Historical Diseases from a Modern Perspective: The American Experience is a must read for any physician, medical student, history buff, fan of historical novels, or individuals concerned about reemerging diseases. Every disease section contains fascinating historical insights relevant to the American experience, including how the 1900 outbreak of plague in San Franciso was contained, why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed, why “chicken pox parties” were once common, how th...

Things to Consider Before Calling Yourself a ChristianBy: James A. Shaw, MDDr. Shaw's, Things to Consider Before Calling Yourself a Christian, offers a critical examination of the historical origins of the Christian Church and insightful analyses of doctrine and metaphysical precepts embraced by the Christian faith. As noted by Shaw, factually unsupported faith-based beliefs form the basis of all religions, including Christianity. This short book provides the reader with a w...

The best short science fiction and fantasy published by authors from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, collected together for the first time.This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018.Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you mi...

On November 22, 1963, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, an accomplished surgeon, tried to save John F. Kennedy's life—and then days later, the life of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. His gripping, firsthand account contradicts the Warren Commission and years of public misperception, and illuminates a chapter in American history long cloaked in conspiracy.Writing with eye-opening immediacy, Dr. Crenshaw takes listeners into the emergency room to share the critical events at Parkland Ho...

Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical traditions. Enduring story-worlds, instructive animal portraits, and adaptations of epic, biblical, and...

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antisl...

This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume focuses on the 'anthropology of policy,' which is concerned with the process of decision-making...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You've tried to quit before. Maybe more times than you can count.You've installed the blockers, deleted the apps, and made the Sunday-night promise that this time is different. And every time, sooner or later, you've ended up back where you started - feeling weaker and more convinced the problem is you.It isn't. The problem is that everything you've tried was aimed at the wrong target.The Clean Break takes a comp...

You've tried to quit before. Maybe more times than you can count.You've installed the blockers. Deleted the apps. Made the Sunday-night promise that this time is different. And every time, sooner or later, you've ended up back where you started - feeling weaker, more broken, and more convinced the problem is you.It isn't. The problem is that everything you've tried was aimed at the wrong target.The Clean Break take...

The Earth shook in what would become known as Pangea 2.0. The science was complicated, but simple. Every 3 million years the earth would experience, at its core, a swelling that would burst tectonic plates. The force would send out thousands of shock waves with the power to break landmasses.Follow along as skipper Zidane and his crew of the Santa Maria Dauphin endure the frigid arctic seas to find survivors following the aftermath of tsunamis that have ravaged the Alaskan coastline...

Have you ever seen a talented dressage rider performing an exquisite test, her seat seemingly melding with her horse's back, and his movements airy, animated, and effortless? Or, perhaps you have watched a great cutting horse at work, his direction and momentum changing on a dime as he reads his cow, his rider's body flowing fluidly above him as if they were one.We all dream of experiencing this kind of connection with our horses, and in this groundbreaking new book, James Shaw shows us ho...

Follow along as skipper Zidane and his crew of the Santa Maria Dauphin endure the frigid arctic seas to find survivors following the aftermath of tsunamis that have ravaged the Alaskan coastline. From the air, the Air Force sends in their Pararescue teams in hopes of finding survivors. And, interwoven in these stories is a family of four who face their own challenges as secrets, infidelity, and murder is uncovered.Packed with action from line one to the end, this book is part of th...