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Walking Papers by Francesco Clark
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Francesco Clark

15 A Doctor’s Son “YOU SHOULD START A RESTAURANT,” MY BROTHER MIKE tells my mother. We’re all gathered around the family dining table one Thursday night—family night—feasting on crescentina, little ...
( Category: Business January 7,2023 )
Only Two Seats Left: the Incredible Contiki Story by John Anderson
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:John Anderson

16. UNCLE SAM BECKONS US By 1981, with the European operation well established and profitable, we were acutely aware that we had all our eggs in the one basket – ...
( Category: Business January 7,2023 )
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Thomas McNamee

He didn’t want my input. I felt like, You’re really missing something important not to take my input, because I’ve been in the kitchen, I’ve been in the dining room, ...
( Category: Culinary January 7,2023 )
Isaac Newton by Michael White
pdf | | 2010-07-17 | Author:Michael White

( Category: Scientists January 7,2023 )
A Caring Life by Keith Cox
epub |eng | 2022-03-23 | Author:Keith Cox

FRED HOLLOWS (1929–1993) Famous eye surgeon Fred Hollows had been diagnosed with renal cancer in the late ’80s and already had a kidney removed, but his prognosis had looked pretty ...
( Category: Medical January 7,2023 )
The Midwife's Sister by Christine Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Lee

Ronnie Early one evening in the late spring of 1962, as I was sitting with Joanna playing on the floor, there was a knock on the door. My father answered, ...
( Category: Medical January 7,2023 )
From Leeches to Slug Glue by Roopa Pai
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Roopa Pai [Pai, Roopa]

It was during the second cholera pandemic, which lasted from 1826 to 1837, that John Snow encountered the disease for the first time, in the coal-mining village of Killingworth. It ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 6,2023 )
Ripperology by Robin Odell
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Odell

1. The Cleveland Street scandal concerned an incident that occurred in July 1889, when police raided the male brothel at No. 19. A major cover-up ensued to protect, among others, ...
( Category: Journalists January 6,2023 )
Sarah's Last Wish by Eve Hillary
epub |eng | | Author:Eve Hillary

He mentioned nothing in his letter about Sarah's forced operation, the terror it still held for her, the serious blood loss she had sustained, the postoperative crisis, the pneumonia and ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 6,2023 )
The Heart of Caring by Mark Vonnegut
epub |eng | 2022-01-20 | Author:Mark Vonnegut

xxx Two days later my phone rings. “Mark, my other foot is swollen. An infection can’t jump from the left foot to the right, can it?” “Here’s the deal, Rick, ...
( Category: Culinary January 6,2023 )
Love Me Tender by Constance Debre
epub |eng | 2022-08-30 | Author:Constance Debre [Debré, Constance]

3 In April, I move to the Marais, metro Arts-et-Métiers. I'm getting to know lines 3 and 11. There's a Naturalia, a Marché U, a café, a tobacconist. A guy ...
( Category: Culinary January 6,2023 )
The Pill That Steals Lives--One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants by Katinka Blackford Newman
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Katinka Blackford Newman [Katinka Blackford Newman]

It all started in the mid-1990s when Professor Kirsch was approached by a bright young graduate student, Guy Sapirstein, with an idea to look at the extent to which antidepressants ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 6,2023 )
A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century by Jane Vandenburgh
epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Jane Vandenburgh

This is during the Time Period, as my daughter says, and it is probably as a corollary to the economic boom, when every other marriage in Berkeley, or at least ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 6,2023 )
An Unlikely Police Chief: From and To Jaisalmer House by Vohra B.L
epub |eng | 2022-10-01 | Author:Vohra, B.L. [Vohra, B.L.]

Chapter 6 Back to Delhi I n Delhi, I joined the BPR&D in May 1975. The office was in a rented building in Safdarjung Development Area. Though happy to be ...
( Category: Law Enforcement January 6,2023 )
Every Wolf's Howl by Barry Grills
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Barry Grills

* * * Late spring now. Taking advantage of the warmer weather, Lupus and I explore other parks in the city. On this particular day, we walk several blocks down ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 5,2023 )

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