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  • 12, 20 & 5

    A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

    The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Autopsy of War

    A Personal History

    On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Watergate, 1973-1974

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Watergate, 1973–1974 explores America’s most dramatic constitutional crisis of the twentieth century: the investigation of the Watergate burglary. The scandal brought the nation’s political system to the brink of disaster: the US president had defied established norms of democracy, and his enemies and allies alike struggled to hold together the country’s fragile constitutional order.In the game, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection

    Forty Civil War Tales of Battle, Emancipation, Memory, and Union and Confederate Lives

    The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection assembles an expansive literary archive of the American Civil War and its contested afterlives. Across historical romance, adventure fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, juvenile literature, satire, regional realism, political commentary, and speculative imagination, the volume maps war as battlefield event, domestic crisis, and enduring cultural memory. ... Read more

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  • The Nation Must Awake

    My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

    Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with guns.” The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • UV-A

    Biological Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation with Emphasis on Human Responses to Longwave Ultraviolet

    by John Parrish ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The origin of this text was a request by industry and government to summarize the biological effects and to estimate the limits of safe exposure to longwave ul traviolet radiation. The specific issue was the safety of a small medium-pressure mercury arc designed to emit UV-A (NUVA-Lite, L. D. Caulk Co. , Milford, Delaware) for photopolymerization of resinous fillings used in dentistry. How- ever, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection

    Fiction, Memoirs, and Memory of America's Defining Conflict

    The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection assembles fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, historical reflection, adventure, regional writing, and political commentary around the conflict that remade the United States. Its range extends from starkly modern examinations of combat and moral uncertainty to romance, battlefield chronicle, satire, and popular historical tale. Together, these ... Read more

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  • Detroit Noir

    Series series Akashic Noir
    This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City "is one of the best in Akashic Books' noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology."— Reviewing the EvidenceFrom crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Far from the Shores of Galilee

    Stories for Seekers and Wanderers

    by John Parrish ...
    When God created the world and all that is in it, he brought the concept of time into eternity. But with the entrance of sin and death during the fall of mankind, another form of time entered as well. This type of time is not attached to eternity, but it is a counterfeit production of Satan in his attempt to be God, and he's offering the temporal-a deceiving place with no time.God's eternal life ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Manipulating Democracy

    Democratic Theory, Political Psychology, and Mass Media

    Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, election campaigns that exploit public fears and prejudices, a media that titillates rather than educates ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Short Bowel Syndrome

    Practical Approach to Management

    Short Bowel Syndrome: Practical Approach to Management is the first reference exclusively about the issues experienced by patients with a short bowel. It covers all aspects of normal and abnormal physiology, the presenting features, and outcomes, including metabolic problems, gallstones, and renal stones. It discusses both medical and surgical treatments, including intestinal transplantation.The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Origin and Evolution of Viruses

    New viral diseases are emerging continuously. Viruses adapt to new environments at astounding rates. Genetic variability of viruses jeopardizes vaccine efficacy. For many viruses mutants resistant to antiviral agents or host immune responses arise readily, for example, with HIV and influenza. These variations are all of utmost importance for human and animal health as they have prevented us from ... Read more

    $170.99 USD