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Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides readers through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail.fail.

Wade Bryson is a former idiot who absolutely should have failed at life. It would have to be considered a miracle that the consequences of his poor decision-making did not permanently wreck his ability to achieve success. If Wade can do so much damage to his future and still come back and reach the level of success, than you can too. As the most unlikely successful man, it was his ability to ask for help and an incredibly open mind that contin...

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We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it …In his brilliant, bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson set off to explore the universe and the science of everything in it. In The Body, he turns his gaze inwards, to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us. As he guides us around the human body to discover how it functions, what ...

Fifteen key art historians and cultural critics redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on visual culture--a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art.

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Either the whisky goes or I go." These words were uttered by the author's great grandmother after a harrowing trip by riverboat and stagecoach to her new husband's ranch on the raw frontier of British Columbia's Cariboo country.This is a memoir about her great grandson's adventures and the hazards of herding cattle over unfamiliar territory into the huge alpine back-country of Empire Valley-BC's third largest ranch. Mack Bryson's entertaining ...

An honest answer to the question, Who is Santa? A fairy tale for your kids on how the tradition began and what the "Spirit of Christmas" is all about. When you give, you get! A tale of how one man's act of kindness was rewarded and how that gift was passed on to everyone on earth....

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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialog about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient relationship, a medicine that ought to be based on the totality of the human experience rather than on the reductive view of the patient as a person with a certain disease. Ken A. Bryson describes ...

Following the 2010 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, this magnificent set of slipcased books captures the grandness and lushness of the epic photographs of Andreas Gursky, one of the world's greatest living photographers. In these new works, Gursky demonstrates that a photographer can make or construct--rather than simply take--photographs about modern life and produce them on the scale of epic painting. Just as history painters of...

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The true story of a sliver fox and and a big 'ol bear who go on the most amazing adventures imaginable. The beautiful silver fox slyly steals the grizzled bear's heart and they never look back. Traipsing across the world and leaving in their path fond memories and beautiful stories. Children will fall in love with the characters, illustrations and spirit of this incredible tale.

The land on which Harmony Hall stands was surveyed in 1662 by Humphrey Haggett. In 1769 Enoch Magruder purchased a dwelling plantation which was called Battersea. During the time of his ownership the Georgian-style manor house was built. The Addison brothers rented the house from Magruder in 1792. Legend has it that after living there with their wives for a year they declared the place such a source of happiness that it should be named Harmony...