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Homesickness (Mixed media product) $28.58 In the 19th century, Americans died of homesickness. When gold miners in California heard the tune “Home, Sweet Home,” they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don`t fit with our nat… |
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A Stone is Cast $17.95 STONE IS CAST depicts how a family can become so se due to protection from kidnapping even murderA STONE IS CAST is the protection of a family who moved from New York to the State of Arkansas after inheriting a fabulous fortune from the grandfather when he died. Kidnapping and attempted murder was prevented by a family member who was familiar with Law Enforcement and Security . A STONE IS CAST is the third book about a family the author, Robert Lovelace, desires to show as an ideal example for everyone. It goes from a normal medical family to one in which a genius son is born and from the age of 7 required and receive protection from the time he graduated from high school at the age of 8 until he graduated as both a Medical Doctor and a Lawyer at the same time at the age of 17. Protection of the entire family and especially the boy throughout the entire novel is intriguing.Robert Lovelace was born and raised in the Choctaw territory of Oklahoma. He was drafted into the Army and spent years in Europe during world War II. After retiring from the Army he owned and operated Nursing homes in San Antonio, Texas until his retirement from the business.After retiring, his hobby was writing poetry and later settled with writing his present published novels, TEENAGE MEDIC and JIM. A STONE IS CAST is his third published story. Robert has been married to his wife, Betty, for 63 years, has two sons, Tommy and Allan, one daughter, Nancy, two grand children, Jennifer and Michael and two great grand children, Christian and Madison. He has future plans for further stories about this ideal family he has written about. He lives in San Antonio, Texas and spends his time with his lovely family and his computer, writing. |
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A Woman’s War (Dodo Press) $20.15 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a fulltime writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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And the Truth Shall Be Told $0.99 New York City, 1956. Peter Logan is finishing up the training for his cover job with Calder Oil, annoyed because he is told to get married before leaving on his first assignment. Two months before leaving for Africa he meets and marries Lara Laughton: a stop over in Paris to see his mother and fly south to the Belgian Congo. 1956 to 1961 the United States was pushing governments with colonies to give them independence causing tension in the Congo. It soon became a dangerous place to live and raise a family: 1959 to the Logans’ departure in 1961. The family went from hot to cold. Sweden, then Switzerland.Peter had a new cover – Term Oil. Felix Raymon had become his only contact with the Agency. They had met in Egypt, Felix trained Peter for his covert job. And then sent him on a mission to Berlin where Peter became involved in a situation more dangerous than he could handle. He felt caught. After the stress of Africa, Sweden had been calm – returning to Geneva Lara felt the tension return. Peter had changed. In Berlin he had met with a doctor, delivered the package and on his return to the rooming house was picked up by his East German employer. Trapped. As for the doctor, he left immediately for North Africa and a bio-chemical research laboratory working on humans. Sobeke was the doctor’s pilot from Wheelus Field (A small U.S. Army base in Libya) to a deserted town near the lab. Sobeke had met Peter and Lara in Cairo when he was the chauffeur for a diplomat and had been involved in finding “volunteers” for the lab. He knew too much, Felix wanted to get rid of him – Sobeke went into hiding. Peter’s death on the Tortin, an accident. Lara didn’t think so. Someone made his life insurance disappear; with no money Lara moved back to the States with their children and went to work in New York City. She knew she had to wait to make inquiries into Peter’s death: the CIA had checked her out. She knew nothing. Ah, the mother-in-law. She was |
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Apocalypse Blue: A Medical Thriller $1.99 In a busy hospital emergency room, a psychotic patient who holds a doctorate in virogenetics, accidentally leaves behind a manual for fashioning a viral bomb. He appears to be a member of a group whose basic tenant holds that humanity must be destroyed before it destroys the planet. Few people take the plan described in The Words of Doctor X seriously. But Dean Miller, the doctor who found the manual, believes he has evidence that the threat is real and deadly-several of his patients are dying of a very unusual illness. He sets out on a mission against a foe more treacherous and implacable than he ever imagined. This is a true story, torn from the headlines of the future . as true as we let it become by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mitch Goldman, MD has been practicing emergency medicine for more than 20 years and has seen well over 100,000 patients, each one of them unique and interesting. This novel is based on one such encounter. Mitch grew up in New York City. Before starting medical school at age 27 he held a variety of jobs, ranging from advertising executive to cab driver, to a stint in the Army. He has lived at various times in Mexico, Charleston, London and Paris. Last year Mitch and his wife Laura traveled to India to deliver medical care in a remote village. They presently live in Michigan. |
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Because Of Baghdad $7.95 How do I become a great leader and follower? How can I use my money, marriage, and character to bring glory to God? Ultimately, how do I get the most out of this life?Away from his family and alone with his thoughts, Captain Bart Newman sought answers to these questions during his year-long deployment in Iraq. Realizing that he might not return home, he recorded his search in a journal that he could leave for his daughter. That journal became this book.In Because of Baghdad, Bart uses his experiences from Iraq and faith in God to address the important issues of life. The stories of heroism and heartache will help you better understand what matters most and what you should be living for. If you are ready to get the most out of life, read what one father would say, if he didn’t come home to say it.BART NEWMAN served in Baghdad, Iraq with the U.S. Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Bart holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia (magna cum laude) where he was President of the Student Government and a member of two SEC Championship tennis teams. Bart also holds a master’s in Management, Economics & International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and a Juris Doctor (cum laude) from the University of Georgia School of Law. Bart is an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia where he lives with his wife, Julie, and their two children, Kate and Luke.100% of book profits benefit the children of service members killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.Please visit us on the web at BartNewman.com. |
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Bishops of Newcastle, Nsw: George Merrick Long, George Henry Stanton, William Tyrrell, James Alan George Housden, Ian Shevill $9.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: George Merrick Long, George Henry Stanton, William Tyrrell, James Alan George Housden, Ian Shevill, Francis de Witt Batty, Reginald Stephen, Josiah Brown Pearson, Brian George Farran, Bishop of Newcastle, Australia, Alfred Charles Holland, John Francis Stretch, Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Australia. Excerpt: Brigadier General George Merrick Long CBE (5 November 1874 9 July 1930) was an Anglican Bishop who served as an Australian Army Brigadier General in World War I, and was involved in the establishment of, and served as Headmaster of, Trinity Grammar School. He was the father of Gavin Long, the historian. George Merrick Long was born on 5 November 1874 in Carisbrook, Victoria. He was educated at Maryborough Grammar School. He later matriculated and was awarded the Rupertswood theological studentship to Trinity College at the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899 and a Master of Arts in 1901. Long became a deacon on 28 May 1899, and a priest on 10 June 1900. In 1899 he was posted to the district of Foster in Gippsland. He later returned to Melbourne to become senior curate at Holy Trinity Church, Kew. There he became involved with the foundation of Trinity Grammar School, becoming its headmaster in 1904. Long served on several diocesan committees and was made a canon of St Pauls Cathedral in 1910. In May 1911 he was elected to the see of Bathurst, New South Wales, and was consecrated on 30 November 1911 at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney. For his services, Long was awarded a Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Long joined the First Australian Imperial Force on 16 November 1917 as an Anglican chaplain. He sailed for London in January 1918 and was posted t… More: |
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Blue Turquoise, White Shell $5.5 Patrician Boston doctor Cabot W.W. Chase has made a bargain with his granddaughter Lily. He will pay all her expenses through Harvard Medical School if at the end of her studies she will spend a year on the Navajo Reservation Indian Hospital, where he had been a doctor following WWII. She is reluctant, suspecting her grandfather has emotional ties to the Navajo, but agrees. Slowly she acclimates herself, coming to admire the people and her surroundings. Lily, now known as Cabot, meets a young Navajo lawyer, Nicholas Nakai, who is running for the seat in the newly mandated United States Congressional district. She is drawn to him, yet finds it difficult to picture herself with an Indian man. As their relationship deepens, Nicholas’ tribal elders become alarmed at his liaison with the white doctor; they prefer to have him take a Navajo wife to Washington. They go to Cabot and tell her she must leave the reservation. Broken hearted, she returns to Massachusetts. Woven into the main story is the tale of Daago, a Navajo headman’s daughter, and how she is won in a poker game by Captain Nathaniel Cabot, medical officer of the Army of theWest in 1862, and how she kills him to escape, only to later bear his child, Kaab’t. Unknown to Cabot and Nicholas, they discover Kaab’t is their common ancestor. |
