H Dixon: 28 books

What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book presents a compelling account of recent and historical disasters, both natural and human-caused, drawing out common themes and providing a holistic understanding...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire - Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History - With A Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree And a Map and - Illustrations. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers,...

In medical writing brevity is the kiss of life. Nevertheless most articles are unnecessarily lengthy and publications continue to multiply. Pity the poor reader! A succession of unduly long articles is bad enough, but if each is followed by a plethora of references the effect is positively daunting....

What sells in the internet? Many think that anything sells on the internet. Unfortunately, that’s not quite so. There are tried and tested product formulas that are a surefire hit because they provide what is wanted or needed by a majority of the masses. And then there are the niche products...

Night Night: A short horror story of 3600 words. On Monday night Faye finds that her mattress is broken. She doesn’t know how it happened, it was fine the night before. When she buys a new mattress from a backstreet bed shop, awful things she could never have imagined begin to emerge....

A short horror story of 4200 words. When Dempsey accidentally kills her uncle she’s a little bit shocked to say the least, but she’s more shocked about the fact she’s gone into early labour. As she battles through contraction pains and wonders what to do with Uncle Dorchester’s...

This book revolves around trauma (specifically childhood trauma) and its impact on health, well-being, and self-esteem. It goes in depth about the emotions brought up as a result of trauma and the journey of recovering from the trauma through poetry.

Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with...

A piece of light-hearted dark fiction of 1800 words. At the Stonybridge Annual Scarecrow Festival, 13-year-old Henry Hubble learns that he shouldn’t count his chickens before his eggs have hatched and that not everything is as perfect as he’d thought it was in the rural close-knit village of Stonybridge, the place where he lives.

It is 1962, and the US Army Special Forces is expanding to confront the communist challenge in Southeast Asia. Sergeant Jake Campbell has come a long way from the sharecroppers house he grew up in near Nickelsville, Virginia. Just three years ago, he and a friend hitched a ride to Kingsport, Tennessee,...

A dark, psychological story of 1700 words. Janie is a troubled young woman who struggles with her own past and future when she discovers that her mother has terminal cancer. But what is it that Janie’s so scared of? And can Nan’s red rug save her?

The beautiful, aristocratic Karen Stannard had married Marty Lee. Too late she found, under his polished manner and his easy smile, a cold-blooded, calculating assassin. She found a man hunted by the women he had ruined and by the police he had defied. How trust can turn to terror, how love...

"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis­ cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of...

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion