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Struggle to the Top of the Mountain (Hardcover): Ernest D. Simela M. D. Struggle to the Top of the Mountain (Hardcover)
Ernest D. Simela M. D.
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is for anyone, young or old, who has ever had a desire or ambition to achieve the American Dream. It is a story of a man chasing the American Dream told from an African perspective. It is a story which illustrates the power of setting goals and working hard to achieve them. The key is to stay focused. Life is a journey sometimes fraught with many obstacles, highs and lows. In this book the reader will find reason to stay focused on their goal, inspiration to take them over the lows and around the obstacles. Come with me to the Top of The Mountain. Our journey will take us from the sun -drenched, arid African reservations(rural areas to which Africans were relegated) of Southern Rhodesia ( present day Zimbabwe ) to the academic halls of Albert Einstein College of medicine in the Bronx, New York. Enjoy the ride.

Maybe It's Me - On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman (Paperback): Eileen Pollack Maybe It's Me - On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman (Paperback)
Eileen Pollack
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Temptation (Hardcover): John William Good Temptation (Hardcover)
John William Good
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charles Babbage and The Countess (Hardcover): Patricia S. Warrick Charles Babbage and The Countess (Hardcover)
Patricia S. Warrick
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Charles Babbage was thirty years old in 1821, as was his close friend, John Herschel, and in English intellectual circles they were both regarded as brilliant mathematicians. One day as Babbage worked in preparing logarithmic tables, a tedious and boring task, he commented to Herschel that he thought he could invent a machine to do these calculations with far more speed and accuracy than a human calculator could. And so was born an idea that would fascinate, tantalize, and absorb him for the remainder of his life. Over the years he drew plans, expanded them, modified them, and finally invented two machines, the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. The first was capable only of generating tables, but the Analytical Engine could do much more. It could convert into numbers and print the results of any formula that might be required. It could also develop any analytical formula the laws of whose formation were given. Using punched cards it could store early results in a calculation and then use them to make further calculations when they were required. He had invented the first mechanical computer.

Nuclear Dawn - F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II (Hardcover): Kenneth D. McRae Nuclear Dawn - F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II (Hardcover)
Kenneth D. McRae
R1,477 Discovery Miles 14 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero. After 1939 he switched his research to nuclear physics, and is credited with solving the problem of uranium isotope separation by gaseous diffusion for the British nuclear programme Tube Alloys. The volume is distinctive for its inclusion of source materials not available to previous researchers, such as Simon's diary and his correspondence with his wife, and for a fresh, well-informed insider voice on the five-power nuclear rivalry of the war years. The work also draws on a relatively mature nuclear literature to attempt a comparison and evaluation of the five nuclear rivals in wider political and military context, and to identify the factors, or groups of factors, that can explain the results.

Ships of Mercy - The remarkable fleet bringing hope to the world's poorest people (Paperback): Don Stephens Ships of Mercy - The remarkable fleet bringing hope to the world's poorest people (Paperback)
Don Stephens
R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ships of Mercy tells the riveting true story of Mercy Ships, the astonishing fleet of hospital ships that sail the globe, bringing dramatic change to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the most impoverished and disease-stricken corners of the world. Ships of Mercy is a page-turner of the highest quality, an inspiring testimony both to the essence of the human spirit and God's amazing providence. It tells the story of a teenager's extraordinary vision brought to reality in the form of a multi-million dollar life-saving mission. It also tells the story of a family of people from diverse backgrounds who have sacrificed their comfort and security in order to perform remarkable acts of grace and kindness.

Nikola Tesla - Lectures and Patents (Hardcover): Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla - Lectures and Patents (Hardcover)
Nikola Tesla; Preface by Rodoljub Colakovic; Compiled by Vojin Popovic
R1,460 Discovery Miles 14 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Meniere Man And The Astronaut - The Self-Help Book For Meniere's Disease (Hardcover, 2nd Meniere Man and the Astronaut... Meniere Man And The Astronaut - The Self-Help Book For Meniere's Disease (Hardcover, 2nd Meniere Man and the Astronaut ed.)
Meniere Man
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Paperback): Kary Mullis Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Paperback)
Kary Mullis 1
R422 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, and always looks for the "money trail" when scientists make announcements.

Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of topics: from global warming to the O. J. Simpson trial, from poisonous spiders to HIV, from scientific method to astrology. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

Becoming Tomorrow's Doctor - Essays on the Practice and Future of Medicine (Hardcover): Christopher M Cirino Becoming Tomorrow's Doctor - Essays on the Practice and Future of Medicine (Hardcover)
Christopher M Cirino
R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Too Big for a Single Mind - How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World (Hardcover): Tobias Hurter Too Big for a Single Mind - How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World (Hardcover)
Tobias Hurter; Translated by David Shaw
R778 R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chronic Pain and Me (Hardcover): Richard N. Scott Chronic Pain and Me (Hardcover)
Richard N. Scott
R758 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Top of the Bottom of the World! - A Doctor's Journey to the Highest Point of the South Pole (Hardcover): Mao Yilei The Top of the Bottom of the World! - A Doctor's Journey to the Highest Point of the South Pole (Hardcover)
Mao Yilei
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
What Matters Most: A Collection of Pieces (Paperback): Chris Woodhead What Matters Most: A Collection of Pieces (Paperback)
Chris Woodhead 1
R463 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Discovering the passions of Chris Woodhead Collected writings from a man who stimulated controversy and roused passions Best known as the Chief Inspector of Schools who demanded higher standards across the board, Woodhead was admired and condemned in equal measure for his determination to confront taboos and bring them into the national education debate. His final and greatest challenge was with Motor Neurone Disease, a condition he faced with strength and empathy until his death in 2015. While his education journalism stands at the core of this book, What Matters Most explores Woodhead's lesser known passions, literature and climbing, which he writes about with the precision and clarity that became his journalistic hallmark. In the final pages of the book Woodhead shares his personal views on assisted dying, advocating for individuals to be permitted to die with dignity at a time of their choosing. What Matters Most: A Collection of Pieces is a fascinating and poignant book which tracks the life and beliefs of a truly inspirational contemporary thinker.

I'm the Bob and Cathy's Kid - Emotions - Love and Fury (Hardcover): Trevor Hurwitz, Bettyanne Batt, Aga Karst I'm the Bob and Cathy's Kid - Emotions - Love and Fury (Hardcover)
Trevor Hurwitz, Bettyanne Batt, Aga Karst
R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Walk by Faith (Hardcover): David Kline Walk by Faith (Hardcover)
David Kline
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unbelievable - The Unmasking of Dr. Harrison Miller Moseley (Hardcover): Stella Brooks Unbelievable - The Unmasking of Dr. Harrison Miller Moseley (Hardcover)
Stella Brooks
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2019): Alexander Pechenkin L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2019)
Alexander Pechenkin
R4,373 Discovery Miles 43 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This biography of the famous Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1889-1944), who became a Professor at Moscow State University in 1925 and an Academician (the highest scientific title in the USSR) in 1929, describes his contributions to both physics and technology. It also discusses the scientific community that formed around him, commonly known as the Mandelstam School. By doing so, it places Mandelstam's life story in its cultural context: the context of German University (until 1914), the First World War, the Civil War, and the development of the Socialist Revolution (until 1925) and the young socialist country. The book considers various general issues, such as the impact of German scientific culture on Russian science; the problems and fates of Russian intellectuals during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; the formation of the Soviet Academy of Science, the State Academy; and the transformation of the system of higher education in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s. Further, it reconstructs Mandelstam's philosophy of science and his approach to the social and ethical function of science and science education based on his fundamental writings and lecture notes. This reconstruction is enhanced by extensive use of previously unpublished archive material as well as the transcripts of personal interviews conducted by the author. The book also discusses the biographies of Mandelstam's friends and collaborators: German mathematician and philosopher Richard von Mises, Soviet Communist Party official and philosopher B.M.Hessen, Russian specialist in radio engineering N.D.Papalexy, the specialists in non-linear dynamics A.A.Andronov, S.E. Chaikin, A.A.Vitt and the plasma physicist M.A.Leontovich. This second, extended edition reconstructs the social and economic backgrounds of Mandelstam and his colleagues, describing their positions at the universities and the institutes belonging to the Academy of Science. Additionally, Mandelstam's philosophy of science is investigated in connection with the ideological attacks that occurred after Mandelstam's death, particularly the great mathematician A.D.Alexandrov's criticism of Mandelstam's operationalism.

