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Just Pick Up The Peg - A Nurse's Journey Back From Stroke (Hardcover): Angie Collins-Burke, Suzanne Cronkwright Just Pick Up The Peg - A Nurse's Journey Back From Stroke (Hardcover)
Angie Collins-Burke, Suzanne Cronkwright
R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Radar Man - A Personal History of Stealth (Hardcover): Edward Lovick Radar Man - A Personal History of Stealth (Hardcover)
Edward Lovick
R815 R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied solely upon aerial reconnaissance. "Radar Man" is the fascinating memoir of a physicist who, with his colleagues, developed the stealth technology that eventually created radar-invisible aircraft. Edward Lovick shares a compelling story from the perspective of an enthusiastic scientist that highlights his pioneering experiences in an innovative, secret world as he helped create stealth aircraft such as the A-12 OXCART, SR-71 Blackbird, and F-117 Nighthawk. From the moment in 1957 when Lockheed's famous aircraft designer Clarence L. 'Kelly' Johnson invited Lovick to join his "Skunk Works," Lovick details how he helped the CIA eventually perform vital, covert reconnaissance flights over Soviet-held territory during the Cold War, saved Lockheed ADP's A-12 from cancellation, and provided key design input to the SR-71 and F-117. Lovick's autobiography describing his career as an engineering physicist in the Skunk Works not only draws attention to the insurmountable challenges that accompanied the task of developing radar-invisible aircraft, but also the importance of the monumental task these young scientists fulfilled-all with the hope of creating a secure future for their beloved country.

Untamed - The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island (Paperback): Will Harlan Untamed - The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island (Paperback)
Will Harlan
R465 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia. Cumberland, the country's largest and most biologically diverse barrier island, is celebrated for its windswept dunes and feral horses. Steel magnate Thomas Carnegie once owned much of the island, and in recent years, Carnegie heirs and the National Park Service have clashed with Carol over the island's future. What happens when a dirt-poor naturalist with only a high school diploma becomes an outspoken advocate on a celebrated but divisive island? Untamed is the story of an American original standing her ground and fighting for what she believes in, no matter the cost.

Mikhail Botvinnik - The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion (Paperback): Andy Soltis Mikhail Botvinnik - The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion (Paperback)
Andy Soltis
R1,126 Discovery Miles 11 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as the first truly professional chess player--as well as his complex relations with Soviet leaders, including Josef Stalin, his bitter rivalries, and his doomed effort to create the perfect chess-playing computer program. The book has more than 85 games, 127 diagrams, twelve photographs, a chronology of his life and career, a bibliography, an index of openings, an index of opponents, and a general index.

Psychiatry, America's Holocaust - The Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind: From... Psychiatry, America's Holocaust - The Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind: From Sleeping on the Streets to Foundin (Hardcover)
Clover Greene
R636 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Collapsing from the grief of not being loved, twenty years old, Clover Greene was committed to psychiatry. Just as after any horror to horrible to be real, after four electric shocks, Greene developed hysterical amnesia, vaguely remembering being locked up by psychiatry. Psychiatry, America's Holocaust: The Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind chronicles author Clover Greene's journey back from the precipice of suicidal and homicidal terror. It is a collection of Greene's thoughts, original poetry, and helpful information designed to help the reader to better understand the ups and downs of recovering from mental illness. Over a period of time, Greene was recommitted through psychiatry and forced to take drugs. Unable to escape to the outside, Greene's suppressed feelings of confusion periodically built up and exploded into suicidal and homicidal drug rages. Real doctors in real hospitals saved Greene's life from suicide attempts and the life-threatening physical damage caused by psychiatric drugs. After thirty-one years under a psychiatrist's care, Greene was incredibly still alive, saved by a twelvestep program and the support of others in the same position.

In this memoir, Greene shares the harrowing account of escaping psychiatry alive and being reborn in the spirit of love.

