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Title: The Man with the Poison Gun
Author(s): Serhii Plokhy

Language: English
Published: 08 December 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 978-0-4650-9660-2
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, True Crime, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, True Crime, Nonfiction


1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever.

This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky. It is a tale of exploding parcels, fake identities, forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most classified programme. By the time Stashinsky had his day in court, the whole world was watching.

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Title: On the Line
Author(s): Serena Williams, Daniel Paisner

Language: English
Published: 01 September 2009
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446553667
Extension: EPUB
Size: 480 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction


One of the biggest stars in tennis, Serena Williams has captured every major title. Her 2009 Australia Open championship earned her the #1 world ranking for the third time in her illustrious career - and marked only the latest exclamation point on a life well and purposefully lived. As a young girl, Serena began training with an adult-sized racquet that was almost as big as her. Rather than dropping the racquet, Serena saw it as a challenge to overcome-and she has confronted every obstacle on her path to success with the same unflagging spirit.
From growing up in the tough, hardscrabble neighborhood of Compton, California, to being trained by her father on public tennis courts littered with broken glass and drug paraphernalia, to becoming the top women's player in the world, Serena has proven to be an inspiration to her legions of fans both young and old. Her accomplishments have not been without struggle: being derailed by injury, devastated by the tragic shooting of her older sister, and criticized for her unorthodox approach to tennis.
Yet somehow, Serena always manages to prevail. Both on the court and off, she's applied the strength and determination that helped her to become a champion to successful pursuits in philanthropy, fashion, television and film. In this compelling and poignant memoir, Serena takes an empowering look at her extraordinary life and what is still to come.

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Title: Stay Hungry
Author(s): Sebastian Maniscalco

Published: 27 February 2018
Publisher: Gallery Books
ISBN: 9781501115981
Extension: EPUB
Size: 21 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)


From comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco-star of the film About My Father with Robert DeNiro-an inspiring, honest, uproarious collection of essays tracing his career from playing boxing rings and bowling alleys to reaching the pinnacles of comedy success.
At twenty-four, Sebastian Maniscalco arrived in LA with a suitcase and saved up minimum wages. He knew no one and nothing about standup comedy, but he was determined to go for it anyway.

Two decades later, he's on the Forbes' list of highest earning comedians, selling out arenas, and starring in numerous hit comedy specials including Why Would You Do That? and Is It Me?.

Stay Hungry tells the story of the twenty years in between. On the way from clueless rube to standup superstar, Seb was booed off stages; survived on tips and stolen food; got advice from mentors Andrew Dice Clay, Vince Vaughn, Tony Danza, and Jerry Seinfeld; fell in love; and stayed true to his Italian-immigrant roots. The one code that always kept him going: stay hungry, keep focused, never give up, and one day, you'll make it.

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Title: The Away Game
Author(s): Sebastian Abbot

Language: English
Published: 06 March 2018
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393356779
Extension: EPUB
Size: 18 MB
Subjects: Sociology, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Sociology, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction


"An exhilarating, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable journey that lays bare the true human stakes of the world's most popular game."-Warren St. John, best-selling author of Outcasts United
Searching for soccer's next superstars, an audacious program called Football Dreams held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa. In The Away Game, Sebastian Abbot follows several of the boys as they chase their dreams in a dizzying world of rich Arab sheikhs, money-hungry agents, and soccer-mad European fans.


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Title: The Cathars
Author(s): Sean Martin

Language: English
Published: 28 March 2014
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
ISBN: 9781843443360
Extension: EPUB
Size: 684 KB
Subjects: History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction


Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting and non-violence. They believed themselves to be the heirs of the true heritage of Christianity going back to apostolic times, and completely rejected the Catholic Church and all its trappings, regarding it as the Church of Satan; Cathar services and ceremonies, by contrast, were held in fields, barns and in people's homes. Finding support from the nobility in the fractious political situation in southern France, the Cathars also found widespread popularity among peasants and artisans. And again unlike the Church, the Cathars respected women, and women played a major role in the movement. Alarmed at the success of Catharism, the Church founded the Inquisition and launched the Albigensian Crusade to exterminate the heresy. While previous Crusades had been directed against '.s in the Middle East, the Albigensian Crusade was the first Crusade to be directed against fellow Christians, and was also the first European genocide. With the fall of the Cathar fortress of Montségur in 1244, Catharism was largely obliterated, although the faith survived into the early fourteenth century. Today, the mystique surrounding the Cathars is as strong as ever, and Sean Martin recounts their story and the myths associated with them in this lively and gripping book.

