In Pins and Needles, Karen Brown explores love and loss between mother and child, husband and wife, close friends, and virtual strangers. In many of these stories, Brown shows how love emerges as infidelity--incongruous and disruptive, threatening the stability of daily life. In "She Fell to Her Knees," Nell inherits the neglected house in which her mother died years before, and begins an affair with the neighbor. The narrator of "Apparitions," who has recently returned the blind grandson she was raising to the care of his mother, invites a confused young man into her home. In "The...
In Pins and Needles, Karen Brown explores love and loss between mother and child, husband and wife, close friends, and virtual strangers. In many of t...
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine brings together case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through...
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. The...
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine brings together case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through...
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. The...
Have you ever seen odd shoes discarded on the side of the road? Where do they come from? Who left them there? If you are curious, there is one person who can help you. Sarah Schuster has a gift. She can tell you what happened to a person in the last few minutes before they lost their shoe. Sarah battles town bullies, watches out for a wayward ferret and enlists the help of a couple of local kids to track down a missing child.
Have you ever seen odd shoes discarded on the side of the road? Where do they come from? Who left them there? If you are curious, there is one person ...
Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposurevaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs.
In Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa, Karen Brown links the increase of rabies to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Her study shows that the most afflictedregions of South Africa have seen a dangerous rise in feral...
Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa...
The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman's long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this engrossing debut novel of psychological suspense. It's an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon after, that same little girl disappears from a backyard barbecue--and she is never seen again. Twenty...
The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman's long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this eng...
Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a phenol phytoalexin derived from grapes, berries, and other plants possessing a spectrum of pharmacologic properties. Resveratrol has been shown to modulate LDL levels, a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, to interfere with or inhibit oncogenesis and tumor proliferation in in vivo animal cancer models and in human tumor cells in vitro, to significantly extend the lifespan of the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and to produce...
Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a phenol phytoalexin derived from grapes, berries, and other plants possessing a spectrum of phar...
It's bedtime. Edward is carefully checking all the possible monster hiding places. Some of the toys in the room are looking a bit nervous. A children's picture book with a story told in rhyme, all about Edward's search. Full color illustrations throughout with interesting details that add to the suspense. What will Edward find?
It's bedtime. Edward is carefully checking all the possible monster hiding places. Some of the toys in the room are looking a bit nervous. A children'...
So often times, we can take what the world shows us and what others tell us to be the truth in our lives. Look Again gives us an opportunity to see ourselves in the light of God's love. As you journey on the path of your purpose and destiny, you come across the shiny things that look like they are real. Now is your chance to throw out the imitation of your spirit, and capture the true, real YOU Look Again: What the World Showed You is not How God Sees You
So often times, we can take what the world shows us and what others tell us to be the truth in our lives. Look Again gives us an opportunity to se...