Heredity Before Mendel - Festetics and the Question of Sheep's Wool in Central Europe (Hardcover): Peter Poczai Heredity Before Mendel - Festetics and the Question of Sheep's Wool in Central Europe (Hardcover)
Peter Poczai
R4,022 Discovery Miles 40 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The history of Science is replete with untold stories and this book is one of these accounts. The author shares a narrative of heredity, an active topic of inquiry long before Gregor Mendel - the father of genetics - planted his peas. One such interlude unfolded in Mendel's home city and involved the sheep breeder, Imre Festetics. He sought to improve wool and proposed important rules of heredity. Unfortunately, aspects of wool quality, now known to be polygenic, complicate interpretations of the work of Festetics and explain why it is neglected. The forebearers of Mendel never get the credit they deserve. Heredity Before Mendel resurrects Festetics, the grandfather of heredity. Key Features 1) Documents a vibrant community of scholars interested in heredity before Mendel 2) Highlights the work of Imre Festetics, the forgotten grandfather of genetics 3) Desribes political repression which stifled the nascent foundation of heredity research 4) Emphasizes the role sheep and wool played as the first model system of genetics 5) Challenges19th century taboos in Moravia leading to malicious rumors about the inbred royal House of Austria (Habsburgs).

My Life with Viruses, Friends & Enemies (Hardcover): Alfred Prince My Life with Viruses, Friends & Enemies (Hardcover)
Alfred Prince
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Happens - Living a Healthy Life Despite a Chronic Illness (Hardcover): Nathalie Brisebois Life Happens - Living a Healthy Life Despite a Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
Nathalie Brisebois
R566 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nathalie Brisebois has lived through many difficult challenges, but has found a path to health and happiness. In Life Happens, she shares the story of her experiences battling multiple sclerosis.

For years, living with remittent-recurrent multiple sclerosis dictated who she was and what she did. Brisebois describes her journey battling the many devastating physical and mental effects of this chronic, degenerative disease and the ways that it influenced her work, her family, and her entire being. But in Life Happens, she tells how she began looking for options and a way to heal herself, addressing alternatives such as nutrition, yoga, meditation, vegetarianism, and living a simple life.

Filled with tips, suggestions, and ideas for living with and battling a chronic illness, Life Happens communicates a message of inspiration and hope, of looking for what you want in life, of never giving up, and of finding and being at peace with your life.

Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher - A Thematic Biography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Jukka Paakki Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher - A Thematic Biography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Jukka Paakki
R4,385 Discovery Miles 43 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book outlines the scientific career of Arto Salomaa, a pioneer in theoretical computer science and mathematics. The author first interviewed the subject and his family and collaborators, and he then researched this fascinating biography of an intellectual who was key in the development of these fields. Early chapters progress chronologically from Academician Salomaa's origins, childhood, and education to his professional successes in science, teaching, and publishing. His most impactful direct research efforts have been in the areas of automata and formal languages. Beyond that he has influenced many more scientists and professionals through collaborations, teaching, and books on topics such as biocomputing and cryptography. The author offers insights into Finnish history, culture, and academia, while historians of computer science will appreciate the vignettes describing some of the people who have shaped the field from the 1950s to today. The author and his subject return throughout to underlying themes such as the importance of family and the value of longstanding collegial relationships, while the work and achievements are leavened with humor and references to interests such as music, sport, and the sauna.

Principles Of Chinese Medicine: A Modern Interpretation (Hardcover, Second Edition): Hai Hong Principles Of Chinese Medicine: A Modern Interpretation (Hardcover, Second Edition)
Hai Hong
R2,704 Discovery Miles 27 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the world's most comprehensive and deeply researched system of alternative and complementary medicine, Chinese medicine enjoys a large following in scientifically developed communities. Yet its concepts and principles have been shrouded in mystery and obscure language. This path-breaking book strips this ancient science of its mystique and metaphysical pretentions and interprets it to strike common ground with biomedical science. Concepts like qi and meridians are interpreted not as physical entities, but as constructs to facilitate diagnosis and therapy using heuristic models. Written for medical professionals, philosophers of medicine and discerning readers interested in holistic therapies, the book offers a unique perspective of Chinese medicine in an advanced biomedical world. It has practical chapters on cardiovascular disease, irritable bowel syndrome and cancer, and a compilation of Chinese herbs. This second edition of the acclaimed Theory of Chinese Medicine has new material on chronic diseases and the intriguing possible convergence of biomedicine and TCM.

