In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fongs television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a guinea pig. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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In a race down the Thames Detective Chief Inspector John Kerr is caught in a fight ot the death with two gold smugglers. The American wife of the British Defence Secretary is brutally murdered while walking her dog. A senior judge is executed in Middle Temple Lane. Blocked by 'affirmative inaction' at New Scotland Yard & threats from MI6 Kerr deploys a talented female operative undercover to force the truth.A dirty bomb attack proves the motive is hatred of the United States & the special relationship. But is this domestic extremism or the work of foreign spies? As attacks escalate Kerr confronts treachery & corruption from his own side & resorts to action as extreme as the dark forces turned against him. ...

How many times have you wanted to experiment with your eye makeup but didnt know where to begin? This book gives you multiple options for every mood & event you could ever dream of. Let acclaimed makeup artist Linda Mason take the mystery out of eye makeup by teaching you her secrets to more than fifty hot looks. Whether you are feeling flirtatious or funky glamorous or just natural Lindas easy steps clear diagrams & individual colour palettes break it all down to help you get the look you want. Youll be showing off your new lids in no time. Soon everyone will think you have your own personal makeup artist.. .but only you will know the truth! Originally from Sunderland in the northeast of England Linda Mason has been known since the late 1970s for her creative & exciting use of colour. She worked for Lacome before becoming the premier makeup artist at Helena Rubenstein & later worked on early runway collections for Jean-Paul Gaultier John Galliano Commes des Garcons & Giorgio Armani. In 1987 Linda started her cosmetics company Linda Mason Elements Inc followed by the opening of her The Art of Beauty shop/gallery in NYC. For more information visit: www.lindamason. com ...

A tale of terror unlike any other: The barren windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found strange fossils of unheard-of creatures carved stones tens of millions of years old & finally the unspeakable mind-twisting terror of the City of the Old Ones. ...

Solve the mind-boggling picture puzzles on every page using the three cool searching tools
- one to magnify one to find colours
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When The Stabbers sixth victim is found with his head nailed to the ground DI Andy Gilchrist knows his failed investigation is about to cost him his career. The windswept streets of St Andrews provide the setting for the grisly attacks of an unhinged serial killer. Six men have been brutally murdered all known wife beaters stabbed through the left eye. Suspended from the case & desperate to redeem his reputation Gilchrist embarks on a desperate hunt for the killer. Alone & on the wrong side of the law any mistake could be his last. ...

The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. London 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women & men
- pacifists objectors homosexuals
- conflict with his duties as a soldier & it is not long before his sense of himself fragments & breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before
- army psychiatrist William Rivers
- Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be.. . The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war & of those forced to live through it. A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings male & female soldiers & civilians". (A. S. Byatt Daily Telegraph). " Every bit as waveringly intense & intelligent as its predecessor". (Sunday Times). " Startlingly original.. .spellbinding". (Sunday Telegraph). " Gripping moving profoundly intelligent.. .bursting with energy & darkly funny". (Independent on Sunday). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham."



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This volume provides the definitive guide to Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) the psychotherapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro. EMDR is the most widely investigated treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder & many other applications are also being explored. To keep up with this growing body of knowledge the second edition has been revised to incorporate current neurobiological data findings from controlled clinical studies & literature on emerging clinical applications. Chapters provide background on EMDR's development theoretical constructs & possible underlying mechanisms & present updated protocols & procedures for working with adults & children with a range of presenting problems. Among the many clinical populations for whom the material in this volume has been seen as applicable are survivors of sexual abuse crime & combat as well as sufferers of phobias & other disorders. Detailed descriptions & transcripts guide the clinician through every stage of therapeutic treatment from client selection to the administration of EMDR & its integration within a comprehensive treatment plan. ...

The Curtain Walls safeguarding the kingdoms of Myrial tremble on the point of collapse. If they fall the world will fall with them. Its fate lies in the hands of the Shadowleague but they have been shaken to the core by the return of the renegade Amaurn. Claiming what he believes to be his rightful place
- at the head of the Shadowleague
- the man who long ago betrayed the Loremasters must first persuade them to follow him. He has already deposed the Achimandrite but now a greater challenge awaits
- & his sinister past is far from forgotten. In the kingdom of Callisiora in the mountain city of Tiarond those who managed to survive the vicious attach of the winged Ak Zahar remain trapped in the Temple. The new Hierarch Gilarra knows that time is fast running out for her & her people. Unaware of the great catastrophe that threatens to tear Myrial apart only a miracle can save them. THE EYE OF ETERNITY is the triumphant final volume in this magical fantasy trilogy. Find out more about this title & others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk


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The crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy the energy connected to the birth of our universe. But the last blurry image from the falling satellite captures a chilling sight: a frightening look into the future a view of a smoldering eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican a mysterious package arrives for the head of Pontifical ancient studies sent by a colleague who had vanished a decade earlier. It contains two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic & a tome bound in human skin. DNA testing reveals both are from Genghis Khan
- the long-dead Mongol king whose undiscovered tomb is rumoured to hold the vast treasures & knowledge of a lost ancient empire. Commander Gray Pierce & Sigma
- joined by a pair of Vatican historians
- race to uncover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire to a mystery bound in the roots of Christianity's origins & to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.


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