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Title: Crazy for God
Author: Frank Schaeffer

Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9780786726455
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Pages: 488
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson. But while coming of age as a rising evangelical star, Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, and as a result he experienced a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his journey out of the fold-even if it meant losing everything.

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Title: Crash Course
Author: Paul Ingrassia

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400068630/9781400115105
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Business, Nonfiction, Economics
Categories: Business, Nonfiction, Economics

With an updated Afterword by the author.
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies-once proud symbols of prosperity-through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry-the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration's stake in Detroit's recovery- Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America?

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Title: Being Here
Author: Marie Darrieussecq, Penny Hueston

Published: 2016
Language: English
ISBN: 9781925498608
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Pages: 114
Extension: EPUB
Size: 824 KB
Subjects: Art, Nonfiction
Categories: Art, Nonfiction

'A luminous tale about the courage of the lone female artist.' Joan London
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq.
As her art evolves, Paula is torn between Paris and her home in northern Germany. In Paris she can focus on her work, and mix with artists like Rodin and Monet, or her close friend the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. But Germany is home, and that's where her painter husband Otto lives.
Darrieussecq thrillingly describes Paula's discovery of her style and choice of subjects-women, babies, domestic life. She tells the story of her fraught marriage, her ambivalence about combining her passion for her career as an artist with motherhood. And she recounts her tragic death at thirty-one, days after giving birth.
Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 and and is recognized as one of the leading voices of contemporary French literature. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. In 2013 she was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix. Text publishes her three most recent novels, Tom Is Dead, All the Way and Men, as well as Being Here, The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker.
'Marie Darrieussecq reads the testament of Modersohn-Becker-the letters, the diaries, and above all the paintings-with a burning intelligence and a fierce hold on what it meant and means to be a woman and an artist.' J.M. Coetzee
'There are few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them.' The Times
'The internationally celebrated author who illuminates those parts of life other writers cannot or do not want to reach.' Independent
'Penny Hueston's translation from the original French, reads strangely-and in a good way-like true crime...Heartbreaking.' West Australian
'A brief, powerful artistic life that went painfully unrewarded-until after the painter's death.' Julian Barnes, Best Summer Holiday Reads, Guardian [UK]
'Darrieussecq has written this painful story because of her own sorrow at not knowing Paula Modersohn-Becker and of not knowing of her; sorrow, too, at her early death and truncated creativity. Darrieussecq looks squarely at a subject that is often too brutal to explore.' Monthly
'Lyrical and touching... Blending historical fact with imaginative flair, Darrieussecq brings her figures to life, imbuing them with emotion, character, and power...Being Here feels almost effortlessly beautiful, a short work of non-fiction told like a flowing piece of fictional prose.' AU Review
'Translated elegantly by Penny Hueston, the study retains some of the spacious, if not capacious quality of the French language and its ability to articulate the phenomena of presence and absence-the continued aliveness of the paintings and the sad and sudden death of the painter.' Conversation
'In Darrieussecq's hands, Modersohn-Becker's story is both individual and exemplary: a frightening, energising fable' Guardian
'Darrieussecq animates the short life of a passionate German artist with vivid, spare prose...This taut biography, written in the present tense, has the urgency and poignancy of the best novels.' Suzy Freeman-Greene, Best Books of 2017, Australian Book Review
'One of those books that catches you by surprise,...


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Title: There Are No Dead Here
Author: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

Published: 2018
Language: English
ISBN: 9781568585796
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Extension: EPUB
Size: 17 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction

The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters - a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator - whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.
Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary groups with close ties to the cocaine business carried out a violent expansion campaign, massacring, banging, and torturing thousands.
There Are No Dead Here is the harrowing story of three ordinary Colombians who risked everything to reveal the collusion between the new mafia and much of the country's military and political establishment: JesúríValle, a human rights activist who was murdered for exposing a dark secret; IváVeláuez, a quiet prosecutor who took up Valle's cause and became an unlikely hero; and Ricardo Calderóa dogged journalist who is still being targeted for his revelations. Their groundbreaking investigations landed a third of the country's Congress in prison and fed new demands for justice and peace that Colombia's leaders could not ignore.
Taking readers from the sweltering Medellístreets where criminal investigators were hunted by assassins, through the countryside where paramilitaries wiped out entire towns, and into the corridors of the presidential palace in Bogotá There Are No Dead Here is an unforgettable portrait of the valiant men and women who dared to stand up to the tide of greed, rage, and bloodlust that threatened to engulf their country.