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Title: James Bond: The Secret History
Author(s): Sean Egan

Language: English
Published: 25 February 2016
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
ISBN: 9781786060204
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction


James Bond entered the world in 1953 with the novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.
Since then, the British secret agent codenamed 007 has become the biggest media phenomenon of the modern age, surpassing and outlasting previous cultural icons such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan and The Saint. Bond has conquered all forms of media - from books, films and radio to comic strips and video games - while inspiring a tidal wave of merchandise and a legion of imitators. Although the world has changed almost beyond recognition since his debut, his continuing relevance is affirmed by the multiple generations who have thrilled to his exploits.
This book for the first time provides the full enthralling story of how the espionage fantasies of a rather melancholy journalist came to captivate the world. It exposes the setbacks behind the triumphs, from Fleming's increasing boredom with his own creation to regular crises over re-casting of the cinematic Bond and legal battles in the 1990s that almost destroyed the film franchise. With the help of Bond scholars, Fleming intimates, Bond film crew and others, James Bond: The Secret History shows how the man with the Licence to Kill overcame every hurdle to become the greatest fantasy hero of all time.
With a foreword by Jeremy Duns


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Title: Kill Them All
Author(s): Sean McGlynn

Language: English
Published: 01 June 2015
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9780750984317
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction


The bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against the Cathar heretics of southern France in the early thirteenth century is infamous for its brutality and savagery, even by the standards of the Middle Ages. It was marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, deeds commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. Here, in the first military history of the whole conflict, Sean McGlynn tells the story of the crusade through its epic sieges of seemingly impregnable fortresses, desperate battles and destructive campaigns, and offers expert analysis of the warfare involved, revealing the crusade in a different light - as a bloody territorial conquest in which acts of terror were perpetrated to secure military aims rather than religious ones. The dramatic events of the crusade and its colourful leading characters - Simon de Montfort, Louis the Lion, Innocent III, Peter of Aragon, Count Raymond of Toulouse - are brought to life through the voices of contemporary writers who fought and experienced it.

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Title: Ice Capades
Author(s): Sean Avery, Michael McKinley

Language: English
Published: 24 October 2017
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780399575754
Extension: EPUB
Size: 28 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction


**One of Sports Illustrated's Best Sports Books of 2017**
Controversial hockey star Sean Avery's no-holds-barred memoir of high living and bad behavior in the NHL-coupled with the behind-the-scenes glitter of celebrity and media nightlife in New York and LA.

As one of the NHL's most polarizing players, Sean Avery turned the rules of professional hockey on its head. For thirteen seasons, Avery played for some of the toughest, most storied franchises in the league, including the Detroit Red Wings, the Los Angeles Kings, and the New York Rangers, making his mark in each city as a player that was sometimes loved, often despised, but always controversial.

In Ice Capades, Avery takes his trademark candidness about the world of pro hockey and does for it what Jim Bouton's game-changing Ball Four did for baseball. Avery goes deep inside the sport to reveal every aspect of an athlete's life, from what they do with their money and nights off to how they stay sharp and competitive in the league. While playing the talented villain in the NHL, Avery broke far away from his on-ice character in the off-season, and Ice Capades takes the reader inside the other unexpected and unprecedented roles that Avery inhabited- Vogue intern, fashion model, advertising executive, restauranteur, gay rights advocate, and many more.

Love him or hate him, Sean Avery changed the way professional hockey is played today. Rollickingly honest and compelling throughout, Ice Capades transcends the "sports book" genre and offers a rare, unvarnished glimpse into the world of 21st century hockey through the eyes of one of its most original and memorable players.

