Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories
Author: Rochelle Larkin
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781596792517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated collection of fourteen classic stories.
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Author: Rochelle Larkin
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781596792517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated collection of fourteen classic stories.
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 76
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Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780907812432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Carter
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9781856970792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1529010543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing there was more.' James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'A study of diseases that we sometimes say are 'all in the mind', and an explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.' Tom Whipple, The Times Books of the Year In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and – more crucially – to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual cultures as they are by human biology. Inspired by a poignant encounter with the sleeping refugee children of Sweden, Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan travels the world to visit other communities who have also been subject to outbreaks of so-called ‘mystery’ illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia, O’Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking the question: who gets to define what is and what isn’t an illness? Reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry Marsh, The Sleeping Beauties is a moving and unforgettable scientific investigation with a very human face. 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it.' Sunday Times
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0525434143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at his very best.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacob Grimm
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 048627084X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes ten traditional fairy tales in their unabridged versions.
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1488023816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMERCEDES LACKEY'S magical A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series continues with a captivating new adventure… Heavy is the head—and the eyelids—of the princess who wears the crown… In Rosamund's realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs. For every princess there's a prince. The King has ultimate power. Stepmothers should never be trusted. And bad things come to those who break with Tradition…. But when Rosa is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Determined to escape and save her kingdom from imminent invasion, she agrees to become the subject of one of her stepmother's risky incantations—thus falling into a deep, deep sleep. When awakened by a touchy-feely stranger, Rosa must choose between Tradition and her future between a host of eligible princes and a handsome, fair-haired outsider. And learn the difference between being a princess and ruling as a Queen.