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Title: Dinner with Persephone
Author: Patricia Storace

Published: 1996
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679744788
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Travel, Nonfiction

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written."
-The New York Review of Books
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.
Whether she is interpreting Hellenic dream books, pop songs, and soap operas, describing breathtakingly beautiful beaches and archaic villages, or braving the crush at a saint's tomb, Storace, winner of the Whiting Award, rewards the reader with informed and sensual insights into Greece's soul. She sees how the country's pride in its past coexists with profound doubts about its place in the modern world. She discovers a world in which past and present engage in a passionate dialogue. Stylish, funny, and erudite, Dinner with Persephone is travel writing elevated to a fine art-and the best book of its kind since Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi.
"Splendid. Storace's account of a year in Greece combines past and present, legend and fact, in an unusual and delightful whole. "
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Title: Riot Days
Author: Maria Alyokhina

Published: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 9781250164919
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 224
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction

A Pussy Rioter's riveting, hallucinatory account of her years in Russia's criminal system and of finding power in the most powerless of situations
In February 2012, after smuggling an electric guitar into Moscow's iconic central cathedral, Maria Alyokhina and other members of the radical collective Pussy Riot performed a provocative "Punk Prayer," taking on the Orthodox church and its support for Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime.
For this, they were charged with "organized hooliganism" and were tried while confined in a cage and guarded by Rottweilers. That trial and Alyokhina's subsequent imprisonment became an international cause. For Alyokhina, her two-year sentence launched a bitter struggle against the Russian prison system and an iron-willed refusal to be deprived of her humanity. Teeming with protests and security officer, witnesses and cellmates, informers and interrogators, Riot Days gives voice to Alyokhina's insistence on the right to say no, whether to a prison guard or to the president. Ultimately, this insistence delivers unprecedented victories for prisoners' rights.
Evocative, wry, laser-sharp, and laconically funny, Alyokhina's account is studded with song lyrics, legal transcripts, and excerpts from her jail diary-dispatches from a young woman who has faced tyranny and returned with the proof that against all odds even one person can force its retreat.


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Title: Carver
Author: Marilyn Nelson

Published: 2016
Language: English
ISBN: 9781886910539
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Pages: 112
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Multi-Cultural
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Multi-Cultural

Newbery Honor Book
National Book Award finalist
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Beautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his unsung gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher.
George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless Black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. This STEAM biography reveals Carver's complex and profoundly devout life.

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Title: The Secret Life of the Mind
Author: Mariano Sigman

Published: 2015
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316549622
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Medical / Neuroscience
Categories: Medical, Psychology, Science, Nonfiction

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.
Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions.
Over the course of his 20-year career investigating the inner workings of the human brain, Dr. Sigman has cultivated a remarkable interdisciplinary vision. He draws on research in physics, linguistics, psychology, education, and beyond to explain why people who speak more than one language are less prone to dementia; how infants can recognize by sight objects they've previously only touched; how babies, even before they utter their first word, have an innate sense of right and wrong; and how we can "read" the thoughts of vegetative patients by decoding patterns in their brain activity.
Building on the author's awe-inspiring TED talk, the cutting-edge research presented in The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how we understand the role that neuroscience plays in our lives, unlocking the mysterious cerebral processes that control the ways in which we learn, reason, feel, think, and dream.

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Title: Unjustifiable Means
Author: Mark Fallon

Published: 2017
ISBN: 9781942872795
Publisher: Regan Arts.
Pages: 240
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction

[b]The book the government doesn't want you to read.

President Trump wants to bring back torture. This is why he's wrong.[/b]
In his more than thirty years as an NCIS special agent and counterintelligence officer, Mark Fallon has investigated some of the most significant terrorist operations in US history, including the first bombing of the World Trade Center and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole. He knew well how to bring criminals to justice, all the while upholding the Constitution. But in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, it was clear that America was dealing with a new kind of enemy. Soon after the attacks, Fallon was named Deputy Commander of the newly formed Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF), created to probe the al-Qaeda terrorist network and bring suspected terrorists to trial. Fallon was determined to do the job the right way, but with the opening of Guantanamo Bay and the arrival of its detainees, he witnessed a shadowy dark side of the intelligence community that emerged, peddling a snake-oil they called "enhanced interrogation techniques."

In Unjustifiable Means, Fallon reveals this dark side of the United States government, which threw our own laws and international covenants aside to become a nation that tortured-sanctioned by the highest-ranking members of the Bush Administration, the Army, and the CIA, many of whom still hold government positions, although none have been held accountable. Until now.

