Author: Chris Logan
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781868421633
Category : Heart
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Dr Chris Barnard caused a world sensation in December 1967 by performing the first human heart transplant, transforming him overnight from an unknown surgeon into a household name. Although he wrote a number of books about himself, and his first wife, Louwtjie, wrote a book in reply to one of them, there has never been a full scale, objective biography of the man named by Time Magazine as one of only two South Africans on a list of people who had changed the world - the other being Nelson Mandela. The author covers Barnard's boyhood in Beaufort West, his medical training, his marriage to Louwtjie and his first fulltime job, to his becoming a surgeon, and finally succeeding in a human transplant. He discusses how Barnard became transformed into a social butterfly, wearing Italian suits and having affairs with celebrities such as Gina Lollobrigida and Francoise Hardy, resulting in his divorce from Louwtjie. He then fell in love with and married a 19-year-old model, Barbara Zoellner. We see how he collaborated with Eschel Rhoodie's Department of Information; a period about which Logan has uncovered previously unpublished details.
Celebrity Surgeon
Author: Chris Logan
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781868421633
Category : Heart
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Dr Chris Barnard caused a world sensation in December 1967 by performing the first human heart transplant, transforming him overnight from an unknown surgeon into a household name. Although he wrote a number of books about himself, and his first wife, Louwtjie, wrote a book in reply to one of them, there has never been a full scale, objective biography of the man named by Time Magazine as one of only two South Africans on a list of people who had changed the world - the other being Nelson Mandela. The author covers Barnard's boyhood in Beaufort West, his medical training, his marriage to Louwtjie and his first fulltime job, to his becoming a surgeon, and finally succeeding in a human transplant. He discusses how Barnard became transformed into a social butterfly, wearing Italian suits and having affairs with celebrities such as Gina Lollobrigida and Francoise Hardy, resulting in his divorce from Louwtjie. He then fell in love with and married a 19-year-old model, Barbara Zoellner. We see how he collaborated with Eschel Rhoodie's Department of Information; a period about which Logan has uncovered previously unpublished details.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781868421633
Category : Heart
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Dr Chris Barnard caused a world sensation in December 1967 by performing the first human heart transplant, transforming him overnight from an unknown surgeon into a household name. Although he wrote a number of books about himself, and his first wife, Louwtjie, wrote a book in reply to one of them, there has never been a full scale, objective biography of the man named by Time Magazine as one of only two South Africans on a list of people who had changed the world - the other being Nelson Mandela. The author covers Barnard's boyhood in Beaufort West, his medical training, his marriage to Louwtjie and his first fulltime job, to his becoming a surgeon, and finally succeeding in a human transplant. He discusses how Barnard became transformed into a social butterfly, wearing Italian suits and having affairs with celebrities such as Gina Lollobrigida and Francoise Hardy, resulting in his divorce from Louwtjie. He then fell in love with and married a 19-year-old model, Barbara Zoellner. We see how he collaborated with Eschel Rhoodie's Department of Information; a period about which Logan has uncovered previously unpublished details.
Are Those Real?
Author: Norman Leaf
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450218415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Americans have long been fascinated by the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities and the over-hyped magic of plastic surgery. In this entertaining memoir, Dr. Norman Leaf, a highly respected plastic surgeon, reveals the complex and all-too-human connection that exists between these two worlds. In his thirty-five years practicing in Beverly Hills, California, Leaf has encountered the great and those aspiring to be great, seeing them in a different light than the general public. This unique perspective contributes to a touching, inspiring, humorous, and eye-opening journey into a world few have the opportunity to see close-up, while debunking the myths and clearing up the misconceptions about plastic surgery. Are Those Real? is not a kiss-and-tell memoir. With the exception of a few iconic figures, Leaf is careful to protect the identities of his patients. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Are Those Real? paints an intimate portrait of a master surgeon, while shining a light into a little-known corner of modern culture. In this memoir, Leaf appeals to biography buffs and illustrates the good, bad, happy, and just plain funny aspects of plastic surgery.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450218415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Americans have long been fascinated by the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities and the over-hyped magic of plastic surgery. In this entertaining memoir, Dr. Norman Leaf, a highly respected plastic surgeon, reveals the complex and all-too-human connection that exists between these two worlds. In his thirty-five years practicing in Beverly Hills, California, Leaf has encountered the great and those aspiring to be great, seeing them in a different light than the general public. This unique perspective contributes to a touching, inspiring, humorous, and eye-opening journey into a world few have the opportunity to see close-up, while debunking the myths and clearing up the misconceptions about plastic surgery. Are Those Real? is not a kiss-and-tell memoir. With the exception of a few iconic figures, Leaf is careful to protect the identities of his patients. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Are Those Real? paints an intimate portrait of a master surgeon, while shining a light into a little-known corner of modern culture. In this memoir, Leaf appeals to biography buffs and illustrates the good, bad, happy, and just plain funny aspects of plastic surgery.