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Blue Turquoise, White Shell $0.99 Patrician Boston doctor Cabot W.W. Chase has made a bargain with his granddaughter Lily. He will pay all her expenses through Harvard Medical School if at the end of her studies she will spend a year on the Navajo Reservation Indian Hospital, where he had been a doctor following WWII. She is reluctant, suspecting her grandfather has emotional ties to the Navajo, but agrees. Slowly she acclimates herself, coming to admire the people and her surroundings. Lily, now known as Cabot, meets a young Navajo lawyer, Nicholas Nakai, who is running for the seat in the newly mandated United States Congressional district. She is drawn to him, yet finds it difficult to picture herself with an Indian man. As their relationship deepens, Nicholas’ tribal elders become alarmed at his liaison with the white doctor; they prefer to have him take a Navajo wife to Washington. They go to Cabot and tell her she must leave the reservation. Broken hearted, she returns to Massachusetts. Woven into the main story is the tale of Daago, a Navajo headman’s daughter, and how she is won in a poker game by Captain Nathaniel Cabot, medical officer of the Army of theWest in 1862, and how she kills him to escape, only to later bear his child, Kaab’t. Unknown to Cabot and Nicholas, they discover Kaab’t is their common ancestor. |
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Borderlands (Game of the Year Edition) $42.19 Action RPG Meets First Person Shooter!!! Borderlands is the first 4 player Co-op Role Playing Shooter; combining the intuitive reward systems of action RPGs and the frantic-paced combat of First Person Shooters. The Game of the Year Edition includes all 4 of the add-on packs so that you can enjoy all of the content from one of the Most Acclaimed Games of 2009 in one sweet package. The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned – The Jakobs Corporation would like to invite you to experience the splendor of a corporate owned small town known as Jakobs Cove. Any rumors you may have heard about the undead walking our streets are completely preposterous and we officially deny them all. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot – Are you god’s gift to gun fights? Think you’re the best? Wanna prove it? Then help us celebrate the grand opening of Marcus Bank by killing hundreds and hundreds of people, the only competitive arena around where your next of kin can be assured that you’re coming back famous . . . or not at all. (All proceeds are kept by us) The Secret Armory of General Knoxx – Want more of the Borderlands story? Want more loot than you could possibly figure out what to do with? Of course you do! And with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, you can have your cake and eat it too… if you’re not too busy playing this game. Rise up to become the ultimate loot pillager… or die trying. Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution – This destructive adventure invites you back to the inhospitable environments of Pandora to battle a vicious new threat; an ever-amassing army of homicidal Claptraps led by the cunning Ninja Assassin. |
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Chechen Activists: Chechen Anti-War Activists, Chechen Human Rights Activists, Khassan Baiev, Zura Bitiyeva, Malika Umazheva, Albina Digaeva $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chechen Anti-War Activists, Chechen Human Rights Activists, Khassan Baiev, Zura Bitiyeva, Malika Umazheva, Albina Digaeva, Zalpa Bersanova, Lidia Yusupova, Zarema Sadulayeva, Alla Dudayeva. Excerpt: Dr. Khassan Baiev (Chechen: ) (born April 4, 1963) is a Chechen-American trauma surgeon who upheld the Hippocratic oath to treat thousands of civilians and combatants on both sides of the First and Second Chechen Wars, including Russian soldiers and Chechen fighters. Baiev has been honored by Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, and Amnesty International for his work. He has authored two memoirs, The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire and Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon, and has served as Chairman of the International Committee for the Children of Chechnya since 2003. He is also a sambo world champion, and holds a black belt in judo. Khassan Baiev was born as a fraternal twin in Alkhan-Kala, a suburb of Grozny, in 1963. His father, a herbalist by profession, served in the Soviet Red Army and was wounded during World War II, but was deported to Kazakhstan as a result of the forced deportations of most Chechens to Central Asia in February 1944. Baiev’s parents would return in 1959 after Nikita Khrushchev allowed for the Chechens to return home during the de-Stalinization campaign. Plagued by frailty and illness growing up, Baiev took up martial arts to overcome his physical weaknesses by late adolescence he was a black belt judoka who won national competitions and faced a promising career as a coach in the sports-obsessed Soviet Union. However, Baiev desired to become a doctor, as his sisters were nurses and his father a herbalist, and in his words, “I always wanted to do something that would be of service to society.” Despite… More: |
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Cherry Ames Boxed Set (17-20) $39.95 Cherry Ames Boxed Set 17-20 contains the Cherry’s final adventures in four pulse-pounding mysteries: Companion Nurse, Jungle Nurse, The Mystery at the Doctor’s Office, and Ski Nurse Mystery.Cherry Ames is back, just as you remember her! The books are just as you remember them, retaining the same look, feel, and sense of adventure and patriotism as when they were first published. With fully illustrated color covers and a soft-finished hardcover format just like the originals, these books will transport you back to the days when you were reading about this spunky young nurse. Series editor and registered nurse Harriet Forman was inspired by, and remains a devoted fan of, Cherry Ames: “…I was going to follow in her footsteps and become a nurse–nothing else would do.”Springer Publishing Company is delighted to be bringing Helen Wells’s beloved heroine back into print for a new generation of younger readers (as well as a host of nostalgic older ones). The books are available as beautifully rendered facsimile hardcover editions and in boxed sets of four. We intend to have all of the Helen Wells books back in print by early 2008. Below is our reissue schedule:Cherry Ames, Student Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Army Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 1-4 (published)Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Veterans’ Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse (published) Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 5-8 (published)Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Department Store Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse (published)Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 9-12 (published)Cherry Ames, At Hilton Hospital |
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Conquerors For Christ, Volume 2 $17.41 Conquerors for ChristSummaryConquerors for Christ is anointed and illuminated Bible scholarship that will teach you how to assume and manifest the authority and power of Jesus Christ in these last days, asserting the same against, and enforcing the victory of the Cross of Christ and the power of His Resurrection over, the enemy, sin, sin nature, death, sickness, oppression and possession of demons, the false preachers, prophets and teachers in the apostate church, and the ways of the world! You will learn how to be a king and priest of Almighty God by living a lifestyle of Revolution, Revival and Restoration, as well as proclaiming Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world! You will learn how to become an executor, steward and trustee of the last Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ – His Gospel – thus executing His “Great Commission” and building up His Army of the Light!About the AuthorMichael James Robertson holds a Juris Doctor, possesses a wealth of high level Fortune 100 corporate and other entrepreneurial experience and is Chairman, CEO & Pastor of God & Country Revival. The Ministry is about winning souls for Christ and equipping the Army of the Light. The Ministry includes God & Country Revival Fellowship, the Jesus Brigade, international Crusades & Revivals, Television and Internet ministry (godandcountryrevival.com), the Visioning Institute, Trade Wind Ministries (intercessory), prison outreach, and other international outreaches, including Kenya, Africa. An extension of the Acts church, the ministry preaches Christ and Him crucified and the power of the Resurrection, while raising up and sending out mighty men of God. Robertson humbly refersto his personal “Damascus Road” and “Desert University Advanced Training in the Gospel of Jesus Christ” experience, whereby he received the anointing to defend and confirm the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to expose sin, both within and without the church, by preaching the integrity and |
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Conquerors For Christ, Volume 2 $11.12 Conquerors for ChristSummaryConquerors for Christ is anointed and illuminated Bible scholarship that will teach you how to assume and manifest the authority and power of Jesus Christ in these last days, asserting the same against, and enforcing the victory of the Cross of Christ and the power of His Resurrection over, the enemy, sin, sin nature, death, sickness, oppression and possession of demons, the false preachers, prophets and teachers in the apostate church, and the ways of the world! You will learn how to be a king and priest of Almighty God by living a lifestyle of Revolution, Revival and Restoration, as well as proclaiming Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world! You will learn how to become an executor, steward and trustee of the last Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ – His Gospel – thus executing His “Great Commission” and building up His Army of the Light!About the AuthorMichael James Robertson holds a Juris Doctor, possesses a wealth of high level Fortune 100 corporate and other entrepreneurial experience and is Chairman, CEO & Pastor of God & Country Revival. The Ministry is about winning souls for Christ and equipping the Army of the Light. The Ministry includes God & Country Revival Fellowship, the Jesus Brigade, international Crusades & Revivals, Television and Internet ministry (godandcountryrevival.com), the Visioning Institute, Trade Wind Ministries (intercessory), prison outreach, and other international outreaches, including Kenya, Africa. An extension of the Acts church, the ministry preaches Christ and Him crucified and the power of the Resurrection, while raising up and sending out mighty men of God. Robertson humbly refersto his personal “Damascus Road” and “Desert University Advanced Training in the Gospel of Jesus Christ” experience, whereby he received the anointing to defend and confirm the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to expose sin, both within and without the church, by preaching the integrity and |
