![]() ![]() Later experimenters narrowed this search to the islets of Langerhans (a fancy name for clusters of specialized cells in the pancreas). This led to the idea that the pancreas was the site where “pancreatic substances” (insulin) were produced. In 1889, two German researchers, Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering, found that when the pancreas gland was removed from dogs, the animals developed symptoms of diabetes and died soon afterward. So how did this wonderful breakthrough blossom? Let’s travel back a little more than 100 years ago.… Harsh diets (some prescribed as little as 450 calories a day!) sometimes even caused patients to die of starvation. ![]() This could buy patients a few extra years but couldn’t save them. The most effective treatment was to put patients with diabetes on very strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake. However, if you have diabetes, no doubt you’re also a big fan of one particular 20 th-century discovery: insulin.īefore insulin was discovered in 1921, people with diabetes didn’t live for long there wasn’t much doctors could do for them. The modern age has given us some amazing technological advances-what we would do without the internet, our iPhones or high-speed travel?įor many people, surviving life without these things sounds rough. ![]() ![]() Since the dawn of time, we have searched for ways to make life easier for us. ![]()
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![]() Dead Wake follows Larson’s successful script of painstaking research, extensive and absorbing detail, and, most of all, suspenseful storytelling. He tackled a serial killer at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago in The Devil in the White City a catastrophic hurricane in Galveston in 1900 in Isaac’s Storm and, mostly recently, a chilling account of pre-World War II Nazi Germany with In the Garden of Beasts. Larson has written several bestsellers on eclectic topics over the past 15 years. Now we have Dead Wake, a dazzling account by noted narrative nonfiction writer Erik Larson. In addition to articles and survivors’ memoirs, at least a half-dozen books have been published since 2001 alone. ![]() Various milestones will be observed over the next three years, and May marks the 100th anniversary of the torpedoing and sinking of the luxury British passenger ship RMS Lusitania.Īlthough perhaps now a footnote story of the war before America’s entrance, the Lusitania has attracted considerable interest over the years. ![]() ![]() We are in the midst of the centennial commemoration of World War I, arguably the first total war and one that has had an enduring impact on our world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the other books authored by him are The Power of Now and A New Earth. He was working in London as a counselor and spiritual teacher. He devoted the next few years analyzing, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation drastically changed his life. This book will make for a riveting and engaging read for those who want to learn how to make the most of the present situation without worrying about what the future has in store for us!Įckhart Tolle was born in Germany and completed his education from Universities of London and Cambridge. The author also shows us how to quiet our thoughts and live in the moment. The author equips his readers with simple techniques and meditations to enter into and sustain an awakened sense of consciousness throughout life. This book extracts the essence from Eckhart's teachings in The Power of Now, showing the readers how to free themselves from thinking about the future and dwelling in the past. Icon image Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations. Practicing the Power of Now is a compilation of popular excerpts from the bestselling book, The Power of Now by one of the widely acclaimed spiritual teachers of our time, Eckhart Tolle. Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at. ![]() ![]() ![]() He might put it on yourelbow, or up by your biceps: these are basic, reflexive moves. ![]() I can, however, tell you a whole lot about whathe does with his other hand. ![]() My inability to recall that particular moment more precisely isdisappointing: the handshake is the threshold act, the beginning of politics.I've seen him do it two million times now, but I couldn't tell you how he doesit, the right-handed part of it-the strength, quality, duration of it, therudiments of pressing the flesh. I am small and not so dark, not very threatening to Caucasians I do notstrut my stuff. He was a big fellow, looking seriously pale on the streets of Harlem in deepsummer. Here's the first chapter of Klein's "Primary Colors." Judge for yourself. The similarities between the book and Clinton Administration are hard to ignore, and a film based on the book captures some of the surface qualities of the current White House. The novel is one of the most popular political books ever. But whatever criticism he received, he more than made up for it in book sales. "Newsweek" columnist Joe Klein finally emerged as the author and drew some ricocheting verbal fire. "Primary Colors" is an unblinking and clever look at a womanizing, doughnut-eating Southerner seeking the presidency, come hell or high water. ![]() And the kicker was, the author was Anonymous. (CNN) - It hit book store shelves with a thud heard all over Capitol Hill. CNN - Books: "Primary Colors" by Joe Klein - April 1, 1998 ![]() ![]() Of all her friends, he was the only one who still called Selena by her childhood nickname. ![]() Hey-you weren’t bad, Moon, Jake added, punching Selena lightly on the shoulder. Alison was pretty, with emerald eyes and long, straight black hair. The audience leapt to its feet, cheering loudly.Īll of these people came to see me, Selena thought in wonder. She joined hands with Alison Pearson and Jake Jacoby, and the line of actors-everyone in the play-bowed together. Then she straightened and turned to the other actors in the cast. She bowed deeply, her blond curls tumbling over her shoulders. Selena stepped to the front of the stage, smiling as she gazed out over the audience. Slowly the curtain came down, closing off the stage. He’ll never hurt you again." Selena Goodrich’s last words were almost a whisper. Someday I will be the only person in your audience. Though I see you every day, you don’t see me. Your blond hair is silvery like the moon’s rays.