18 books like Better

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Complications Atul Gawande · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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. Shares: Surgery, Anecdotes, Biography & Memoir

Anecdotes médicales; bons mots, pensées et maximes, chansons, épigrammes, etc Gustave Joseph Witkowski · 1880 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Medicine, Anecdotes

Terrible tractoration Thomas Green Fessenden · 1803 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Medicine, Anecdotes

Passages from the diary of a late physician Samuel Warren · 1832 · 503p · ≈ 16h · Challenging The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. Shares: Medicine, Anecdotes, Biography & Memoir

Principles of internal medicine Tinsley Randolph Harrison · 1950 · ★ 4.4 · 2720p · ≈ 90h · Challenging This book is a treatise on all disorders & treatments in medicine. It is an authoritative & exhaustive book..basically a Bible for students of medicine. Each topic is authored by an expert in the field.It was first written & edited by Dr Harrison & Later By Dr Eugene Brunwald,Dr Isselbacher, Dr Fausi, Dr Kasper & other luminaries in the medical field. The more recent editions have been… Shares: Practice, Medicine

"Speaking of operations--" Irvin S. Cobb · 1915 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Article from The Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 6, 1915, vol. 188, no. 19. Shares: Medicine, Anecdotes

The dispensary Garth, Samuel Sir · 1699 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Shares: Medicine, Anecdotes

Recollections of an old soldier Capt. David Perry (b. 1741) · 1822 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging 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… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Shi shuo xin yu Liu, Yiqing · 1615 · ★ 3.5 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Demanding 拥有几个世纪的文学作品,不可避免地会有一些人从裂缝中掉下来。 我们搜寻并修复公共领域的作品,以免它们丢失。 我们是谁? 我们是凯恩出版社。 我们的背景是设计、出版、排版和技术。 这些技能推动了我们以可承受的价格在线创建最高质量的公共领域电子书的使命。 我们给予他们应有的待遇; 我们专有的流程可以修复书籍,从而在设计、可读性和电子阅读器兼容性方面提供更好的整体用户体验。 通过这本 世說新語, 经过 Yiqing Liu 的数字版电子书探索一段历史。 这部作品经过精心修复并忠实于原作,被学者认为具有重要的文化意义,是我们文明知识库的基本组成部分。 今天拿起你的副本。 类型:中国 – 历史 – 三国,220-265 – 轶事,中国 – 历史 – 晋朝,265-419 – 轶事 Shares: Anecdotes, Biography & Memoir

Vies des dames galantes Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme · 1722 · ★ 5.0 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Avec des siècles de littérature, il est inévitable que certains passent entre les mailles du filet. Nous traquons les œuvres du domaine public et les restaurons afin qu'elles ne soient pas perdues pour le monde. Qui sommes-nous? Nous sommes Cairn Press. Notre expérience est dans le design, l'édition, la typographie et la technologie. Ces compétences alimentent notre mission de créer des livres… Shares: Medical Ethics, Biography & Memoir

A rip in Heaven Jeanine Cummins · 2004 · ★ 4.2 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 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. Shares: Case studies, Biography & Memoir

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her… Shares: Medical Ethics, Biography & Memoir

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Duped Jeffrey Kottler · 2010 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "The authors turn their therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room. What do clients lie about, and why? When do therapists mislead or withhold information from their clients? What does it all mean? In their exploration of this taboo material, the authors interview and share stories from dozens of their peers, of all practice… Shares: Personal narratives, Case studies, Biography & Memoir

Notes on nursing Florence Nightingale · 1859 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the best-known work of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the originator and founder of modern nursing, comes a collection of notes that played an important part in the much-needed revolution in the field of nursing. For the first time it was brought to the attention of those caring for the sick that their responsibilities covered not only the administration of medicines and the application… Shares: Practice, Biography & Memoir

Dog stories James Herriot · 1986 · ★ 4.3 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A collection of dog stories by James Herriot. Shares: Personal narratives, Anecdotes, Biography & Memoir

The private diary of Lyle Menendez Lyle Menendez · 1993 · ★ 4.6 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 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. Shares: Case studies, Biography & Memoir

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

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