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Conquerors For Christ, Volume 3 $15.12 Conquerors for Christ is anointed and illuminated Bible scholarship that teaches you how to flow in the anointing, authority and power of Jesus Christ in these last days, asserting the same against, and enforcing the victory of the Cross of Christ and the power of His Resurrection over the enemy, sin, sin nature, death, sickness, oppression and possession of demons, the false pastors, preachers, prophets and teachers in the apostate church, and the ways of the world! You learn how to be a king and priest of Almighty God by living a lifestyle of Revolution, Revival and Restoration of the Cross, as well as proclaiming Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world! You learn how to become a trustee of the last Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ – His Gospel – thus executing His “Great Commission” and building up His glorious church!Michael James Robertson holds a Juris Doctor, possesses a wealth of high level Fortune 100 corporate and other entrepreneurial experience and is CEO & Pastor of God & Country Revival. The Ministry wins souls for Christ and equips the Army of the Light. Ministries are God & Country Revival Fellowship, USA & Kenya, Jesus Brigade, Crusades & Revivals, Television & Internet (godandcountryrevival.com), Visioning Institute, Trade Wind Ministries (intercessory), prison outreach, and other international outreaches, including Africa and India. An extension of the Acts church, the ministry preaches Christ and Him crucified and the power of the Resurrection, while raising up and sending out mighty men of God. Because of Robertson’s passionate love of Jesus Christ, he has received the apostolic anointing to defend and confirm the Gospel of Jesus Christand to expose sin by preaching the truth of the Gospel! |
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Conquerors For Christ, Volume 3 $24.53 Conquerors for Christ is anointed and illuminated Bible scholarship that teaches you how to flow in the anointing, authority and power of Jesus Christ in these last days, asserting the same against, and enforcing the victory of the Cross of Christ and the power of His Resurrection over the enemy, sin, sin nature, death, sickness, oppression and possession of demons, the false pastors, preachers, prophets and teachers in the apostate church, and the ways of the world! You learn how to be a king and priest of Almighty God by living a lifestyle of Revolution, Revival and Restoration of the Cross, as well as proclaiming Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world! You learn how to become a trustee of the last Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ – His Gospel – thus executing His “Great Commission” and building up His glorious church!Michael James Robertson holds a Juris Doctor, possesses a wealth of high level Fortune 100 corporate and other entrepreneurial experience and is CEO & Pastor of God & Country Revival. The Ministry wins souls for Christ and equips the Army of the Light. Ministries are God & Country Revival Fellowship, USA & Kenya, Jesus Brigade, Crusades & Revivals, Television & Internet (godandcountryrevival.com), Visioning Institute, Trade Wind Ministries (intercessory), prison outreach, and other international outreaches, including Africa and India. An extension of the Acts church, the ministry preaches Christ and Him crucified and the power of the Resurrection, while raising up and sending out mighty men of God. Because of Robertson’s passionate love of Jesus Christ, he has received the apostolic anointing to defend and confirm the Gospel of Jesus Christand to expose sin by preaching the truth of the Gospel! |
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Cybermen Television Stories $14.13 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Five Doctors, Silver Nemesis, Revenge of the Cybermen, the Next Doctor, Doomsday, Rise of the Cybermen, the Invasion, the Tomb of the Cybermen, Attack of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts, the Tenth Planet, the Wheel in Space, Earthshock, the Age of Steel, Cyberwoman, the Moonbase. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Five Doctors is a special feature-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programme’s twentieth anniversary. It aired in the United Kingdom on 25 November 1983, although it had its world premiere in the United States, on the Chicago PBS station WTTW and various other PBS member stations on 23 November, the anniversary date. Someone is plucking all the incarnations of the Doctor out of time and placing them in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, where they will meet old friends and enemies and play out the deadly Game of Rassilon, for the ultimate prize. But to lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose… A mysterious figure begins to use a Time Scoop to bring the previous incarnations of the Doctor, some of his former Companions Susan Foreman, Sarah Jane Smith, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and his archenemies including the Daleks and Cybermen, into the Death Zone on Gallifrey; though the figure is able to bring the First, Second, and Third Doctor into the zone, the Fourth Doctor along with Romana become stuck in the time vortex. The Fifth Doctor, while relaxing on the Eye of Orion with Tegan and Turlough, suddenly feels pains as his former selves are taken from the time stream, and returns everyone to the TARDIS, setting course for Gallifrey. The various Doctors and companions separately meet up, with each of the Doctors independently recognizing the Death Zone and |
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Doctor Finlay $39.98 He survived the war, only to find himself fighting new and more challenging battles on the home front. One of the most popular series ever to air on British television, Doctor Finlay returns in this powerful Masterpiece Theatre presentation, an all-new adaptation starring David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie, Jason Flemyng and Ian Bannen. It’s 1946 and a post-war period of hope and expectation is dawning across Europe, except, that is, in the Scottish town of Tannochbrae. Dr. John Finlay has left behind the senseless bloodshed and death that darkened his stint in the Royal Army Medical Corps to return to his old life in that small town. Finlay’s homecoming is not what he expects. His irascible colleague, Dr. Cameron, is unchanged–just older–but their once thriving medical practice has become rundown. His fianc e has given up waiting for him. Petty politics, poverty and ignorance still infect the town, as does a deadly outbreak of disease. As Finlay struggles to treat the frailties and suffering of his patients, he finds himself called upon to treat their ailing hearts as well. Yet, his gift for healing will be put to its greatest test as he works to put together the pieces of his own shattered life. |
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Doctor Finlay 2 $39.98 He survived the war, only to find himself fighting new and more challenging battles on the home front. One of the most popular series ever to air on British television, Doctor Finlay returns in this powerful Masterpiece Theatre presentation, an all-new adaptation starring David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie, Jason Flemyng and Ian Bannen. It’s 1946 and a post-war period of hope and expectation is dawning across Europe, except, that is, in the Scottish town of Tannochbrae. Dr. John Finlay has left behind the senseless bloodshed and death that darkened his stint in the Royal Army Medical Corps to return to his old life in that small town. Finlay’s homecoming is not what he expects. His irascible colleague, Dr. Cameron, is unchanged-just older-but their once thriving medical practice has become rundown. His fiancee has given up waiting for him. Petty politics, poverty and ignorance still infect the town, as does a deadly outbreak of disease. As Finlay struggles to treat the frailties and suffering of his patients, he finds himself called upon to treat their ailing hearts as well. Yet, his gift for healing will be put to its greatest test as he works to put together the pieces of his own shattered life. |
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Doctor Joe Bell $26.95 A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his remarkable powers of observation and deduction. In what would become true Sherlockian fashion, he had the ability to deduce facts about his patients from otherwise unremarkable details. In one instance recounted by Arthur Conan Doyle himself–and similar to Sherlock Holmes’s own observations in The Greek Interpreter –Bell took little time to determine that one of his patients had recently served in the army, a non-commissioned officer discharged from his Highland regiment stationed in Barbados: The man was a respectful man, but did not remove his hat. They do not in the army, but he would have learned civilian ways had he been long discharged. He has an air of authority and he is obviously Scottish. As to Barbados, his complaint is elephantitis, which is West Indian and not British. Based on extensive research into the life of Bell and including tantalizing accounts of the connections between Bell and Conan Doyle, this biography is required reading for anyone interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. |
