The miraculous triumphs of modern medicine—antibiotics, insulin, cancer cures, longer and better lives—are the fruits of its firm grounding in science.
THE ONLY COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS AUTHORFeatures exclusive interview content with relatives of RowlingWith nearly 150 full-color photographs - many published here for the first timeContains 5 maps and a Family Tree specially created for this bookJoanne "e;Jo"e; Rowling is known to readers the world over as J.
What sets this book apart from any other in the genre is not only the variety of federal criminal and intelligence cases or the posthumous homage paid to the author's father, a thirty-eight-year high-ranking veteran of the NYPD, but the raw and honest portrayal of being an FBI agent on a high-profile JJTF squad, of being part of an elite fraud unit for an Alphabet Agency overseas, and finally as part of an Internal Affairs Watchdog Unit on the SW Border engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Mexican cartels.
Sir John Laurence 'Jack' Longland (1905-1993) was one of the defining figures of British mountaineering and outdoor education in the twentieth century - a man whose influence reached from the highest mountains of the world to the classrooms, airwaves and policy rooms of post-war Britain.
«عائشة بنت أبي بكر» زوجُ النبيِّ وحلِيلَتُه، أم المؤمنين، بنت الأكرمين، بنت الصاحب الصديق، أجاد «العقاد» في عرض جوانب شخصيتها المتفرِّدة، فتجدها أنثى ككل النساء، يعتريها ما يعتريهنَّ من حُبٍّ ودَلال، وزوجة للنبي تَغارُ كمثيلاتها وتتشاكس مع زوجها، وتألفها أمًّا للمؤمنين، تعلمهم وترشدهم وتُبيِّن لهم ما خفي من سيرة الرسول الكريم، وتجدها الأديبة التي تُحسن الشِّعر، وتجدها المرأة التي يهمها شأن أمتها، فتشارك في الحياة العامة حين تقتضي الضرورة ذلك، ولا عجب في ذلك، فهذا شأن الإسلام في كل شيء؛ يصنع ويؤلف النماذج، فها هي زوج النبي تُقدم أروع الأمثلة للمرأة العربية ذات الحقوق المَصُونة، والآداب الرفيعة، والحياة الكريمة.
Jahson's Journey: The Boy Between Worlds is a deeply personal Jamaican memoir about identity, faith, survival, and the search for a more human way to live.
THE CARTOGRAPHER'S FRAMEWORKHow Engineered Belief Is Built—and How to See the BlueprintBy Rayford AquirreWhy do conspiracy theories spread faster than facts?
In this heartfelt account, Jenn shares the raw stories of her life from childhood trauma and teen pregnancy to overcoming devastating loss and embracing the chaos of living in a vintage bus with her family.
As members of a tiny ethnic minority in Indonesiathe world's largest Islamic nationChinese-Indonesian women face hurdles of race and gender that others would find insurmountable.
"e;His aim is true"e; — Greil MarcusFor more than a decade, readers of New York magazine and its Vulture website have been delighted—and occasionally outraged—by Bill Wyman's exhaustive and unapologetically opinionated rankings of the songs of some of the greatest artists in rock and pop history.
This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James.
Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria.
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.
The solipsistiThe solipsistic nature of the Western worldview means that primitive individualism trumps all other considerations, and generosity and empathy are actively discouraged, if needs be, eliminated, so empathy, munificent to profusion and kindness, becomes ostracised.
Kathy Wilburn—now Kathy Sanders—lost her two young grandsons in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, a tragedy that would forever alter her life.
Besides providing a wealth of contemporary factual information, diligently researched and presented in a remarkably lucid manner, this book is full of human interest: the braving of incredible dangers, the enduring of great hardships, and devastating storms; contacts with cannibals, beachcombers, and avaricious traders; polygamy, debauchery, and tribal wars, all portrayed with "e;you-were-there"e; vividness.
A History of Chinese Literature is THE classic introduction to Chinese literature, which has given to the world exquisite poetry and such classics as Monkey, The Analects of Confucius, the works of Chuang Tzu, and other writings over a time span of 2,500 or more years.
This biography shows how Black political leader Chris Hani's life and death were pivotal to ending apartheid and to establishing a democratic government in South Africa.
This memoir from a Japanese civilian placed with the army in World War II offers a rare glimpse of the Japanese experience and psychology during this desperate time.
This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge.
This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge.
As seen on Investigation Discovery: the story of killer husband and father Robert Peernock from the New York Times-bestselling author of Impossible Odds.
This eye-opening report is the product of a year-long investigation into how the legal system in Indian country fails some of America's most vulnerable citizens-and what is being done to begin to rectify an ongoing tragedy.
