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Take a nostalgic journey back in time with Good Morning Ma’am, a light-hearted book which can be enjoyed by everyone. Filled with anecdotes chronicling the experiences of a teacher, it targets a wid……続きを見る

Anorexia's Fallen Angel contains all the ingredients of an irresistible read: a baffling disease that overwhelmingly afflicts the young and gifted, promises of a miracle cure, whistle-blowing inside……続きを見る

We remember Thomas Alva Edison as the craggy, rumpled inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph - a prodigy, the affable "Wizard of Menlo Park." But he also was a visionary entrepreneur who chan……続きを見る

A brave and revealing examination of an overlooked affliction that affects one in four Canadians.** Despite having a demanding job, good friends, and a supportive family, Emily White spent many of h……続きを見る

A glimpse into the extraordinary world of ambulance driving from the man behind the wheel. ‘Heart-stopping, eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Sometimes painful, sometimes sad, often very, very funny’ Cr……続きを見る

The first biography of the ground breaking Australian doctor who discovered the first pharmacological treatment for mental illness. For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreat……続きを見る

In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying condi……続きを見る

***The memoir of a scientist and the wild silk moths he studies***Biologist Michael Collins has been studying wild silk moths since he was a boy. This family ー which includes the largest and most c……続きを見る

Telecommunication has undergone unprecedented change in recent times. Two hundred years ago, Sir Francis Ronalds foresaw its development and imagined a world of 'electrical conversations'. His subse……続きを見る

Extrait : Je naquis le 26 février 1786, dans la commune d’Estagel, ancienne province du Roussillon (département des Pyrénées-Orientales). Mon père, licencié en droit, avait de petites propriétés en……続きを見る

This book chronicles the life and work of the late Arthur Kornberg, one of the premier biochemists in the world, who discovered the enzyme DNA polymerase, a key enzyme required for the biosynthesis ……続きを見る

A searing, beautifully told memoir by a Native American doctor on the trials of being a doctor-soldier in the Iraq War, and then, after suffering a stroke that left his life irrevocably changed, his……続きを見る

A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas. Rich in anecdote, and displaying all the author’s customar……続きを見る

The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fev……続きを見る

De jeune délinquant à instructeur commando, un incroyable parcours ! Alors qu’il était bien parti pour se faire une place au sein de la petite voyoucratie marseillaise, le jeune Alain rompt avec son……続きを見る

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of……続きを見る

Christopher C. Langdell (1826–1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed,……続きを見る

North Carolina’s Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes or sections of highway with them into the surf; san……続きを見る

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His ……続きを見る

This Omnibus E-Book brings together Mario Garcia’s landmark books on Latino Studies. The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United Sta……続きを見る

Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter J……続きを見る

Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B. W. Wells (1884–1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state’s diverse plant life long before ecology and conservat……続きを見る

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This v……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the “woman question,” a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally we……続きを見る

Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York U……続きを見る

Joe Miller brings us the first-ever stand-alone guidebook to backpacking in North Carolina, a state long known as a terrific backpacking destination. Covering 43 of the best trips the state has to o……続きを見る

Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your fingertips are turning numb, and, as the world closes in around you, you realise there is not……続きを見る

Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920–2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in t……続きを見る

In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would……続きを見る

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called “Mexica……続きを見る