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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu
Scientist and Feminist
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399000482
Pub Date: 2025-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
288 Pages
300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador.
Bend, Don't Break
A Memoir of Endurance
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781788494373
Pub Date: 2024-04-19
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
288 Pages
‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ In this inspiring memoir, Frank recounts his life and experiences as an elite runner, as well as his fourteen-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He is well aware that Parkinson’s will ultimately win, but he is determined to not get ahead of himself, as after all tomorrow is another day.
A Nurse's Life
Delivering Meaningful Care
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781739789220
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
256 Pages
This book tells the remarkable story of one woman’s devotion to a life of care in the medical profession.
Breaking the Heart Open
The Shaping of a Psychologist
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780717199174
Pub Date: 2023-12-18
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
320 Pages
Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his...
Small by Small
Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria
Price: $31.99
ISBN: 9781914518096
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Sandstone Press
304 Pages
‘A small miracle of a book. It entertains with delicious storytelling.’ - Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAs he works his way through his medical training, Ike Anya’s grandmother reassures him,Everything...
And a Bang on the Ear
Reclaiming My Life After a Brain Injury
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781788493222
Pub Date: 2023-05-20
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
208 Pages
Part investigative tale, part time capsule, And a Bang on the Ear sees Philip painstakingly piece together the events that led up to, and followed, the accidental clash of heads that left him in a coma before waking up to 30 years of pain and paralysis. Full of hope and humour, rage and rehabilitation, this is an autobiography unlike any other.
Ethel Gordon Fenwick
Nursing Reformer and the First Registered Nurse
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399099585
Pub Date: 2022-07-20
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
208 Pages
A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age.
Keep Calm and Trust the Science
An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9780717191819
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
320 Pages
What is life like at the edge of science in a pandemic? World renowned immunologist Professor Luke O’Neill tells all, sharing his diaries from the front-line of the scientific fight for a vaccine as the world grappled with Covid 19.
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu
Scientist and Feminist
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399000482
Pub Date: 2025-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
288 Pages
Bend, Don't Break
A Memoir of Endurance
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781788494373
Pub Date: 2024-04-19
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
288 Pages
A Nurse's Life
Delivering Meaningful Care
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781739789220
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
256 Pages
Breaking the Heart Open
The Shaping of a Psychologist
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780717199174
Pub Date: 2023-12-18
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
320 Pages
Small by Small
Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria
Price: $31.99
ISBN: 9781914518096
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Sandstone Press
304 Pages
And a Bang on the Ear
Reclaiming My Life After a Brain Injury
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781788493222
Pub Date: 2023-05-20
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
208 Pages
Ethel Gordon Fenwick
Nursing Reformer and the First Registered Nurse
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399099585
Pub Date: 2022-07-20
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
208 Pages
Keep Calm and Trust the Science
An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9780717191819
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
320 Pages