The Making of a Nurse
10 best books like The Making of a Nurse (Tilda Shalof): Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital, Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care, Final Moments: Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying, Barbarian Alien, The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Civil War
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
| Author | Tony Hawks |
| ISBN | 0312305184 |
It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis....
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
| Author | Florence Nightingale |
"My heart always sinks within me when I hear the good housewife, of every class, say, 'I assure you the bed has been well slept in,' and I can only hope it is not true. What? Is the bed already saturated with somebody else's damp before my patient comes to exhale in it his own damp? Has it not had a single chance...
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse
| Author | Echo Heron |
| ISBN | 0804102511 |
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse by Echo Heron was the first book about nurses I read after becoming a Registered Nurse. At the time i found it daunting...a seemingly impossible job. Echo Heron told the story with warmth and compassion but also in complete candor. She had done it, not because it...
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical...
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
| Author | Alexandra Robbins |
| ISBN | 0761171711 |
In this lively, fast-paced narrative, New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins digs deep into the subculture of nursing, drawing readers into a brilliantly captivating in-depth investigation of the extraordinary working lives of nurses and the shocking behind-the-scenes secrets...
Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers affect...
Final Moments: Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying
| Author | Deborah Witt Sherman |
| ISBN | 1427798230 |
What was it like the first time a nurse witnessed death? How do nurses cope with death when it becomes almost routine? What lessons can we learn from their experiences? Twenty-five nurses--from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care--tell about their experiences with death. Hear from...
Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I’m one of them. Yay, me.
In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie’s a jerk, because it also thinks I’m the mate to the biggest,...
| Author | Polybius |
| ISBN | 0140443622 |
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, wrote the forty books of his Universal History primarily to chronicle and account for the Roman conquest of Greece between 200 and 167 B.C. He saw that Mediterranean history, under Rome's influence,...
| Author | Gaius Julius Caesar |
| ISBN | 0140441875 |
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman...
| Author | Plutarch |
| ISBN | 0140442863 |
Spengler once wrote that Mozart would cease to be heard not when his music was no longer played, but when its meaning was no longer understood. Something of this fate is also shared by Plutarch in an age where the study of history remains distorted by positivist ideology (see some other reviews on this...
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
| Author | Angela Garbes |
| ISBN | 0062662961 |
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
| Author | Willie Parker |
| ISBN | 1501151126 |
In Life’s Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal...
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0140046704 |
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. The original show has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and...
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0140441506 |
In AD 68, Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors—Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian—emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, The Histories vividly recounts the details of the "long...
| Author | Dale Peck |
| ISBN | 0374530300 |
In Martin and John, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a haunting, heartrending portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. Interwoven with these stories is a second set, in which...
Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
Who is that hairy guy in the green Speedo?
Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer. He is the author of an endless stream of beautiful, insane jokes on Twitter. He is sober. He is sometimes brave. He speaks French. He loves women with abundant pubic hair and saggy naturals. He...
Kate Adie has courageously reported from all over the world since she joined the BBC in 1969. These memoirs encompass her reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. From the siege at the Iranian embassy which shot her to public...
| Author | Alexei Sayle |
| ISBN | 0340919582 |
Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein's Alexander Nevsky instead of Walt Disney's Bambi. Born on the day that egg rationing came to an end, Alexei grew up with his parents and the Soviet Weekly. Each year they holidayed in Eastern Europe, where they were shown...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0375757333 |
Introduction by Allen W. Wood
With translations by F. Max Müller and Thomas K. Abbott
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most...
| Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| ISBN | 0023513209 |
The "greatness" of a nation and the individuals who illustrate this greatness, which, according to Hegel, has only one time and corresponds to a phase of expansion that can not last forever: it is the genius of a nation or people that captures that and brings the human, artistic, cultural, economic,...
| Author | Lisa Jewell |
| ISBN | 0452281636 |
Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best friend,...
Florence Nightingale - To Her Nurses (New Edition)
| Author | Florence Nightingale |
| ISBN | 1594627509 |
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was an English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence during the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing, and was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night to tend injured soldiers. Nightingale laid the foundation...
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
| Author | Dorothy Sue Cobble |
| ISBN | 0871406764 |
Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that...
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries
| Author | Alastair Campbell |
| ISBN | 0307268314 |
A revelatory account of Tony Blair’s tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair Campbell—Blair’s spokesman from 1994 to 2003, his press secretary, strategist, and closest confidant. It is a compelling chronicle of contemporary...
| Author | Stella Duffy |
| ISBN | 0340715634 |
For some reason this book had the NZ logo on the binding which means that it is written by a NZ author, so I picked it up because what are the chances I’ll find this book anywhere else in the world? But unfortunately this book had nothing to do with New Zealand, which was slightly disappointing. Girl is unhappily...
Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain
| Author | Ben Hatch |
| ISBN | 1849531552 |
The story of a madcap five-month family trip to write a travel guide—embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes
"Hurry up," I shout at Dinah, whilst on the overhead telly Ray Mears’ Survival is playing extraordinarily loudly...
| Author | Emma Jane Unsworth |
| ISBN | 0008334595 |
‘A DAZZLING book’ Marian Keyes
‘HEARTBREAKING and HILARIOUS … I completely and utterly adored it’ Dolly Alderton
‘Funny, arch and tender … A MUST-READ’ Jessie Burton
Funny … clever … ADULTS is incredible’ Candice Carty-Williams
Jenny...
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
| Author | Cassius Dio |
| ISBN | 0140444483 |
Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph - detailing the brutal battles and political...
For readers of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and classic Anne Rice, a chilling tale of suspense and horror set deep in the Texas desert.
Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for...
