
Author, Harris F. Allen has spent countless hours attempting to answer his own questions. He has a few tools including much science and Bible in his college studies. Always an active overachiever, Allen has become deaf and partially disabled. That left far more time and greater opportunity than he could ever imagine.
Having a history of regular church attendance from his early youth, the author received a reasonable background, but always had some unanswered questions. So, in pharmacy school in a Baptist college, he excelled in New and Old Testament studies. Chemistry and science of various sorts were the main topics of study, and by adding Bible, that is an ideal mix for this discussion.
Allen will present his findings from both a scientific view and a Biblical understanding. He will explain what he found about difficult verses and some parts of the Bible that seem at times to be in conflict.
He will also discuss the physics, biochemistry and other dynamics that could be involved in such a worldwide flood. Regardless of science or Biblical belief, the flood did occur at about the time the Bible said it did.

All In the Timing - From Operating Room to Board Room (Hardcover): Charles Hatcher Jr. M.D. All In the Timing - From Operating Room to Board Room (Hardcover)
Charles Hatcher Jr. M.D.
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Strength Beyond Cancer - Journey into Healing and Rebirth (Hardcover): Nardeane Ahmed Strength Beyond Cancer - Journey into Healing and Rebirth (Hardcover)
Nardeane Ahmed
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nothing Good Happens at ... The Baby Hospital - The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery (Hardcover): Daniel... Nothing Good Happens at ... The Baby Hospital - The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
Daniel Fulkerson
R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hope, Strength and Courage - With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry (Hardcover): Kathryn Lee Hope, Strength and Courage - With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry (Hardcover)
Kathryn Lee
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Tiger's Hide - Recollections of a foreign surgeon in the U.S. (Hardcover): Channing S Jun A Tiger's Hide - Recollections of a foreign surgeon in the U.S. (Hardcover)
Channing S Jun
R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What would you do with a second life? That's the question that Channing S. Jun, a young medical student from Kanggye, North Korea, found himself asking after a series of unlikely events spared him from certain death at the hands of communist agents during the fall of Seoul, South Korea. Tragically separated from his home and family by the Korean War, Jun embarks on a remarkable journey that brings him from the battlefields of Korea to the United States of the 1950's. With only his mother's teaching to guide him, the penniless medical student overcomes countless obstacles to become a successful American surgeon. From Korea to New Orleans, New York to Texas then North Dakota and finally Georgia, "A Tiger's Hide" takes us along Dr. Jun's exciting journey toward his ultimate American success story. You'll find his recollections delightful and inspiring as he challenges us to savor life and leave behind our own legacy of service and devotion.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover):... Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R531 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Collisions - A Physicist's Journey From Hiroshima To The Death Of The Dinosaurs (Hardcover): Alec Nevala-Lee Collisions - A Physicist's Journey From Hiroshima To The Death Of The Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
Alec Nevala-Lee
R738 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who became the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century.

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of Hiroshima. In the decades that followed, he revolutionized particle physics with the hydrogen bubble chamber, developed an innovative X-ray method to search for hidden chambers in the Pyramid of Chephren, and shot melons at a rifle range to test his controversial theory about the Kennedy assassination. At the very end of his life, he collaborated with his son to demonstrate that an asteroid impact was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, igniting a furious debate that raged for years after his death.

Alvarez was also a combative and relentlessly ambitious figure―widely feared by his students and associates―who testified as a government witness at the security hearing that destroyed the public career of his friend and colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer. In the first comprehensive biography of Alvarez, Alec Nevala-Lee vividly recounts one of the most compelling untold stories in modern science, a narrative overflowing with ideas, lessons, and anecdotes that will fascinate anyone with an interest in how genius and creativity collide with the problems of an increasingly challenging world.

A Day That Would End Tearing at Your Heart (Hardcover): Ruby Gwin A Day That Would End Tearing at Your Heart (Hardcover)
Ruby Gwin
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Even now, nineteen years after my son's injury, I feel my praying for a miracle was answered. Dan's faith in believing has been astounding. The insight of his spiritual belief, I realize, was based from his youth. Dan was a happy child. He sets goals early on; his bravery has been so inspiring, for he had many crosses to bear when his life was changed dramatically. Instead of his family assuring him, it was him who assured us that God had a purpose. He transformed what he believed by proving his confidence in doing and by a living faith. It easily could have been farewell to farming, but he proved to himself and to others he could fulfill his long-time dream of farming. He looked to the bright side with "I can" instead of "I can't," by staying true to his vision and keeping focus on tomorrow and moving toward larger visions. I, myself, had to learn all over to what one would say, letting go. There was not an hour in twenty-four I didn't worry. By mere osmosis, I absorb the craft of letting Dan have an open road just as I did in his young youth. He proved paralysis is a choice and that what ifs are a waste of time.

