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Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland

·3.96·8,924 Ratings
“ Don't count the days, make the days count. ” ― Muhammad Ali
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  • Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)

    2005·
    ·3.65·118 Ratings
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesMoses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work—The Guide for the Per
  • Doctors: The Biography of Medicine

    1995·
    ·4.05·264 Ratings
    From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way.How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic
  • How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter

    1995·
    ·4.06·5,852 Ratings
    A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the
  • Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

    2004·
    ·3.91·139 Ratings
    A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment
  • The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body

    2001·
    ·3.43·78 Ratings
    Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die, once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the perspective of a surgeon. Dr. Nuland recounts age-old lege
  • Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life

    2005·
    ·3.46·313 Ratings
    The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man w
  • The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being

    2007·
    ·3.56·200 Ratings
    In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientis
  • The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

    2004·
    ·3.84·395 Ratings
    Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doc
  • The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams

    1996·
    ·3.96·122 Ratings
    New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams’ entire body of short fiction as The Farmers’ Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early
  • How We Live

    1998·
    ·3.85·186 Ratings
    Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life.  For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book exp
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