October 2014 and a devastating epidemic of the viral disease Ebola is raging in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The non-governmental aid organisation Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the major actors in the fight against the disease. MSF needs more and more nurses and doctors to work in their expanding Ebola Management Centres. The authors responded to MSF's call for volunteers, and left behind their regular jobs for two months to work in an Ebola Manage...

In this penetrating and timely book, Anna Simons documents Somalia's impending slide toward anarchy. How do people react to a failing yet still repressive government? What do they do when the banks run out of cash? How do they cope with unprecedented uncertainty? These are some of the questions Simons addresses as she introduces the reader to Somal

"The story of an outstanding young woman who realized her ambition to rise in military, fly helicopters and lead soldiers into combat." — Independent MailU.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream: flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division. An all-American girl from a small southern mill town, Kimberly was a top scholar, stud...

A modern classic-bold, intimate, and unapologetically honest.In REACHING BACK, award-winning author Nea Anna Simone introduces readers to Mignon Samuels and begins a powerful multigenerational saga that explores identity, inheritance, and the enduring strength of Black womanhood. This first novel in the Mignon Samuels Trilogy lays the emotional and narrative foundation for a story that unfolds across three books, tracing legacy, reckoning, and transformation....

From New York Times bestselling author Nea Anna SimoneTHE SUBSTANCE OF THINGSBook Three of the Mignon Samuels TrilogyMignon Samuels returns to Devereaux Plantation-the place where her story, and her bloodline, began-carrying the weight of age, memory, and unfinished reckonings. A matriarch descended from midwives, herbalists, and root women, Mignon feels the pull of mortality tightening. On the haunted land that has always ...

Five years after discovering the worn leather journal of the women who came before her, Mignon Samuels is finally ready to write her own story beside theirs. But when she turns the page on her family's past, she finds more than inspiration-she uncovers a truth that shatters everything she believes about who she is and where she comes from.Following the fragile thread of memory and ink, Mignon is pulled back to Nazi Germany, where forbidden love and a family marked as expendable mus...

One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented immigrants, kids, young people, and the elderly, they are largely invisible. The consequence of this invisibility is a mobility system designed almost exclusively for drivers. This system has human-health, environmental, and quality-of-life costs for everyone, not just for those excluded from i...

The Crimson Circle is a 1922 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Scotland Yard tackle a secret league of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle. The novel was first published in The People's Story Magazine, March 10, 1922. The first book edition in the UK was by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1922; and the first US edition was by Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1929.

The #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year.'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMAThings aren't as bad as we think. Fact.At last, a book that puts all the bad news in perspective- and brings us surprisingly positive data that show t...

The volume offers an overview of the theories and practices of Italian legal feminism, presenting both the main themes addressed and the main protagonists of Italian feminist legal theory.The book is divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to deepening crucial issues that directly concern women’s knowledge and lives from a feminist perspective, such as the interconnection between law, rights and justice; diversity, difference and equality; sex, sexuality and reproduction; ci...

Master Dutch in a fun and effortless way. This audiocourse offers a proven method for English speakers who want to take their Dutch to the next level, or finally understand what's being said in conversations and media. By listening to 50 engaging short stories, you will train your ear to the Dutch language. The key to success is the direct translation: every Dutch passage is immediately repeated in English. This allows you to grasp the context and meaning instantly, helping words and gramm...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2021, which was held virtually during November 15–17, 2021.The 19 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions, and they focus on bioinformatics, computational biology, health informatics, cheminformatics, biotechnology, biostatistics, and biomedical imaging.