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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: and Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation

The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: and Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Arrowsmith-Young, Barbara

Many will recall Norman Doidge's THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF was a runaway bestseller. Barbara Arrowsmith Young featured in chapter two of Norman's book. Barbara was diagnosed in Grade One as having a mental block . Some unkindly called her retarded. Today she would have been ...

ISBN 9780732292393
Published 18 May 2012 by HarperCollins
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
 

Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat (Hardback)

By Brown, Andrew

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Joseph Rotblat's life poses deep and important questions about conscience, science and society. This biography presents the full story, from his childhood lived out under anti-Semitism, family tragedy at the hands of the Nazis; work on Britain's nuclear programme; and his single- ...

ISBN 9780199586585
Published 9 April 2012 by Oxford University Press
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One Good Run: The Legend of Burt Munro
  

One Good Run: The Legend of Burt Munro (Paperback)

By Hanna, Tim

The amazing story of Kiwi motorcycling legend, backyard engineering genius and land-speed record holder Burt Munro. Munro was the archetypal eccentric, 'number-eight-wire' Kiwi inventor. He took an original Indian motorbike and modified it in his Christchurch shed so that it was ...

ISBN 9780143202851
Published 28 September 2009 by Penguin
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Rebel With A Cause
 

Rebel With A Cause (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Avery, Ray; With Little, Paul

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Ray Avery is an amazing person. He is the current NZer of the Year because of his clever work in the third world using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations, cheap and more effective incubators for babies and other creative scientific solution ...

ISBN 9781869793913
Published 6 August 2010 by Random House
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Travels of Hochstetter and Haast in New Zealand, 1858-60
  

Travels of Hochstetter and Haast in New Zealand, 1858-60 (Hardback)

By Johnston, Mike; Nolden, Sascha

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When Ferdinand Hochstetter arrived in New Zealand in December 1858 as the geologist on the Austrian Novara Expedition, New Zealand was a 'vibrant young colony holding much that was still new to science". Joined by his friend julius Haast, he ventured inot the wilds of the Norht I ...

ISBN 9780958289832
Published 22 June 2011 by Nikau Press
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Trauma: From Lockerbie to 7/7: How Trauma Affects Our Minds and How We Fight Back

Trauma: From Lockerbie to 7/7: How Trauma Affects Our Minds and How We Fight Back (Paperback, 9781854378019 Airport / Ireland / Export ed)

By Turnbull, Gordon

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The Mind Mender is the story of Turnbull's pioneering work in the field of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and his innovative treatments. Citing case histories, he reveals a human story of victims in desperate need of treatment. From the Hardcover edition.

ISBN 9780593061954
Published 9 September 2011 by Transworld Publishers
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Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea

Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea (Hardback)

By Wright, Thomas

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William Harvey had a huge impact on anatomy and modern biology. Harvey's obsessive quest to understand the movement of the blood overturned beliefs held by anatomists and physicians since Roman times. His circulation theory was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that ...

ISBN 9780701185732
Published 18 May 2012 by Vintage
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Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography

Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography (Hardback)

By Dunne, Claire; Foreword by Bernier, Olivier; Introduction by Houston, Jean

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A fully illustrated biography of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century - an explorer of the mind, who gave us such concepts as archetypes, synchronicity and the collective unconscious

ISBN 9781780281148
Published 1 April 2012 by Misc - United Book Distributor
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Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso
 

Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso (Hardback)

By Wells, Peter

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This exciting blend of history, biography and creative writing offers a new way of exploring ideas, a new way of telling stories, a new way of shaping our past while focusing on the intellectual maverick William Colenso. Meticulously researched, it takes a tangential approach in ...

ISBN 9781869794743
Published 11 November 2011 by Random House
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The Genius in My Basement

The Genius in My Basement (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Masters, Alexander

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An intimate portrait of an everyday genius.

ISBN 9780007445271
Published 14 October 2011 by HarperCollins
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