The Socratic Dialogues
10 best books like The Socratic Dialogues (Plato): Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling, Lives in the Balance: Nurses' Stories from the ICU, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Final Moments: Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying, Conversations of Socrates, Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir, Myths and Legends of China, Summer of Fire, The Walled Garden, Happily Ever After
| Author | Linda Greenhouse |
| ISBN | 1607146711 |
The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in "Roe v. Wade" legalized abortion-but the debate was far from over, continuing to be a political battleground to this day. In the decades since the case was decided, the American debate on abortion has moved away from the issues that the justices confronted more than...
Lives in the Balance: Nurses' Stories from the ICU
| Author | Tilda Shalof |
| ISBN | 0771079826 |
A collection that provides a compelling and insightful look into the world of ICU nurses.
This is a compelling collection of stories by twenty-five nurses working in the ICU, a fast-paced, highly technological environment where patients’ lives are at stake. From cardiac, medical, surgical,...
| Author | Mary Seacole |
| ISBN | 0195066723 |
Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and varied life, she was to travel in Central America, Russia and Europe, find work as a inn-keeper and as a doctress during the Crimean War, and become a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As...
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...
Conversations of Socrates
After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation...
| Author | Cara Muhlhahn |
| ISBN | 1427798214 |
Single mom, jazz singer, salsa dancer, traveler, and midwife to more than 700 babies, Cara Muhlhahn holds nothing back--in her life or in this memoir. As a teenager, Cara's family home burnt to the ground. That tragedy led her on a journey that would span a variety of countries and cultures. While she...
Edit: Jan.25
I've decided to change my original rating of 2 stars to 1.
I tried to read this again after downloading another free ebook of Chinese myths from the iBook store called The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Shan Hai Jing. The earliest accounts of some of the stories found in TCoMaS...
| Author | Linda Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1932815295 |
A Strong 3.75 Star Read
1988 was indeed a Summer of Fire. I remember watching the news and seeing the Western states ablaze, especially in and around Yellowstone National Park. Over 2 Million acres burned in around the park, as accurately documented in Linda Jacobs’ fictional novel. Fifty-two...
A young woman with a turbulent past discovers a secret world under New York City in the 1980s. Here there be magic, and monsters After surviving a brutal attack, Mireya Rodriguez must leave the past to the past, and start living again. A seemingly chance encounter with a man named Jonathan Mellon leads...
| Author | Bruce Lansky |
| ISBN | 1599611309 |
It is amazing!
although it's 10 children stories, it has so many good ideas, and some good morals (but I didn't like that some of them based on lies). the introduction was remarkable as well!
I was attached with the first story, almost cried after the second, and LOL while reading the third. in...
| Author | Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. |
| ISBN | 0307928667 |
Three years before the start of WWII, Eugene Fodor published his first guidebook, 1936–-On the Continent–The Entertaining Travel Annual. Fodor's goal was to create a fun-to-read, annually updated guidebook about Europe that emphasized the people and culture of a country--a radical change...
| Author | Kathy Steffen |
| ISBN | 1932815937 |
This was a riveting story about Emma's escape from an abusive, delusionary husband who uses his belief in God as justification for heinous crimes and mistreatment of others. It seems like a coming of age story, of sorts, as Emma regains her self-confidence and emerges as a confident, spirited woman....
10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible
The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more. What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today. A colorful cast of characters...
A Child al Confino: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy
| Author | Enrico Lamet |
| ISBN | 1440509972 |
The reading of any book on the Holocaust strikes fear in my heart, and this one is no different, except that I also came away from it with even more respect for those people who managed to survive the inhuman cruelty, deprivation and madness of that time. I was not aware, before reading this book, of the Jews,...
| Author | Anna DeStefano |
| ISBN | 0505528193 |
“Die!” scream her nightmares. The voice is her sister’s, the compulsion stronger than any ordinary dream.
Maddie Temple can’t go through this again. Her twin has been in a coma for the last ten years. Their psychic link was severed. At least, that’s what she thought.
But...
Let's Go Europe 2011: The Student Travel Guide
| Author | Harvard Student Agencies Inc. |
From Portugal to the Ukraine, from Norway down to Greece, Europe is a lot to take on. Luckily, the student adventurers behind Let’s Go Europe 2011 think you can handle it — with a little help. Whether you’re whipping through London, Barcelona, and Prague in five days or spending a leisurely year...
Martin Legace is a former special ops standout, once recognized as the top field interrogator in the American military complex. His study of the human mind was carried out in make-shift tents on the edge of the battlefield; he didn’t write or read the book on how to break a prisoner, he simply followed...
En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between
| Author | Steven "Kelly" Grayson |
| ISBN | 1427799717 |
Stephen "Kelly" Grayson has seen the best of us at our worst. When hearts stop working, when blood alcohol levels exceed limits we shouldn't contemplate, when bodies are extricated from car wrecks, he's been there to pick up the pieces, save our lives, and watch us slip away. His touching stories of life...
Unbillable Hours: A True Story
| Author | Ian Graham |
| ISBN | 1607146290 |
The story—part memoir, part hard-hitting expose—of a first-year law associate negotiating the arduous path through a system designed to break those who enter it before it makes them. Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the...
The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia--The Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease
| Author | Andrew Koob |
| ISBN | 0137151713 |
Until recently, neuroscientists thought glial cells did little more than hold your brain together. But in the past few years, they've discovered that glial cells are extraordinarily important. In fact, they may hold the key to understanding intelligence, treating psychiatric disorders and brain...
Mary Magdalene: A Woman Who Loved ( Trilogy, #1)
Mary Magdalene was a woman whose life circumstances led her from demonic possession and prostitution to being the first witness of the greatest event in world history. In an attempt to reconstruct her life, this book demonstrates her struggle as she confronts the patriarchal traditions embedded...
Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
| Author | Andrea D. Lyon |
| ISBN | 1607144344 |
Nineteen times, death penalty defense lawyer Andrea D. Lyon has represented a client found guilty of capital murder. Nineteen times, she has argued for that individual’s life to be spared. Nineteen times, she has succeeded. Dubbed the “Angel of Death Row” by the Chicago Tribune, Lyon was the...
The story you are about to read features James Enge’s wondrous character, Morlock Ambrosius. Morlock is a swordsman, an exile, a hunchback, a drunk, and a wizard, though he himself would use the term “Maker” and say he is a master of the two arts, Seeing and Making.
James Enge’s tales...
Reviewers called it the best novel on India since Kipling. An immediate European bestseller, optioned by Indian/German producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with BBC.
Based on real people (ca. 1620), THE MOGHUL begins in a rip-roaring sea battle north...
When Actress Gina Martin lands a role on a top daytime soap, she soon finds herself immersed in a glamorous world of hidden secrets and dangerous temptations. Will Gina survive the Hollywood machine, or will it consume her?
Boob Tube introduces the reader to a cast of colorful characters and...
