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Ray Griffiths

The part of the brain most heavily associated with mental health, memory, emotion and mood is called the hippocampus; the biological name for the seahorse. It is the unusual seahorse-like shape of the hippocampus that has led to its evocative name. Just as the seahorse charms the depths of oceans, our own hippocampus, when supported and nurtured, can help to enchant our own lives. Worryingly, there are an increasing number of scientific papers linking problems with the hippocampus to depre...

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Ray Griffiths

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Personalized Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine for Healthcare Practitioners

What are the functions of mitochondria in the human body? Why might they stop working properly and what can happen as a result? How can personalized nutrition help to optimize mitochondrial function and prevent or address chronic conditions?This innovative book explores the incredibly complex biochemical roles of mitochondria in health and disease. When healthy, mitochondria provide us with ninety percent of our body's energy. When unhealthy, this can lead to many chronic and degen...

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Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Emma and Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Martha Griffith Browne

The Life of a Slave Girl—Women's Slave Narratives gathers an essential body of autobiographical testimony that exposes slavery's violence through the interwoven pressures of gender, family separation, sexual coercion, labor, faith, and the pursuit of freedom. Ranging from urgently personal recollection to reflective moral argument, these narratives employ documentary realism, spiritual meditation, domestic detail, and abolitionist rhetoric. Together, they enlarge the literary history of th...

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Tom Griffith

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Antony M. Ludovici

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Classics of World Literature

Translated by Antony M. Ludovici. With an Introduction by Ray Furness.The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Übermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth'. Th...

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Jim DeFelice, Ray Lambert

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Kaleo Griffith

AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFORGETTABLE NEW FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF D-DAYSeventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs of our time, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day.At five a.m. on June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert worked his way through a throng of ne...

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Don Winslow

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Ray Porter, Kaleo Griffith

“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” – Stephen King“Winslow, whose work includes a dozen of the finest crime novels written in the last 20 years, displays all of his strengths, including propulsive narration, compelling characters and a tight, staccato writing style, in 'Broken,' a collection of six remarkable novellas.” – Bruce De Silva, Associated PressNo matter how you come into this world, you come out broken ....

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Bev Aisbett

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Bev Aisbett, Miranda Nation

From bestselling author Bev Aisbett comes a proven, practical and simple workbook to help people manage their depression, with a month's worth of daily strategies and exercises for work and for home.When you're suffering from depression, sometimes it's as much as you can do to get out of bed, let alone read a book. But this just isn't any other book. This is a practical day-by-day workbook, with clear, simple daily building blocks and exercises designed to help pull you out of the ...

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Don Winslow

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Dennis Boutsikaris

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher StorerFrank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. An affable Italian with a love of people and life, he's a stand-up businessman, devoted father, and a beloved fixture in the community.He's also a hitman, a retired hitman. Back in the day when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast Mafia, he was known as Frankie Machin...

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Vanessa McCausland

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Emily Taheny

'Like the slow-moving river that flows through the story, this compelling mystery will creep up on you and pull you in.' Josephine MoonAn absorbing drama about broken dreams, first love and the mystery of a lost sister, for all fans of Hannah Richell and Kate Morton.'A cracking read' Maggie AldersonIs it more dangerous to forget ... or to remember?Phoebe's life has fallen apart and there's only one place left to go. Alone an...

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Adam Courtenay

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John Eastman

In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Sarah Island, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Sarah Island; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its ...

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Jack H. Lucas, D.K. Drum

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Lloyd James

Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima—with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020.On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater in World War II—Private Jack Lucas, who was only seventeen, and three other Marines engaged in a close-proximity firefight with Japanese soldiers. When two...

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Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney

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Bret Baier

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Three Days Series

From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II—the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war's endgame, including the D-Day invasion.November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearl...