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The continuous and rapid improvement of tourism around the whole world and the increasing emigration of peoples from the developing countries to the "old continents" have changed the classical image of tropical diseases, which are now seen more frequently in temperate and highly developed...

Do Butterflies Know When It's Going To Rain? By R.L.Friend A chance meeting in the park with an old flame, Debbie, from way back, puts a spark into Bob Meadows mundane life. The meetings become more and more frequent with their respective grand children being the excuse for the visits to the...

"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...

In his debut novel, "Reichold Street," author R.L. Herron created a powerful coming-of-age tale that dealt with tough issues of family dysfunction, bullying, alcoholism, madness and war. It won a 2012 Readers Favorite Gold Medal, and Kirkus Reviews called it "Skillfully written and emotionally charged."In...

In his debut novel "Reichold Street," author R.L. Herron created a powerful coming-of-age story set in the turbulent 1960s era that deals with the tough societal issues of family dysfunction, alcoholism, suicide, madness and the horrors of the war in Vietnam. Endorsed by Compulsion Reads,...

In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier...

Synce is the long awaited sequel to R.L. Cannings first novel Syn. Synce continues the story of Holden and Paige as they struggle to balance their personal needs while making the necessary compromises to try and stay together. Synce explores common relationship situations and sexual fantasies that...

Hätte man noch vor wenigen Monaten einen Ausblick auf Java EE 7 gegeben, wären Buzz Words wie Multi-Tenancy und Cloud-Support die Aufhänger des Schwerpunkts gewesen. Mittlerweile ist die JSR 342 Expert Group allerdings ein wenig zurückgerudert und hat sich deutlich realistischere Ziele gesteckt....

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...

The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection. Included are: INTRODUCTION: ABOUT...

The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein, They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer, Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell, Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Don’t...

CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...

Golden Deer Classics proudly presents the Orientalism compilation which regroups major orientalist works (both paintings and writings). Orientalism is a term used by scholars in art history, literary, geography, and cultural studies for the depiction of Eastern, that is "Oriental" cultures,...

Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...