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  • Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

    Biography for the Masses

    by Carol Ueland, Ludmilla A. Trigos, J.A.E. Curtis, Radislav Lapushin, Catherine O’Neil, Alexandra Smith, Alexander Spektor, Jonathan Stone, Angela Brintlinger0, Irene Masing-Delic1, Caryl Emerson2 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Manuscripts Don't Burn

    Mikhail Bulgakov: a Life in Letters and Diaries

    by J.A.E. Curtis ...
    _______________'Curtis spent a decade trying to negotiate her way past possessive Soviet archivists, and the result of her persistence is the most comprehensive selection of personal documents so far available in any language' - Simon Franklin, Times Literary Supplement'Ingeniously structured ... an absorbing and, at times, uplifting book' - Robert Russell, Modern Language Review'An engagin... ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Mikhail Bulgakov

    by Professor J.A.E. Curtis ...
    Series Book 73 - Critical Lives
    Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death due to the repressive Soviet censorship of literature. His great novel, The Master and Margarita (published only in 1973), was written in complete secrecy during the 1930s for fear of the writer being arrested and shot. In her revelatory ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Drug Hunters

    The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

    by Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas ...
    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... Read more

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  • Walk on Water

    The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives

    by Michael Ruhlman ...
    Described by one surgeon as “soul-crushing, diamond-making stress,” surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical surgery in a pediatric heart center, Michael Ruhlman focuses on the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, where ... Read more

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  • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe

    A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

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  • Beyond My Control

    One Man's Struggle with Epilepsy, Seizure Surgery & Beyond

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    Stuart Ross McCallum shares a true account of his battle with epilepsy-beginning with the peculiar sensations he experienced as a teenager that led to his diagnosis and concluding with his eventual recovery from a temporal lobe lobectomy.McCallum vividly describes his twenty-year journey of living with epilepsy and how this unpredictable disease has not only impacted his life but the lives of ... Read more

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    A Report from the Lymelands

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    The brand-new final chapter from the revised edition of CURE UNKNOWN, the definitive, award-winning investigation into Lyme diseaseSince its original publication in 2008, CURE UNKNOWN has become known as a nuanced, groundbreaking picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease, and the only book of its kind. Award-winning journalist Pamela Weintraub reveals ... Read more

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  • Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine

    by Thomas H. Lee ...
    Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent—and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and many others have faded into history. Much of the improved survival and change in attitudes can be traced to the work of Eugene Braunwald, MD. In the 1960s, he proved that myocardial infarction was not a “bolt from the blue” but a dynamic process that ... Read more

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  • Notes of a Love Song

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    When Claire Verney agreed to ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband’s full-time caregiver and medical advocate as he struggles with the ravages of end-stage Parkinson's. It ... Read more

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  • A Machine Called Indomitable

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