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Kieron Smith, boy
I had cousins at sea. One was in the Cadets. I was wanting to join. My maw did not want me to but my da said I could if I wanted, it was a good life and ye saved yer money, except if ye were daft and done silly things. He said it to me. I would just have to grow up first.  James Kelman’s triumph in Kieron Smith, boy is to bring us completely inside the head of a child and remind us what strange and beautiful things happen in there.  Here is the story of a boyhood in a large industrial city during a time of great social change. Kieron grows from age five to early adolescence amid the general trauma of everyday life—the death of a beloved grandparent, the move to a new home. A whole world is brilliantly realized: sectarian football matches; ferryboats on the river; the unfairness of being a younger brother; climbing drainpipes, trees, and roofs; dogs, cats, sex, and ghosts.  This is a powerful, often hilarious, startlingly direct evocation of childhood. .
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An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville
Janet March had a picture-perfect life-until she disappeared ..
No body, no cause of death, no physical evidence-and yet, after ten years, a murder conviction .. Janet March, the strikingly attractive artist and wife of corporate lawyer Perry March, had it all: two children she adored, a burgeoning career in the arts, supportive parents, and a dream house. What no one knew was that her husband led a destructive double life of secrets and lies. On August 16, 1996, Janet would finally file for divorce. But she never made it to that appointment-because on August 15, she vanished... Janet's disappearance incited a massive search and media frenzy, revealing Perry's true nature to the world. For ten years, her parents and Perry battled each other through the court system in what would become and international custody battle. Meanwhile, the Nashville Police Department investigated the case from every possible angle, with the eventual help of a shocking surprise witness. Though they couldn't find the body, determine the cause of death, or even reconstruct exactly what happened that fateful night, her parents and Nashville's first Cold Case Squad remained certain of one thing-they would find justice for Janet.
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The Washington Manual of Surgery: Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (Spiral Manual Series)
Revised and updated by residents and faculty of one of the world's top surgical training programs, The Washington Manual of Surgery, Fifth Edition provides concise guidelines and algorithms for diagnosis and management of surgical diseases. The book's pocket size and user-friendly outline format ensure fast access to information. This edition incorporates evidence-based medicine into each chapter, so readers can fully understand the reasoning behind the recommendations. Minimally invasive techniques, including endovascular, are incorporated into all relevant anatomical site and disease chapters. Coverage of vascular disease has been reorganized into three chapters: cerebrovascular disease, thoracoabdominal vascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease. .
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The Glasgow Style: Artists in the Decorative Arts, Circa 1900
The Glasgow style of decorative arts evolved in the 1890s at the Glasgow School of Art, from influences begun by the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements in Great Britain. It was characterized by the juxtaposion of elongated verticals and sensuous bright, light, feminine designs, such as the rose, butterfly, peacock, singing birds, circles, crescents, and teardrop shapes. The text explains the meanings of each motif. Biographies of 20 influential artists in the Glasgow style include Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert McNair, Margaret Macdonald, and Frances Macdonald, Their broad spectrum of designs, shown here in over 530 beautiful color photographs, covered walls, furniture, metalwork, jewelry, embroidery, textiles, dress, pottery, stained glass, and book illustration. Their goal was to support themselves by creating useful decorative arts that presented their new aesthetic. Today, Glasgow style decorative arts are avidly collected and cherished for their originality and handsome decor..
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Barren Ground
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Winning the Oil Endgame
Winning the Oil Endgame shows how a country can eliminate its need for oil over the next few decades Advanced energy efficiency and alternative fuels, such as modern biofuels and saved natural gas, already cost less than oil's market price, let alone its true cost to society. Displacing oil is therefore profitable and will be led by business, not public policy, with enormous gains available to early movers. Oil is integral to the major geopolitical, business and environmental issues of the 21st century. This new book by Amory Lovins shows, in practical detail, how much the conventional oil-dependent sectors have to gain by moving away from oil through innovation and new technology, in addition to the enormous benefits to be reaped by the rest of society..
