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- Books Published May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Sub-Saharan Africa by Michael Charles Kew looks at the complex environment that allows liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) to thrive unlike anywhere else in the world. Kew’s presentation is very orderly,... Read More
“Wind and water and shoreline can’t be changed. We have to work with the elements as they are.” So writes longtime Buddhist practitioner and social worker Hill Anderson in "Stoneport", a sophisticated novel that explores the... Read More
Richard C. Hampton served as a Navy corpsman for over twenty-one years and was decorated for heroism during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is one of the courageous Americans who has seen the horrors of war and learned to heal from the... Read More
In 1986, Sara Shannon published Diet for the Atomic Age, which outlined the hazards of low-level radiation on human health. Since that time there have been many more nuclear power plants and nuclear waste sites constructed across the... Read More
In "Red Fox Knight", Osvaldo Faucher explores issues at the heart of human civilization: religion, class, and the search for meaning. Through two distinct but intertwined plots, the author shows readers the depths of religion’s ability... Read More
Phil Jourdan’s memoir, "Praise of Motherhood", is a small book that makes an enormous impact. Jourdan writes about his mother and their relationship, covering the territory from his teen years to his early twenties and her sudden,... Read More
The Japanese Chin dog at the center of this tale has a jet-setting lifestyle all readers will envy. Reminiscent of Eloise‘s Manhattan milieu, the book’s lavish and spirited design and illustrations more than make up for a mediocre... Read More