Time to Heal tells the story of the colourful life of a country doctor towards the end of his career. In turn shocking, sad and funny, they describe a doctor who feels poorly served by the conventional medicine of his time and finds new ways to relieve the suffering of his patients.
No matter how far she roamed, Olivia always called Australia home. From the UK to Melbourne and all around the world, Grease superstar Olivia Newton-John is one of the most beloved musical and acting icons in the world.
How did an Ivy League-educated lawyer and his wife from a prominent newspaper family end up in a small Colorado town as publishers of a newspaper that quickly gained national attention? Arthur and Morley Ballantine impacted not only their adopted home, but also the state and the nation.
This book chronicles Zunars fight through cartoons from 2009 to 2018. Peppered within the pages of this book are some of Zunars timeless philosophies on cartooning, which have kept him going despite the odds stacked against him - arrests, court charges, banning of books, travel ban.
A funny and insightful meditation on family, inspiration, and art, LINER NOTES will thrill fans, readers, and anyone who appreciates the intersection of music and life.
The Inside Story of the Most Successful Online Poker Player of All Time
Chris Moorman is known as the most successful online poker player of all time. His focused determination and ferocious will to win have led him to achieve record-breaking accomplishments in the poker world including: * $17 million in online and live tournament winnings* 27 World Series of Poker cashes* 25 PocketFives Triple Crowns* Winner of ......
Tony Keulemans spent his childhood in the UK and was a war-time evacuee. At age 19, he was commissioned in the Royal Air Force and during the next seven years served in post-war Germany and Holland. Following an RAF mission to Woomera in 1952 and a brief visit to Sydney, he decided to start a new life in Australia.
The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists
The biography of New York cop Morty Dzikansky, who has travelled the world to monitor and to help prevent terrorism. Terrorist Cop is a colourful, haunting and highly graphic tale of New York City homicide detective Morty Dzikansky. Post 9/11, the NYPD sent Dzikansky to Israel to monitor suicide bombings as part of Commissioner Ray Kelly's plan to ......
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SYBIL? Dr. Patrick Suraci discovered the answer to that question in 1993. He learned that Sybil was Shirley Mason and they became friends. Flora Schreiber wrote SYBIL explaining how Shirley developed the 16 personalities as a result of her early childhood abuse. Using psychoanalysis for ten years, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur ......
A heartfelt and moving recollection by Sandra Sabatini, the author of the classic Breath, of her encounters and training under the guidance of Vanda Scaravelli, whose book Awakening the Spine inspired generations of yoga practitioners. With photographs by David Darom.
Izaac Walton is best known for "The Compleat Angler". But he was also a writer of literary biography. This book includes his portraits of Donne, Herbert and others, and also reminiscences of Jonson written in old age.
This text collects: all that Helen Thomas wrote about the poet Edward Thomas; the volumes "As It Was" and "World Without End"; her letters to Edward; and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H. Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost and W.H. Hudson.
A biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew ......
Presents the experience of 37 U.S. military nurses sent to the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres of war to care for the injured and dying. The personal and professional challenges they faced, the difficulties they endured, the dangers they overcame, and the consequences they grappled with are vividly described from deployment to discharge.
A biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew ......
What happens when love is no longer enough? Jane Bernstein thought that learning to accept her daughter's disabilities meant her struggles were over. But as Rachel grew up and needed more than a parent's devotion, both mother and daughter were confronted with formidable obstacles. Rachel in the World, which begins in Rachel's fifth year and ends ......
Blessed with native intelligence and the ability to think quickly on her feet, Andrea navigated her way through professional management circles and a series of salary increases. When the opportunity to move to another company arose, she took the chance of being caught and interviewed again. This is her autobiography.
Between 1922 and 1930, Carl Van Vechten--one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance--kept a daily record of his activities. The records recount his day-to-day life, as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of the period's luminaries, providing a rich resource for reconstructing the culture ......
Presents a personal and provocative look at poverty in America. This book tells the story of growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and draws together the experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church and music.
Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers
Issued on the 25th anniversary of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, this book brings together personal statements by sceptics of the world. It focuses on subjects such as parapsychology, astrology, UFOlogy, the difference between science and pseudoscience, alternative medicine, and near-death experiences.
Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.
