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    Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT - E-Book

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  • Homosteading at the 19Th Parallel

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    by David Gilmore ...
    A man from Arizona buys a piece of land in the middle of a lava field while vacationing in Hawaii and returns to the island to find a deeper sense of home and build his midlife crisis tropical dream house.In this assemblage of journal entries during the trying year of construction, the author tells some of the secrets of rural Hawaii, revealing her dark underbelly. Meet the crazy neighbors in Puna ... Read more

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  • Operation Blue Sapphire

    by David Gilmore ...
    "If word of this gets out, it could change the outcome of the war." Calcutta, 1943 – Blaine Phillips, an American War Department employee, goes to dinner with a French businessman he met at his tennis club. Phillips' body is found the next day, floating in a canal with a bullet in his skull. The British colonial police treat the murder as a random crime, but what they don't know is that Blaine ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging - E-Book

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  • Cities of Spain

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    Unlike France and England, Spain has not been dominated by its capital, and the focus of its history shifts from city to city over the centuries, illuminating different features of the country's past. Toledo, Cordoba, Seville and Madrid have at various times managed to establish a political and cultural supremacy, Cadiz and Barcelona dominated the economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. Salanca ... Read more

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  • The Last Leopard

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  • Curzon

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  • The Ruling Caste

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    A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign.Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Italy

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  • Audiobook

    The Pursuit of Italy

    A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

    by David Gilmour ...
    Narrated by Napoleon Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 26 min

    Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? These questions are asked and answered in a number of ways in this engaging, original consideration of the many histories that contribute to the brilliance—and weakness—of Italy today.David Gilmour's exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with ... Read more

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  • Misogyny

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    "Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."—Semonides, seventh century B.C.Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar—and to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this paradoxical response to women so widespread, so far-reaching, so all-pervasive? Misogyny, David D. Gilmore suggests, is ... Read more

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  • Monsters

    Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors

    The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while ... Read more

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