Mapping Medical Modernity explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo, a city undergoing rapid transformation from the seat of power of the Tokugawa shoguns of the Edo period to the capital of a modern nation-state and its expanding empire in the Meiji period. Tracing the development of institutions and policies designed to improve medical care and public health in a dense urban environment, Susan L. Burns e...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

2015 GOLD MEDAL winner - International Book Awards Readers' Favorite ContestWARNING: This book contains an uptight, proper English lord, whose frozen heart hides a tortured soul, and a feisty modern-day heroine determined to make the man see things her way. With a lovable cast of characters this book will earn a place on your keeper shelf.Thrown back to the year 1897, Victoria Ashton is mistaken for, and forced to impersonate, the spiteful,...

A reverse May/December romance with a strong, independent, older heroine pitted against a hero who might be younger but is as sexy, mature, powerful, and alpha as they come.Quentin Blackwell, Earl of Devlyn, refused to marry a woman carrying another man's child. The price he paid for spurning the promiscuous youngest daughter of Baron Townsend was his fortune. Now, the baron's oldest daughter has come to him with an unexpected proposition. Devlyn seizes the chance ...

Make a onetime awkward lecture into a healthy ongoing conversation.As Christian parents, we want to guard our children from the flood of sexual imagery and inuendo, confusion around identity, and downright misinformation that pervades our culture. But where and when do we have those conversations with our kids? And how do we reduce the anxiety and pressure most of us feel when we do?Don't Stress Talking Sex presents an engaging relational model tha...

**A teenager’s idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition of the fallibility of the adults around him.Actor and director Ed Burns returns with the continuing fictionalized saga of growing up on Marlboro Road.**In this his second Marlboro Road novel, Edward Burns continues the tale, loosely based on his own childhood. The Guardian called Burns’s first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, “keenly felt…vivid…a te...

The only book on preserving you'll ever need! A vast and ambitious hardbound cookbook featuring over 150 preserving recipes for drinks, condiments, salads, sweets, and more.Cultured draws on culinary traditions from around the world, employing techniques such as fermentation, pickling, dehydrating, salting, and sugaring. The recipes are organized by timescales—from quick pickles ready in a few hours to savory pastes that take weeks to ferment but can survi...

Penelope Presley has suffered through unspeakable loss and scandal. Forced to live under her cruel Grandfather's thumb, she finds herself both relieved and frightened when he tells her she will be marrying the man known as the Beast of Yorkshire.Having already lost two wives and a fiancée, Duncan Taggart, Duke of Yorkshire, is desperate for an heir. To have an heir, he must have a wife, but who is ever going to willingly marry a man with a reputation such as his? He takes ...

Claire Mercer comes home from France expecting to return to her husband and her old life. Instead, the government says she has been dead for eleven months.Her driver's licence is cancelled. Her bank records are closed. A death certificate exists in her name. Her husband insists he does not know her—and says his wife, Claire Mercer, is buried in a cemetery.Then the impossible becomes worse.The body in Claire's grave was identified with her fingerprints, her dental re...

A suffering planet. The expansion of the human species. A corrupt elite. The truth is not what it seems.Earth is failing under the weight of human neglect. Nuclear fallout scars the land, famine spreads like wildfire, and rising PH levels choke the remaining crops. As the world suffers, The Collective—the ruthless titans controlling every major industry—tighten their grip, determined to preserve their own power at any cost. Under Anagen, a technology granting extended life to the c...

He was never just a client. And their time together was never just a job.When a support worker meets John, a warm-hearted man whose physical condition has taken away much of his independence, an unexpected friendship begins. Together, they build a life filled with music, seaside journeys, church visits, late-night conversations and a rock-and-roll show where John dances from his wheelchair.But behind these joyful moments lies a complicated struggle. John's fiercely devoted ...

This book is dedicated to my stock trading mentor,Nicolas Darvas. Although I never met him, he has taught me more about stock trading and investing than anyone else. I hope this book does justice to his investing principles and memory. Steve Burns CONTENTS: Introduction Who was Nicolas Darvas? Understanding the Game Thinking like Nicolas Darvas Entering the Game Learning from Losing How to Manage your Risk My Darvas Stock Trades Winning the Game: So you want to trade like Nicolas Darvas? R...