Leonardo Da Vinci - The Biography (Paperback): Walter Isaacson Leonardo Da Vinci - The Biography (Paperback)
Walter Isaacson 1
R440 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R47 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.

He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.

His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.

Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

Gregor Mendel - The Scientist - Based on Primary Sources 1822-1884 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Anna Matalova, Eva Matalova Gregor Mendel - The Scientist - Based on Primary Sources 1822-1884 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Anna Matalova, Eva Matalova
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The major purpose of this book is to present Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in a real and interesting way based on the most recent historical research and analysis of authentic sources. The authors aim to show Mendels scientific thinking and inner feelings together with his environment and to communicate his message as a multifaceted personality and modern experimentalist. The book draws from the only existing short sketch of Mendels youth, his letters and the biographical ceiling paintings that were made according to his proposal. They form the basis of the self-portrait concept. The structure of the book follows thematic groups covering Mendels activities from a poor village boy in search for education and financial security, as not being physically suitable for running his father's farm. The book does not perpetuate the myths invented by some creative authors to make Mendels biography more attractive. Mendels life and work are dramatic enough without those embellishments. Mendel found happiness in science and he was able to explain the theory of new scientific facts. He was not a tragic figure, he did not work to become famous, but to be useful. His pea research has now been appreciated as a genius accomplishment of a scientist. The book is published at the occasion of Mendels birthday bicentennial.

Her Space, Her Time - How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe (Paperback): Shohini Ghose Her Space, Her Time - How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe (Paperback)
Shohini Ghose
R585 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R75 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women in science in this “engaging . . . passionate” book for fans of Hidden Figures (Boston Globe)!

Meet 20+ women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.

Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored byaward-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions. In each chapter of the book, Ghose explores a scientific topic and introduces the women revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy, such as:

• TIME: Learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar.
• SPACE EXPLORATION: Meet Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings.
• SUBATOMIC PARTICLES: Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe—and played a crucial role in determining who gets to do physics today.

Engaging, accessible, and timely, Her Space, Her Time is a collective story of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership, and overcoming invisibility that will leave a lasting impression on any reader curious about the rule-breakers and trendsetters who illuminated our understanding of the universe.

Some of the featured women scientists in the book: Williamina Fleming / Annie Jump Cannon / Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin / Antonia Maury / Henrietta Leavitt / Margaret Burbidge / Mary Golda Ross / Dilhan Eryurt / Claudia Alexander / Joyce Neighbors / Navajo women of Shiprock / Harriet Brooks / Marie Curie / Lise Meitner / Marietta Blau / Hertha Wambacher / Bibha Chowdhuri / Wu Chien-Shiung / Women of the Manhattan Project / Vera Rubin

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine (Paperback): Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang,... Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine (Paperback)
Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang, Runhong Li
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure for malaria, a disease that plagued the military and civilians alike in endemic regions. It chronicles the years of painstaking research to find effective anti-malarial drugs, and how an entry in a collection of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions gave Tu Youyou the clue which led her to successfully extract artemisinin from the plant, Artemisia annua.Gathering together information from a variety of sources including first-hand accounts, this book describes the contributions of the many organisations, scientists, doctors and countless others who played a part in the process of discovery and clinical testing. It also provides insights into the challenges of carrying out such an extensive research project with limited resources during the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. An inspirational read for young scientists.Includes the translation of Professor Tu Youyou's 2015 Nobel Lecture.

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse - Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Paperback): R.Charles Mollan William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse - Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Paperback)
R.Charles Mollan
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland. The book gives details, in an attractive non-technical style which requires no previous scientific knowledge, of his engineering initiatives and the astronomical results, but also reveals much more about the man and his contributions - locally in the town and county around Birr, in political and other functions in an Ireland administered by the Protestant Ascendancy, in the development and activities of the Royal Society, of which he was President from 1848-54, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The Countess of Rosse, who receives full acknowledgement in the book, was a woman of many talents, among which was her pioneering work in photography, and the book includes reproductions of her artistic exposures, and many other attractive illustrations. -- .

