Lightning Flowers
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Lightning Flowers
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Author : Katherine E. Standefer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Lightning Flowers written by Katherine E. Standefer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.
Storm Front
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Author : John Sandford
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Storm Front written by John Sandford and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Fiction categories.
#1 New York Times Bestseller An ancient relic is unearthed during an archaeological dig. A Minnesota college professor is keeping a secret that could change the world’s history as we know it. For Virgil Flowers, the link between the two is inescapable—and his investigation, more dangerous and far-reaching than he can possibly imagine.
Eternal War God
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Author : Xing XingZhiHuo
language : en
Publisher: Funstory
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Eternal War God written by Xing XingZhiHuo and has been published by Funstory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Fiction categories.
This was a world where tens of thousands of clans were established, and the strong were revered! The youth carried the Absolute Beginning Holy Body and awakened 720 types of forbidden energies. He appeared out of nowhere and swept through everything in his path, invincible under the heavens! As he raised his cup to boil the world, the stars vanished as he laughed and talked!
The Jungle Book Volume 2 Last Of The Species
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Author : Mark L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
Release Date : 2013-08-14
The Jungle Book Volume 2 Last Of The Species written by Mark L. Miller and has been published by Zenescope Entertainment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-14 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The Isle of Kipling has known war between the animal tribes for generations. But when a pirate ship crashed to the island shore, the arrival of four infant survivors was deemed an omen to signify the end of the war. Divided up between the tribes in a fragile act of peace, the four children grew up separate form one another, not knowing of one another's existence. But years later, a simple run through the jungle for Mowglii and her adopted mother wolf accidently disrupted the peace. And eventually Mowglii's mother wolf was murdered by the ferocious tigher, Shere Kahn. As a result, Mowglii finally achieved vegenance by killing Shere Khan. Although Mowglii's act may have quenched her thirst for revenge, it has rekindled the fires of war. Now, the borders between the animal tribes are shattered, the jungle is unsettled, and war on Kipling Isle looms on the horizon.
The Margins
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Author : Michael Alan Peck
language : en
Publisher: Dinuhos Arts
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Margins written by Michael Alan Peck and has been published by Dinuhos Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Fiction categories.
“I think I did something. Something someone really bad was counting on me to do. And I think you helped me.” Ray-Anne Blair isn’t buying it. She just wants Paul Reid to forget about the imaginary place he says he needs to return to—and to stop calling her Rain. Everyone wants something. Jeremy Johns wants to do well at his job, but the new office is strange. So is his boss, Mr. Truitt. Annie Brucker wants to understand how she ended up back with her abusive ex. Zach, her son, wants to know if he should trust whatever it is that speaks to him from the darkness of his closet—something so heavy it makes the floorboards creak. Jonas Porter, Audra Farrelly, Po the silent monk, and Charlene Moseley want to know why their colleagues and prospective Journeymen have disappeared, though the answer might spell the end of all existence. Welcome to The Margins, a place that shouldn’t be—but is, thanks to Paul and his friends. They thought they’d won. But they played right into the hands of an evil that anticipated their heroic act. Now realms are crossing over, the universe is collapsing, and it’s up to those who created the danger to neutralize it. No one said it would be easy. No one’s sure it’s even possible. But this is where the difficult and the impossible abound. This is The Commons.
From Modernism To Postmodernism
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Author : Jennifer Ashton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-05
From Modernism To Postmodernism written by Jennifer Ashton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.
Beauty And Beast
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Author : Yuan Xi
language : en
Publisher: Funstory
Release Date : 2020-07-10
Beauty And Beast written by Yuan Xi and has been published by Funstory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-10 with Fiction categories.
Beautiful aunt has lived in my home, since then my waist has never relaxed...
Bulletin
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Author : University of Michigan. Museum of Art
language : en
Publisher: UM Libraries
Release Date : 1995
Bulletin written by University of Michigan. Museum of Art and has been published by UM Libraries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Archaeology categories.
Till Human Voices Wake Us
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Author : Victoria Goddard
language : en
Publisher: Underhill Books
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Till Human Voices Wake Us written by Victoria Goddard and has been published by Underhill Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Fiction categories.
Love and duty come in many guises ... When everything falls apart around Raphael, he starts over anew. As an immortal mage responsible for our world’s magic, this has happened more times than he cares to count. He no longer finds it exciting. In a modern London where magic hides around every corner, he awaits the end of the Great Game, a magical contest he is playing with the enchantress Circe. The Game’s prize is the world’s magic, and its price almost certainly Armageddon. Win or lose, Raphael is willing to sacrifice his power, his soul, and his life to prevent the end of the world. His heart doesn’t even enter his calculations. Three days before the crux of the Game his long-lost brother comes to find him—and along with unwelcoming memories brings a gift far more dangerous than any enemy: hope. Till Human Voices Wake Us is a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a story where love, like duty, like Raphael himself, has many unexpected faces. Keywords: contemporary fantasy, mythological retellings, literary fantasy, mythopoeic fantasy, Orpheus and Eurydice, Greek myths
All The Crooked Saints
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Author : Maggie Stiefvater
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2017-10-10
All The Crooked Saints written by Maggie Stiefvater and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one.Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo. They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.