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A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and m...

Date de sortie: 2017-09-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is the heart breaking and original tale of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later. ----------------------------------- As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train....

Date de sortie: 2017-01-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

'Enthralling' GUARDIAN 'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill Bryson Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize; Wellcome Book Prize; Guardian First Book Award; and Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that...

Date de sortie: 2014-03-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,49 €

Success is a by-product of well-being. "To be able to focus and give your maximum, it is important to have the right people around you. Aki is certainly one of these people. He is honest, calm, loyal and independent... All characteristics that define an ideal working relationship." – Sebastian Vettel, a four-time Formula 1 champion The Core is a unique story from the top of the Formula 1 world, where Aki Hintsa, a Finnish F1 coach and a doctor, has for years guided drivers towards success, but...

Date de sortie: 2016-04-14 2,49 €

Au gré de la vie, les expériences se suivent sans se ressembler dès que l’évolution est consciente et déterminée. Des vibrations entrent alors en résonance avec celles du cœur humain qui s’ouvre à d’autres plans où des Frères résident. L’espace à portée de cœur, ce qui n’empêche pas d’explorer d’une pensée alerte tout ce qui fait l’actualité, en passant par la politique et autres constatations au fil du monde… et du service. Une autre promenade réflective à ...

Date de sortie: 2020-04-28 6,99 €

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boa...

Date de sortie: 2012-11-30 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clingi...

Date de sortie: 2013-10-29 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight: Here's how to think about choosing a job. Here's how to be a better manager. Here's how to approach design. Here's how to star...

Date de sortie: 2022-05-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

From the New York Times' Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs’s spiri...

Date de sortie: 2022-05-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 15,99 €

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.’ – Hilary Mantel, Guardian 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 multi...

Date de sortie: 2011-01-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,99 €

The number one Sunday Times bestseller in a new festive package, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt – now a major BBC TV series. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreak...

Date de sortie: 2019-10-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORY Since 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before. In his revelatory new book, New York Times journalist Nick Bilton takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter as it grew at exponenti...

Date de sortie: 2013-11-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

Une Curie peut en cacher une autre, et si Marie, physicienne et chimiste double Prix Nobel, a inspiré le monde entier, ses filles Irène et Ève ont également eu des vies hautement romanesques.     Marie Curie est une combattante  : malgré des débuts difficiles en Pologne occupée, avec une mère malade puis des études à Paris sans le sou, elle révolutionne la médecine et les recherches sur la radioactivité aux côtés de Pierre Curie. Mais si on connaît bien la scientif...

Date de sortie: 2021-05-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

THE TRUE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AND 18-WEEK SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'One of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time. Engrossing, a haunting page-turner. A book I could not put down' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR __________ Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, the Princess Diana in...

Date de sortie: 2018-09-20 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

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1. Mind opening - With a fascination for suspicious deaths the title was enough to draw me in, however page after page I was sucked deep into the life of Dr Shepard. Interesting, honest, humbling! A great read, a book that taught me facts yet made me laugh all the while talking about death and dead bodies. Loved it!
2019-04-14

James Cook est un navigateur, explorateur et cartographe britannique, né le 7 novembre 1728 (27 octobre 1728 selon le calendrier julien) à Marton (Middlesbrough) et mort le 14 février 1779 à Hawaï. Il a parcouru l'océan Pacifique, de l'océan Antarctique au détroit de Béring, des côtes de l'Amérique au Japon. On lui doit la découverte de la Nouvelle-Zélande et des îles Sandwich. Jules Verne raconte ses trois voyages et fait une large place aux notes de Cook. La descripti...

Date de sortie: 2022-07-11 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,99 €

From the Wall Street Journal’s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs...

Date de sortie: 2022-05-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 13,99 €

Il fait partie des dix Français qui sont partis dans l’espace. Avec sensibilité et humour, Michel Tognini nous raconte sa vie de cosmonaute, digne des super productions hollywoodiennes.  Émotions, couleurs, odeurs, vous voilà dans la peau d’un cosmonaute. Tour à tour à bord d’un vaisseau russe Soyouz, dans la station Mir, ou avec des cosmonautes américaines sur une navette Columbia. Michel Tognini nous raconte l’intensité de l’entraînement physique et psychologique ...

Date de sortie: 2021-03-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An adrenaline-fuelled exposé of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Written by startup CEO and industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, this is Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network . Computer engineers use ‘chaos monkey’ software to wreak havoc and test system robustness. Similarly, tech...

Date de sortie: 2016-06-30 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

I, WOZ offers readers a unique glimpse into the offbeat and brilliant but ethical mind that conceived the Macintosh. After 25 years avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak reveals the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views on the iconic cult status it has achieved today. In June 1975 Steve's curiosity and determination inspired him to build a computer, the first Apple. Six months later, he sold the machine, and for the self-professed 'engineer's engineer', success was ...

Date de sortie: 2013-05-09 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with the wit and wisdom of its writer, Dr Kay Redfield Jamison. With an introduction by Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology and culture. 'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.' – Oliver Sacks I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, ...

Date de sortie: 2014-12-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

«Le 28 septembre 1895, à seize heures quarante, Louis Pasteur s'éteint, entouré des siens. Dans sa main crispée, il tient celle de Marie, la femme aimante qui a toujours cru en lui, soutenu ses projets.» De lui, le grand public connaît finalement assez peu de choses, sinon qu'il a découvert le vaccin contre la rage. Cette biographie, écrite à partir de documents inédits, amène le lecteur à pénétrer dans l'intimité d'un homme énigmatique au caractère atypique dont la vie fut en ...

