Biography and non-fiction prose

This book addresses the consequences of high agricultural pesticide use over the last few decades in the form of organophosphate poisoning.

Jack McKeon, who in 2003 became the oldest manager to ever lead a team to the World Series championship, proved that old doesn't mean you're over, and these stories offer a look into his storied career, from baseball's forgotten fields to the World Series.

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy.

The recent News Corporation scandal has catapulted Murdoch and his global media empire into the public eye as perhaps never before.

A farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.

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In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.

Childhood Obesity Prevention in Texas summarizes the information gathered at a workshop held February 5-6, 2009, in Austin, Texas.

"e;Lad: A Dog"e; is a 1919 novel by Albert Payson Terhune.

Wassily Kandinsky was a great modernist painter, and is considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement.

The present work is English Translation of an award winning Hindi book-Bharatiya Samaja Mein Nari Adarshon ka vikasa, written by late Pt.

"Jenseits Nirwana" ist die Autobiografie eines hellsichtigen Energieheilers.

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists.

This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Nationale Minderheiten und staatliche Minderheitenpolitik in Deutschland im 19.

This fourth edition brings together a diverse range of experts in nutrition-related areas to discuss recent thinking and discoveries in nutrition, especially in relation to topics that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional implementation.

Eva Per n remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Per n - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure.

Die Bände vier und fünf der »Sämtlichen Werke« enthalten mit »Siebzig verweht« die Tagebücher Jüngers aus den Jahren 1965 bis 1980, die wiederum mit der für ihn so charakteristischen Mischung aus Tagebuchnotaten, Briefen, Reflexionen und Kommentaren aufwarten.

Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy.

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.

Quickly and easilyfind anti-aging and health strategies on the Internet Even the most sophisticated Web surfer can become frustrated searching for specific health information on the Internet.

'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.

Though widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the World's leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the first book-length biography of Frank Little.

Before she was a renowned children's author, J.

In India, a woman is traditionally regarded as an honorable and dignified personality.

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish.

Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander'An enthralling read' THE TIMES'Heartbreaking and unforgettable, it is a complete triumph' BOSTON GLOBE'Beautifully written.

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Nutrition**Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical practice.

This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history.

Any effective response to an uncertain future will require independently thinking individuals working together.

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory.

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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are chronic diseases of long duration and generally slow progression, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes.

*A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023* ';Compelling.

The posthumous diagnosis of Winston Churchill as manic-depressive has been drawn entirely from biographical information, which, though significant to understanding his life and mind, has often been misused or misunderstood.

From Americas premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of Americas love affair with football.

'Terrific His love for his subjects both the food and the cook sings' Telegraph'Christ, could Bourdain weave words .

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer.

The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home *WINNER of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography*One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018'The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018Nora Krug grew up as a second-generation German after the end of the Second World War, struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country's recent past.

From the author of The Coach Approach: A story of lacrosse and leadership with a “powerful message [that] extends far beyond the athletic field” (Jon Gordon, Wall Street Journal–bestselling author of The Energy Bus).

Since the publication of his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead (b.

A fun and practical guide for adopting Paleo diet principles into your daily life The human body survived for more than 2 million years with the food found in nature: game meat, fish, vegetables, wild fruits, eggs, and nuts.

Oliver Cromwell, a pivotal and often contentious character, has long been the focus of many historical works that chart his meteoric rise from being a middle-aged farmer from East Anglia with no previous military experience, who rose to command the army and become one of England's greatest generals.