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Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown when he was 19 and she was 18, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers. She shared...

When Roberto, an arrogant Peace Corps volunteer is sent into the Andes Mountains of Peru, he finds himself facing bus wrecks, Shining Path Communists, cocaine, drunken Indians, loneliness, suicide, disease and earthquakes in the small Sodom and Gomorrah village of Yungay.

This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences - from Martin Scorsese to Haruki Murakami - yet shows how Wong transcends them all.

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Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines (EBMG) is a handbook on the wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by the physician in everyday practice. The guidelines have two approaches: problem-based and disease-specific, and are linked to the best available evidence including Cochrane Reviews and DARE Abstracts. Other sources of evidence include clinical evidence, original articles and systematic reviews in clinical journals, abstracts in t...

Help poor writers improve their skills with Expressive Writing, an easy-to-use approach to teaching the basics of good writing. Expressive Writing focuses on the writing and the editing of basic sentences, paragraphs, and stories. Instructional strands include Mechanics, Sentence Writing, Paragraph and Story Writing, and Editing, making the program an ideal solution for students who:Have trouble getting startedHave problems knowing when to cap...

An investigative journalist's detailed examination of the life and death of Jesus. It amounts to a modern dramatization of the known facts which leads to some startling conclusions.

The old ship, Glory Tide, sails from San Francisco to a less than civilized lumber-camp in the Alaskan Territory. Among the cargo, smuggled whisky! With the help from a weather-worn captain and an English gentleman, a keen thinking entrepreneur embarks on a scheme to bring whisky to the northern region. In doing so, he sets in motion a collective chaos that unravels the delicate, social structure and, ultimately, binds the fortunes of all to a...

The old ship, Glory Tide, sails from San Francisco to a less than civilized lumber-camp in the Alaskan Territory. Among the cargo, smuggled whisky! With the help from a weather-worn captain and an English gentleman, a keen thinking entrepreneur embarks on a scheme to bring whisky to the northern region. In doing so, he sets in motion a collective chaos that unravels the delicate, social structure and, ultimately, binds the fortunes of all to a...

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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing forest crime, providing a theoretical foundation for understanding the problem as well as basic statistical analyses and practical policy prescriptions. It suggests specific policy interventions aimed at curbing illegal logging and identifying solutions to forest crime. You'll find thematic analyses of illegal logging at the global level as well as case studies from both the local and ...

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The Rough Side/The Soft Side explores one woman's battle with depression, failure & self-hatred. Step by step, The Rough Side/The Soft Side details how she overcame the demons that drove her insane. There is no knight in shinning armor at the end, but no doubt there is a happy ending.

The Bingo Farm grabs you by the funny bone and won't let go. We've all been in or exposed to the situations that unfold through these hilarious pages. If that impossible goal is beyond our reach, so what. The unattainable can still be a rib-tickling journey. Follow this desperate family as they try to bring mom back to reality. Will Doctor Dwell be able to undo the harm that this everyday addiction has brought to all? Switch gears as you searc...

The Bingo Farm grabs you by the funny bone and won't let go. We've all been in or exposed to the situations that unfold through these hilarious pages. If that impossible goal is beyond our reach, so what. The unattainable can still be a rib-tickling journey. Follow this desperate family as they try to bring mom back to reality. Will Doctor Dwell be able to undo the harm that this everyday addiction has brought to all? Switch gears as you searc...

In The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything, eleven stories deliver a unique, sometimes tender, often laugh-out-loud glimpse into one man's evolution from a strict Catholic upbringing in Midwestern America to an experimental and unorthodox adulthood oceans away. Whether it's a nostalgic story of the first-time, drop-your-drawers physical of a terrified teenage boy, or the fanciful tale of his efforts to stump Dr. Ng's mysterious Chinese volum...

Close to the Light" is an expression of the life experiences with bi-polar disorder. The writings are a "dark" poetry that mirror the depressive and euphoric states of the disease. In doing so, it muses on the philosophy and meaning of life as the disease serves to intensify the host's inherent talents and internal reflections. "Life's lack of mercy screams for compassion. Death's compassion screams for life." -Marie Ann Black