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| Title: A Dinner of Herbs |
| By (author): John Verney |
| ISBN10-13: 158988132X : 9781589881327 |
| In 1943, after parachuting into Sardinia to raid a German airfield, John Verney and several of his comrades from the British irregular forces were captured and sent to a POW camp in Italys Abruzzo region. As the Allies attempted to retake the country, Verney and two others made their escape. For months, they survived on the generosity and bravery of the local Italians who fed them and kept them hidden in haylofts and mountain caves -- despite the scarcity of resources and the dangers they themselves faced by harboring English soldiers. Twenty years after the war, Verney revisited the scenes of his imprisonment and escape, and the result is both an enchanting evocation of Southern Italy and an exhilarating story of wartime daring. He recounts the ironic upsides of being a prisoner of war (for the first time in four long years, I was free to do entirely what I wanted, which was to read as much as possible and try to learn to draw and write) as well as the anxiety aroused by the possibility of attempting an escape. He describes the extremes of boredom, hunger, discomfort, and mutual irritation that he and his companions faced after their escape, and the immense capacity for tolerance and goodness that they discovered in each other -- and especially in the desperately poor Italian families who helped them. Verney writes with a deceptive ease and wit, which reveals a subtlety and a candor that make this book as penetrating as it is delightful. |
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Pages: 188
Size: 215x140mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - May 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Autobiography: historical, political & military : Memoirs : British & Irish history : 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 : 21st century history: from c 2000 - : Second World War : Warfare & defence |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 1 of: 94 |
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| Title: A Parkinson's Primer |
| Sub-title: An Indispensable Guide to Parkinson's Disease for Patients and Their Families |
| By (author): John M Vine |
| ISBN10-13: 1589881192 : 9781589881198 |
| Here is the book that John Vine and his wife, Joanne, wish they could have consulted when John was first diagnosed with Parkinsons disease -- a non-technical, personal guide written from the patients perspective. Relying on his experiences over the past 12 years, John writes knowledgeably about all aspects of the disease. John also interviewed other Parkinsons patients and their partners, whose stories and advice he includes throughout the book. |
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“John Vine says he wrote this book for people who have been newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Well, I was diagnosed 24 years ago, and I still learned something new on every page.” -- Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair Columnist & author of "Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide"
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“John Vine details, in a compelling and accessible way, his experience with Parkinson’s disease. His book is an extraordinary guide to living successfully with Parkinson’s, and a must read for all who want to better understand the condition. Although diagnosed with Parkinson’s, my father lived an active and productive life until his death at age 94. As the book makes clear, while each patient’s journey is unique, common approaches are indispensable in treating the symptoms of the disease.” -- Eric H Holder, Jr served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015
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“John Vine has written the best primer I’ve ever read for newly diagnosed Parkinson’s patients and their families. It helps them cope with the shock of diagnosis, gives them (jargon-free) the scientific basics they need to know, describes the symptoms they may experience (making clear that every case is different) and catalogs the resources available to navigate living with Parkinson’s. John humanizes the book by describing his own experience and that of 22 other patients and their partners. I’d urge every neurologist to have copies of Vine’s primer on hand to help new PD on their journey forward.” -- Morton Kondracke, author of "Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson’s Disease" & a member of the Founders' Council of the Michael J Fox Foundation
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“My husband has PD, and I devoured this book. It’s wise, wonderfully readable, and, above all, helpful. Since John Vine has PD, he speaks with great authority about the challenges, both physical and psychological. If you have Parkinson’s, live with someone who has it, or just know someone battling the disease, A Parkinson’s Primer is for you.” -- Lesley Stahl, award-winning television journalist on the CBS News program 60 Minutes
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“This is a remarkable book describing the personal experiences of many individuals, including the author, living with Parkinson’s disease. It captures the fact that although there are many possible symptoms in this disease, each person experiences different symptoms and copes with them in various ways. The thoughtful and insightful comments and coping strategies should be helpful for persons with PD, and their partners, regardless of the stage of the disease.” -- Stephen Grill, MD, Ph.D., Director of the Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders Center of Maryland
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“I wish we’d had John Vine’s book when my brother-in-law was diagnosed. The book is highly informative, unflinchingly honest, and reassuringly optimistic. It’s just what the doctor should have ordered.” -- Cokie Roberts, best-selling author and political commentator on ABC News and NPR
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Pages: 154
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - April 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Memoirs : Popular medicine & health : Coping with illness & specific conditions |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 2 of: 94 |