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine (Hardcover): Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang,... Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine (Hardcover)
Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang, Runhong Li
R1,790 Discovery Miles 17 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure for malaria, a disease that plagued the military and civilians alike in endemic regions. It chronicles the years of painstaking research to find effective anti-malarial drugs, and how an entry in a collection of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions gave Tu Youyou the clue which led her to successfully extract artemisinin from the plant, Artemisia annua.Gathering together information from a variety of sources including first-hand accounts, this book describes the contributions of the many organisations, scientists, doctors and countless others who played a part in the process of discovery and clinical testing. It also provides insights into the challenges of carrying out such an extensive research project with limited resources during the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. An inspirational read for young scientists.Includes the translation of Professor Tu Youyou's 2015 Nobel Lecture.

Ordinary Magic (Hardcover): Cameron Powell Ordinary Magic (Hardcover)
Cameron Powell
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A terrifying diagnosis. An unbreakable bond. And one unforgettable journey. Cameron Powell has always struggled with goodbyes. On the day his marriage ends, he finds out his mothers cancer has returned -- and this time there may be no escape. Faced with the prospect of more chemo and surgery, his German-born mother, Inge, vows to conquer a 500-mile trek across Spain, and Cameron pushes aside his fears to walk by her side. Joined by a misfit band of adventurers -- a politically incorrect Spaniard, a theatrical Frenchwoman, a teenager whos never been far from home -- Cameron and Inge write a fierce and funny travelogue about the rocky heights and hidden valleys of the Camino de Santiago. But the hardest stretch comes three years later, when Inges health declines -- and Cameron, ready or not, must accept the challenge to remain as present to his mother as he can. As their journey shrinks to the room around a hospice bed, Cameron begins to record, in their blog, his real-time impressions of lifes most difficult voyage. The result is one of literatures epic love letters (Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land). Propelled by the searing immediacy of his own fear and sadness, this deeply-felt memoir opens up new insight into what it means to be a man, and takes us -- with wisdom, humour and an overflowing tenderness -- into one of the most challenging journeys true friends can ever take. If you like candid motherson relationships, humorous tales from the trail, and in-the-moment insights on living a life of purpose, then youll love this luminous, inspirational true story about pilgrimage, presence, and letting go.

Heart: A History (Paperback): Sandeep Jauhar Heart: A History (Paperback)
Sandeep Jauhar 1
R469 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Lukas M. Verburgt John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Lukas M. Verburgt
R3,638 Discovery Miles 36 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of nineteenth-century Cambridge, where he worked alongside leading thinkers, such as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall, on the development of the Moral Sciences Tripos. Venn published three influential textbooks on logic, contributed some dozen articles to the then newly-established journal Mind, of which he became co-editor in 1892, and counted F.W. Maitland, William Cunningham and Arthur Balfour among his pupils. After his active career as a logician, which ended around the turn of the 20th century, Venn reinvented himself as a biographer of his University, College and family. Together with his son, he worked on the massive Alumni Cantabrigienses, which is still used today as a standard reference source. The material presented here, including the 100-page Annals: Autobiographical Sketch, provides much new information on Venn's philosophical development and Cambridge in the 1850s-60s. It also brings to light Venn's relation with famous colleagues and friends, such as Leslie Stephen, Francis Galton, and William Stanley Jevons, thereby placing him at the heart of Victorian intellectual life.