The Italian Surgeon's Christmas Miracle
Author: Alison Roberts
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426828454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Nurse Amy Phillips has two things she has to do this Christmas—look after six children, and save their house from being bulldozed by the ruthless new owner! Billionaire surgeon Luke Harrington usually keeps his emotions so close to his chest that some people think he doesn’t have any. But, faced with evicting this vibrant brood from the house he’s reluctantly inherited, he can’t bring himself to be the bad guy... He’s touched by the warmth and love he sees in Amy and her family. They have none of his wealth, yet their Christmas will be richer than any he’s known. So when Amy welcomes him into her life it feels as if he’s experienced a Christmas miracle of his own...
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426828454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Nurse Amy Phillips has two things she has to do this Christmas—look after six children, and save their house from being bulldozed by the ruthless new owner! Billionaire surgeon Luke Harrington usually keeps his emotions so close to his chest that some people think he doesn’t have any. But, faced with evicting this vibrant brood from the house he’s reluctantly inherited, he can’t bring himself to be the bad guy... He’s touched by the warmth and love he sees in Amy and her family. They have none of his wealth, yet their Christmas will be richer than any he’s known. So when Amy welcomes him into her life it feels as if he’s experienced a Christmas miracle of his own...
Three Weeks in Italy
Author: Phil Acosta
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 144014527X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
THREE WEEKS IN ITALY is the profoundly moving and hilarious story of a journey that a man takes after losing his young wife to cancer. He suffers intense grief for over a year and then joins a dating service to find a new wife. Based on a true story, Douglas Steele marries the first girl he meets after dating her for only three months. But he is haunted by memories of his recently deceased wife of 15 years, while his new bride, Gianna Christophe, is plagued by habits from her single life. The reader will travel with Doug and Gianna as he meets her eccentric parents and her quirky friends before embarking on their three week honeymoon in Italy, where they stumble into trouble nightclubbing in Venice...where Gianna becomes an unstoppable shopper in Florence...where Doug gets into a high speed chase with a taxi in Rome...where Gianna shocks Doug by attacking the customs agents at the Roman airport. Fast paced, never boring, the story unfolds and eventually the newlyweds begin reconsidering their marriage as their resolve to make their honeymoon happy at all costs begins to explode in their faces. The reader will laugh, cry, and ponder the fate of this mismatched couple as they discover themselves and each other.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 144014527X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
THREE WEEKS IN ITALY is the profoundly moving and hilarious story of a journey that a man takes after losing his young wife to cancer. He suffers intense grief for over a year and then joins a dating service to find a new wife. Based on a true story, Douglas Steele marries the first girl he meets after dating her for only three months. But he is haunted by memories of his recently deceased wife of 15 years, while his new bride, Gianna Christophe, is plagued by habits from her single life. The reader will travel with Doug and Gianna as he meets her eccentric parents and her quirky friends before embarking on their three week honeymoon in Italy, where they stumble into trouble nightclubbing in Venice...where Gianna becomes an unstoppable shopper in Florence...where Doug gets into a high speed chase with a taxi in Rome...where Gianna shocks Doug by attacking the customs agents at the Roman airport. Fast paced, never boring, the story unfolds and eventually the newlyweds begin reconsidering their marriage as their resolve to make their honeymoon happy at all costs begins to explode in their faces. The reader will laugh, cry, and ponder the fate of this mismatched couple as they discover themselves and each other.
In Your Face
Author: Dr. Bryan Mendelson
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1742738346
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
World-renowned aesthetic plastic surgeon Dr Bryan Mendelson guides us through the fascinating history of facial surgery. From his patients’ own stories, learn what it’s like when what’s on the outside doesn’t match who we are on the inside. Travel back through the millennia to see how the communal societies of our simian ancestors transformed the pre-human face into the expressive features we have today. Learn why the face is so important and how it has evolved into an essential—instinctive and immediate—tool of communication. Revisit the birth of reconstructive surgery in 6th century BCE India, and follow developments through the lunchtime face lifts of 1920s France, to the discovery of the fascia (the fibrous support layer beneath the skin), and Mendelson’s own role in changing the face of aesthetic plastic surgery forever. Full of fascinating historical detail told from a unique professional perspective, In Your Face provides real insight into why we’re so invested in appearance and the lengths we’re prepared to go to change the way we look.
