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  • No Mean Feat

    by Mark Inglis ...
    How a man who lost both legs below the knee overcame the odds to achieve incredible academic, sporting and industrial success, including a Paralympic medal in cycling. Mark Inglis was only 23 when he became a double amputee. No Mean Feat describes how he and fellow climber Phil Doole were trapped in an ice cave near the summit of New Zealand's Mt Cook for 13 days with minimal equipment and little ... Read more

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  • Legs On Everest

    The Full Story of His Most Remarkable Adventure Yet

    by Mark Inglis ...
    The remarkable story of how a double amputee from New Zealand made it to the top of Mt Everest - and back down again.On 15 May 2006 double amputee Mark Inglis fulfilled a childhood ambition: to stand on the summit of the highest mountain in the world. Legs on Everest follows his preparation for the Everest attempt and shows that getting there is only half the journey - you have to get back down ... Read more

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  • Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Health and Psychosocial Perspectives

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies. Because of the success of ART, people 50 and older now make up a majority of people with HIV in high-income countries and other places where ART is accessible. The ... Read more

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  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. This edition reproduces more than 40 of Dan Beard's original drawings. - ;When A ... Read more

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  • Antenatal Consults: A Guide for Neonatologists and Paediatricians - E-Book

    This book informs the multidisciplinary team (including maternity staff, obstetricians and materno-foetal medicine specialists) which counsel parents expecting a foetus at risk. It contains concise chapters contributed by numerous neonatal specialists in Australia. It is also useful to Midwifery, Nursing and Allied Health staff that care for mothers and babies. The chapters cover the most common ... Read more

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  • A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (Mobi Classics)

    by Mark Twain ...
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's travelling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of ... Read more

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  • The Prince and the Pauper

    Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in the classic satiric comedy of mistaken identityThey are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference really is becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of roles…with ... Read more

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written. ... Read more

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  • The Prince and the Pauper

    by Mark Twain ...
    Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain’s classic “tale for young people of all ages” features two identical-looking boys—a prince and a pauper—who trade clothes and step into each other’s lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. As Christopher ... Read more

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  • Tales of a Wayside Inn

    The poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 20 miles from the poet's home in Cambridge, and a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College. The narrators are friends of the author who, though they were not named, were so plainly characterized as to be easily recognizable. Among those of wider fame are Ole Bull, the ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Mosses from an Old Manse

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess ... Read more

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