Follow along as Fallon pieces together how this shadowy group incrementally-and secretly-loosened the reins on interrogation techniques at Gitmo and later, Abu-Ghraib, and black sites around the world. He recounts how key psychologists disturbingly violated human rights and adopted harsh practices to fit the Bush administration's objectives even though such tactics proved ineffective, counterproductive, and damaging to our own national security. Fallon untangles the powerful decisions the administration's legal team-the Bush "War Counsel"-used to provide the cover needed to make torture the modus operandi of the United States government. As Fallon says, "You could clearly see it coming, you could wave your arms and yell, but there wasn't a damn thing you could do to stop it."

Unjustifiable Means is hard-hitting, raw, and explosive, and forces the spotlight back on to how America lost its way. Fallon also exposes those responsible for using torture under the guise of national security, as well as those heroes who risked it all to oppose the program. By casting a defining light on one of America's darkest periods, Mark Fallon weaves a cautionary tale for those who wield the power to reinstate torture.

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Title: Do the Work!
Author: Pressfield, Steven

Published: 2020
Language: English
ISBN: 9788119216437
Publisher: The Domino Project
Extension: EPUB
Size: 217 KB
Subjects: Study Aids & Workbooks, Nonfiction
Categories: Study Aids & Workbooks, Nonfiction

QuickRead presents a summary of "Do the Work" by Steven Pressfield:
Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way.
Do you find yourself unable to finish a project? Perhaps your dream is to write a book, start a new business, or begin a new philanthropic endeavor. As you begin your new project, fear begins to seep in and you begin to self-sabotage. You procrastinate and begin to engage in self-doubt, these demons prohibit you from achieving your goals and pursuing your dreams. Unfortunately, many of us find ourselves in this position quite often. But where does this inner resistance come from and why is it consistently stopping us from accomplishing more? Throughout Do the Work, Steven Pressfield aims to teach you everything you need to know to identify these causes of resistance and how to stop it from taking over. You'll learn the various techniques you need to overcome the resistance, get back to work and finally turn your dreams into a reality. As you read, you'll learn how arrogance and ignorance are your allies, you'll discover how to slay a dragon, and finally, you'll understand why failure leads to success.


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Title: Dish
Author: Jeannette Walls

Published: 2000
Language: English
ISBN: 9780380810451
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 388
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: History, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Sociology, Nonfiction

"Provocative and invariably entertaining" a #1 New York Times bestselling author "gives dishing the dirt its historical, social and political due" (Publishers Weekly).
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.
Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture. In Dish, industry insider Jeannette Walls gives this intriguing subject its due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social, historical, and political significance. Examining the topic from the inside out, Walls looks at the players; the origins of gossip, from birth of People magazine to the death of Lady Di; and how technology including the Internet will continue to change the face of gossip. As compelling and seductive as its subject matter, Dish brilliantly reveals the fascinating inner workings of a phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.
"A history of how gossip became the news . . . Saucy, sassy . . ." -Los Angeles Times
"Truly intelligent and absorbing." - The Boston Sunday Globe
" Dish is a mouthful." - San Antonio Express News
"A serious and accurate history of a persistent part of media coverage." -St . Louis Post-Dispatch
"Extraordinary." -Don Imus
"Hard to put down . . . Dish is irresistible." - US Weekly
"It's an old-fashioned sideshow, high-spirited, mean-spirited, and plenty of guilty fun." - Kirkus Reviews
"Strewn with delicious tidbits." - Entertainment Weekly
Well-researched and intelligent." - New York Daily News
"Both an entertaining insider's look and a solid history of gossip." - Library Journal
"A fascinating, dishy story." - Booklist

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Title: Every Move You Make
Author: M. William Phelps

Published: 2005
Language: English
ISBN: 9780786016952
Publisher: Kensington
Pages: 496
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Sociology, True Crime, Nonfiction
Categories: Sociology, True Crime, Nonfiction

A New York State investigator matches wits with a devious serial killer in the New York Times bestselling author's true crime thriller.
Gary C. Evans was master of disguise and career criminal who had once befriended David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz. In 1989, he started weaving a web of deadly lies in Upstate New York, telling a female friend that the father of her child had deserted her. In fact, Evans had killed the man-just before striking up a ten-year romance with the woman.
Evans first met Investigator James Horton in 1985 when Evans snitched on a childhood friend and crime partner-failing to mention that he'd murdered him. Then, two local jewelry dealers were killed. In 1997, another old friend of Evans, went missing. Was Evans responsible? Horton launched a nationwide manhunt to uncover the truth.
For more than a decade, Evans and Horton maintained an odd relationship-part friendship, part manipulation-with Evans serving as a snitch while the tenacious investigator searched for the answers that would put him away. After Horton used Evans to obtain a confession from a local killer, Evans led Horton in a final game of cat-and-mouse that would culminate in the most shocking death of all . . .
Sixteen pages of revealing photos!

