James Harvey Young, "The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0691645310, 0691618305 | PDF | pages: 520 | 30.9 mb
James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s. Many predicted that the Pure Food and Drugs Act would be the end of harmful nostrums, but Young describes in colorful detail post-Act cases involving manufacturers and promoters of such products as Cuforhedake Brane-Fude, B. & M. "tuberculosis-curing" liniment, and the dangerous reducing pill Marmola. We meet, among others, the brothers Charles Frederick and Peter Kaadt, who treated diabetic patients with a mixture of vinegar and saltpeter; Louisiana state senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, who put on fabulous medicine shows as late as the 1950s promoting Hadacol and his own political career, and Adolphus Hohensee, whose lectures on nutrition provide a classic example of the continuing appeal of food faddism.
The Matilda Principle: Covert Strategies for Building Positive Teams in Difficult Environments, with Negative People and Stressful Workloads by Brad Desmond
English | March 1, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09WVL6N8B | 121 pages | EPUB | 0.72 Mb
The Matilda Principle offers a coaching approach that builds positive teams regardless of organisational culture. It builds trust, motivation and positivity without attracting attention and without rocking the boat. In other words, it is covert team building.
Keith L. Nelson, "The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam"
English | 2019 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 1421436205 | PDF | 17,5 mb
Originally published in 1995. In the early 1970s, largely as a result of the debilitating struggle in Vietnam, the United States began to reassess and redefine its basic approach to East-West relations. At the same time, the Soviet Union was awakening to the liabilities that a continuing and unregulated state of hostility would impose on its own internal and external agenda. Keith Nelson details the circumstances and traces the steps that led to the first significant accommodation and easing of tension between the superpowers during the Cold War.
The Keys to Kindness: How to be Kinder to Yourself, Others and the World by Claudia Hammond
English | May 2nd, 2023 | ISBN: 1838854444, 1838854452 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 2.25 MB
A deep-dive into kindness, the science behind it and how we can better build it into our lives, from the author of The Art of Rest
Paula Mejia, "The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy "
English | ISBN: 1628929502 | 2016 | 136 pages | PDF | 1010 KB
The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a tastemaking entity in the process. The Scottish band's notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, inevitably acting as socio-political commentary on tensions emergent in mid-1980s Britain. Through caustic clangs and feedback channeling the rage of the working-class who'd had enough,
The Hunt: the True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1802793496 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 1.17 MB
From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions.
James Marten, "The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0190681381 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 3.1 mb
While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult has varied by gender, class, religion, ethnicity, place, and economic need. As author James Marten explores in this Very Short Introduction, so too have the realities of childhood, each life shaped by factors such as education, expectation, and conflict (or lack thereof). Indeed, ancient Roman children lived very differently than those born of today's Generation Z.
The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
English | March 29, 2022 | ISBN: 0805243577 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2.15 Mb
A masterly analysis of the Book of Leviticus, the newest volume in the award-winning series of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible by "a celebrated biblical scholar, keen on weaving together traditional Jewish exegesis, psychoanalysis, and postmodern criticism" (The New York Times Book Review)
The Heart Reviver: A Comprehensive Guide on Cardiovascular Disease, Forms, Symptoms, Causes, Risk factors, Diagnosis, Treatment, Complications, Prevention, Prognosis and Living With this illness by Edwin Taylor
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BLLP4D4Z | 150 pages | EPUB | 0.82 Mb
The Heart Reviver is a thorough Guide to understanding and controlling all sorts of Cardiovascular Diseases as deep as it goes. This book includes detailed explanations of the Forms, Symptoms, Causes, Risk factors, Diagnosis, Tests, Treatment, Complications, Prevention, Prognosis, and Living With various Cardiovascular diseases/Conditions.
The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book: The Ancient Greek Influence on Modern Understanding (The Handy Answer Book Series) by Ed D'Angelo Ph.D.
English | September 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1578595568 | 368 pages | PDF | 7.59 Mb
Difficult philosophy made easy. The universe and our place in it, the meaning of life, the nature of justice and the good society, and the powers of reason. All these topics explored, questioned, and explained.