Maximum Impact - Maxim's Quiet Rise as Silicon Valley's Most Prolific Analog Chip Maker (Hardcover): Tunc Doluca Maximum Impact - Maxim's Quiet Rise as Silicon Valley's Most Prolific Analog Chip Maker (Hardcover)
Tunc Doluca; Created by Kevin Paterson; Edited by Beth Bruno
R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Brown-Sequard - An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine (Hardcover): Michael J. Aminoff, MD Brown-Sequard - An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine (Hardcover)
Michael J. Aminoff, MD
R3,302 R2,951 Discovery Miles 29 510 Save R351 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Brown-Sequard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged licentious behavior, and by other scientists for his unorthodox views and for claims that, in fact, he never made. An improbable genius whose colorful life was characterized by dramatic reversals of fortune, he was a founder-physician of England's premier neurological hospital and held important professorships in America and France.
Brown-Sequard identified the sensory pathways in the spinal cord and emphasized functional processes in the integrative actions of the nervous system, thereby anticipating modern concepts of how the brain operates. He also discovered the function of the nerves that supply the blood vessels and thereby control their caliber, and the associated reflexes that adjust the circulation to bodily needs. He was the first to show that the adrenal glands are essential to life and suggested that other organs have internal secretions. He injected himself with ground-up animal testicles, claiming an invigorating effect, and this approach led to the development of modern hormone replacement therapy.
Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard was reportedly "one of the greatest discover of facts that the world has ever seen." It has also been suggested that "if his reasoning power had equaled his power of observation he might have done for physiology what Newton did for physics." In fact, scientific advances in the years since his death have provided increasing support for many of his once-ridiculed beliefs."

Hot Lights, Cold Steel - Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback): Michael J. Collins Hot Lights, Cold Steel - Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
Michael J. Collins
R470 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. All too soon, the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gives way to the feeling he is a counterfeit, an imposter who has infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons.
This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor, he recounts the disparity between people's perceptions of a doctor's glamorous life and the real thing: a succession of run down cars that are towed to the junk yard, long weekends moonlighting at rural hospitals, a family that grows larger every year, and a laughable income.
Collins' good nature helps him over some of the rough spots but cannot spare him the harsh reality of a doctor's life. Every day he is confronted with decisions that will change people's lives-or end them-forever. A young boy's leg is mangled by a tractor: risk the boy's life to save his leg, or amputate immediately? A woman diagnosed with bone cancer injures her hip: go through a painful hip operation even though she has only months to live? Like a jolt to the system, he is faced with the reality of suffering and death as he struggles to reconcile his idealism and aspiration to heal with the recognition of his own limitations and imperfections.
Unflinching and deeply engaging, "Hot Lights, Cold Steel" is a humane and passionate reminder that doctors are people too. This is a gripping memoir, at times devastating, others triumphant, but always compulsively readable.

Immanuel Velikovsky - The Truth Behind the Torment (Hardcover, New Revised ed.): Ruth Velikovsky Sharon Immanuel Velikovsky - The Truth Behind the Torment (Hardcover, New Revised ed.)
Ruth Velikovsky Sharon; Contributions by C. J. Ransom
R611 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R39 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Letter to a Young Female Physician - Thoughts on Life and Work (Paperback): Suzanne Koven Letter to a Young Female Physician - Thoughts on Life and Work (Paperback)
Suzanne Koven
R419 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 2017, Dr Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not clever enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven's Letter to a Young Female Physician has evolved into a work that reflects on her career in medicine, in which women still encounter sexism, pay inequity and harassment. Koven tells engaging stories about her pregnancy during a gruelling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her son and parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother and daughter converged; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. Letter to a Young Female Physician offers an indelible eyewitness account from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher and writer that will encourage readers to embrace their own imperfect selves.

Life on the Edge (Hardcover): Sam Ramsay Smith Life on the Edge (Hardcover)
Sam Ramsay Smith
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mending Nerves - An Empathetic Journey with Multiple Sclerosis (Hardcover): Robert Cusinato Mending Nerves - An Empathetic Journey with Multiple Sclerosis (Hardcover)
Robert Cusinato; Contributions by Ryan Thomas; Illustrated by Nicholas Mueller
R648 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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