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1742738346
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
World-renowned aesthetic plastic surgeon Dr Bryan Mendelson guides us through the fascinating history of facial surgery. From his patients’ own stories, learn what it’s like when what’s on the outside doesn’t match who we are on the inside. Travel back through the millennia to see how the communal societies of our simian ancestors transformed the pre-human face into the expressive features we have today. Learn why the face is so important and how it has evolved into an essential—instinctive and immediate—tool of communication. Revisit the birth of reconstructive surgery in 6th century BCE India, and follow developments through the lunchtime face lifts of 1920s France, to the discovery of the fascia (the fibrous support layer beneath the skin), and Mendelson’s own role in changing the face of aesthetic plastic surgery forever. Full of fascinating historical detail told from a unique professional perspective, In Your Face provides real insight into why we’re so invested in appearance and the lengths we’re prepared to go to change the way we look.
Star Marine
Author: John Bowers
Publisher: AKW Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1109
Book Description
Publisher: AKW Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1109
Book Description
Porn Star
Author: Mark Lamonica
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1436369029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Porn Star is an engrossing portrait of a man that is credited with being the originator of modern pornography: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556). Aretino was the most famous writer of the sixteenth century, and considered like his contemporary, Niccolo Machaivelli (1469-1527), a literary god in London. In fact, both writers came to symbolize in the minds of Elizabethans: everything devilish about the Italian people; "devils' incarnates" as they were called in Shakespeare's day. Vastly underrated today as a writer, Aretino's time has come--and he is a force to be reckoned with. Playboy, playwright, pornographer, poet, diplomat, shrewd man of affairs. Aretino typified the Renaissance man of action, embodying the mischievous genius of the Italian people. An immensely gifted polymath writer with an encyclopedic range of knowledge, experience and interests. Aretino's deadly "poison pen" aroused violent antagonism, as well as an idolatrous awe amongst his peers in his lifetime. He takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the Italian Renaissance where we meet many of his illustrious friends, the most colorful people of the period--crazy kings, deviant popes, eccentric artists, beautiful whores, deadly dukes and con men. Aretino's outrageous life culminates in an explosive climax that leads to the destruction of the holiest city in the world, Rome, or as the great religious reformer Martin Luther called it--Babylon. Along the way, Aretino challenges William Shakespeare's title as the world's greatest writer.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1436369029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Porn Star is an engrossing portrait of a man that is credited with being the originator of modern pornography: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556). Aretino was the most famous writer of the sixteenth century, and considered like his contemporary, Niccolo Machaivelli (1469-1527), a literary god in London. In fact, both writers came to symbolize in the minds of Elizabethans: everything devilish about the Italian people; "devils' incarnates" as they were called in Shakespeare's day. Vastly underrated today as a writer, Aretino's time has come--and he is a force to be reckoned with. Playboy, playwright, pornographer, poet, diplomat, shrewd man of affairs. Aretino typified the Renaissance man of action, embodying the mischievous genius of the Italian people. An immensely gifted polymath writer with an encyclopedic range of knowledge, experience and interests. Aretino's deadly "poison pen" aroused violent antagonism, as well as an idolatrous awe amongst his peers in his lifetime. He takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the Italian Renaissance where we meet many of his illustrious friends, the most colorful people of the period--crazy kings, deviant popes, eccentric artists, beautiful whores, deadly dukes and con men. Aretino's outrageous life culminates in an explosive climax that leads to the destruction of the holiest city in the world, Rome, or as the great religious reformer Martin Luther called it--Babylon. Along the way, Aretino challenges William Shakespeare's title as the world's greatest writer.
The Surgeon's Daughter
Author: Audrey Blake
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 172822876X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022! "This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century...Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in medicine who changed the world forever. Women's work is a matter of life and death. Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her. Everything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve a groundbreaking surgery: the Cesarean section. It's a highly dangerous procedure and the research is grueling, but even worse is the vitriolic response from men. Most don't trust the findings of women, and many can choose to deny their wives medical care. Already facing resistance on all sides, Nora is shaken when she meets a patient who will die without the surgery. If the procedure is successful, her work could change the world. But a failure could cost everything: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine. Perfect for book clubs and for fans of Marie Benedict, Tracey Enerson Wood, and Sarah Penner comes a captivating celebration of women healthcare workers throughout history.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 172822876X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022! "This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century...Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in medicine who changed the world forever. Women's work is a matter of life and death. Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her. Everything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve a groundbreaking surgery: the Cesarean section. It's a highly dangerous procedure and the research is grueling, but even worse is the vitriolic response from men. Most don't trust the findings of women, and many can choose to deny their wives medical care. Already facing resistance on all sides, Nora is shaken when she meets a patient who will die without the surgery. If the procedure is successful, her work could change the world. But a failure could cost everything: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine. Perfect for book clubs and for fans of Marie Benedict, Tracey Enerson Wood, and Sarah Penner comes a captivating celebration of women healthcare workers throughout history.
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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