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Title: A Karate Story
Author(s): Seamus O'Dowd

Published: 11 March 2016
Publisher: Nintai Publications
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction


A Karate Story - Thirty years in the Making is the autobiography of Seamus O'Dowd. The book chronicles his journey, over a period of thirty years, from complete novice to a high-ranking and respected international karate instructor. Simple, humorous and heartwarming, the book will inspire and entertain martial artists of all levels.

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Title: Access All Areas
Author(s): Scott Ian

Language: English
Published: 12 December 2017
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306825231
Extension: EPUB
Size: 23 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Nonfiction


Entertaining, crazy, and hilarious stories from Scott Ian of Anthrax
Scott Ian, famous for cofounding legendary thrash metal band Anthrax and only slightly less so for his iconic beard, has done and seen a lot in his decades of touring. Those of you who have read Scott's memoir I'm the Man may know the history of the band, but Access All Areas divulges all the zany, bizarre, funny, and captivating tales of what went on when the band wasn't busy crafting chart-topping albums.
In his more than thirty years immersed in the hard rock scene, Scott has witnessed haunting acts of depravity backstage, punched a legendary musician, been a bouncer at an exclusive night club, guest-starred with Anthrax on Married with Children, invaded a fellow rock star's home, played poker professionally, gone on a non-date with a certain material girl, appeared on The Walking Dead, and much more.
Access All Areas allows its readers to do just that. With humor, candor, hindsight, and writing chops that would make Stephen King jealous (nope, not even on Bizarro world), Scott Ian takes his fans along for the ride at all the parties, hot spots, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans they will never hear about from anyone else. And none of it would have happened without a bit of divine inspiration from KISS. (No, seriously. Read chapter two.) Best of all, Scott seemingly lacks the ability to be embarrassed, making Access All Areas howlingly funny, self-deprecating, and every bit as brash and brazen as one would expect from one of the original architects of speed metal.

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Title: Endurance
Author(s): Scott Kelly

Language: English
Published: 17 October 2017
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Science, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Science, Nonfiction


NATIONAL BEST SELLER
A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station-a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.
The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both life-threatening and mundane: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk; and the still more haunting threat of being unable to help should tragedy strike at home-an agonizing situation Kelly faced when, on a previous mission, his twin brother's wife, American Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was shot while he still had two months in space.
Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his belief that Mars will be the next, ultimately challenging, step in spaceflight.
In Endurance, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the infinite wonder of the galaxy.

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Title: Hank and Jim
Author(s): Scott Eyman

Published: 24 October 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781501102189
Extension: EPUB
Size: 59 MB
Subjects: Art, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Entertainment
Categories: Art, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Entertainment


"[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography" (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, two Hollywood legends who maintained a close relationship that endured all of life's twists and turns.
Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years, but they became friends when they were unknown. They roomed together as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they were roommates again. Between them they made such classic films as The Gbangs of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window.

They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things. But their friendship also endured despite their differences: Fonda was a liberal Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican. Fonda was a ladies' man who was married five times; Stewart remained married to the same woman for forty-five years. Both men volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy.

For his "breezy, entertaining" ( Publishers Weekly) Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men-in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. This is not just another Hollywood story, but "a fascinating...richly documented biography" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else.

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Title: Greene on Capri
Author(s): Shirley Hazzard

Language: English
Published: 07 February 2000
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374527778
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
Categories: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction


The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island.
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.
For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, and Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In Greene on Capri, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work and talk, and the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.


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Title: Terminus
Author(s): Shirley Fitzgerald

Language: English
Published: 22 January 2018
Publisher: Ventura Press
ISBN: 9781925384352
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction


For over thirty years the Terminus Hotel had stood dilapidated and abandoned on the corner of Harris and John Streets in Pyrmont - shrouded in mystery and a heavy coat of ivy, and the memories of its publicans and customers long faded.

Told with fascinating insight and rich detail, historian and author Shirley Fitzgerald uncovers for the first time the stories, secrets and long-forgotten characters from what was once regarded as the toughest pub in Sydney - and today has been brought back to life and reopened as a heritage gastropub for locals and visitors alike.

