Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti’s essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today.Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbours — but that doesn’t stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can’t quite navigate.Benedetti misses his son, who is travelling in Europe, misplaces his groceries, and forgets to pick up his daughter at school. H...

Canadians visit chiropractors about 30 million times a year, and surveys show that patients are generally satisfied with their treatment. But studies also show that as many as two hundred Canadians a year suffer strokes brought on by neck manipulation. Spin Doctors takes a hard, dramatic, and spine-chilling look into the world of chiropractic medicine. You will be surprised to learn what chiropractors treat and why and how much it costs you as a taxpayer. Most importantly, you’ll ...

Peter Ord, um ex-detetive particular e autor fracassado, retorna à sua cidade natal, Seatown, na esperança de começar de novo. Mas não demora muito para que ele volte aos velhos hábitos, convivendo com um bando de vagabundos e se envolvendo em atividades criminosas.Em "Tristezas de Seatown", Paul D. Brazill tece uma coleção de contos cômicos sombrios que seguem as desventuras de Peter enquanto ele navega no ventre decadente de sua cidade natal. Ao longo do caminho, ele encontra um ...

Due to the recent explosion of placebo research at many levels the Editors believe that a volume on Placebo would be a good addition to the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology series. In particular, this volume will be built up on a meeting on Placebo which will be held in Tuebingen (Germany) in January 2013, and where the most prominent researchers in this field will present and exchange their ideas. The authors who will be invited to write chapters for this volume will be the very same...

Depois de um divórcio complicado, Peter Ord decide mudar sua vida e se tornar um investigador particular. Mas com sua bebida constante e habilidades questionáveis de tomada de decisão, sua nova carreira rapidamente se transforma em uma farsa sombria cheia de tragicomédia.Enquanto ele assume casos desafiadores e tenta acompanhar seu parceiro embriagado Bryn Laden, Peter se vê do lado errado do radar de um senhor do crime local. O fracasso não é uma opção, mas com o histórico de Pete...