Fascinomas -fascinating medical mysteries. A paralyzed teen recovers overnight. A woman complains her breast implants speak. A man and his dog become gravely ill at the exact same ...9999903126751Clifton K., Clifton Meado...
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
John Snow, Cholera and the Mystery of the Broad Street PumpIn 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Chole...9999903126508Sandra Hempel
Granta Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A Biography of CancerA "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that ...9999903125662Siddhartha Mukherjee
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: ???Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.??????Michael Agger, Slate ???Is Google making us stu...9999903125631Nicholas Carr
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative ReportingThe classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting. What do Lyme ??s disease in Long Island, a pig from New Jersey, and am amateur pianist have in common? All ...9999903125624Roueche, Berton
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became a multimillion-dollar ind...9999903125532Rebecca Skloot,
Pan Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A Journey Through the Science of SleepWhy do we sleep? Are we sleeping enough? Do we suffer stress from "sleep debt"? Why do some of us struggle with sleep disorders? And how can we tackle sleep problems? These are the...9999903125525Jim Horne
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Curious Lives of Human CadaversWhat happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff...9999903125501Mary Roach,
Gardners Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
"From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for...9999903125655David B. Agus Kristin Lob...
Pocket Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently DeadNot too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student...9999903125556David J. Casarett
Portfolio Hardcover
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm PatientsBad science hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600 billion global pha...9999903125518Ben Goldacre
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: ...9999903125495Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures on the Alimentary CanalIn this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examinin...9999903125488Mary Roach
Oneworld Publications
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A History of SurgeryToday, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not be...9999903125419Richard Hollingham
BBC Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Stories of Life, Death and Brain SurgeryWhat is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with t...9999903125402Henry Marsh
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific hi...9999903125396Roy Porter
Cambridge University Press
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical MysteriesYou're a doctor, faced with a 22-year-old woman who is dying before your eyes. Previously fit, happy, and rarely ill now she's wasting away, confined to a hospital bed. Test result...9999903125372Lisa Sanders
Icon Books Ltd
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World WorksPosing the question "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" to 150 of the world's brightest and most influential minds, the publisher of Edge.org presents ...9999903125365John Brockman
HarperCollins
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Sunday Times BestsellerRandall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSE...9999903125358Randall Munroe
Hodder
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A Comedy of Maths ErrorsWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym ...9999903125327Matt Parker
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the PlanetOn March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska,...9999903125297Henry Fountain
Anchor Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recoun...9999903125273Robert A. Norman
University of California Press
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious BrainsLonglisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexi...9999903125228Joseph LeDoux
Prentice Hall Press
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Language as a Window into Human NatureThis New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enli...9999903125198Steven Pinker
London : Penguin, 2008.
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyA brain scientists recounts her experiences after suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and...9999903125167Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Unlocking the Mystery of Human NatureThis fascinating book reveals what we learn about human nature when the brain goes wrong. It looks at why the human brain is so unique and examines how it became so complex.9999903125143V. S. Ramachandran
William Heinemann
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
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