Author: Jay Gubula
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479775266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Two men in 1980s Pietermaritzburg are drawn to the same woman, Abby, quickly becoming each other’s nemesis in a political climate where resistance of any kind often invited executions, factional clashes, clandestine activity, treachery and entrapment. Abby unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession as the archenemies, not content with displacing the other in her affections, play to ensure the other’s annihilation, none foreseeing the theatre their deadly encounter would be staged, culminating in a clash that potentially destabilizes the entire region and, for one of them, leaves a lasting legacy of shattered hopes, broken dreams, a life destroyed.
There Are Only So Many Tomorrows
Author: Jay Gubula
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479775266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Two men in 1980s Pietermaritzburg are drawn to the same woman, Abby, quickly becoming each other’s nemesis in a political climate where resistance of any kind often invited executions, factional clashes, clandestine activity, treachery and entrapment. Abby unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession as the archenemies, not content with displacing the other in her affections, play to ensure the other’s annihilation, none foreseeing the theatre their deadly encounter would be staged, culminating in a clash that potentially destabilizes the entire region and, for one of them, leaves a lasting legacy of shattered hopes, broken dreams, a life destroyed.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479775266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Two men in 1980s Pietermaritzburg are drawn to the same woman, Abby, quickly becoming each other’s nemesis in a political climate where resistance of any kind often invited executions, factional clashes, clandestine activity, treachery and entrapment. Abby unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession as the archenemies, not content with displacing the other in her affections, play to ensure the other’s annihilation, none foreseeing the theatre their deadly encounter would be staged, culminating in a clash that potentially destabilizes the entire region and, for one of them, leaves a lasting legacy of shattered hopes, broken dreams, a life destroyed.
The Heart Healers
Author: James Forrester
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466862556
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466862556
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".
Century Path
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Pages : 520
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Pacific Rural Press
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
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The Pacific Rural Press
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Improvement Era
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Improvement Era
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Building of the City Beautiful
Author: Joaquin Miller
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The California Birthday Book
Author: George Wharton James
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Joaquin Miller's Poems: An introduction, etc
Author: Joaquin Miller
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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