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
R768 R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Save R92 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Kindness of Strangers - Treasures of the Heart (Hardcover): Paul Sybert The Kindness of Strangers - Treasures of the Heart (Hardcover)
Paul Sybert
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

If there's one thing author Paul Sybert knows well, it's the act of living life in the face of adversity. In "The Kindness of Strangers," Sybert shares his life story and shows how he has confronted his fears and troubles and placed his trust in Jesus Christ.

This memoir shares some of the most important moments in his life, as well as the tribulations that have tested him. "The Kindness of Strangers" recalls some of the most important events of Sybert's life-being baptized at age twelve, earning a bachelor's degree in engineering, experiencing divorce and the loss of love, struggling with an alcohol addiction, appreciating the gift of a spiritual mother, and surviving a stroke.

But most of all, Sybert shares how God has worked in his life. Through anecdotes and illustrations, he communicates the importance of maintaining a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. "The Kindness of Strangers" offers insight into the life of a man who faced his fear and persevered.

Our Ever-Present Help - A Family's Journey Through a Life-Threatening Lung Disease (Hardcover): Diane McGovern Our Ever-Present Help - A Family's Journey Through a Life-Threatening Lung Disease (Hardcover)
Diane McGovern
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What's the number one nightmare for every loving parent?

Most would say "to outlive my child." One spring break, a middle-aged dad and mom suddenly face a 50/50 chance of survival prognosis for their twenty-two-year-old daughter. They quickly realize their intense parental desire to protect their child is thwarted. Their thoughts are full of penetrating questions they were too busy to consider earlier.

How do believers get through a terrifying crisis with their faith intact? It's something God immediately began to teach an entire family.

Our Ever-Present Help confidently boasts in God's magnificent assistance to those who decide to trust Him even in the worst of times. Discover how to... understand God's ways to speak, teach, and lavishly provide during a crisis; cry out to God and pray big; trust God fully-more than people or human abilities; gain assurance that God is working to accomplish His purposes even during suffering.

This memoir highlights parents pondering the unconditional surrender of their child's life back to God, their transforming Christian marriage, God's timing, how to overcome a season of ravaging fear, and much more.

Leading Workplace Addiction - For Leaders Seeking a Solution 8 Economical Strategies to Create a Recovery-Friendly Organization... Leading Workplace Addiction - For Leaders Seeking a Solution 8 Economical Strategies to Create a Recovery-Friendly Organization (Hardcover)
John Narine
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Viral - A True Story of Epidemic Flu, Fear and Faith (Hardcover): A a E Murphy Viral - A True Story of Epidemic Flu, Fear and Faith (Hardcover)
A a E Murphy
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Physics Queen (Hardcover): Omoviekovwa A. Ph.D. Nakireru The Physics Queen (Hardcover)
Omoviekovwa A. Ph.D. Nakireru
R862 R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Save R96 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Let Me Explain (Hardcover, New): David Fubini Let Me Explain (Hardcover, New)
David Fubini
R898 R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and relentless determination lifted him from obscurity to the highest levels of the Pentagon. Indifferent to anything but results, Fubini worked behind the scenes to shape the strategy and substance of his adopted country's post-World War II defense. Along the way he exerted enormous influence over the development of radar, the rise of the military-industrial complex, the Space Race, and many of the other signature events and movements of mid-twentieth-century American geopolitics. But even as his unbending determination to do things his way earned him the admiration of his colleagues, it left him feared and isolated within his own family. "Let Me Explain" is a portrait of a man whose unwillingness and inability to compromise paid enormous rewards, and extracted a heavy emotional price. David G. Fubini is a director of McKinsey & Company, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. For more than a decade he was the managing director of the Boston office, and led the firm's activities in New England. Prior to joining McKinsey, David was an initial member of a small group that became the McNeil Consumer Products Company of Johnson & Johnson. David received a degree in business administration with honors from the University of Massachusetts, and a master's degree in business administration, with distinction, from Harvard University. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife, Bertha Rivera, and their four children.

Pioneer Doctor - The Story Of A Woman's Work (Paperback): Mari Grana Pioneer Doctor - The Story Of A Woman's Work (Paperback)
Mari Grana
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She was offered a job as a doctor to the miners in Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures as a pioneer doctor, a suffragette, and a crusader for public health reform in the Rocky Mountain West.
Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work is the true story of Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwater, a medicine woman who found freedom and opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America's frontier west. This remarkable tale has been creatively retold here by her granddaughter, award-winning author Mari Grana. Blending information from historical records as well as interviews with family and friends, the author has reconstructed Mollie's steps into a dramatic narrative that brings to life the doctor's struggles, her accomplishments, and the times in which she lived.
Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, this is not just the biography of a fascinating woman. It is also the story of an era when daring women ventured forth and changed history for the rest of us.

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