Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table, Hardcover

This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journ...

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I know because I've seen most of them at close quarters.' As one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey, the author ha...

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The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Prad...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Dr Shahed YousafNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 223 x 34Cover type: Hard...

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'One of the wonder women of our emergency services' Glamour'Homeless as a teenager, Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has spent the last eighteen years dealing ...

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother tr...

Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the econ...

Eyewitness accounts reveal how the Iranian state secretly executed thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988

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Sent to live on a remote island in the Tanzanian half of Lake Victoria, Mark Weston finds a community grappling with one of the world's great unkno...

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of ...

To commemorate HCI's 40th anniversary, many of its most loved and revered authors have contributed personal stories of lifechanging events in Succe...

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The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decades

In the Devonshire countryside, a masked stranger is preying on young women. At first he doesn't kill and his motive for terrifying the women seems ...

Is he ready to love again?Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Annie ClaydonNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 108 x 17...

Maths underpins nearly everything we do, but few of us know that it is often a matter of life and death.Illustrations: 35 illustrations

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Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without questio...

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A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019 An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession's most emine...

International bestseller on the intricacies of the heart by surgeon and TV presenter Dr Nikki Stamp

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Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this ex...

Climate Psychology illuminates and engages the life and death challenges that face terrestrial life. It offers ways to work with the emotionally un...

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The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this ...

Daringly provocative and searingly entertaining, Conviction is a brilliant political thriller, and a witty literary confrontation with Israel's mos...

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Publisher: Brewin BooksAuthor(s): Simon ButeuxIllustration(s): 111 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 239 x ...

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Reducere. A Heart Blown Open chronicles the extraordinary journey of Zen master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi, whose life landed him in prison long before he land...

One woman's incredible story of life on the front lines as an emergency medical worker in New York City. On the streets of New York City, EMTs and ...

Reducere. Cardiac Failure Explained is a comprehensive user friendly guide on understanding and managing heart failure. Written by a cardiologist who has bee...

Reducere. A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.Sometimes in medicine the on...