Įveryone admires you. Like the moon you are pale, beautiful, and mysterious. Then she stepped behind the door and waited. She tried not to hear the rhythmic sounds. She sat up in bed, her heart hammering in terror. She settled back on the bed, as lightning crashed and rain thundered against the Fear Street Woods behind her house.Īnd then she heard something over the noise of the storm. ![]() Maybe I should forget homework and go to bed early, she thought. ![]() A bolt of lightning sent long shadows across Selena’s room. ![]() ![]() ![]() The angel said that they contained a record of ancient inhabitants and the “source from whence they sprang.” Smith claimed he was prohibited from retrieving the gold record for another four years. Smith was told by Moroni how he had buried gold plates fourteen centuries earlier not far from the Smith farm near Palmyra, New York. ![]() Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, or Mormons), claimed that after both God the Father and Jesus Christ visited him in 1820, an angel named Moroni, an ancient Nephite warrior, visited him in the fall of 1823. ![]() ![]() ![]() This series starter will please teens who enjoy the ghostly tales and dark sarcasm of Neil Gaiman and Ransom Riggs." - School Library Journal "This pirate thriller starts off running and doesn't stop. If they are to have any hope of stopping Urcena's horrifying plans to destroy the fragile balance between living and dead, they will first have to survive long enough to locate the ghost of one of their own, who sacrificed himself to save the rest of the crew.ĭevon Taylor's cinematic and pulse-pounding duology comes to a thunderous conclusion in The Ghost Seekers. The soul keepers are broken, scattered, and barely clinging to existence without their ship or any way to collect or protect the souls of the newly dead. But at least that precious cargo is out of reach of the demon Urcena and her army of soul-devouring monsters. ![]() Every soul that ever died and was protected within its hold has been lost along with it. The Harbinger is lost, sunk to the bottom of an otherworldly sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newbies will need the first volume to understand this one, and fans are given only a momentary respite as the author continues his tradition of cliffhanger endings. Provocative questions about gender bias, racism, the meaning of war and the price of peace are thoughtfully threaded throughout a breathless, often violent plot peopled with heartbreakingly real characters. Meanwhile, Todd and Viola are being turned against each other, as each leader tries to persuade the teens that his/her cause is just. When the Mayor makes clear his distrust of women, who are impervious to the planet’s Noise germ, Mistress Coyle resurrects The Answer, a former terrorist group, which attempts to bomb the Mayor’s ruthless Askers into submission. ![]() Now Todd is forced to join the Mayor’s oppressive regime, while Viola is saved and then tutored by the female Healers, led by powerful Mistress Coyle. At the end of Book One, Todd and Viola found themselves at the mercy of Mayor Prentiss, with Viola near death. Ness delivers a leaner, meaner narrative in the highly anticipated sequel to The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008). ![]() ![]() ![]() Now DC Comics and Vertigo are proud to present an all-new vision of this landmark achievement. By the time theyd finished their work four years later, SWAMP THING by Alan Moore, Stephen R, Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch was universally recognized as one of the handful of titles that defined a new era of complexity and depth in modern graphic storytelling, and their run on the series remains one of the mediums most enduring masterpieces. In 1983, a revolutionary English writer joined a trio of trailblazing American artists to revitalize a longstanding comic book icon. ![]() Moores classic, critically acclaimed Swamp Thing stories are now collected with brand-new coloring in Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. comic book market with the revitalization of the horror comic book Swamp Thing. Book Synopsis Before the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. About the Book Swamp Thing created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. ![]() ![]() ![]() Owing to the author's independent-minded stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR. ![]() And these individual things have since become of concern to all, and their works, like apples picked while they are green, have ripened of themselves, mellowing gradually and growing richer in meaning. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. ![]() Pushkin and Chekhov, right up to the end of their lives, were absorbed in the current, specific tasks imposed on them by their vocation as writers, and in the course of fulfilling these tasks they lived their lives, quietly, treating both their lives and their work as private, individual matters, of no concern to anyone else. But rather than have an affair with Lara, Zhivago stays true to his wife Tonya and heads back home when the fighting is over. Laras husband Pasha has gone missing in the war and is presumed dead. Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky looked restlessly for the meaning of life, and prepared for death and balanced accounts. While serving in the war, Zhivago meets a nurse named Lara Antipova and falls in love with her. It isn’t that they didn’t think about these things, and to good effect, but to talk about such things seemed to them pretentious, presumptuous. What I have come to like best in the whole of Russian literature is the childlike Russian quality of Pushkin and Chekhov, their modest reticence in such high-sounding matters as the ultimate purpose of mankind or their own salvation. ![]() |