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| Title: Advancement of Learning |
| By (author): Francis Bacon |
| ISBN10-13: 096649136X : 9780966491364 |
| This seminal philosophical treatise, originally penned in 1605 and considered the first major philosophical work written in English, also offers the first description of science as a tool to improve the human condition. This breakthrough work of the English Renaissance hailed new times and new possibilities for the human species. Bacon catalogues the current state of learning, the obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for its revitalisation. Newly designed and reset as an inexpensive paperback, this edition makes available a work that has significantly defined the modern era. |
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Pages: 262
Size: 150x230mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - April 2001 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 : Philosophy of science |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 3 of: 94 |
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| Title: Along Those Lines |
| Sub-title: The Boundaries That Create Our World |
| By (author): Peter Cashwell |
| ISBN10-13: 1589880927 : 9781589880924 |
| After years of crossing borders in search of new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell's exploration of lines between states, between time zones, and between species led him to consider the lines that divide genders, seasons, musical genres, and just about every other aspect of human life. His conclusion: Most had something in common -- they were largely imaginary. Nonetheless, this a tour of the tangled world of delineation, attempts to address how we distinguish right from wrong, life from death, Democrat from Republican -- and how the lines between came to be. Part storyteller, part educator, and part wise guy, Cashwell is unafraid to take readers off the beaten path -- into the desert vistas of the Four Corners, the breeding ground of an endangered warbler, or the innards of a grand piano. Something amusing and/or insightful awaits at every stop. And he's not alone. The tricks and treats of the human instinct for drawing lines are revealed in interviews with experts of all sorts. Learn about the use of the panel border from a Hugo Award-winning comics creator. Trace the edge of extinction with the rediscoverer of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Get the truth about the strike zone from an umpire who holds a degree in physics. You will begin to see even the most familiar lines in a whole new way. |
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"Intellectual reveling at its finest." -- Booklist
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"A delightful and curious book about borders, boundaries, fences, and lines." -- Slate
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"A thoughtful and entertaining look at the demarcations in our lives." -- Times Dispatch
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Pages: 237
Size: 215x140mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - May 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literary essays : Humour : USA |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 4 of: 94 |
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| Title: American Places |
| Sub-title: A Writer's Pilgrimage to Sixteen of This Country's Most Visited & Cherished Sites |
| By (author): William Zinnser |
| ISBN10-13: 158988034X : 9781589880344 |
| Setting out in the spring of 1990 'to look for America', when patriotic travel was suddenly back in fashion, William Zinsser made first-time pilgrimages to some of America's most cherished and visited historic sites: Mount Rushmore, Rockefeller Center, Yellowstone National Park, Pearl Harbor, even the "corny and obvious" Niagara Falls. At these and his other iconic destinations, Zinsser unlearned clichéd assumptions and rediscovered fundamental truths about America. Originally published in 1992, AMERICAN PLACES and the ideals that Zinsser discovers these places represent will never go out of fashion. |
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Pages: 193
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - April 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Travel writing : Us America : USA |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 5 of: 94 |
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| Title: Anaconda in the Chandelier |
| Sub-title: Writings on China |
| By (author): Perry Link |
| ISBN10-13: 1589881982 : 9781589881983 |
| These acerbic essays, collected from Perry Linkâ s decades-long career as a noted Sinologist, reveal the depth of his attachment to China and his willingness to squarely face unpleasant truths about the many ways in which ordinary Chinese people have suffered from the self-serving, erratic, and often disastrous â leadershipâ of the Communist Party of China. Link's essays touch on politics, society, economy, literature, and art, but their primary focus is on the thoughts, feelings, and values of Chinese people. He lays out his values as he explains how, like many of his Chinese friends, he began with a naĂŻve attraction to socialist ideals only to eventually feel disgust at the cynical betrayal of not only those ideals but even garden-variety ethics. His writing probes the ways â comradesâ in the ruling regime have ruthlessly clung to and pursued the one value whose pre-eminence has never been in question: political power. The Anaconda in the Chandelier includes essays on Linkâ s â day jobâ interests in Chinese literature, popular culture, and language teaching at Princeton University. He also offers intellectual tribute to his teachersâ both classroom teachers and several whose writing taught him how to see beneath the surfaces of things. |
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Pages: 287
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - February 2025 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Travel writing : Us America : USA |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 11 |
| Title: 6 of: 94 |
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| Title: Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide |
| Sub-title: How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us |
| By (author): Warren Andiman |
| ISBN10-13: 1589881222 : 9781589881228 |
| To reproduce promiscuously and to wreak havoc wherever they can find a home, this is the raison dĂŞtre of viruses, writes Dr. Warren Andiman, an HIV/AIDS researcher who has been on the front lines battling infectious diseases for over forty years. In Animal Viruses and Humans: A Narrow Divide, Andiman traces the history of eight zoonotic virusesdeadly microbes that have made the leap directly from animals to human populations: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS); Swine influenza; Hantavirus; Monkeypox; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS); Rabies; Ebola; Henipaviruses (Nipah and Hendra). He also illustrates the labor intensive and fascinating detective work that infectious disease specialists must do to uncover the source of an outbreak. Andiman also looks to the future, envisioning the effects on zoonoses (diseases caused by zoonotic viruses) of climate change, microenvironmental damage, population shifts, and globalization. He reveals the steps that we can, and must, take to stem the spread of animal viruses, explaining, The zoonoses I've chosen to write about -- are meant to describe only a small sample of what is already out there but, more menacingly, what is inevitably on its way, in forms we can only imagine. |
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"A frighteningly fascinating reminder of just how closely connected human health and the planet’s ecosystems are."—Booklist
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"Andiman gives you a front row seat in the ongoing battle between man and disease . . . Gripping stories, filled with details that are in equal part delicious and disgusting, but always fascinating." —Lisa Sanders, MD, author of Every Patient Tells a Story and the New York Times Magazine "Diagnosis" column
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"Dr. Andiman was at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, so he knows as well as anyone the disrupting power of new viruses and their impact on human societies."— Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
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Pages: 217
Size: 215x140mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - May 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical) : Virology (non-medical) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 7 of: 94 |
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| Title: Ark |
| By (author): Elisabeth Sharp McKetta |
| ISBN10-13: 1589881796 : 9781589881792 |
| Arden thinks the world has ended when her parents decide to trade their large house (where she has her own purple bedroom with a window seat!) for a small backyard guesthouse, built like a wooden boat. The worst part: itâ s not big enough for their dog to come along. Things get even worse when her best friend moves away and a pandemic shuts school, leaving Ardenâ s family quarantined in very little space. Arden just wishes life would go back to normal. As neighbors leave town, shut themselves away, and get sick, their pets are left behind, and Arden becomes the safe-keeper of all the abandoned animals. When the pandemic touches home, Arden must use all her creativity and courage to help those she loves -- family, friends, and dogs! |
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Pages: 328
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - August 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical) : Virology (non-medical) |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 56 |
| Title: 8 of: 94 |
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| Title: As We Saw Them |
| Sub-title: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States |
| By (author): Masao Miyoshi |
| ISBN10-13: 1589880234 : 9781589880238 |
| In 1860 the empire of Japan sent 170 officials -- samurai and bureaucrats, inspectors and spies, half a dozen teenagers and one Confucian physician -- to tour the United States, the first such visit to America and the first trip anywhere abroad in two hundred years. Politics and curiosity, on both sides, mixed to create an amazing journey. Using the travellers' own journals of the trip and American accounts of the group's progress, historian and critic Masao Miyoshi relates the fascinating tale of entrenched assumptions, startling impressions, and bewildering conclusions. Miyoshi finds in this unique encounter an entertaining adventure story of discovery and a paradigm of the attitudes and judgements that have ever since shaped American and Japanese perceptions of one another. This revealing account of 'otherness' is still relevant today as we strive to understand peoples whom we think of as foreign. |
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Pages: 232
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - September 2006 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: International relations : Japan : USA |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 9 of: 94 |
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| Title: Awake with Asashoryu |
| Sub-title: and other essays |
| By (author): Elisabeth Sharp McKetta |
| ISBN10-13: 1589881664 : 9781589881662 |
| At the heart of every essay in Elisabeth Sharp McKettaâ s lively collection is the same question: How does one grow up without losing oneself? McKetta braids deceptively simple stories of her own life with the rich undercurrent of familiar childhood tales to reveal things both personal and universal and as close to the truth as possible. Whether she is spending sleepless nights watching the sumo wrestler Asashoryu with her father, settling into a new life in a fishing hamlet in Cornwall, struggling with a beloved and ultimately untrainable corgi named Goblin, or emerging from a night in the woods rethinking who she might be, McKettaâ s essays sparkle and twist round and aboutâ funny and insightful and compelling. |
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Pages: 184
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| Published: Paul Dry Books, Inc - May 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: International relations : Japan : USA |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 10 of: 94 |
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