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Title: The Skin Above My Knee
Author: Marcia Butler

Published: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316392280
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction

The unflinching story of a professional oboist who finds order and beauty in music as her personal life threatens to destroy her.
Music was everything for Marcia Butler. Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother, she devoted herself to the discipline and rigor of the oboe, and quickly became a young prodigy on the rise in New York City's competitive music scene.
But haunted by troubling childhood memories while balancing the challenges of a busy life as a working musician, Marcia succumbed to dangerous men, drugs and self-destruction. In her darkest moments, she asked the hardest question of all: Could music truly save her life?
A memoir of startling honesty and subtle, profound beauty, The Skin Above My Knee is the story of a woman finding strength in her creative gifts and artistic destiny. Filled with vivid portraits of 1970's New York City, and fascinating insights into the intensity and precision necessary for a career in professional music, this is more than a narrative of a brilliant musician struggling to make it big in the big city. It is the story of a survivor.
One of 2017's 35 over 35 One of the Washington Post's Top 10 Classical Music Moments of the Year

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Title: How to Fall in Love with Anyone
Author: Mandy Len Catron

Published: 2017
ISBN: 9781501137457
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Psychology, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Psychology, Nonfiction

"A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir" ( Los Angeles Review of Books ) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy.

What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer.

In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, "Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation" ( Bookpage ). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists' research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she'd read about-where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions-and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship.

"Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us" ( Booklist ), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. "Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with-or curious about-the challenges of contemporary courtship" ( The Toronto Star ).

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Title: Diabetes: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)
Author: Robert Tattersall

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780199541362
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: General, Medical, History, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Health & Fitness, Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus - history, Science, Modern, History; Modern 1601, Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes - History, Diabetes
Categories: Medicine & Nursing, Medicine, Medicine & Nursing Reference, Clinical Medicine, Reference - Medicine, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medicine - History

Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious and widespread diseases today. But the general perception of diabetes is quite different. At the beginning of the 20th century, diabetes sufferers mostly tended to be middle-aged and overweight, and could live tolerably well with the disease for a couple of decades, but when it occasionally struck younger people, it could be fatal within a few months. The development of insulin in the early 1920s dramatically changed things for these younger patients. But that story of the success of modern medicine has tended to dominate public perception, so that diabetes is regarded as a relatively minor illness. Sadly, that is far from the case, and diabetes can produce complications affecting many different organs. Robert Tattersall, a leading authority on diabetes, describes the story of the disease from the ancient writings of Galen and Avicenna to the recognition of sugar in the urine of diabetics in the 18th century, the identification of pancreatic diabetes in 1889, the discovery of insulin in the early 20th century, the ensuing optimism, and the subsequent despair as the complexity of this now chronic illness among its increasing number of young patients became apparent. Yet new drugs are being developed, as well as new approaches to management that give hope for the future. Diabetes affects many of us directly or indirectly through friends and relatives. This book gives an authoritative and engaging account of the long history and changing perceptions of a disease that now dominates the concerns of health professionals in the developed world. Diabetes: the biography is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases, edited by William and Helen Bynum. In each individual volume an expert historian or clinician tells the story of a particular disease or condition throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in the meaning of the name of the disease itself.

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Title: Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?
Author: Laura Bennett

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780345519375
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 224
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Family & Relationships, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

Laura Bennett is not a soccer mom or a PTA mom or a helicopter mom-and she's certainly not mother of the year. Another breed of mother entirely, Laura is surely more Auntie Mame than June Cleaver. As a busy mother of six, Laura is on an impossible mission: raising a brood of fast-moving, messy, wild sons in the jungles of Manhattan. So what other choice does she have than to sit back, grab a martini, and let the boys be, er, boys?

In Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?, Laura gives her irreverent take on modern motherhood and proves that a strong sense of humor and an even stronger sense of self are the mother's milk of sanity. In a series of refreshingly candid and hilarious anecdotes, she unapologetically breaks every rule in the Brady Bunch playbook: She gives her kids junk food, plays favorites, and openly admits to having "a genetic predisposition to laissez-faire parenting." Children, she observes, don't need constant supervision from neurotic, perfectionist parents. Allow kids to make mistakes and entertain themselves and they'll turn out just fine-even if you do sometimes forget to pick them up from college.