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The Sheltered Life
"The Sheltered Life", writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance". It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly holds to past values enforced by a strict code of conduct, being overtaken by the new age of industrialization. We see in the families of the Archibalds and the Birdsongs - especially in the character of General Archibald, the quintessential Southern gentleman, and of the celebrated beauty Mrs. Eva Birdsong - how upholding these old Southern ideals denies any opportunity for growth and fulfillment. The only hope is in the General's impetuous young granddaughter, Jenny. By the end of the novel, however, she too has learned that beauty is to be most admired and that deception is moral and civilized - that it is good to tell lies if they make others feel better. Ellen Glasgow's career-long attempt to expose the cruelty of the "cult of beauty worship" and the "philosophy of evasive idealism" that she saw as prevalent in the South's conversations, manners, customs, and literature reaches its zenith in The Sheltered Life. First published in 1932, it was hailed by Alfred Kazin as Ellen Glasgow's "most moving and penetrating novel. Like Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, which it closely resembles in spirit, The Sheltered Life became a haunting study in social decomposition"..
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1982, Janine (Canongate Classics)
1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy. For Jock McLeish, being a Republican is something he has to cure himself of, every bit as much as his alcoholism and his Sado-Masochistic fantasizing, if he is to become a human being again. 1982, Janine explores themes of male need and inadequacy through the lonely, darkly comic, alcohol-fueled fantasies of its protagonist. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock..
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REIKI TOUCH FOR NURSES: Healing Through the Energy System
Reiki Touch for Nurses was written and founded by Debbie Glasgow RN, Certified Master Reiki Touch Practitioner /Instructor and expert in the field of the human energy system. All nurses interested in holistic or integrative healing should heed the wisdom presented here. Reiki is increasingly recognized as one of the most widely researched and applied techniques for relaxation and healing, both physiologically and spiritually. Nurses have traditionally been at the forefront in patient care and Reiki Touch emphasizes the value of this elegant approach to aid in healing. In this book you will learn about Reiki Touch for Nurses, a program exclusively designed for the bedside nurse as well as nurses in private practice. This new type of touch is non-invasive and widely accepted by hospitals, physicians, patients and family, as a standard of nursing practice and accepted in today's busy world. These energy Reiki Touch techniques used right at the patients bedside allow nurses in today's world to finally utilize their true talents and gifts. This integrative approach demonstrates an appropriate means of delivering touch in both public and private settings. You will learn how Reiki Touch can gently work to facilitate stress relief, pain reduction and general healing and how this can easily be incorporated into bedside care. Nurses need to learn to open up to the INNATE skill of touch, in order to enhance their profession and provide the element of CARE which needs to be brought back into the health care system. You will also learn detailed information about the Human Energy System. This system, up until now has been ignored by Western Medicine, even though it is just as important and vital to health and life as all the other systems , such as the cardiovascular, endocrine or respiratory system, etc. The Human Energy System is now making its way into major medical and nursing colleges alike because the human race if finally beginning to see the bridge between Eastern and Western medicine and how this can be used as an invaluable tool for healing. To understand energy medicine is vital in the understanding of Reiki Touch skills. You will have an understanding of some of the major concepts taught in the Reiki Touch Program which is exclusively for nurses. Reiki Touch for Nurses is where the mind, heart and hands meet and by learning these new practical and well accepted energy techniques, you can become the bridge of this complimentary therapy which decreases stress, helps alleviate pain, restores healing, while building a true sense of trust and caring compassion, which is so needed in today's busy world. This book is exciting and vital to nurses who want to re-awaken their commitment to nursing. It supports the calling to serve others from a place of joy and wholeness and allows nurses to enrich the practice of nursing and they blend energy healing with western medicine. You will learn how true healing is actually multidimensional. The mind, body, emotions and spirit all need a chance to heal..
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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer (British Literature Series)
POOR THINGS revises the story of FRANKENSTEIN by replacing the traditional "monster" with Bella Baxter--a young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of a child. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, POOR THINGS is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking contrast between the ambition of men and the knowledge of women..
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