The Third Man Factor: The Secret To Survival In Extreme Environments
10 best books like The Third Man Factor: The Secret To Survival In Extreme Environments (John Geiger): Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, Migraine, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings, Baltasar and Blimunda, Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival, Not Without Hope, Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History, Ör, Por que Mahler? / Why Mahler?: Como un hombre y diez sinfonias cambiaron el mundo / How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
| Author | Francis Crick |
| ISBN | 0684801582 |
Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and spirituality by examining the soul from the standpoint...
The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs...
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
| Author | Carl Sagan |
| ISBN | 1594201072 |
On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysicist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God.
Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable...
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0553212540 |
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his...
| Author | José Saramago |
| ISBN | 0156005204 |
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
When...
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
| Author | Norman Ollestad |
| ISBN | 0061766720 |
Ollestad, 41, was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the father he idolized. Resentful of a childhood lost to his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, young Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. Set in Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s,...
| Author | Nick Schuyler |
| ISBN | 0061993999 |
While I definitely feel for the families involved in this tragedy - I did not like this book at all. The book was poorly written and the author (Nick Schuyler) came across as somewhat concieted and shallow. For example: he's just lost 3 friends and looks down at his ab muscles after he's been rescued and...
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
| Author | Kalee Thompson |
| ISBN | 0061766291 |
Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at...
| Author | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir |
Jónas Ebeneser er 49 ára fráskilinn, valdalaus og gagnkynhneigður karlmaður sem hefur ekki haldið utan um bert kvenmannshold – alla vega ekki viljandi – í átta ár og fimm mánuði. En hann er handlaginn. Hann hefur flísalagt sjö baðherbergi og þegar hann leggur af stað í ferðalag...
Por que Mahler? / Why Mahler?: Como un hombre y diez sinfonias cambiaron el mundo / How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World
| Author | Norman Lebrecht |
| ISBN | 8420651214 |
Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948 in London) is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs and a novelist. He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 until 2002 and assistant editor of the Evening Standard from 2002 until 2009. On BBC Radio 3, he has presented lebrecht.live from 2000...
Shostakovich: Su Vida, Su Obra, Su Epoca (Spanish Edition)
| Author | Krzysztof Meyer |
| ISBN | 8420686751 |
Calificado justamente de « cronista de su epoca, hay pocos compositores tan profundamente enraizados en su pais y en el contexto politico, cultural y social de su tiempo como Shostakovich. No obstante, quedan muchas ambiguedades en torno a Shostakovich y al contenido programatico de su musica....
| Author | Vladimir Jankélévitch |
| ISBN | 2020234904 |
Jankélévitch. The first time I saw him, it was on TV, the famous "Apostrophe" where all the greatest author came. It was for 3 little books "Le je ne sais-quoi et le preque rien". A philosoph interested in small things without importance but also death and pure and impure. Short books but difficult reading....
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
| Author | Mitchell Zuckoff |
| ISBN | 0062133438 |
On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. But after...
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
| Author | Lewis Wolpert |
| ISBN | 0393064492 |
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the White Queen tells Alice that to believe in a wildly improbable fact she simply needs to "draw a long breath and shut [her] eyes." Alice finds this advice ridiculous. But don't almost all of us, at some time or another, engage in magical thinking? Seventy...
Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues
| Author | Michael D. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0321570200 |
"Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues," "" Fifth Edition sparks interest among non-science readers by encouraging them to connect basic biology concepts to real-world issues that are relevant to their own lives. As an award-winning teacher, author Michael Johnson demystifies the scientific...
Laboratory Manual for Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues
| Author | Michael D. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0132443066 |
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Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
| Author | John Silverwood |
| ISBN | 1400066557 |
When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences, not only about the natural world but about the beauty of human life stripped down to its essence, far from civilization....
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese ‘hellships’ which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart...