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Doctor to the Front $32.43 The Civil War was a tragic conflict that destroyed many lives, but for those trying to save lives the tragedy was often compounded. Military doctors labored through the smoke of battle where impossible conditions and fear of infection often forced them to resort to amputation, and most operations were performed without painkillers. Thomas Fanning Wood recorded his wartime experiences as a Confederate Army surgeon, and his recollections of those events allow us to hear a distinct voice of the Civil War.As a young soldier recovering from fever at a Richmond hospital, Wood developed an interest in medicine that was encouraged by a doctor who steered him toward medical training. After only eight months of study he was made an assistant surgeon in the Third North Carolina Regiment. His narrative — drawn from his memoirs, letters from the front, and articles written for his hometown newspaper — presents a poignant and sometimes horrifying picture of what the Civil War physician had to face both under battlefield conditions and in urban hospitals.Wood himself spent much of his time at the front, and his vivid narrative describes both a doctor’s daily activities and the campaigns he witnessed. He was present at many of the war’s major engagements: he was near Stonewall Jackson when the general fell at Chancellorsville, manned a field dressing station at the foot of Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg, and was one of the few survivors of the Union attack on the mule shoe at Spotsylvania when his entire division was wiped out. Wood’s account also lends new insight into Jubal Early’s 1864 campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and against Washington.With its observations of medical care andtraining not found in standard histories of the war — including a description of the examination required to become an assistant surgeon — Doctor to the Front offers a unique human perspective on the Civil War. With their additional descriptions of key figures and events, Wood’s recollectio |
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Evacuation Day $3.99 “Actually, George Washington is pretty cool.”That’s what Charles Miller thinks of the new commander of the American Continental army. In 1776, twelve year-old boys didn’t say someone was cool. But Charles isn’t from 1776. He lives in 2007 and has traveled back in time to help his friend Ben Sampson free his father from a British prison in Boston before the Redcoats evacuate the city. If they fail, Ben’s father, Benjamin Senior, will be on a prison ship bound for Nova Scotia in two days. Charles and Ben travel to Cambridge, where they meet General Washington and the mysterious Captain Tallmadge, Washington’s spy chief, who helps them plan to enter British-occupied Boston. Their mission is to find Emmy, Ben’s sister, to rescue Benjamin, and to determine when the British will evacuate the city. Soon after they arrive in Boston the boys are saved from being captured by the Redcoats by Aaron, the son of Crispus Attucks, a former slave who was killed at the Boston Massacre. With the help of 2007 technology, Charles, Ben, Emmy and Aaron execute a daring rescue of Benjamin from a British jail.During their escape, Ben’s father is shot, and although they reach Cambridge successfully, the wound has become infected. Doctor John Warren, a surgeon with the Continental army and a founder of the Harvard Medical School, insists that Benjamin’s leg must be amputated to save his life. When Ben’s father refuses, Charles, without revealing where he is from, convinces Dr. Warren to follow modern medical practices to cure the infection. Charles, Ben, Emmy and Aaron watch the British leave Boston from Dorchester Heights with Colonel Henry Knox who commands theartillery that forced the evacuation. Emmy prevents a British spy from blowing up the fortifications and receives a personal commendation and medal from General Washington.Just before Charles returns to 2007, Captain Tallmadge asks the young people if they again would be willing |
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Evacuation Day: The Tale of a Boy’s Trip Through Time to George Washington’s First Victory $12.95 “Actually, George Washington is pretty cool.”That’s what Charles Miller thinks of the new commander of the American Continental army. In 1776, twelve year-old boys didn’t say someone was cool. But Charles isn’t from 1776. He lives in 2007 and has traveled back in time to help his friend Ben Sampson free his father from a British prison in Boston before the Redcoats evacuate the city. If they fail, Ben’s father, Benjamin Senior, will be on a prison ship bound for Nova Scotia in two days. Charles and Ben travel to Cambridge, where they meet General Washington and the mysterious Captain Tallmadge, Washington’s spy chief, who helps them plan to enter British-occupied Boston. Their mission is to find Emmy, Ben’s sister, to rescue Benjamin, and to determine when the British will evacuate the city. Soon after they arrive in Boston the boys are saved from being captured by the Redcoats by Aaron, the son of Crispus Attucks, a former slave who was killed at the Boston Massacre. With the help of 2007 technology, Charles, Ben, Emmy and Aaron execute a daring rescue of Benjamin from a British jail.During their escape, Ben’s father is shot, and although they reach Cambridge successfully, the wound has become infected. Doctor John Warren, a surgeon with the Continental army and a founder of the Harvard Medical School, insists that Benjamin’s leg must be amputated to save his life. When Ben’s father refuses, Charles, without revealing where he is from, convinces Dr. Warren to follow modern medical practices to cure the infection. Charles, Ben, Emmy and Aaron watch the British leave Boston from Dorchester Heights with Colonel Henry Knox who commands theartillery that forced the evacuation. Emmy prevents a British spy from blowing up the fortifications and receives a personal commendation and medal from General Washington.Just before Charles returns to 2007, Captain Tallmadge asks the young people if they again would be willing |
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Fictional Archaeologists $31.4 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scrooge Mcduck, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Doctor Fate, Recurring Characters in the Tomb Raider Game Series, Hawkman, Blue Beetle, Bernice Summerfield, Daniel Jackson, Hawkgirl, Midori Sugiura, Yuno Scrya, Dirk Pitt, Hawkman, Adam Strange, Bonekickers, Hawkwoman, Felix Faust, Metamorpho, Starhawk, Talisman, Brittany Diggers, Amelia Peabody, Julia Kapatelis, River Song, Jack Drake, List of Characters in the Librarian Franchise, the Librarian Franchise, Evelyn Carnahan-O’connell, Helena Von Lahnstein, Keitaro Urashima, the World of the Librarian Franchise, Ramses Emerson, Radcliffe Emerson, Alex O’connell, Ian Karkull, Jim Crocodile Cook, Elijah Snow, Army of God, Pandora Pann, Sydney Fox, Lion-Mane, Fadeaway Man, William Harper Littlejohn, Plasma, St. Julien Perlmutter, Bel Arvardan, Arizona Goof, Crimson, Vash, Niko. Excerpt: Adam Strange Adam Strange is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics . Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Mike Sekowsky , he first appeared in Showcase #17 (November 1958). Publication history Created by Gardner Fox , Adam Strange is reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs ‘ John Carter of Mars series. Both characters have origins in which they are chased by threatening aboriginal peoples only to find themselves mysteriously transported at the last moment to distant planets where they become heroic figures. In Carter’s case this is to Mars, while Adam Strange is transported to Rann. Although the John Carter stories depict a raw sort of adventure that includes swordplay, physical action, nudity, and bloodletting, these are absent from the Adam Strange stories. However, both characters long to travel to a strange world to fight alien opponents and be united with a beloved woman who resided there. Like most other comic book science fiction stories |
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Health Ministers of Germany: Philipp R sler, Horst Seehofer, Rita S ssmuth, Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, Ulla Schmidt, Heiner Gei ler, K te Strobel $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Philipp Rösler, Horst Seehofer, Rita Süssmuth, Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, Ulla Schmidt, Heiner Geißler, Käte Strobel, Anke Fuchs, Andrea Fischer. Excerpt: Philipp Rösler (exact date of birth unknown, but 24 February 1973 used in official documents) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party. A physician by profession, he served as Minister for Economics and Deputy Prime Minister of the state of Lower Saxony from 18 February 2009 to 28 October 2009. He took office as Federal Minister of Health in the second Merkel Cabinet. He was born in Vietnam and was adopted by a German couple when he was still an infant. Philipp Rösler was born in Khanh Hung, Ba Xuyen Province, in the former South Vietnam (now Soc Trang Province, Vietnam) and came to Germany at the age of nine months. He was adopted from a Catholic orphanage near Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City by a couple that already had two biological children. He grew up in Hamburg, Bückeburg and Hanover, where he graduated from high school in 1992. After training to become a combat medic in the German Bundeswehr (the Federal Defense Force), Rösler was exempted to study medicine at the Hannover Medical School. Following this, he continued his education at the Bundeswehr hospital in Hamburg. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2002 and left service as a Stabsarzt (a rank for German medical officers equivalent to an army captain) in 2003. He is Catholic, and a member of the General Conference of the Central Committee of German Catholics. He has been married to his wife, Wiebke Rösler, also a physician, since 2003. The couple has twin girls, Grietje and Gesche, born in 2008. Rösler has been a member of the FDP and its political youth organisation since 1992. He |
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Indian Motivational Speakers: Deepak Chopra $9.43 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Deepak Chopra (Hindi: ) (born October 22, 1946) is an American physician born in India, an author and a lecturer on Ayurveda, spirituality and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra was a top assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before launching his own career in the late 1980s by publishing self-help books on New Age spirituality and alternative medicine. Chopra was born in New Delhi, India. His father, Krishan Chopra, was a cardiologist who served as the dean of a local hospital and a lieutenant in the British army and his grandfather was an Ayurvedic physician. Chopra’s younger brother, Sanjiv, is a Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As a young man Chopra’s desire was to become an actor or journalist but he was inspired by a character in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis and became a doctor. Chopra completed his primary education at St. Columba’s School in New Delhi and graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). After immigrating to the US in 1968, Chopra began his clinical internship and residency training at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey. He had residency terms at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, and at the University of Virginia Hospital. He earned his license to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts in 1973 and received a California medical license in 2004. Chopra is board-certified in internal medicine and specialized in endocrinology. He is also a member of the American Medical Association (AMA), a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Ch… More: |
