The War in Burma is all too frequently forgotten as a source of relevant military experience. Admittedly it did not have the strategic importance of other theatres such as the Pacific or North West Europe, but it did witness some of the hardest and most bitter fighting of the War. Because of the nature of the terrain, limited allied resources and the type of dispersed operations conducted by the enemy, Allied forces were forced to adapt a new method of warfighting to counter these difficul...

Support your mobility, flexibility, and overall wellness with this practical guide to joint health. Designed for adults, seniors, athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and anyone interested in maintaining healthy movement, this informative book explores the importance of protecting joints through proper nutrition, exercise, posture, and healthy lifestyle habits. Healthy joints play a vital role in everyday activities, from walking and exercising to lifting, stretching, and staying active as we ag...

This book was written by a genius with an uncanny ability to see the whole picture and not just the fragments thrown at us. To write this book, he had to spend thousands of hours researching medicine, law, psychology, criminology, and history. He also draws on his own experiences; experiences that are shocking and appalling. The stuff in this book is the stuff nightmares of are made of. A pandemic is defined as a disease that causes serious injury and death to a significant proportion of t...

This is a most unusual book in that it provides you with clues, evidence, and everything you need to know in order to solve a modern-day crime. On March 5, 2022, 18-year-old Zoey King drove into a pedestrian area and struck me with her car. The impact broke a minimum of 5 bones, including my shoulder and the orbital bone above my eye, and shattered my eye into three parts. I sustained 2nd and 3rd degree road rash on my head, arms, legs, feet, and buttocks. The car came to rest in the pedes...

Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count, turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggering $504 billion a day. No other financial centre in the world even comes close to matching this total. Thirty one per cent of global foreign exchange activity takes place in the United Kingdom, compared with only sixteen per cent in the United States and nine per cent in Japan.However, this has not always been so. A hundred years ago,...

Johns story is filled with risky events, survival instinct, and perseverance. Service in the Royal Australian Navy has taken him around the world on great adventures and to about nineteen war zones or operational areas, but with the benefit of hindsight, none of you would have wanted to live his life. Johns life as a child was destroyed by the navy. His career as a young adult was destroyed by the resulting psychological injuries. His twilight years were destroyed by the conflict with the ...

First published in 1735, this account focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It also has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave trades.

The Woman in White is a horror novel by author Levi Atkins. Set in a small town in Scotland, James Booth, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Margaret MacLeod, the sole inhabitant of Leith Hall. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in white, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to tal...

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to secondary-market dealing in existing assets. Regulation has contributed more to the problems than th...

Four voyages. Strange lands. A sharp mirror to humanity. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift follows Lemuel Gulliver on extraordinary journeys to fantastical worlds—where tiny people rule miniature kingdoms, giants tower over mankind, and reason challenges human pride. Beneath its adventurous surface lies powerful satire, critiquing politics, society, science, and human nature with wit and irony. Both a thrilling tale of exploration and one of the greatest works of English satire, Gulliv...

"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled "Howl and Other Poems." Ginsberg began work on "Howl" as early as 1954. "Howl" is considered to be one of the great works of American literature. It came to be associated with the group of writers known as the Beat Generation, which included Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. There is no foundation to the myth that "Howl" was written as a performance piece and later published b...