Author: Glenn Dixon
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1925475816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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In fair Verona, where we lay our scene ... When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona, the setting for Shakespeare's most famous love story, Romeo and Juliet. Determined to heal his heartbreak by helping others, he becomes the lone male in a dedicated team of secretaries who answer letters from thousands of lovelorn people around the world on behalf of 'Juliet'. Although he has firsthand experience of heartbreak and has taught Shakespeare for decades, at first Glenn struggles with how he can advise others yearning to understand the mysteries of the heart. But as he learns from his fellow letter writers about life and love, he comes to realise he has a lot of learning to do about himself, about heartbreak - and about Shakespeare's two fictional lovers. He also learns that the letters have the power to transform lives, his own included. An irresistible modern-day love story set against the backdrop of one of the most enduring love stories of all time, Juliet's Answer will warm your heart long after the last page.
Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521013284
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Author: CSIRO Publishing
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486300529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists? The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums is a collection of around 100 of the best articles published in ‘The Explainer’ and ‘Monday’s Medical Myths’ sections of The Conversation. The book answers questions on everyone's mind about a diverse range of topics, abstract concepts, and popular and hard core science. Sections include: animals and agriculture, body, climate and energy, medical myths, mind and brain, research and technology, and more. Expert authors combine facts, analysis, new ideas and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable in just a few short pages. This book is for the curious, those with a thirst for answers, and those with a fascination of how phenomena, new technologies and current issues in our daily lives work.
Author: Ruth Anne Drown
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387963260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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"Caleb's Quest" is the continuation of "Chasing the Sunrise." It chronicles Caleb Simms' quest to discover the cure for Parkinson's disease. Caleb and his research team will find themselves in the middle of an unsolved cold case of murder. Their journey is at times mysterious, supernatural, emotional, and frightening. Caleb leaves the safety of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to the auspices of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, Baker St., London, The deepest Congo Rainforest, and finally back to North Carolina. Obstacles threaten to destroy Caleb's research and prevent him from bringing the cure to the world. Along the way, there are revelations, love, and finally spiritual healing and acceptance over the heartbreak of his past.
Author: William R. Easterly
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262260654
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed. Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work. In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people—private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors—respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.
Author: Sunil Vaid
Publisher: Har Anand Publications
ISBN: 9788124113615
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Jo Marchant
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385348169
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's voice? If so, then you've experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your body. Yet while we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of "healing thoughts" was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual healers. Recently, however, serious scientists from a range of fields have been uncovering evidence that our thoughts, emotions and beliefs can ease pain, heal wounds, fend off infection and heart disease and even slow the progression of AIDS and some cancers. In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients and researchers on the cutting edge of this new world of medicine. We learn how meditation protects against depression and dementia, how social connections increase life expectancy and how patients who feel cared for recover from surgery faster. We meet Iraq war veterans who are using a virtual arctic world to treat their burns and children whose ADHD is kept under control with half the normal dose of medication. We watch as a transplant patient uses the smell of lavender to calm his hostile immune system and an Olympic runner shaves vital seconds off his time through mind-power alone. Drawing on the very latest research, Marchant explores the vast potential of the mind's ability to heal, lays out its limitations and explains how we can make use of the findings in our own lives. With clarity and compassion, Cure points the way towards a system of medicine that treats us not simply as bodies but as human beings. A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize
Author: Bradlee Frazer
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1938120078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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A medical thriller that asks: What if we had the cure for a catastrophic illness—but it lay hidden inside the blood and bones of just one man? A mysterious new contagion is decimating the population. It starts in the lungs, like the flu, then moves to the bones, where it weakens and breaks them, eventually killing the host. The disease’s origin, methods of propagation, and means of contraction are all unknown. There is no vaccine, and none is expected, as the virus is protean and elusive. If it remains unchecked and mutates into a more virulent form, it will become an extinction level event. Jason Kramer has the disease, known by its nickname “Trips Lite”—the CDC doctor who discovered it was a fan of Stephen King’s The Stand—but his body produces a unique antibody that kills the viruses inside him. This component in Jason’s blood can be harvested and given to anyone who needs it. His blood can heal. But pharmaceutical magnate Phillip Porter needs to keep people believing that only his expensive drug cocktail will slow Trips Lite down, and so if there’s any chance someone with the disease will live, Phillip must make sure that Jason does not . . . “If Stephen King and Michael Crichton had written Double Indemnity, it would have been The Cure.” —D.J. Butler, author of Rock Band Fights Evil
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Category : Open-air treatment
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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