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Indian Self-Help Writers: Deepak Chopra, Yogesh Chabria, Shiv Khera, Anthony de Mello $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Deepak Chopra (Hindi: ) (born October 22, 1946) is an American physician born in India, an author and a lecturer on Ayurveda, spirituality and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra was a top assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before launching his own career in the late 1980s by publishing self-help books on New Age spirituality and alternative medicine. Chopra was born in New Delhi, India. His father, Krishan Chopra, was a cardiologist who served as the dean of a local hospital and a lieutenant in the British army and his grandfather was an Ayurvedic physician. Chopra’s younger brother, Sanjiv, is a Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As a young man Chopra’s desire was to become an actor or journalist but he was inspired by a character in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis and became a doctor. Chopra completed his primary education at St. Columba’s School in New Delhi and graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). After immigrating to the US in 1968, Chopra began his clinical internship and residency training at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey. He had residency terms at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, and at the University of Virginia Hospital. He earned his license to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts in 1973 and received a California medical license in 2004. Chopra is board-certified in internal medicine and specialized in endocrinology. He is also a member of the American Medical Association (AMA), a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Ch… More: |
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Manster $14.96 When Baby Boomers get together to talk about the scariest films they ever saw, this is the movie they talk about! The film that inspired Spiderman director Sam Raimi s Evil Dead 3-Army of Darkness. This is one of the wildest films ever made – a genuine nightmare committed to celluloid. A Japanese mad doctor injects an unsuspecting businessman with a serum that causes him to become a two-headed thing that eventually rips apart in one of filmdom s most shocking scenes. Super Creepy! In Black & White. |
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Military of Costa Rica: Military History of Costa Rica, Costa Rican Civil War, Civil Guard, Air Surveillance Service, Campaign of 1856-1857 $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Costa Rican Civil War was the bloodiest event in 20th century Costa Rican history. It lasted for 44 days (from March 12 to April 24, 1948), during which approximately 2,000 people are believed to have died. The conflict was precipitated by the vote of the Costa Rican Legislature, dominated by pro-government representatives, to annul the results of the presidential election of 1948, alleging that the triumph of opposition candidate Otilio Ulate had been achieved by fraud. This caused a rebel army under commander José Figueres to rise up against the government of President Teodoro Picado, which it quickly defeated. After the war, Figueres ruled for a year and a half as head of a provisional government junta which abolished the military and oversaw the election of the Assembly that produced the new Costa Rican Constitution of 1949. The junta then stepped down and handed power to Ulate. Costa Rica has not experienced any significant political violence since then. In the 1940s, the Costa Rican political scene came to be dominated by Rafael Ángel Calderón, a medical doctor who served as President of Costa Rica from 1940 to 1944. The Constitution forbade consecutive reelection, so Calderón’s National Republican Party had fielded as its candidate for the 1944 elections law professor Teodoro Picado, who was widely perceived as a weak figure controlled by Calderón. At the time Costa Rica had a long history of electoral fraud, and Picado was elected as president under questionable circumstances that led to considerable tensions during his tenure. The Picado administration resorted several times to the use of military force in order to keep the peace, and pro-Calderón elements within the military institution would often become involved in |
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Mother Benedict: Foundress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis $19.95 This is the inspiring story of Mother Benedict Duss and the famous Benedictine monastery she founded in Bethlehem, Connecticut, the Abbey of Regina Laudis, a large flourishing community of contemplative Benedictine nuns. The Abbey is home to many accomplished women from all walks of life and fields of study. Perhaps the most famous is former Hollywood film star, Dolores Hart, who shocked the film world when she left a successful movie career at the age of 25 to become a contemplative Benedictine. The heart of this book is the amazing story of Mother Benedict Duss, who was born in America but went to France and became a medical doctor in Paris, but left that profession to become a Benedictine contemplative. Through the liberating efforts from Hitler’s Nazi regime by Patton’s army in France, she felt an overwhelming interior call to return to America to found the first community of contemplative Benedictine nuns. At the young age of 35, with incredible faith, courage and the help of Popes, politicians, famous writers, and many others, she persevered in her call. Lavishly illustrated with photos. |
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Mother Benedict: Foundress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis $17.95 This is the inspiring story of Mother Benedict Duss and the famous Benedictine monastery she founded in Bethlehem, Connecticut, the Abbey of Regina Laudis, a large flourishing community of contemplative Benedictine nuns. The Abbey is home to many accomplished women from all walks of life and fields of study. Perhaps the most famous is former Hollywood film star, Dolores Hart, who shocked the film world when she left a successful movie career at the age of 25 to become a contemplative Benedictine. The heart of this book is the amazing story of Mother Benedict Duss, who was born in America but went to France and became a medical doctor in Paris, but left that profession to become a Benedictine contemplative. Through the liberating efforts from Hitler’s Nazi regime by Patton’s army in France, she felt an overwhelming interior call to return to America to found the first community of contemplative Benedictine nuns. At the young age of 35, with incredible faith, courage and the help of Popes, politicians, famous writers, and many others, she persevered in her call. Lavishly illustrated with photos. |
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa $15.95 The Barnes & Noble ReviewJanuary 1998 Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa is the story of Peter Godwin’s experiences growing up in Rhodesia. He recounts the story of that country’s violent transformation into Zimbabwe, as well as his own personal metamorphoses from privileged boy to reluctant soldier to investigative journalist. Godwin’s story begins, “I think I first realized something was wrong when our next door neighbor, Oom Piet Oberholzer, was murdered. I must have been about five then. It was still five years before the real war would start.” The Godwins enjoyed a typical genteel existence in 1960 rural Rhodesia, their household including a “garden boy,” a “cook boy,” and a nanny. Peter’s father managed a wood- and sugarcane-processing plant. His mother, a rural government doctor, was often called to pronounce deaths or conduct autopsies, for which she brought along her “assistant,” five-year-old Peter, who was responsible for shooing away the flies. Godwin’s plans for attending college were squashed when he was drafted into the Rhodesian army and assigned to the “Anti-Terrorist Unit,” which proved to be an important experience in his life. When he later looked at himself, he saw a man “coursed through with anger and despair. It was the face of someone who would kill an unarmed civilian for withholding information.” Disturbed by what he had become, Godwin left Rhodesia after he got out of the army, only to return in 1981 as a journalist. Rhodesia was now Zimbabwe, and the “terrorists” he had reluctantly fought against were now the country’s rulers. Godwin reported on theutterbrutalities in Zimbabwe and the fate of Matabeleland, a black minority region in Zimbabwe. He described the army style of interrogation, in which “before they even began to question you, they would break one wrist,” and wrote about the old mines where bodies of the dead were buried. When |
