The Instant New York Times best seller!Riveting. ... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frightening understanding of his vocation. - The New York TimesWinner of the PEN Ackerley PrizeShortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book AwardLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionA Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper PrizeA Finalist for the Wellcome Book PrizeA Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWhat is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty.If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life.Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.

Product Description: Que se siente ser un cirujano del cerebro? Que se siente tener la vida de alguien en sus manos, y trabajar en el lugar donde se crea el pensamiento, el sentimiento y la razon? Como vivir con las consecuencias de realizar una operacion potencialmente salva vidas cuando todo va mal? Ante todo, no hagas dano proporciona una vision inolvidable en los incontables dramas humanos que tienen lugar en un hospital moderno y ocupado...read more

Product Description: Following The Guidman's Daughter with his poems on Mary, Queen of Scots, Marsh begins this new collection with a sequence exploring the life and times of John Knox, locating this ambivalent figure in the turmoil of the Scottish Reformation...read more

Product Description: The title of the collection, The Guidman's Daughter, refers to a special cycle of poems at the end of the book, concerned with Mary, Queen of Scots, the daughter of James V (the Guidman o'Ballengeich, as he was known). It is impossible not to be intrigued by the life of this tragic figure, and the poet's observations, so skilfully wrought, only add to the poignancy of her ill-fated tale...read more

A record-holding veteran of four Olympics and national motivational speaker shows readers how to overcome their perceived limitations and attain their highest goals without increasing their stress, based on his time-tested principles. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Offering readers a chance to evaluate what principles drive them and how, if they want to, they can change their lives by rooting out negative principles, a new guide helps people achieve their personal best in all aspects of life. 75,000 first printing.

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