Author : Leo Vine-Knight
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3955004112
A satirical, eye-watering novel about mental health care and modern values, based on the author's travails as a psychiatric nurse. Not to be forgotten.
Author : Regina O'Melveny
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316195820
Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases. After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.
Author : Woody Leonhard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0470487631
Eight references in one-fully revised to include all the new features and updates to Windows 7 As the #1 operating system in the world, Windows provides the platform upon which all essential computing activities occur. This much-anticiapted version of the popular operating system offers an improved user experience with an enhanced interface to allow for greater user control. This All-in-One reference is packed with valuable information from eight minibooks, making it the ultimate resource. You'll discover the improved ways in which Windows 7 interacts with other devices, including mobile and home theater. Windows 7 boasts numerous exciting new features, and this reference is one-stop shopping for discovering them all! Eight minibooks cover Windows 7 basics, security, customizing, the Internet, searching and sharing, hardware, multimedia, Windows media center, and wired and wireless networking Addresses the new multi-touch feature that will allow you to control movement on the screen with your fingers With this comprehensive guide at your fingertips, you'll quickly start taking advantages of all the exciting new features of Windows 7.
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Page : 602 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
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File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2000-01-18
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PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.
Author : Dr Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1409479013
Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Author : Andr Aciman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0358359910
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Author : Mark Crick
Publisher : Granta Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1847085725
What would literary lions tell us about cooking, cleaning, and gardening? A three-book collection of parody and practical advice by a “brilliant” humorist (The Financial Times). The Household Tips of Great Writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and entertain the most erudite of householders. Includes: Sartre’s Sink “This brilliantly inventive DIY manual both parodies and celebrates great authors ... Crick is a brilliant literary ventriloquist.”—The Financial Times Kafka’s Soup “These literary and visual pastiches of writers and their relationships with food provide a laugh a line as they skewer their literary originals with effortless accuracy...a masterpiece.”—The Guardian Machiavelli’s Lawn “Erudite and enjoyable prose, no less rewarding for its horticultural accuracy.”—Times Literary Supplement
Author : Jason Brant
Publisher : Jason Brant
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Fiction
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Author : Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429914661
In Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter, we met the Quintaglios, a race of intelligent dinosaurs from Earth and learned of the threat to their very existence. Now they must quickly advance from a culture equivalent to our Renaissance to the point where they can leave their planet. While the Quintaglios rush to develop space travel, the discovery of a second species of intelligent dinosaur rocks their most fundamental beliefs. Meanwhile, blind Afsan -- the dinosaurian Galileo -- undergoes the newfangled treatment of psychoanalysis, throwing everything he thought he knew about his violent people into a startling new light. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
