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by Nora Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam...
The Future of Ice
A Journey Into Cold
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate.
Over the...
Mom's Marijuana
Life, Love, and Beating the Odds
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds.
When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete...
Delivering Doctor Amelia
The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.”
Treating other physicians...
by George Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most groundbreaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history.
With the attention to detail of a historian and the storytelling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments...
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming...
Mi hijo precioso
El viaje de un padre a traves de la adiccion de su hijo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Ahora en la gran pantalla
Protagonizada por Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney y Amy Ryan
¿Qué le pasó a mi hijo precioso? ¿A nuestra familia? ¿En qué me equivoqué? Esas son las tormentosas preguntas que acompañan a David Sheff en su viaje a través de la adicción...
by Susan Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.
“Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing...
by Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
"Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book." --Truman Capote
In this tell-all legal memoir, Alan Dershowitz describes his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients. In the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.
Paperboy
Confessions of a Future Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth in 1950s Queens, New York–a borough of handball games and inexplicably numbered streets–he winningly shows...
Doctors
The Biography of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way.
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman...
Remaking the World
Adventures in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small.
In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover...
Dead Man Walking
An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
Joseph Smith
Rough Stone Rolling
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed...