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Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are giving up on themselves? Suicide, its motivations, characteristics, and psychology are explicated in these papers by the most experienced and renowned experts on the subject. A definitive volume, Essential Papers on Suicide features the work of Ernest Jones, Kate Friedlander, George Murphy, R. H. Wilkinson, S. Gass...

To further PasTest's Essential MCQs range, here is a book for medical students studying for their Obstetrics and Gynaecology exams. It offers three practice papers with mixed questions and revision checklists that cover all topics.

Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern Europe. In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gelis reconstructs the activities and attitudes of the midwives and mothers, and the sufferings they had to endure. He continues with an examination of the role of the Church, the herbalist and the mineral w...

A selection of 23 folk and traditional songs of Scotland arranged for voice with piano accompaniment, with guitar boxes.

* A triple perspective - the city and economy, the city and society, the city and power. * Includes chapters on race, ethnicity and the city, and on gender, space and power. * Unites political, economic and cultural perspectives. * Examples range from all over the world.

A systematic, proven approach to performing due diligence, with a uniquely comprehensive list of questions to be asked by "investors" buying a business.

Howard's fifth novel is the stoyr of a marriage that has lasted a decade and has settled into a comfortable and very pleasurable routine. Yet even the happiest relationship can be sabotaged easily--and quickly, too, if the wrong person should come along.

Journeying backward in time—from 1950 to 1926—this masterpiece of women's literary fiction presents an indelible portrait of a marriage.Moving backward in time from the '50s to the '20s, The Long View presents a revealing portrait of a marriage -- that of Antonia and Conrad Fleming. Told through Antonia's eyes, it is a gut-wrenching and extraordinary look at marriage -- both from the outside in and from present to pass.

After a successful career writing for radio, R.D. Wingfield turned his attention to fiction and created the character of D.I. Jack Frost, who has featured in the titles A Touch of Frost, Frost at Christmas, Night Frost, Hard Frost, Winter Frost and A Killing Frost. The series has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007.

In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly violent and destructive. Through an analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, Eder questions the view of nature as an object. Showing how nature is socially constructed, he presents a critique...

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The 21st Century Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary is an invaluable reference source for today's students, business people and travelers, providing essential information in an easy-to-use format. It is one of four books in the new 21st Century line of foreign dictionaries, which also includes: "Italian-English/English-Italian German-English/English-German French-English/English-French The dual format of these dictionaries eliminates t...

The 21st Century Italian-English/English-Italian Dictionary is an invaluable reference source for today's students, business people and travelers, providing essential information in an easy-to-use format. It is one of four books in the new 21st Century line of foreign dictionaries, which also includes:French-English/English-FrenchSpanish-English/English-SpanishGerman-English/English-GermanThe dual format of these dictionaries eliminates the ne...

Instructions for identifying 40 species of ducks, geese and swans.

An extensive and rewarding study of women writers -- the Beirut Decentrists". -- World Literature Today

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This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman, a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption, in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint. As alw...

Is the subject-matter of theology everything there is, considered in relation to the mystery of God as the source and life and destiny of all things? Or is it a particular district of experience and language and behaviour called 'religion'? The latter view, which makes religion something quite separate from politics, art, science, law and economics, is peculiar to modern Western culture. But, according to Professor Lash, the 'modern' world is ...

The Victorious Christ is the perfect guide for nonspecialists in search of a reliable and interesting exploration of the book of Revelation. The reader is invited to approach the text in a logical and nonthreatening fashion. After acquainting the reader with the book of Revelation and the basic questions, C. Freeman Sleeper deals with matters such as imagery and symbolism and the use of these images in other texts from the same period. He goes...

Here is the book that provides all the details for making Paris and the French Riviera an extremely rewarding adventure.