Date de sortie: 2013-05-23 15,99 €

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times –bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, w...

Date de sortie: 2014-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller* 'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson 'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope 'Exemplary' -- The Times 'An exceptional work' -- Washington Post Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionar...

Date de sortie: 2021-08-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon – and writing . . . As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, in Gratitude Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-19 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

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 with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the bac...

Date de sortie: 2015-05-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate ...

Date de sortie: 2009-01-22 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances. ‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ – Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hos...

Date de sortie: 2019-02-21 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES NO. BESTSELLER 'Extraordinary...both exhilarating and alarming...fascinating' DAILY MAIL 'Wonderful...a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit' FINANCIAL TIMES Henry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement from the NHS, he reflects on the experiences that have shaped his career and life, gaining a deeper understanding of what matters to us all in the end.

Date de sortie: 2017-05-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,99 €

A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love. At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. A Beautiful Mind has inspired the Oscar-winning film directed by Ron Howard and featuring Ru...

Date de sortie: 2012-11-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes Furiously Happy from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened . In Let's Pretend This Never Happened , Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In Furiously Happy she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jen...

Date de sortie: 2015-09-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

Dian Fossey's classic account of four gorilla families - one of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world For thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa, establishing an unprecedented relationship with these shy and affectionate beasts. In her base camp, 10,000 feet above sea-level, she struggled daily with rain, loneliness and the ev...

Date de sortie: 2018-10-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who gre...

Date de sortie: 2013-01-22 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,49 €

Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's t...

Date de sortie: 2009-03-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

"As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” — Outside magazine Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautif...

Date de sortie: 2009-10-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

5 à 10 % des personnes atteintes de la maladie de Parkinson le sont avant 40 ans. 5 à 10 % des malades peuvent bénéficier de la neurostimulation par stimulation cérébrale profonde. Touché par la maladie à 31 ans, je fais partie des très jeunes Parkinsoniens. Un des rares classements où se situer parmi les premiers peut difficilement être considéré comme une récompense enviable. "Ouf, c'est Parkinson !" est le témoignage de mon vécu de la maladie, depuis les premiers s...

Date de sortie: 2021-01-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,49 €

A gripping account of how a major air disaster was averted, by the captain and former Top Gun pilot Instinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth on 7 October 2008, the primary flight computers went rogue, causing the...

Date de sortie: 2019-06-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives – a camera, phone, compute...

Date de sortie: 2018-05-08 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 7,99 €

The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth's memoir trilogy, which...

Date de sortie: 2013-03-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,49 €

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigour - combined with the resources to launch and support new initiatives-have literally changed the worl...

Date de sortie: 2011-04-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger?  What do you do when your history together is gone? How do you prove you’re not an imposter in your own life?  When the partner of Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed from a mysterious illness, doctors were concerned that he would not survive. Then, six months later, Jacob woke from his coma, to the delight and relief of his family and frie...

Date de sortie: 2022-06-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,49 €

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world 'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a dizzying mix of deliciously vital ideas. . . A staggering achievement' Tim Harford The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All...

Date de sortie: 2021-10-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

La société des hommes a cloisonné l'être humain dans une ignorance le privant de l'ouverture de la conscience et de l'expansion du coeur. Ce livre vous explique pourquoi et comment l'humanité et la planète Terre en sont arrivés là, et vous donne en conscience les clefs de compréhension et de progression sur le chemin de la Lumière.

Date de sortie: 2019-11-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

Le premier tiers de cet ouvrage est consacré au concept de milieu intérieur à partir duquel Claude Bernard, par un effort proprement philosophique, libéra la physiologie d’un physicalisme réductionniste et d’une anatomie fortement teintée de vitalisme. Dans une deuxième partie nous avons voulu montrer que Claude Bernard n’a pas inventé la méthode expérimentale, mais démontré la nécessité d’utiliser, en physiologie, des outils conceptuels et méthodologiques adaptés à l’...

Date de sortie: 1990-01-01 6,99 €

'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book' Ian McEwan Love is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of love's madness. But the experience of obsessive love is no trivial matter. In the course of his career psychologist Dr Frank Tallis has treated many unusual pat...

Date de sortie: 2018-06-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,49 €

Tout le monde s'accorde pour attribuer à Galilée la paternité de la science moderne. Mais aucun ouvrage, à ce jour, n'a mieux situé la place de la révolution galiléenne dans l'histoire de la pensée que le livre de Maurice Clavelin, professeur de philosophie à l'université de Paris IV Sorbonne, paru en 1968 et aujourd'hui réédité. L'ambition de l'auteur promouvoir une approche globale de la philosophie du Pisan, tout à la fois théoricien du mouvement et astronome n'a rien perdu de ...

Date de sortie: 2014-04-01 9,49 €

Navy SEAL and author of Overcome Jason Redman’s highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him—if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and family Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country in Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. In western Iraq alone, he conducted over forty capture-kill missions with his men, successfully locating mo...

Date de sortie: 2013-11-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic; skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy; and overcoming their own fears, insecurities, and constant fatigue. Their stories are harrowing and often funny...

Date de sortie: 2012-11-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

Eight women who changed the world Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all f...

Date de sortie: 2012-07-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's remarkable life - his childhood, the heart-rending beginning of his struggle with motor neurone disease, his ever-increasing international fame, and his long personal battle for survival in pursuit of a scientific understanding of the universe...

Date de sortie: 2011-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotiona...

Date de sortie: 2011-06-16 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €