Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
7 best books like Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted (Gerald Imber): The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, Feynman, A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, Selected Essays, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
| Author | Lindsey Fitzharris |
| ISBN | 0374117292 |
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed...
| Author | Anthony A. Long |
| ISBN | 0199245568 |
The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient philosophy, gives the definitive presentation of the...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596432594 |
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest...
A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
| Author | Andrew Chaikin |
| ISBN | 0140272011 |
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twentythree moon...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
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| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0199595186 |
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice...
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
| Author | Jim Stockdale |
| ISBN | 0817993916 |
In describing his seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, the late Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale has said: "In that atmosphere of death and hopelessness, stripped of the niceties, the amenities of civilization, my ideas on life and leadership crystallized." Despite torture,...
