Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kenneth c calman”
Skip side bar filters

  • It Started in a Cupboard

    Adventures in Life, Learning and Happiness

    by Kenneth Calman ...
    Sir Kenneth Calman's extraordinary life story is based on a passionate love of learning – and it all began with him doing his homework by candlelight in a cupboard of his mum's Glasgow council house. He went on to be at the forefront of three different medical revolutions – oncology, palliative care and the use of the arts in medical education – and to help guide the country through the BSE/VCJD ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making an Effective Bid

    A practical guide for research, teaching and consultancy

    by Ruth Chambers, Kenneth C. Calman ...
    Many people waste a great deal of time writing bids or tenders that are not successful. Even worse, they may succeed in gaining funding for a project or service where the plans and budgeting are poorly thought through in relation to the implementation or application. That can be a very costly mistake if the funding you gain is insufficient but you are stuck with developing the project or service. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Manual of Clinical Oncology

    Edited by Charles D. Sherman, Kenneth C. Calman, Sandor Eckhardt, Ismail Elsebai, Dincer Firat, Dieter K. Hossfeld, Jean-Pierre Paunier, Bruno Salvadori ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The continuing success of the VICC's Manual of Clinical Oncology and the continuing refinement of our educational objectives in cancer designed for graduating medical students and young practitioners, cou pled with significant additional knowledge in the cancer field have allIed to the decision to publish a Fourth Edition. The collaboration of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness

    by Alastair Campbell ...
    Are you happy? Does it matter?Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political theories, he questions how happiness can survive in a grossly negative media culture, and how it could ... Read more

    $3.34 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Can Medicine Be Cured?

    The Corruption of a Profession

    by Seamus O'Mahony ...
    A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now.Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twin Tracks

    The Autobiography

    by Roger Bannister ...
    It was a blustery late spring day in 1954 and a young Oxford medical student flung himself over the line in a mile race. There was an agonising pause, and then the timekeeper announced the record: three minutes, fifty-nine point four seconds. But no one heard anything after that first word - 'three'. One of the most iconic barriers of sport had been broken, and Roger Bannister had become the first ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Amazing Facts about Scotland

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Series Book 6 - Countries of the World
    In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Scotland. Separated into sections such as its history, information about its capital, famous Scottish figures from history and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Scotland, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagine My Surprise...

    Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph

    Edited by Iain Hollingshead ...
    Series series Daily Telegraph Letters
    The essential humour gift book of the year returns in the anticipated fourth volume of this bestselling series Ð guaranteed to provoke laughter and amazement.The first volume of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in ThinkingÉ?, not only became a Christmas bestseller but also established the paperÕs letter-writers as a uniquely waggish, eccentric and maverick institution. They ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Welfare State We're In

    by James Bartholomew ...
    The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues that far from being the socialist utopia the post-war generation dreamed of, the welfare state has ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Garston - Stations of the Great Western Railway GWR

    Stations of the Great Western Railway, #7

    by Charles Darvelle ...
    Series Book 7 - Stations of the Great Western Railway
    An enjoyable history of one of the long vanished branch line stations on the Great Western Railway.East Garston is no more. The site remains, but there is little to show where this once bustling village railway station and its level crossing once stood. East Garston handled a wide variety of agricultural freight, as well as passengers and parcels.In this book we learn when East Garston was built ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trust Me, I'm (Still) a Doctor

    by Phil Hammond ...
    This is a hilarious new book by the best-selling author of "Medicine Balls".Dr Phil has been a doctor and whistleblower for twenty one years, and still hasn't been struck off. As "Private Eye's" medical correspondent and presenter of BBC's "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor", he's exposed too many scandals and upset too many surgeons. Now aged 46, with varifocals, a swelling prostate and a black bit on his ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • 1950s Childhood

    Growing up in post-war Britain

    by Janet Shepherd, John Shepherd ...
    Series Book 737 - Shire Library
    Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful eyes of parents. The postwar welfare state offered free orange juice, milk and healthcare, and there was lots to do, whether football in the street, ... Read more

    $9.39 USD