Belly Woman - Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story (Paperback): Benjamin Oren Black Belly Woman - Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story (Paperback)
Benjamin Oren Black
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"This book will stay with me for years." - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt What happens to pregnant women when a humanitarian catastrophe strikes? Belly Woman shines a light on a story often left untold. May, 2014. Sierra Leone is ranked the country with the highest death rate of pregnant women in the world. The same month, Ebola crosses in from neighbouring Guinea. Arriving a few weeks later, Dr Benjamin Black finds himself at the centre of an exponential Ebola outbreak. From impossible decisions on the maternity ward to moral dilemmas at the Ebola Treatment Centres. One mistake, one error of judgment, could spell disaster. An eye-opening work of reportage and advocacy, Belly Woman chronicles the inside journey through an unfolding global health crisis and the struggle to save the lives of young mothers. As Black reckons with the demons of the past, he must try to learn the lessons for a different, more resilient, future. "A must-read for our times - riveting, illuminating and humbling." - Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love and The Devil That Danced on the Water

Cicely Saunders - The Founder Of The Modern Hospice Movement (Paperback): Shirley Du Boulay Cicely Saunders - The Founder Of The Modern Hospice Movement (Paperback)
Shirley Du Boulay
R433 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Dame Cicely Saunders was the founder of the Hospice Movement, in which Britain leads the world. Her work transformed our approach to the care of the dying, and also the debate about euthanasia. She died in 2005 and her memorial service was held in Westminster Abbey in March 2006. Over 1600 people attended. This biography, by Shirley du Boulay, includes a 4-page plate section and new chapters by Marianne Rankin covering the years after 1984.

Charles Darwin In Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years (Paperback): John van Wyhe Charles Darwin In Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years (Paperback)
John van Wyhe
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently his day-to-day life there has remained unknown and misunderstood. This book is based on new research, including newly discovered manuscripts and Darwin publications, and gathers together recollections of those who knew Darwin as a student. This book therefore reveals Darwin's time in Cambridge in unprecedented detail.

A Book of Dreams - The Book That Inspired Kate Bush's Hit Song 'Cloudbusting' (Paperback): Peter Reich A Book of Dreams - The Book That Inspired Kate Bush's Hit Song 'Cloudbusting' (Paperback)
Peter Reich
R387 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R70 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This famous book, the inspiration behind Kate Bush's 1985 hit song 'Cloudbusting', is the extraordinary account of life as friend, confidant and child of the brilliant but persecuted psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Peter, his son, shared with his father the revolutionary concept of a world where dream and reality are virtually indistinguishable, and the sense of mission which set him and his followers apart from the rest of the human race. Here, Peter Reich writes vividly and movingly of the mysterious experiences he shared with his father: of flying saucers; the 'cloudbuster' rain-makers and the FDA narks; and of the final tragic realization of his father's death, which woke him up to the necessity of living out his life in an alien world. Already regarded as a modern classic, A Book of Dreams is not only a beautifully written narrative of a remarkable friendship and collaboration, but a loving son's heartfelt tribute to a loving father.

2 - 3 Tears - One Woman's Dauntless Pursuit of Love (Hardcover): Suzie Klimt 2 - 3 Tears - One Woman's Dauntless Pursuit of Love (Hardcover)
Suzie Klimt
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unnatural Causes - 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that'  Jeremy Vine,... Unnatural Causes - 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 (Paperback)
Richard Shepherd 1
R339 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

THE TRUE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'One of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time. Engrossing, a haunting page-turner. A book I could not put down' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR __________ Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, the Princess Diana inquiry, and 9/11. He has faced serial killers, natural disaster, 'perfect murders' and freak accidents. His evidence has put killers behind bars, freed the innocent, and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads. Yet all this has come at a huge personal cost. Unnatural Causes tells the story of not only the cases and bodies that have haunted him the most, but also how to live a life steeped in death. Thoughtful, revealing, chilling and always unputdownable, if you liked All That Remains, War Doctor and This is Going to Hurt you'll love this. **Pre-order Dr Richard Shepherd's new book THE SEVEN AGES OF DEATH now** __________ 'Gripping, grimly fascinating, and I suspect I'll read it at least twice' Evening Standard 'A deeply mesmerising memoir of forensic pathology. Human and fascinating' Nigella Lawson 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that but it's fascinating' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 'Puts the reader at his elbow as he wields the scalpel' Guardian 'Fascinating, gruesome yet engrossing' Richard and Judy, Daily Express 'Fascinating, insightful, candid, compassionate' Observer

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