50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Vetenskap och teknik

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...

Releasedatum: 2012-11-30 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 115,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2017-09-07 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

'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...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-13 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

Vogue's Best Books of the Year, 2018 Sunday Time s' Best Memoirs of the Year, 2018 A New York Times Book of the Year New Yorker Book of the Year A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she gr...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-13 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

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....

Releasedatum: 2017-01-12 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 99,00 kr

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 ...

Releasedatum: 2013-05-09 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 49,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-17 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 39,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-03 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 189,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2016-04-14 25,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2015-09-24 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

'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...

Releasedatum: 2013-11-05 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 45,00 kr

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidenc...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-29 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 49,00 kr

With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone , Sarah Moss 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 industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . . Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating account is the story of ...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-07 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-20 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 99,00 kr

Eva F. Dahlgren har gjort en fascinerande resa i spåren efter sin farfar, professor K V Ossian Dahlgren, som hon såg upp till i sin barndom. Hon visste inte då, att han pläderade för att man skulle bevara den nordiska rasen genom att skaffa många långa och blonda barn. Varför gifte han sig själv med Greta, som var 1,47 lång och hade sydeuropeiskt påbrå? Farfar var rasbiolog är en djupt personlig släktuppgörelse. Ett litterärt reportage och en brinnande passionshistoria som angår...

Releasedatum: 2012-09-14 79,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-11-05 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 109,00 kr

The world's greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book. During the American book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22 , Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Over the next year he experienced the full force of modern canc...

Releasedatum: 2012-08-25 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-03 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 259,00 kr

I den första biografin som utgår från människan Emanuel Swedenborg tecknar Ernst Brunner med historisk noggrannhet och hängiven inlevelse en levande och delvis ny bild av den kontroversielle vetenskapsmannen, bibeltolkaren, teosofen och hans tid.Under de många dagar som passerade mellan slaganfallet och döden besöktes Swedenborg i sin våning i London bara av tjänsteflickan Reynolds och barberaren Shearsmith. Slaganfallet hade varit något att glädjas åt. Kroppen dög nu bara till att...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-15 79,00 kr

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, ...

Releasedatum: 2014-12-15 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATES In this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's l...

Releasedatum: 2014-08-21 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 115,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-10-29 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history. In this remarkable memoir, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humour of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air ...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-13 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 85,00 kr

'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.

Releasedatum: 2017-05-04 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 35,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2015-05-01 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

'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 ...

Releasedatum: 2009-01-22 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 109,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2021-10-07 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 115,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2015-11-19 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

Det är en vit jul i Kungälv 1938. En kvinna i 60-årsåldern och hennes systerson pulsar fram i snön. Efter en stund stannar de och slår sig ner på en omkullfallen trädstam. Kvinnan – atomfysikern Lise Meitner – tar fram en papperslapp som hon fyller med uträkningar. När hon räknat färdigt kan hon bekräfta en teori som förändrar förutsättningarna för framtida forskning och får omvälvande världspolitiska konsekvenser. Det hon finner är hur kärnklyvning går till, och vilk...

Releasedatum: 2012-09-18 79,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2011-04-28 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 115,00 kr

An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Month Indiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary cases Our brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathise and understand the world around us, but how would our lives change if these abilities were dramatically enhanced – or disappeared overnight? Helen Thomson has spent years travellin...

Releasedatum: 2018-06-26 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 55,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2016-06-30 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 149,00 kr

Georg Klein är cancerforskare med världsrykte, professor i tumörbiologi vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm 1957–1992. Hans memoarer är en berättelse om två världar. Den första är Budapest där han växer upp i en judisk familj, tills att allt slås i spillror av kriget med förföljelse och flykt undan förintelsen. Kleins sällsamma livsinstinkt leder honom igenom allt, och som 22-åring kommer han till Sverige där han skapar sig en ny tillvaro. Hans andra värld blir forskningen...

Releasedatum: 2014-12-23 79,00 kr

A Sunday Times Bestseller Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions. 'One of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe l...

Releasedatum: 2014-04-10 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2011-11-10 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 129,00 kr

Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to le...

