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Overcoming the very real fear of disease, medicine and surgery, can be difficult * This is a self-help book for the anxious. * Fear of the unknown plays a large role in generating medical patients' anxieties. * In order to allay the fears of those who dread medical interventions, Adam Yamey shares his own experiences of suffering from a prostate problem, and undergoing the surgery required to resolve it. Sparing the reader the goriest detail...

What unites John Constable, Samuel Johnson, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, Peter Sellers, Henry Moore, Maxim Litvinov, General de Gaulle, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Masaryk, Agatha Christie, Jim Henson, Ian Flemming, and Erno Goldfinger? Find out by reading this book about Hampstead. For many centuries, this locale with fresh air, high above central London, has been attracting people from all walks of life. This book takes a new and origina...

This illustrated book explores an almost forgotten episode in the history of India's struggle to become independent, freed from being part of the British Empire. The events described in it took place largely in London between 1905 and 1910. They were centred on India House, a Victorian mansion in Highgate, a suburb of London, and were orchestrated by Shyamji Krishnavarma, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and other Indian freedom fighters. Adam Yamey'...

*This is a true tale of bombs, guns, lawyers, patriots, philosophers, revolutionaries, and scholars. It concerns a little known part of the history of India?s long struggle for independence. *A large Victorian house stands in a residential street in the north London suburb of Highgate. Between 1905 and 1910, it was known as ?India House?, and was a meeting place and hostel for Indian students, many of whom wished to help liberate India from ce...

DISCOVER GUJARAT, DAMAN, and DIUAlmost wherever you live, you are bound to have met members of the Gujarati diaspora. Yet, Gujarat in western India, where they originated, is hardly known or visited by foreign and Indian tourists.Adam Yamey?s richly illustrated book describes his travels through Gujarat and two former Portuguese colonies, Daman, and Diu, with his wife. Her knowledge of Gujarati allowed the travellers to speak with locals and g...

A book concerned with challenges faced by Jews in early 19th century Prussia. Until Hitler's rise to power, Breslau (now Wroc_aw) had one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany. In 1814, the author's ancestor Nathan Ginsberg was born in the city when Reform Judaism was in its ascendancy. In this book, his education is described in detail to illustrate the difficulties and decisions that Jews in Prussia had to face before members of his f...

Many Indians, including MK Gandhi (the future 'Mahatma'), moved from the subcontinent to South Africa, particularly during the 19th century. Until the 2nd Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899, relatively few, if any, South Africans travelled to India. This illustrated book is centred around the impressions that India, and in particular Bangalore, made on an observant Boer leader who was taken to India in 1901. Illustrated.

Adam YameyÕs informative travelogue offers a new and interesting look at Albania: its valiant people, its intriguing history, its wonderful landscapes, and its myriad attractions. The author, who first visited the country in 1984 when it was ruled by a Stalinist dictatorship, rediscovers Albania now that it has become a democracy. Profusely illustrated, Rediscovering Albania introduces one of EuropeÕs lesser-known countries.

Jakob Klein, who is desperately trying to earn enough to look after his young family, gets into bad trouble with the law and is thrown into jail, awaiting trial by the highest court in the land. His family have been forced to flee from their home in Rouxville, leaving him to an uncertain fate. Set in the wilds of southern Africa in the 1870s, this adventure is inspired by reality. Follow Jakob's fortunes and misfortunes in this exciting tale o...

Henry Bergmann (c1830-1866) was the earliest of my blood relatives to reach what is now South Africa, and one of the first Jews to settle there. He arrived in Cape Town in 1849, having set out from his birthplace in revolution-torn Bavaria several months earlier. Despite becoming very successful as a merchant in the frontier town of Aliwal North and his happy marriage to Jenny, the daughter of a Frankfurt banker, his life ended in tragedy. Fac...

The people of Albania achieved independence in 1912, having endured several centuries of Ottoman domination. After the First World War, they lived under a series of dictatorships beginning with that of King Zog. He was followed by Mussolini, and then by Hitler. They were 'liberated' by the Communist partisans at the end of the Second World War, only to be subjected to yet another dictatorship. This was led by Enver Hoxha. During his 30 year 'r...

Adam Yamey visited Yugoslavia frequently over a period of more than 20 years. He criss-crossed the country from north to south and east to west. During his travels, he stood in the footsteps of Archduke Ferdinand's assassin in Sarajevo and those of Emperor Diocletian in Split, ate Chinese food in Novi Sad and offal at Rtanj, and also played Scrabble with Yugoslavs all over Serbia. In this profusely illustrated, trail of memories, the author de...

ONLY read this book if nostalgia and fascinating tales of travel appeal to you. Adam Yamey's coming-of-age stories are set in three continents during the 1950s, 60s and '70s. They explore a wide selection of topics ranging from St John the Baptist's index finger to John F Kennedy's untimely death, from Archimedes bath to Pearl Harbor, from Mozart to Mussolini, and much more. The reader will encounter many celebrities including artists, economi...

Albanian communities have been in existence in Sicily for over 500 years. Albanians have been living in Sicily since the 15th century. They have preserved their language and and traditions that pre-date the arrival of the Ottomans in the Balkans. This volume is about the descendants of the Albanians who left their Balkan homelands when they were invaded by the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century. Known as the Arbëreshë in Sicily and the other pa...

Ants, bacon, collagen, and chlorine. These are not the first words that usually spring to mind when thinking about summers in Greece. The holidays that Adam Yamey spent in this country in the 1970s and 1980s with the professor and his wife were far from ordinary. This book provides an affectionate portrait of two remarkable people with whom the author spent many unconventional vacations. It also describes how the author travelled with them thr...

From Mosenthal to Mandela ... ... a FRESH look at the story of the Jews in South Africa . Jewish migration to South Africa began as a trickle at the beginning of the 19th century and became an exodus by its end. Always a minority in the European population of what eventually became South Africa, the Jews who emigrated there from Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries have played a disproportionately large role in the country's development. ...

**A new insight into the genesis of apartheid** Franz Ginsberg left Germany in 1880. He settled in South Africa as an 18-year-old photographer, escaping the restrictions on Jews, only to adopt a homeland with escalating restrictions on 'black' and other