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  • Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies

    by Mosaic Science, Rose George, Rhodri Marsden, Cynthia Graber, Neil Steinberg, Ian Birrell ...
    Bodyology: The Curious Science of the Human BodyEver wondered what it's really like to be struck by lightning — what happens to your skin, nerves, heart rhythm, and brain in a split second? What it means to lose your sense of smell (anosmia), why it can vanish after illness or injury, and what recovery can look like? Whether we'll ever find a genuine cure for baldness and hair loss? Or how a ... Read more

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  • Quantum Fields in Curved Space

    by N. D. Birrell, P. C. W. Davies ...
    Series series Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
    This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

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    Walking with Fay

    My Mother’s Uncharted Path into Dementia

    by Carolyn Birrell ...
    Narrated by Allison Hart ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    In 2012, Carolyn Birrell flew down to Georgia to kidnap her mother.Fay had been living by herself since her husband’s death in 2000 and clung fiercely to her independence. She went to church on Sundays, paid her bills on time, and volunteered at Vacation Bible School every summer. But at 79 years old, she’d begun showing escalating signs of early-stage dementia, each one making it harder for her ... Read more

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  • A Century of English Essays

    Reflections in Literary Time: A Journey Through English Essayistic Brilliance

    by Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Joseph Addison, William Caxton, Hilaire Belloc, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, William Hazlitt, Edmund Gosse, Alice Meynell, Richard Jefferies, Augustine Birrell, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thomas, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Austin Dobson, Francis Bacon, W. B. Yeats, G. K. Chesterton, Richard Steele, Grace Rhys ...
    A Century of English Essays, as its title presages, captures the bustling evolution of the English essay form across several hundred years. This anthology curates an impressive array of perspectives, themes, and literary styles, encapsulating the intellectual zeitgeist of their respective eras. The collection navigates through humor, philosophy, criticism, and narrative with ease, juxtaposing ... Read more

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  • Comparing Devolved Governance

    by D. Birrell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • New Songs from a Jade Terrace

    An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction

    Edited by Anne Birrell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
    This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Venus, Vanishing

    A Novel

    by Rebecca Birrell ...
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets The Safekeep in this “gripping, gorgeously written debut” (Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre)"A tour de force that will captivate and haunt readers, wrestling with questions of the role of art in times of oppression and the relationship of an artist to their finished work, with a pulsing thread of desire thrumming throughout. A taut, mesmerizing story.”—Kirkus ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Blind to Betrayal

    Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren't Being Fooled

    by Jennifer Freyd, Pamela Birrell ...
    One of the world's top experts on betrayal looks at why we often can't see it right in front of our facesIf the cover-up is worse than the crime, blindness to betrayal can be worse than the betrayal itself. Whether the betrayer is an unfaithful spouse, an abusive authority figure, an unfair boss, or a corrupt institution, we often refuse to see the truth order to protect ourselves. This book ... Read more

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    Venus, Vanishing

    A Novel

    by Rebecca Birrell ...
    Narrated by Lydia Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    "Narrator Lydia Wilson provides a gentle voice for Hannah, perfectly capturing her youthful innocence as she makes her way among women trying to survive on their own terms." —Kirkus“Gripping, gorgeously written.” —Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre“Extraordinary.” —Elizabeth O'Connor, author of Whale Fall“Vivid...Asking what it means to make art in an emergency.” —Eleano... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Guide to the Bayeux Tapestry

    by F. F. L. Birrell ...
    THE Bayeux Tapestry is probably the most famous and the most remarkable of mediæval embroideries. In it is given the complete story of a great exploit and one that must always be of particular interest to the English and French peoples—the story of the Norman Conquest. None of the main incidents leading up to the Conquest itself are omitted. The arrival of Harold in Normandy, his stay with William ... Read more

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  • Lifestyle Medicine

    Essential MCQs for Certification in Lifestyle Medicine

    by Ifeoma Monye, Adaeze Ifezulike, Karen Adamson, Fraser Birrell ...
    LIFESTYLE MEDICINEWritten by an interdisciplinary and multinational team of distinguished medical doctors and authors, Lifestyle Medicine presents a collection of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) designed to help prepare a new generation of clinicians with the necessary knowledge to practice lifestyle medicine safely and confidently. Ideal for anyone preparing for examinations in the new specialty ... Read more

    $58.00 USD

  • A History of Silence

    From the Renaissance to the Present Day

    by Alain Corbin ...
    Translated by Jean Birrell ...
    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD