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An excerpt from this historical medical work reads, "A Careful study of the structure of the human body, its contours and conformations, together with the most agreeable and efficacious manner of applying massage to it, results in proving, either that the Creator made the body to be manipulated, or else that He put it into the heart of man to devise massage as a means of arousing under-action of nerve, muscle, and circulation Few there are who...

Louisa May Alcott was a 19th century American novelist. Her novels Little Women and Jo's Boys are her best-known works. Alcott became a strong feminist and abolitionist. In 1862-63 she worked as a nurse in the Union Hospital in Georgetown D C. A modern Mephistopheles is a story full of psychological tension and drama. It explores a poor failing writer's price for giving his devotion to another. The novel touches on the subjects of sexuality an...

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John Strange Winter was the pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (1856- 1911), an English novelist. She began by writing sentimental stories, chiefly about army life for various magazines. She became a prolific novelist, producing some sixty light and amusing books. An excerpt from A Seventh Child reads, "When I asked Mr. Devereux that question-" Why did you strike that lady? Did she hurt her head when she fell?" he behaved in the most...

In A Lantern of Love: A Novel in Three Parts Della MacLeod gives her reader a romance about an idealistic Southern girl who once lighted a lantern of love for a stranger. Other books by MacLeod include The Maiden Manifest and The Swan and the Mule.

This newest addition to the IXMarks series presents a clear, straightforward statement of the gospel, the third mark of a healthy church. What is the gospel? It seems like a simple question, yet it has been known to incite some heated responses, even in the church. How are we to formulate a clear, biblical understanding of the gospel? Tradition, reason, and experience all leave us ultimately disappointed. If we want answers, we must turn to th...

One of the best of the year...a compelling novella about a once-famous actress and her devoted manager who get much more publicity of an unfortunate sort when they inadvertently become embroiled with an act of biological terrorism with potentially world-changing results."-Gardner Dozois, Locus ****

Continues the epic saga based on Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western. Ages: 16+

Internet Auctions begins with the introduction of the basic settings, concepts, and processes that are the building blocks of auction research. It then focuses on the transition from pre-Internet auction research to more recent topics. Special attention is given to research opportunities as well as to experimental methods that can provide both laboratory and field data to answer important questions. Internet Auctions reviews recent empirical a...

A collection of writings by the "founding fathers" of sociology that provides an invaluable primary research resource for professors, students, and laypersons interested in the birth and growth of the social sciences. This book fills a void by assembling seminal writings from many original works that created the "science of society" - by Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, George Herbert Mead, Ferdinand Tönnies, Georg Si...

The relational and the developmental point of view have never been brought together in an adequate way. This up-to-date scholarly, yet practical, integration opens a new vista within relational psychoanalysis and pioneers a fresh approach in the psychoanalytic treatment of children and adolescents. It is a work of great and lasting value to the field."-Peter FonagyChild therapists practicing today are faced with the challenge of developing a c...

Every culture has its gods. According to Ingersoll, every culture has failed to develop properly in moral and spiritual ways, mainly because the gods of man were made by man. They originally appeared within our flawed minds, and therefore resemble their flawed creators. The Gods cannot "rescue" us when they, like us, are in a constant battle for recognition and supremacy, either among themselves or with the gods of other religions. This book w...

Helminth parasites are the major constraint in successful productivity of livestock industries, and the conundrum in human health. The all-pervasive evolution of anthelmintic resistance among veterinary parasites against virtually all available commercial drugs and the general endorsement of organic farming have posed serious impediments to the effective control of helminth infestations. A vigorous search for alternative measures during the pa...

Pursuing the idea for this booklet in the beginning, I thought it would be a good idea to be in possession of a handy book that can be kept in the kitchen as a quick reference guide to every day queries and cooking conversions. Since then, it has become a lot more than that, with plenty of interesting information and tips for all genders of the household. Whether hosting a formal dinner party or caring for your Koi Pond or attempting Do-It-You...

One day Susan called her mother, Sandy, to tell her something quizzical about her puppy. Tugger, a handsome and always hungry Irish Terrier, would eat anything he found before him, but, the family had discovered, he would not eat a pretzel - no way, no how! And so what began as a curious observation, became a family challenge . . . how to get Tugger to eat a pretzel. The family's attempts and Tugger's refusal led to a comical story in poetry f...

Is the shroud of Turin—an ancient linen bearing the mysterious image of a man, purported to be Jesus of Nazareth—the ingenious work of an artist, or the true shroud of Christ? For centuries, this question has perplexed and enticed the most brilliant minds. Now, in The Truth about the Shroud of Turin: Solving the Mystery, journalist Robert K. Wilcox investigates every aspect of the shroud’s history, from the ancient Egyptian weave of the cloth ...

It's 1940 and Polish Jews have been moved into ghettos. One woman has a chance to escape with her two young children to a nearby cafe. There a sympathetic Turk has identity papers for the three of them with false names, nationality and religion. They must pretend to be Moslem Turks with no knowledge of the religion or language, and live for years in the middle of a Nazi neighborhood. The boy's playmates are Hitler Youth and his baby brother is...

Partnoy writes an all-too prescient parable of how unregulated markets, greed, and unchecked ambition can wreak havoc on an economic system.

Für Freude am Urlaub sorgt die nordwestliche Ecke von Nordwestmecklenburg schon lange. Die alljährliche »Rapsodie« in leuchtendem Gelb, die nahtlos in den Zauber roten Mohns übergeht, kulturelle Kostbarkeiten, wie das barocke Schloss Bothmer bei Klütz oder steinzeitliche Grabsetzungen, treffen hier mit einer einzigartigen Küste zusammen. Herrliche Badestrände und gepflegte Promenaden, Steilufer ebenso wie geschützte Buchten und moderne Segelbo...

This book is a consolidation of two Bulletins of the U.S. Geological Survey. It consists of extensive alphabetical lists of Virginia and West Virginia place names (more than 12, 000 altogether) and assists the researcher in pinpointing a particular ancestor in a specific locality. Places listed include post villages, towns, counties, mountains, rivers, and other notable topographical features. Most places are identified in relation to a county...