First built in 1863, the Terminus evolved from local meeting place to workers pub, through very different liquor laws that allowed children to be served, and finally to its last trading years in the 1970s and 80s, where the clientele comprised of hardened merchant seamen and wharfies, biker gangs and curious punters who were served by topless, tattooed barmaids and entertained by rock bands.

Revealing its changing personality through photographs and interviews, Terminus: The Pub that Sydney Forgot offers a beautiful and captivating social history of Pyrmont through the lens of one pub, now open for the enjoyment of a new generation of patrons to make their own history.

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Title: Womenfolks
Author(s): Abbott, Shirley;

Published: 15 March 2017
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781682260234
Pages: 235
Extension: PDF
Size: 13 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sociology, Women's Studies, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sociology, Women's Studies, Nonfiction


A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history. Shirley Abbott gives us the gritty, independent women of the backwoods, the South's true heroines, whose hardscrabble world is one of red dirt and hard work-a far cry from the hoopskirts and magnolias of southern lore. As honest, vibrant, and remarkable as the women whose stories illuminate these pages, Womenfolks draws a vivid portrait of a rural culture beset by poverty and sustained by deeply rooted traditions. In her new preface to this edition, Abbott assesses what has changed-and what may never change-about the burdens of southern history and expresses her hope that the better angels of our nature may prevail in our still-new century.

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Title: The Elephant Chaser's Daughter
Author(s): Shilpa Raj

Published: 20 September 2017
Publisher: Shilpa Raj
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction


When you are a female born into a poor Indian family, the odds are already stacked greatly against you.Saved by her grandmother from being killed at birth for being a female and abandoned by her mother at a young age, Shilpa Raj faces the formidable constraints placed on her by her family, and the barbs of village elders bound by hundreds of years of oppressive practices and customs that subjugate women in rural India.At the age of four, Shilpa's life veers drastically from that of her family's when she gets selected to study in a free boarding college run by a philanthropist for children from underprivileged homes. While her distraught mother fights to not give the care of her child up to a total stranger, her father, then a poor, illiterate bootlegger, stubbornly stands by his decision despite being warned by the elders in the village to not trust the generous ways of the rich. And thus begins Shilpa's story, both within and outside her family to which she is bound by blood but pulled away by their separate dreams for her.Shilpa's desire to embrace modernity and pursue education for a professional career brings her in conflict with the wishes of her family as they pressure her to marry her uncle and remain with them in the village. In her struggle to find her true identity, she tries to answer to the question, "In which world do I belong?"Pulled in opposite directions, and torn between despair and dreams, Shilpa finally makes a choice for her escape. But is she strong enough to stand up to the people she loves, and pursue what she wants? And just when Shilpa finally feels she's found her footing, an unforeseen death under mysterious circumstances shatters whatever stability remains in her life.The Elephant Chaser's Daughter chronicles the lives of three generations of her family and vividly describes her attempt to transcend what had been the destiny of untouchables - members belonging to the lowest strata of a rigid, stereotypical tradition-bound Indian society for centuries in India. Shilpa digs into her own past and that of her community's with the diligent curiosity of a journalist and the passion of a riveting story-teller.At its heart, The Elephant Chaser's Daughter is about hope, when all seems lost. The human drama captured in this memoir is nothing short of amazing. No young woman from a poor untouchable family has ever written a memoir or given a first-hand perspective of what it is to be a part of the social underclass in modern-day India.Written in an honest, descriptive style, The Elephant Chaser's Daughter flows fast, capturing in its path everything about her family's difficult lifestyle, its age-old customs and of violence and suffering, and most importantly, about herself. This inspiring memoir tells an insightful .story about a forgotten people, unnoticed and uncared for. Through the voice of this brave young author, you can hear them cry, laugh, and tell their separate stories.

