The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them. This is an original approach to biographical (as opposed to historical) films and one that has so far play...

Highly acclaimed in its first two editions, Ian R. McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice, McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine as a separate and distinct field of practice. The initial sections cover basic principles and philosophies of family medicine and a later section discusses approaches to common di...

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine - Transforming the Clinical Method was published in 1995. This timely fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development, and it brings the reader fully up to date. It reinforces the relevance of...

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. Since then, the extraordinary stories that once delighted her legions of fans every festive season have gone largely out of print and unread. Now, for the first time, The Last Gift presents a collection of Freeman’s best Christmas writing, introducing these funny, poignant, pr...

Dark spells. Haunted souls. Secrets too terrifying to forget… ️ Enter the forbidden realms of witchcraft, restless spirits, and cursed tomes in The Book of Shadows—a spine-tingling collection of short stories from acclaimed and emerging voices in supernatural horror. Each tale conjures a unique nightmare, drawing from occult traditions, urban legends, and timeless fears. Inside This Terrifying Collection: Ghostly visitations that defy explanation ️ Sinister spellbooks and ancient ...

Make the Christmas season brighter with a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and timeless holiday tales. The Big Book of Christmas brings together a generous selection of classic Christmas stories, festive poems, fairy tales, and seasonal writings by various authors, offering hours of holiday reading for the whole family. From snowy winter nights and cozy firesides to family gatherings, unexpected adventures, acts of kindness, and magical Christmas encounters, these stories capture th...

Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church, obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and television. Yet despite this perennial fascination with Henry the man and monarch, there has been littl...

Highly acclaimed in its first three editions, McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice, McWhinney's defines the principles and practices of family medicine as a separate and distinct field of practice. The fourth edition presents six new clinical chapters of common problems in family medicine: respiratory illness, musculoskeletal pain, ...

The world didn't end from the sky; it opened beneath our feet. On a Maryland shoreline, four friends celebrating the future are pulled into a new kind of war, one prepared in the dark while we were busy looking up. Dion, a pattern-obsessed prodigy, records the fall and the fight that follows as silence spreads, cities empty, and the planet reveals who's really been watching. Part survival thriller, part intimate confession, Not So Human is a relentless, mind-shifting descent into the quest...

Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future.

Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future.

From the author of The Daughter of Union County comes an intimate and heart-pounding novel about two families—one black, one white—colliding against the explosive backdrop of the post–Civil War South.It’s been fifty years since the Civil War ended, but the racial divide is as rigid and unforgiving as ever. For two families in the rural South, that boundary will be crossed.Alex and Eula Mae McNaughton own a tobacco farm in Tennessee. Black sharecrop...