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa $12 The Barnes & Noble ReviewJanuary 1998 Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa is the story of Peter Godwin’s experiences growing up in Rhodesia. He recounts the story of that country’s violent transformation into Zimbabwe, as well as his own personal metamorphoses from privileged boy to reluctant soldier to investigative journalist. Godwin’s story begins, “I think I first realized something was wrong when our next door neighbor, Oom Piet Oberholzer, was murdered. I must have been about five then. It was still five years before the real war would start.” The Godwins enjoyed a typical genteel existence in 1960 rural Rhodesia, their household including a “garden boy,” a “cook boy,” and a nanny. Peter’s father managed a wood- and sugarcane-processing plant. His mother, a rural government doctor, was often called to pronounce deaths or conduct autopsies, for which she brought along her “assistant,” five-year-old Peter, who was responsible for shooing away the flies. Godwin’s plans for attending college were squashed when he was drafted into the Rhodesian army and assigned to the “Anti-Terrorist Unit,” which proved to be an important experience in his life. When he later looked at himself, he saw a man “coursed through with anger and despair. It was the face of someone who would kill an unarmed civilian for withholding information.” Disturbed by what he had become, Godwin left Rhodesia after he got out of the army, only to return in 1981 as a journalist. Rhodesia was now Zimbabwe, and the “terrorists” he had reluctantly fought against were now the country’s rulers. Godwin reported on theutterbrutalities in Zimbabwe and the fate of Matabeleland, a black minority region in Zimbabwe. He described the army style of interrogation, in which “before they even began to question you, they would break one wrist,” and wrote about the old mines where bodies of the dead were buried. When |
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People, Medicine and Money: A Surgeon’s Memoir $19.95 Pittsburgh surgeon and author John C. Gaisford shares his fascinating journey through a medical career that spanned more than fifty years in his engaging life story, People, Medicine and Money: a Surgeon’s Memoir. Dr. Gaisford describes the beginning of his medical career, from his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1930s, through Georgetown Medical School and his service as an Army doctor, including establishing a M*A*S*H unit in the Philippines toward the end of World War II. He explores his decision to become a surgeon, his entry into plastic surgery, and his specialty in burn care. He reminisces about the many opportunities he has had throughout his distinguished career to help people around the world. The people he met along the way-the rich and famous as well as the humble and needy-fill his memoir with lively dialogue and unforgettable stories. Along with his serious contemplation of the relationship of medicine and business, Dr. Gaisford also includes plenty of reminiscences about golf. Readers will come away from this deeply personal and insightful memoir with a greater appreciation for all of the bright and resourceful surgeons who changed the face of surgery in the twentieth century. |
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Requiem for a Lost Empire $1 A nameless, orphaned Russian army doctor is the narrator of Requiem for a Lost Empire, an epic novel that traces three generations of a Russian family through the turbulent political struggles of the twentieth century. Spanning eight decades –from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of Communism –the book follows the narrator’s grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt to escape the increasing tyrannies of the postwar Soviet era. It is here, amidst the raging warfare, espionage, and crushing poverty, where our narrator is born. Sweeping in its scope and heartbreaking in its truths, Requiem for a Lost Empire is both a harrowing history of the Soviet Union and a loving tribute to the fortitude of its people. |
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Requiem for a Lost Empire: A Novel $1.99 A nameless, orphaned Russian army doctor is the narrator of Requiem for a Lost Empire, an epic novel that traces three generations of a Russian family through the turbulent political struggles of the twentieth century. Spanning eight decades –from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of Communism –the book follows the narrator’s grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt to escape the increasing tyrannies of the postwar Soviet era. It is here, amidst the raging warfare, espionage, and crushing poverty, where our narrator is born. Sweeping in its scope and heartbreaking in its truths, Requiem for a Lost Empire is both a harrowing history of the Soviet Union and a loving tribute to the fortitude of its people. |
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Requiem for a Lost Empire: A Novel $3.99 A nameless, orphaned Russian army doctor is the narrator of Requiem for a Lost Empire, an epic novel that traces three generations of a Russian family through the turbulent political struggles of the twentieth century. Spanning eight decades –from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of Communism –the book follows the narrator’s grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt to escape the increasing tyrannies of the postwar Soviet era. It is here, amidst the raging warfare, espionage, and crushing poverty, where our narrator is born. Sweeping in its scope and heartbreaking in its truths, Requiem for a Lost Empire is both a harrowing history of the Soviet Union and a loving tribute to the fortitude of its people. |
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Requiem for a Lost Empire: A Novel By Andrei Makine, Translated by Geoffrey Strachan $14 <P>A nameless, orphaned Russian army doctor is the narrator of <I>Requiem for a Lost Empire,</I> an epic novel that traces three generations of a Russian family through the turbulent political struggles of the twentieth century.<P>Spanning eight decades –from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of Communism –the book follows the narrator’s grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt to escape the increasing tyrannies of the postwar Soviet era. It is here, amidst the raging warfare, espionage, and crushing poverty, where our narrator is born. Sweeping in its scope and heartbreaking in its truths, Requiem for a Lost Empire is both a harrowing history of the Soviet Union and a loving tribute to the fortitude of its people. |
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Shelomo Selinger $20.4 Sixty years after a Red Army doctor snatched him from the jaws of death at Theresienstadt, Shelomo Selinger unveils sixty drawings based upon his own concentration camp experience. Needless to say, nothing he draws is fictional, as he himself was an inmate in nine different camps. The artist had already established himself as a fine sculptor when, some twenty years after taking up the chisel, he started working with charcoal and ink. Like Goya, Selinger is more than an artist of the horrors of war, especially when he uses line to describe what he lived through. In this medium, we become most aware of his great mastery. These drawings are terrible testimony to the unthinkable atrocity of the Shoah. They are also masterpieces from the art of the second-half of the twentieth century. |
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The Bush War Doctor $15.99 The East African Campaign through a British Army Doctor’s eyesThe author of this book-a practicing doctor in the British Army-had already served on the Western Front in the early months of the Great War and had actually become a P. O. W. at the hands of the German enemy. Now in the East African Campaign he explains-in writings originally intended for his own family-every aspect of war in this little reported theatre. We learn about the movements of troops and battle actions, but also of the character of troops from many countries and of the African tribes who fought for each side. We hear of the trials of the motor transport men-dodging ambush and wild animals equally-and of the adventures of the “behind the lines” intelligence gatherers living thrilling and dangerous lives in the bush. Finally we are shown the difficulties of keeping men healthy and the problems of saving lives under the most arduous conditions. This is an unusual and interesting perspective on war from a medical man in Africa. |
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The Bush War Doctor $26.59 The East African Campaign through a British Army Doctor’s eyesThe author of this book-a practicing doctor in the British Army-had already served on the Western Front in the early months of the Great War and had actually become a P. O. W. at the hands of the German enemy. Now in the East African Campaign he explains-in writings originally intended for his own family-every aspect of war in this little reported theatre. We learn about the movements of troops and battle actions, but also of the character of troops from many countries and of the African tribes who fought for each side. We hear of the trials of the motor transport men-dodging ambush and wild animals equally-and of the adventures of the “behind the lines” intelligence gatherers living thrilling and dangerous lives in the bush. Finally we are shown the difficulties of keeping men healthy and the problems of saving lives under the most arduous conditions. This is an unusual and interesting perspective on war from a medical man in Africa. |
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The Destiny Of A Child Is The Mystery Of Creation $11.63 A common theme throughout my book explores how Almighty God, Creator of the universe, is the controller of the entire destiny of mankind, and of all the creations on earth, throughout history through science and religion. The book describes how I, a Bengali boy, survived all the uncertainties, many tragedies and dangerous upheavals to fulfil my destiny to be a doctor with God’s blessing. Born in 1943, a child of the British Empire, in a Bengali family of Chittagong, I qualified as a medical doctor in 1965 from Chittagong medical college. My family survived the forgotten Holocaust of the Bengal famine (1943-44), WW11 carnage in Asia and in Europe, blood bath of communal riots between Hindu, Muslim and Sikh causing millions of death and uprooting millions across the Indo-Pakistan border following the partition of India in 1947 into two independent nations of Pakistan, a Muslim state, and India, a Hindu state. East Bengal became East Pakistan, and since then, the Bengali people suffered continuous discrimination, imprisonment and brutal murder for protesting to restore Bangla Basha (Bangla language), for Bengalis. For 24 years, the Pakistani Government consistently denied Bengalis their democratic rights for social, political and economic equity, until Bangladesh became a free nation in 1971 following the liberation war against Pakistan.My father wanted me to become the first medical doctor in his family. The book explores how my destiny was shaped and reshaped through many national and international upheavals of historical importance. Following the 1970 national election victory of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the army of General Yahya Khan, president of Pakistan,murdered more than 3 million Bengalis in a bloody genocide in order to deny the democratically elected right of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a Bengali, to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
