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As a child I really, really hated running, yet in 2011 I completed the Marathon des Sables. Charting my journey from non-runner to ultra-runner, this book follows my training from the first tentative steps, through my first marathon attempt, to a blow by blow account of the crushing lows and soaring...

In questa breve guida prenderemo in esame un fenomeno che si sta diffondendo nel web: le truffe cibernetiche ai danni degli utenti che frequentano la rete per fare sesso virtuale. Esso ha sempre rappresentato e rappresenta tutt'oggi un discorso al limite, un tabù sul punto di essere infranto, che...

Blickt man anders auf das durchlebte Zeitalter, wenn der Tod näher rückt? Wird das, was früher wichtig war, unwichtig? Wo hat man geirrt? Was hat man bewirken können – und was ist geblieben? Seit vielen Jahren führt ZEIT-Feuilletonchefin Iris Radisch Gespräche mit Schriftstellern und Philosophen...

The passenger steamer burst upon the early nineteenth century with all the suddenness and immediate widespread popularity of electronic communications in our own time. Leading the way was Henry Bell of Helensburgh. When he started to carry passengers down the Clyde in his little steamer Comet in 1812,...

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...

“Not George Washington” is a semi-autobiographical novel by P. G. Wodehouse, Much of this book is a lightly fictionalised account of Wodehouse's early career as a writer and journalist in London. For example, from 1904 to 1909 Wodehouse edited the "By the Way" column for the now-defunct The Globe newspaper. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Adding another volume, even if only a slim one, to the technical books already published requires some justification. Mine is, firstly, that plate theory is not well represented in the available elementary texts, and secondly that no existing text adequately covers modern applications. The present...

"Time travel has become an elusive concept in the present century, though it hasnt always been this way. There were once a people who stretched, not only their minds, but their bodies as well, across chasms of time."           Raven...

For a long time the morphologic diagnosis of diseases of the pancreas - which is the most hidden organ of the abdomen - by means of radiologic methods was inade­ quate. Diagnostic radiology of pancreatic diseases has been revolutionized by new cross-sectional methods such as computed tomography with...

First appearing in serial form in the publication Ainslee's Magazine, P.G. Wodehouse's novella The Gem Collector follows the exploits of stylish man about town Jimmy Pitt, who falls in with a fast crowd and unintentionally turns to a life of crime.

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Imaging of the Spine—an exhaustive, full-color reference—combines the ease of use of an atlas with the comprehensive coverage of a definitive reference work. Renowned experts Drs. Thomas P. Naidich, Mauricio Castillo, Charles Raybaud, James G. Smirniotopoulos, Soonmee Cha, and Spyros Kollias cover...