*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged j...

Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. You’ve wanted to learn French for some time now. It could just be because you’re in love with the language or you may live in an area where French is routinely spoken. Regardless of the reason, your desire to learn a second language is genuine, and it has driven you here.

Grumpy old retired Prof of Medicine rails (with cartoons) against low salt and low fat diets, over-diagnosis of high blood pressure, inappropriate use of anti-coagulants, etc. For light relief, some unsolved puzzles of body function are discussed.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the re...

Where the West begins … and the familiar endsStrap in and take a look at Texas' past through a new lens, one that reveals the hopes and dreams of its inhabitants, along with horrors you've never dared imagine. In this dusty and lawless land, you'll meet gruesome flesh-eating monsters, uncommon heroes, ancient goddesses, and boneheaded but deadly genies. Not to mention some seemingly upright citizens.Remember, bad guys don't always wear black.

Never judge a man until you've walked a mile using his walker or at least, given him and his walker a ride to the dollar store."Popeye the Asshole' is a short story about a broken man who simply can not be helped but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.Mark A. Nobles is a Fort Worth based writer and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Sleeping Panther Review, Crimson Streets, Cleaver Magazine, and other publications. He has produced and/or directed three feature documentaries...

Electrons are involved in all electrical phenomena, and living cells cannot be an exception. This book takes on a decidedly different approach to existing texts on electrophysiology, by considering electrical physiological processes from the viewpoint of electron flow, rather than the conventional notion of ion movement. It concisely describes the theoretical background of electron density and cellular voltage, before exploring thought-provoking questions such as the relationship between e...

Do you have the love or the passion for learning French and Spanish?Or you have thought of visiting Europe and experiencing the local lifestyle?Or do you have overseas clients in European countries?Or are you planning to expand into the European countries?Learning a new language sounds difficult, and you are just frozen at your feet at the start. If you are a working professional, then it might just sound impossible to you, but right now, learning a new language...

"We'll make a list. A list of all the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then . . . we'll investigate them."Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life—because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be.But as far as Miv is concerned, ...

What happens when satire, sorrow, confession, and cosmic absurdity collide? Running Wild returns with a bold new volume that refuses to stay in one lane— or even one world. From rebellion on a storm-tossed island to the shadowed refugee routes of modern Europe… from the restless mind of an unseen teenager spiraling through identity and mental illness… to a goatman-led quest that tears at the fabric between magic and technology— this collection runs unapologetically wild. In Richard C. Misc...

Spend twenty-four hours in the vibrant, divided world of Shogun's Japan.In 1614, Japan stood at a crossroads. As the Tokugawa shogunate tightened its grip on power, samurai prepared for war, Christians faced persecution, and foreign merchants navigated a rapidly shifting political landscape.In 24 Hours in Shogun's Japan, Mark Hudson brings this pivotal moment to life through the eyes of twenty-four individuals–nobles and farmers, merchants and monk...

This new edition is written in the same quick reference style as its predecessor to help clinical and basic researchers, as well as graduate students, understand hemodynamics. Hemodynamics makes it possible to characterize, in a quantitative way and often with noninvasive techniques, the function of the heart and the arterial system, individually and in combination.Snapshots of Hemodynamics provides a thorough grounding in the discipline that will help any medical professional and ...