Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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High quality reprint of Snake Doctor, and Other Stories by Irvin S. Cobb.

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802195725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 918108028X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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»The Man and the Snake« is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, originally published in 1893. AMBROSE BIERCE [1842-1914] was an American author, journalist, and war veteran. He was one of the most influential journalists in the United States in the late 19th century and alongside his success as a horror writer he was hailed as a pioneer of realism. Among his most famous works are The Devil's Dictionary and the short story »An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.«

Author: R. Barker Bausell PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019975859X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Millions of people worldwide swear by such therapies as acupuncture, herbal cures, and homeopathic remedies. Indeed, complementary and alternative medicine is embraced by a broad spectrum of society, from ordinary people, to scientists and physicians, to celebrities such as Prince Charles and Oprah Winfrey. In the tradition of Michael Shermers Why People Believe Weird Things and Robert Parks's Voodoo Science, Barker Bausell provides an engaging look at the scientific evidence for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and at the logical, psychological, and physiological pitfalls that lead otherwise intelligent people--including researchers, physicians, and therapists--to endorse these cures. The books ultimate goal is to reveal not whether these therapies work--as Bausell explains, most do work, although weakly and temporarily--but whether they work for the reasons their proponents believe. Indeed, as Bausell reveals, it is the placebo effect that accounts for most of the positive results. He explores this remarkable phenomenon--the biological and chemical evidence for the placebo effect, how it works in the body, and why research on any therapy that does not factor in the placebo effect will inevitably produce false results. By contrast, as Bausell shows in an impressive survey of research from high-quality scientific journals and systematic reviews, studies employing credible placebo controls do not indicate positive effects for CAM therapies over and above those attributable to random chance. Here is not only an entertaining critique of the strangely zealous world of CAM belief and practice, but it also a first-rate introduction to how to correctly interpret scientific research of any sort. Readers will come away with a solid understanding of good vs. bad research practice and a healthy skepticism of claims about the latest miracle cure, be it St. John's Wort for depression or acupuncture for chronic pain.

Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481709348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Snake Doctor is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to make. The proper sacrifices were made, the money poured in and the filmmaker became an international success. But all does not remain sweetness n light. The shadow of the wizards influence remains a mental section that the filmakers son must deal with. It takes grit, determination and hard work to overcome the obstacles, but the deeds are done and we are led to believe that all will be well.

Author: Andrew T. Holycross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938850608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: J. Whitfield Gibbons
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820326528
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and nearly fifty distribution maps, Snakes of the Southeast is stuffed with both entertaining and detailed, in-depth information. Includes and explores size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation.

Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Teresa Rantao Ogle
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146918978X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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There was once a King, whose three beautiful princesses' names had very special meaning in Setswana, the language of the Batswana peoples of Southern Africa.

Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1630087777
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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“Harrow County is a masterful creation that lingers in the small moments of terror in our daily lives.”—Bloody Disgusting The Skinless Boy seeks to understand the mysteries of his past, Emmy investigates a haunted house, and a malevolent serpent sows madness and malice in the minds of the Holler’s residents. Collects issues #9–#12 of the hit series! * Collecting the third arc of the chilling series from Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook (The Sixth Gun)!