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The Fu-Manchu Omnibus: Insidious Fu-Manchu, Return of Fu-Manchu, Hand of Fu-Manchu $5.99 THE EVIL GENIUS OF CRIME That fiendish, brilliant turn-of-the century villain is back again. Read the original trilogy that launched his celebrated career–together in one eBook. A brow like Shakespeare, a face like Satan, and eyes of hypnotic green–and an army of the weirdest, most fiendish cohorts, tortures, and death-dealing devices in history. Penned by the immortal Sax Rohmer, authority on the occult, obscure cults and even more obscure murder methods, the Fu-Manchu books have enthralled audiences for nearly one hundred years. They have been filmed, become radio series, and even appeared as a television series. Your flesh will creep when you learn about how a man was murdered with the Zayat Kiss, of tortures like the Wire-Jackets, and the invisible murderer who could slay a victim in the locked room of a penthouse. Can Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard and his friend Dr. Petrie possibly thwart this evil mastermind who aims at nothing less than to make himself supreme dictator of the World! If they fail, Fu-Manchu will destroy civilization in order to remake it in his own image. And what of Fu-Manchu’s beautiful, nameless slave woman? Has she truly fallen in love with Petrie’s instinctive British decency–or is she a willing pawn in Fu-Manchu’s plot to destroy both Smith and the good doctor? As S. Ferber writes on Amazon, “It’s amazing how much action Sax Rohmer crams into his books. Before all is said and done in book one, we have dealt with poisonous centipedes, opium dens, trapdoors, memory drugs, mummies, poison gas, thugees and dacoits, ship raids, hashish, zombies, poison mushrooms, swamp adder drugs and on and on Who cares if it’s not PC? This is a ripper of a yarn!” Threecomplete classic 1900s British thrillers–Insidious Fu-Manchu, Return of Fu-Manchu, Hand of Fu-Manchu complete–over 1200 pages in hardcover–in one convenient eBook for one low price. |
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The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon $25 J. Franklin Dyer’s journal offers a rare perspective on three years of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a surgeon at the front. The journal, taken from letters written to his wife, Maria, describes in lengthy and colorful detail the daily life of a doctor who began as a regimental surgeon in the Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteers and was promoted to acting medical director of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac.This firsthand account traces Dyer’s attempts to manage his Gloucester household even as the Second Corps fought on the Peninsula, at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and from the Wilderness to Petersburg. Over time his letters to his wife become fraught with the tension of a man losing his early martial ardor as he witnesses the ghastly procession of suffering and death.Both a talented surgeon and a careful administrator, Dyer nevertheless declined opportunities to work at hospitals in the rear in order to stay near his old regiment and the fighting. He confronted the aftermath of battle — thousands of wounded and dying men — with a small staff and simple instruments. He and his fellow surgeons saved lives as best they could — often at the cost of amputated limbs — then dropped to the ground from exhaustion and slept in blood-drenched uniforms until the cries of the wounded woke them and induced them back to work. Dyer also provides a glimpse of the most devastating opponent the armies faced: disease. He and his medical colleagues fought cholera, typhus, dysentery, measles, and, despite official denials in Washington DC, a scurvy outbreak that weakened Federal units during the Peninsula campaign. |
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The Lazarus Culture $14.99 Secret Service Agent Christopher Kearns had no idea what he was up against. Assigned on a temporary basis to the Center for Disease Control, he only knew that somehow it was connected to the lives of those the agency protected…namely, the President of the United States. If there were possible terrorist activities in the making, he could only guess it was at a red alert basis. When Kearns meets and befriends Doctor Marlene Peterson of the Breezy Point Medical Center in Maryland, he soon finds that science fiction can indeed become a reality. In a solitary room walked a man with no vital signs:dead. The explanation he received came from Doctor Lee Fret, a man assigned to the case from the CDC. Something was attached to the brain stem. Something alive that was quickly spreading rapidly through Maryland and other states. Kearns and his ragtag army of agents and medical personnel soon find themselves in a world of meaningless slaughter and mayhem. The armies of the walking dead were far more than mere zombies. Some began to change into whatever it was they ate. The government had found a way to reanimate the dead by implanting a parasite found on the tongue of the Red Snapper to the human brain. It looked good on paper, but it was a project straight from Hell. The dead now walked, but it wasn’t a mystery.It was The Lazarus Culture. |
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The Lazarus Culture: A Zombie Novel $9.99 Secret Service Agent Christopher Kearns had no idea what he was up against. Assigned on a temporary basis to the Center for Disease Control, he only knew that somehow it was connected to the lives of those the agency protected…namely, the President of the United States. If there were possible terrorist activities in the making, he could only guess it was at a red alert basis. When Kearns meets and befriends Doctor Marlene Peterson of the Breezy Point Medical Center in Maryland, he soon finds that science fiction can indeed become a reality. In a solitary room walked a man with no vital signs:dead. The explanation he received came from Doctor Lee Fret, a man assigned to the case from the CDC. Something was attached to the brain stem. Something alive that was quickly spreading rapidly through Maryland and other states. Kearns and his ragtag army of agents and medical personnel soon find themselves in a world of meaningless slaughter and mayhem. The armies of the walking dead were far more than mere zombies. Some began to change into whatever it was they ate. The government had found a way to reanimate the dead by implanting a parasite found on the tongue of the Red Snapper to the human brain. It looked good on paper, but it was a project straight from Hell. The dead now walked, but it wasn’t a mystery. It was The Lazarus Culture. |
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The Threef Project $10.5 It was a family camping trip to the Jennings family’s favorite camping site, high in a remote area of the Ozark Mountains. It began, as each of their previous trips had begun, with wonderful weather, family togetherness, and a sense of adventure. It would end with the kidnapping of Doctor John Jennings’s family, and his own flight into the forest to save himself from certain death.John fled into the unknown wilderness of the Ozarks, moving steadily to the northwest in hope of coming across a road, or perhaps, with any luck, a town. What he finally came across was the home of Cordell Heartley, a recluse spelunker, living sometimes in his cabin, and at other times in his caves. Finding Cordell would lead John into the adventure of his life, and to the discovery of an illegal, covert military operation, known as The Threef Project. Heartley, an ex-U.S. Army Ranger, was soon to become John Jennings’ only hope of ever seeing his family again. |
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The Threef Project $12.95 It was a family camping trip to the Jennings family”s favorite camping site, high in a remote area of the Ozark Mountains. It began, as each of their previous trips had begun, with wonderful weather, family togetherness, and a sense of adventure. It would end with the kidnapping of Doctor John Jennings”s family, and his own flight into the forest to save himself from certain death.John fled into the unknown wilderness of the Ozarks, moving steadily to the northwest in hope of coming across a road, or perhaps, with any luck, a town. What he finally came across was the home of Cordell Heartley, a recluse spelunker, living sometimes in his cabin, and at other times in his caves. Finding Cordell would lead John into the adventure of his life, and to the discovery of an illegal, covert military operation, known as The Threef Project. Heartley, an ex-U.S. Army Ranger, was soon to become John Jennings” only hope of ever seeing his family again. |
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The Warrior Citizen: A Soldier’s Journey to Iraq and Back $15.95 Jason Henson is just sixteen years old when he witnesses the homecoming parade of soldiers returning from duty in the Middle East. From this moment, he knows he wants to join the military, serve his country, and experience a homecoming just like that of Harrisville, Pennsylvania’s, 132nd Transportation Company. But Jason, whose father Ray works as the town’s family physician, has the aptitude and drive to become a doctor.He’s able to combine his two dreams by joining his local unit as an army reservist and by attending Penn State to become a doctor. Life is good for Jason, who becomes a physician and marries his sweetheart Shannon Miller. When his unit is called to duty in Iraq, he doesn’t realize the profound impact this war will have on him. Inspired by true life experiences, The Warrior Citizen follows Jason’s journey from the moment he dreams of joining the army through basic training, advanced training, his twelve months of service in Iraq, and his return to Pennsylvania. Jason receives the homecoming he imagined as a teenager, but the cost may not be worth the celebration. |
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Tom Baker $61.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Stewart “Tom” Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981, and for being the narrator of the comedy series Little Britain. He now lives in Rye, East Sussex, England. Baker was born in Scotland Road, Liverpool, the son of Mary Jane (née Fleming), a cleaner, and John Stewart Baker, a sailor who was rarely at home. Baker was brought up in a working class Catholic and Jewish family. He left school at 15 to become a novice monk and remained in the monastic life for six years, but left after losing his faith, and did his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving for two years from 1955 until 1957. At the same time he took up acting, at first as a hobby. |
