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Complications
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is―uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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Passages from the diary of a late physician
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Anecdotes médicales; bons mots, pensées et maximes, chansons, épigrammes, etc
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Terrible tractoration
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Shi shuo xin yu
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"Speaking of operations--"
Article from The Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 6, 1915, vol. 188, no. 19.
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Recollections of an old soldier
As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description:
Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else…
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A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity
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Mr. Nice
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Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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The Library of American Biography
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Two Sisters
Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.”
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
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A rip in Heaven
It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath...one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe.
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A Reporter's Life
Walter Cronkite gives an account of his personal life as that of a reporter and T.V. newscaster.
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The dispensary
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The private diary of Lyle Menendez
The personal story of Lyle Menendez is based on a four-and-a-half-year intimate correspondence with the author and covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez by Lyle and his brother Erik and the court trials that ended in hung juries.
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