Releasedatum: 2009-09-29 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 109,00 kr

*** Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year *** 'Shines an incisive and entertaining light into the secretive world of the South Korean technology giant shaping our digital lives in ways we probably can't imagine' -- Brad Stone Can the Asian giant beat Apple? Based on years of reporting on Samsung for the Economist , the Wall Street Journal, and Time from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offe...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-19 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 149,00 kr

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year “One of the best [books] I have read on the phenomenology of OCD.” —Scott Stossel, the Washington Post Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery. By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a tho...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-03 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 109,00 kr

This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, Stephen Wolfram gives an ennobling look at some of the individuals whose ideas and creations have helped shape our world today.  From his recolle...

Releasedatum: 2016-07-07 99,00 kr

”Det har hänt att jag tyckt mig känna en människa som levde för länge sedan genom det hon lämnat efter sig i handskrift och i tryck, även om det aldrig blivit särskilt uppmärksammat. När jag arbetade med essäboken Se blomman råkade jag ut för en sådan fascination, inför en man som levde ett bortskymt liv på 1700-talet.” Så skriver Kerstin Ekman i förordet till sin biografi över prästen och naturforskaren Clas Bjerkander. Hans liv som präst var tillbakadraget, men i veten...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-01 89,00 kr

Mestareiden tekijä Mies F1-mestareiden takana kertoo tarinansa ja paljastaa menestyksen salaisuuden. Mika Häkkinen, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastian Vettel... Aki Hintsa - Voittamisen anatomia on ainutlaatuinen tarina F1-maailman huipulta, jossa suomalainen Aki Hintsa leipoo kuljettajista mestareita. Sittemmin kansainväliset huippujohtajat ovat ottaneet Hintsan opit käyttöönsä.Teos sisältää runsaasti ennen julkaisematonta tietoa formulamaailman kulissien takaa sekä Hintsan ...

Releasedatum: 2015-03-04 139,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-12 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 115,00 kr

The fourth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet. While the world has changed after the war, the blunt Yorkshire clients and menagerie of beasts with weird and wonderful ailments remain the same. But between his young son, Jimmy, trailing him around copying his every move, stubborn farmers refusing to try his...

Releasedatum: 2012-05-17 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 59,00 kr

Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old. As a young man, he became a medic to learn how to help, and deal with, the suffering of others. From then on he was plunged into many highly demanding situations, including being Head of Mission for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) during the Rwandan genocide; engaging with the politics of humanitarian work as the President of MSF; being in New York when the twin towers of the World Trade Center fell on S...

Releasedatum: 2009-11-10 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 159,00 kr

Take a trip down memory lane and read about the life of Britain's most beloved vet, who charmed us all with his bestselling tales of veterinary life in Yorkshire. 'A wonderful, glorious insight into the life of the man behind the books' 5***** Reader Review 'Moving . . . A book I shall treasure and read several times' 5***** Reader Review ______ After qualifying as a vet in 1939, Alf Wight, aka James Herriot, moved to a veterinary practice in Thirsk, Yorkshire. It wasn't until he was over fifty ...

Releasedatum: 2000-10-26 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 115,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2009-03-17 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 109,00 kr

Now a major BBC comedy-drama starring BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive preface by the author. 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 missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the ...

Releasedatum: 2022-02-03 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 49,00 kr

“An intense look at the high-stakes world of a NYC paramedic in the months before and after COVID-19 altered our landscape.”—Damon Tweedy, MD, author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine The education of a New York City paramedic, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single year culminate in the greatest challenge the city’s emergency medical system has ever faced: COVID-19. As a seasoned paramedic and union leader, Anthony Almojera th...

Releasedatum: 2022-06-07 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 159,00 kr

'I think you have something here' I said, 'This could lead to a whole new way of understanding criminal behaviour. As far as I know no one's ever tried to figure out why serial killers kill. The implications are profound.' Haunting, heartfelt, and deeply human, Dr Ann Burgess's remarkable memoir combines a riveting personal narrative of fearless feminism and ambition, bone-chilling encounters with real-life monsters, and a revealing portrait of the ever-evolving US criminal justice system. A Kil...

Releasedatum: 2021-12-09 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 89,00 kr

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...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-01 Genre:Biografier och memoarer 119,00 kr