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University of Texas at Austin People: Ashbel Smith, George W. Littlefield, Pompeo Coppini, Louise Weinberg, Everardo Elizondo $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ashbel Smith, George W. Littlefield, Pompeo Coppini, Louise Weinberg, Everardo Elizondo, George Hopkins Williams Ii, Craig Way, Herbert M. Greene. Excerpt: Ashbel Smith (August 13, 1805 – January 21, 1886) was a pioneer physician, diplomat and official of the Republic of Texas, Confederate officer and first President of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. Smith was born on August 13, 1805 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, and attended Hartford public schools. He graduated from Yale University at the age of 19 where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor society. Smith taught briefly in a private school in Salisbury, North Carolina and then attended medical school at Yale graduating as medical doctor in 1828. He later lived in France and during the Paris cholera epidemic of 1832, Smith helped to treat the sick and wrote a pamphlet on the disease. Returning to the United States, Smith began his medical practice in Salisbury, North Carolina. He became active politically and part owner of the nullification newspaper the Western Carolinian. In the fall of 1836, Smith was persuaded to move to Texas by J. Pinckney Henderson, whom Smith had become friends with in Salisbury and was already in Texas. Upon arriving in Texas in 1837, Smith quickly became a close acquaintance of Sam Houston and was appointed to the post of surgeon general with the Republic of Texas Army. Even though militarily the Texas Revolution was over, Smith set up an efficient system of medical operations and established the first hospital in the area that would become Houston. As President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston called on Smith to negotiate a treaty with the Comanches in 1838. The Texas Congress failed to ratify the treaty, which would have re… More: |
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Uther And Igraine $38.99 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther And Igraine $22.08 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther And Igraine $24.69 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther and Igraine $17.13 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther and Igraine $0.99 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther and Igraine $30.99 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther and Igraine $21.92 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Uther and Igraine $39.74 George Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. His works include: Uther and Igraine (1903), Love Among the Ruins (1904), The Seven Streams (1905), Bess of the Woods (1906), The Return of the Petticoat (1907), Bertrand of Brittany (1908), The Red Saint (1909), The Lame Englishman (1910), The Rust of Rome (1910), Fox Farm (1911), Joan of the Tower (1911), Sincerity (1912), The House of Spies (1913), The Pride of Eve (1914), The Shield of Love (1914), Martin Valliant (1917), Unrest (1918), Valour (1918) and Second Youth (1919). |
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Vietnam, a Surgeon’s Odyssey $102.97 A doctor’s diary. A soldier’s saga.Colonel J.P. Franklin, MC US Army, a man of honor, courage and commitment, has already passed through the crucible of two wars. Beginning as a teenaged Marine private in the Second World War, he goes on to command a platoon of self-propelled automatic weapons as a lieutenant in the Korean War. His greatest challenge, however, comes in a third war, Vietnam.World recognised for his expertise as a head and neck surgeon, he leaves the safe academic environment of Walter Reed Army Medical Centre to become a paratrooper, then takes his military and surgical skills to Vietnam.This is a detailed and often traumatic perspective of a controversial period in US history. It is a period that strains those ideals and loyalties considered sacred to the young men who matured into warriors during WW2 and the Korean War. |
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Viktor Zhdanov $59.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Viktor Mikhailovich Zhdanov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Ждaнов) (13 February 1914 – 1987) was a Russian virologist. He was instrumental in the effort to eradicate smallpox globally. Zhdanov was born in the Ukrainian village of Shtepino (in present day Donetsk Oblast). After Zhdanov graduated from medical school in 1936, he spent the next decade working as an army doctor, where he became interested in epidemiology; this work would directly lead to his doctoral thesis on Hepatitis A. In 1946, Zhdanov was invited to become Chief of the Epidemiology Department of the I. I. Mechnikoff Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Kharkov, becoming its director two years later. His work in virus classification saw him admitted to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses as a life member. |
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Walther Kittel $42.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walther Kittel (1887-1971) was a German general during World War II.Walther Kittel was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, on March 20, 1887. Kittel joined the German Army straight from school at eighteen years old in order to become a military doctor. As Oberarzt, Kittel began a brilliant career in the University of Göttingen. As Oberarzt, Kittel began a brilliant career in the University of Göttingen. |
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Warwick Deeping $58.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Warwick Deeping (May 28, 1877-April 20, 1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer, whose most famous novel was Sorrell and Son (1925).Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School. He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. |
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Watson’s Afghan Adventure – How Sherlock Holmes’ Dr.Watson Became an Army Doctor $9.99 In Watson’s Afghan Adventure the good doctor explains to Sherlock Holmes how he chose to become an army doctor, served with the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers and how a treasure map brought him to the battle of Maiwand and on to 221B Baker Street. |
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Western Seminary Alumni: Tim Lahaye $9.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Timothy F. LaHaye (born April 27, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American evangelical Christian minister, author, and speaker. He is best-known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins. He has written over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction. LaHaye’s mother was the former Margret Palmer. and his father, Frank LaHaye, was a Ford auto worker. He died of a heart attack in 1936 and his death had a significant influence on LaHaye, just nine years old at the time. He had been inconsolable until the minister at the funeral said “This is not the end of Frank LaHaye; because he accepted Jesus, the day will come when the Lord will shout from heaven and descend, and the dead in Christ will rise first and then we’ll be caught up together to meet him in the air.” LaHaye later said that, upon hearing those remarks, “all of a sudden, there was hope in my heart I’d see my father again.” LaHaye enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1944 at the age of 18, after finishing night school. He served in Europe as a machine gunner aboard a bomber. LaHaye received a B.A. from Bob Jones University in 1950. He also holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Western Seminary. In 1958, the LaHaye family moved to San Diego, California, where he became pastor of the Scott Memorial Baptist Church (since renamed Shadow Mountain Community Church) in El Cajon, serving there for almost 25 years. In 1971 he founded Christian Heritage College, which is now known as San Diego Christian College. LaHaye has promoted or started numerous groups to promote his views, having become involved in politics at the Christian Voice during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1981 he left the pulpit to concentrate his time on politics and writing. Th… More: |
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Wyoming State Court Judges: Wyoming Supreme Court Justices, Leonard Mcewan, Joseph M. Carey, John J. Mcintyre, Alan Bond Johnson $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wyoming Supreme Court Justices, Leonard Mcewan, Joseph M. Carey, John J. Mcintyre, Alan Bond Johnson, Charles E. Winter, Walter Urbigkit, Barton R. Voigt. Excerpt: Leonard A. McEwan (February 17, 1925 January 24, 2008) was an American jurist who was a member of both the Wyoming Supreme Court, which meets in the capital city of Cheyenne, and the Fourth Judicial District Court, which convenes in Sheridan and serves Sheridan and Johnson counties. Though a Democrat, McEvan was elected on a nonpartisan judicial ballot in 1968, a heavily Republican year in Wyoming. He unseated an aging incumbent justice. McEwan was first justice and then chief justice until 1974, when he stepped down to return to become a judge of the Sheridan-based district court in northern Wyoming. (The five members of the Wyoming Supreme Court are now appointed by the governor and serve eight-year terms.) McEwan remained a district judge until his retirement in 1985. He preferred to live in Sheridan and enjoyed the diverse duties of a district judge in contrast to the academic thinking of a Supreme Court jurist. After he left the bench, he resumed his private law practice in Sheridan for a number of years. McEwan was born to Leonard McEwan (19001984) and the late Olga McEwan in Great Falls, Montana, a city on the Missouri River. He grew up in Great Falls but moved to Sheridan in 1939 and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1943. During World War II, McEwan served in the United States Army Air Corps, the forerunner to the Air Force. In 1955 he received a bachelor of science degree in business and accounting from the University of Wyoming. In 1957, he procured his Juris Doctor degree from the UW College of Law. He played football for the Wyoming Cowboys and was part of the … More: |