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Title: No Room for Small Dreams
Author(s): Shimon Peres

Language: English
Published: 12 September 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062561442
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction


In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new state as prime minister, president, foreign minister, and the head of several other ministries. He was central to the establishment of the Israeli Defense Forces and the defense industry that would provide the young state with a robust deterrent power. He was crucial to launching Israel's nuclear energy program and to the creation of its high-tech "Start-up Nation" revolution. His refusal to surrender to conventional wisdom and political norms helped save the Israeli economy and prompted some of the most daring military operations in history, among them the legendary Operation Entebbe. And yet, as important as his role in creating and deploying Israel's armed forces was, his stunning transition from hawk to dove-with its accompanying unwavering commitment to peace-made him one of the globe's most recognized, honored, and admired statesmen.
In this, his final work, finished only weeks before his passing, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision maker and eyewitness. Told with the frankness of someone aware this would likely be his final statement, No Room for Small Dreams spans decades and events, but as much as it is about what happened, it is about why it happened. Examining pivotal moments in Israel's rise, Peres explores what makes for a great leader, how to make hard choices in a climate of uncertainty and distress, the challenges of balancing principles with policies, and the liberating nature of imagination and unpredicted innovation. In doing so, he not only charts a better path forward for his beloved country but provides deep and universal wisdom for younger generations who seek to lead-be it in politics, business, or the broader service of making our planet a safer, more peaceful, and just place.


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Title: Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation
Author(s): Sheryl Persson

Language: English
Published: 21 April 2010
Publisher: Exisle Publishing Pty Ltd
ISBN: 9781921497063
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Medical/Infectious Diseases
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Research, Nonfiction


Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation is a highly accessible, engaging look at modern medicine. Since ancient times, mankind has searched for ways to defeat disease. It has only been in the last 200 years that scientists have made major inroads in medical science, and as a result, many, many lives have been, and continue to be, saved.
From intense rivalries and vanity to bitter jealousies and subterfuge, Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation documents the personal tales of medical discovery in the twentieth century.
The anecdotes are lively, and include mini-biographies of some extraordinary individuals who have defined modern medicine, from Edward Jenner to Louis Pasteur to Jonas Salk to Gertrude Elion. The stories behind the miracle discoveries are truly fascinating; it is intriguing to witness human frailty interfering in even the noblest of causes, and to understand if these great minds had been driven by altruism, ambition and ego or by the thrill of scientific discovery for its own sake.
Since ancient times the search for cures for the great scourges that have afflicted human kind has been an ongoing quest, but it is only within the last 200 years that major breakthroughs have occurred and the development of modern medicine has accelerated. The stories behind these great cures are those of rivalries, jealousies, public humiliation, dedication, subterfuge, and great personal struggles.
Often these medical advances have truly changed the world. For example, when Edward Jenner developed the concept of vaccination, and with it the cure for smallpox, he found a way to defeat a disease that had affected half a billion people - more than all those affected by wars and other epidemics combined.
In Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation we look at the compelling stories of the men and women, innovations and accidents that have led to diseases from polio to syphilis, the black plague to diabetes, tuberculosis to leukaemia no longer being the death sentence they once were. We also sound a note of warning - for some of these diseases are fighting back and in the future may once again take their toll on the world's population.


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Title: A Small Town Love Story--Colonial Beach, Virginia
Author(s): Sherryl Woods

Language: English
Published: 14 November 2017
Publisher: MIRA Books
ISBN: 9780778360988
Extension: EPUB
Size: 12 MB
Subjects: History, Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Travel, Nonfiction


Part memoir, part oral history, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods gives us a rare and intimate look at Colonial Beach, Virginia.
Rich in narrative history and local color, A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.
True to Woods's signature style of focusing on characters who are at the center of their communities, here she has woven together the stories of the very real people who helped shape this seaside Virginia town. She takes us back to the days of her own family gatherings, artfully capturing the unique essence of Colonial Beach and making us yearn for small-town life.
Woods's own memories frame the true stories she features-from the unique history of Colonial Beach itself to some firsthand accounts of the Oyster Wars that once consumed the community, to the stories of neighborhood merchants who made it a point to know just about every customer by name. From farmers to restauranteurs and hoteliers, from pastors to librarians and military folk, Woods's research and interviews give life to the personalities of a very special place.

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Title: Alone Together
Author(s): Sherry Turkle

Published: 07 November 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465010219
Pages: 379
Extension: PDF
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Psychology, Technology, Nonfiction
Categories: Family & Relationships, Psychology, Technology, Nonfiction


A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.

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