Beyond the mayhem of a life among males, Laura celebrates the glories of womanhood with a generous helping of wit and style. She gives thanks to the fashion gods for the essentials-red lipstick, Manolo Blahniks, and Lycra shapewear-but reminds us that true style comes from an inner compass that points directly at oneself. In every aspect of life, Laura gives one simple, powerful piece of advice: "Dress like you want it or stay home."

Brutally honest, outrageous, and sure to raise a few eyebrows, Didn't I Feed You Yesterday? is a riotously funny read-and it'll go fabulously well with your new handbag.

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Title: In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
Author: Madeleine Blais

Published: 1995
ISBN: 9780802193421
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Pages: 272
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction

"Beautifully written . . . A celebration of girls and athletics." The national bestselling sports classic from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (USA Today).

Expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Madeleine Blais' book tells the story of a season in the life of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes, a girls' high college basketball team from the Western Massachusetts college town. The Hurricanes were a talented team with a near-perfect record, but for five straight years, when it came to the crunch of the playoffs, they somehow lacked the desire to go all the way. Now, led by senior guards Jen Pariseau, a three-point specialist, and Jamila Wideman, an All-American phenom, this was the year to prove themselves. It was a season to test their passion for the sport and their loyalty to each other, and a chance to discover who they really were.

As an off-season of summer jobs and basketball camps turns to fall, as students arrive and the games begin, Blais charts the ups and downs of the team and paints a portrait of the wider Amherst community, which comes to revel in the athletic exploits of their girls. Finally, a women's team was getting the attention they deserve. And the Hurricanes were richly deserving; these teenage girls are fierce and funny, smart and ambitious, and they are the heart of this gripping book.

"Extraordinary." - The Baltimore Sun

"A picture of a changing period in American sports history, when a town rallied around its female athletes in a way that had previously been reserved for males." - Publishers Weekly

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Title: The Telescope in the Ice
Author: Mark Bowen

Published: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 9781137280084
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: Science, Physics, Nonfiction
Categories: Science, Physics, Nonfiction

IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.
Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy.
IceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront.
The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the neutrino and the pioneers and inventors of neutrino astronomy.


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Title: Mother of the Unseen World
Author: Mark Matousek

Published: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 9780812997255
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: New Age, Nonfiction
Categories: New Age, Nonfiction

"Mother of the Unseen World is absolutely riveting, deeply searching, and thought-provoking."-Gretchen Rubin
For readers interested in what lies beyond consciousness, an exploration of the Indian "avatar" Mother Meera, known as an embodiment of the Feminine Divine
Throughout history there have been rare individuals who transcend what seems humanly possible, "enlightened" beings born with knowledge and experience that defy explanation. Kamala Reddy was a ten-year-old servant in rural India when her mysterious powers were recognized; she is believed to be an "avatar"-a divine incarnation in human form-and was soon given the name Mother Meera. Over the past forty years, she has welcomed millions of seekers from all faiths to have darshan (silent blessing) at her homes in Germany and India. Mother Meera has no dogma, offers her gifts free of charge, and belongs to no particular religion. Her transformational work is done using a particular light, she explains, which she transmits through her fingertips when she touches each person's head during darshan, undoing "energetic knots" and quickening a person's spiritual development. "Like electricity, the light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that," she says.
Mark Matousek was a nonbeliever when he met Mother Meera in 1985. Yet, in her presence, he experienced inexplicable occurrences that forced him to challenge his worldview. Now, in this deeply moving and wise book, he takes us as close as possible to this extraordinary woman. Is divine incarnation truly possible, he asks, as most of the world's religions insist? Who is Mother Meera, really? Speaking to members of her inner circle, working at her college for the poor in India, and interviewing the elusive master herself, Matousek takes the reader on a mysterious quest into the "unseen world" where the divine and human intersect.

Advance praise for Mother of the Unseen World

" Mother of the Unseen World reads like a classic adventure novel, with one exception-much of the adventure goes on inside the reader as we follow Mark Matousek's everyman journey from pain and doubt to discovery and awakening." -Elizabeth Lesser, author of Broken Open and co-founder of Omega Institute

"Mark Matousek brings us to the feet of Mother Meera in this transcendent, rapturous, astonishing book." -Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and In the Body of the World
"At once a spiritual autobiography and an exploration of one of the most mystical beings of our time." -Dani Shapiro
"Mother Meera's message of peace and love has touched me profoundly." -Ringo Starr

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