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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313186Author Diana Friel McGowinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN...

When all seems lost, where can you find hope?Katherine and Jay Wolf married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams--she as a model and he as a lawyer--they planted their lives in the city...

With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he...

'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter...

'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter...

BBC Breakfast's Dr Rosemary Leonard shares a collection of incredible true tales from her twenty years as a south London GP.'Hello, this is the emergency services. Do you require fire, police or ambulance?' asked the female switchboard operator with...

'Empowering and cathartic' - Dr Tracy Cooper, International Consultant on High Sensitivity 'Deeply moving and informative' - Lily Bailey, author As an adolescent, Russell's face and neck would turn crimson at the slightest thing. In his twenties he began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400082148Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Tending to My Thoughts continues the story of Sharon Hastings, a medical doctor and Christian living with severe mental illness. Her personal experience of recovery offers a starting point to help readers think through what recovery could look like for...

In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her struggle with a disabling autoimmune illness, the limitations of Western medicine, and what sufferers need to know to truly begin healing-mind, body, and spirit.Cynthia Li had it...

We often speak of doctors as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience on an emergency psychiatric ward, Paolo Milone offers a more complex-and more compelling-picture. He transports us inside Ward 77, where mental illness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138673Author Matt McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown ArchetypePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. ...

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593192429Author Dale BredesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553348682Author Arnold BeisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in...

'Treats a grim subject with warmth and self-deprecating good humour ... equally enlightening sequel' Daily Mail The sequel to the bestselling Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor. The junior doctor is back, but working on the streets for the Phoenix Outreach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915472Author Harriet A. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)...

A Powerful Memoir for Sufferers, Their Families, and the Professionals who Care for Them For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788420730Author Michael SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PreludePublisher Duckworth Books

'You may never have been, may never go, may never even have heard of the place - but Malawi will repay your attention. It is one of the smallest, poorest countries in Africa, often overlooked; but its relationship with us in the West has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200028Author Susan TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2013 and Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780812994865Author Naoki HigashidaFormat...

The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir 'It's beautiful - full of love and light...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625648372Author Devan StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

'The most mind-blowing information on heart disease. . . . I consider this to be the best book I've ever read on cardiovascular health.'-Ben Greenfield, New York Times bestselling author Despite what we might think living in a world filled with Covid,...

Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America...

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...

In this heart-breaking, inspirational memoir, Rochelle nurses her beloved mother through a terminal brain tumour. With sensitivity and enormous emotional depth, Handle with Care provides a window into the life of a young carer.When her mum falls...

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriot's memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming...

'Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written.' Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight. 4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their way down the seventy-one...

'Inspirational ... I can't recommend this book highly enough' Bill Gates Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges...

'What would it mean to name this place I'm in, to map it? To say: this is the landscape. It looks like this, smells like this, at night these are the sounds that carry on the wind. Almost-motherhood . . .'When Miranda Ward and her husband decided to have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997548204Author Glenn SabinFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Fon PressPublisher Fon PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

When 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 abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession...

An intensive-care doctor reveals the long-term problems caused by ICUs, and how these can be prevented. Thousands of people are admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) every day, and this is only increasing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of these...

'I don't know if I was born with it, caught it or bought it; I just know that, at some point in my life, a line was crossed: I needed a drink to get through life, to calm the nerves and quiet the head, and I became reliant on alcohol to change how I felt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910786659Author Dr Elizabeth McNaughtFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Malcolm Down Publishing LtdPublisher Malcolm Down Publishing Ltd