Not everyone is lucky when it comes to Love. Stephen was one such unlucky guy. He had always been rejected by every girl that came in his life. But fortune favours the bold.As if contrived by destiny, one evening Stephen met the beautiful and charming Clara. He knew her from his childhood but she was forgotten with the passage of time. Though much older to him, Clara was the person who saw right through his soul. She comforted him and always stood by his side. Stephen wanted to mar...

Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in order to probe deeply into the work of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and governmental drug regulatory authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. Through the examination of contempora...

How do drugs get to the market? What controls are there and what procedures for monitoring their effects? And how adequate are the regulators in protecting public health when new drugs have serious side effects? The Therapeutic Nightmare tells the story of the sleeping pill Halcion - a story which is far from over. First marketed in the 1970s, Halcion has been taken by millions of patients around the world. For many years it has been associated with serious adverse effects such as...

First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school.

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU. Based on penetrating documentary and interview research with the pharmaceutical industry, regulators and consumer organisations,it provides the first major critical examination of the new Europeanised systems of medicine regulation. The authors argue that the drive to produce and approve more drugs more quickly for a single European market dominates other considerations, such as improvements in d...

In Gaza, survival is measured not in years, but in breaths, in moments between explosions, in the warmth of bread passed from hand to hand.The Bread Is Still Warm follows Mariam as she navigates streets reshaped by destruction, where childhood is a skill, memory is resistance, and every act of care—sharing food, lighting a candle, whispering a name—is defiance against erasure. Here, children lead where adults cannot, families endure when hope seems lost, and the city itself becomes a livin...

Awakening from Defeat: The Language of the Truth is a sweeping examination of the historical, political, and spiritual forces that shaped the modern Middle East and the Palestinian struggle.Tracing a path from the heights of Islamic civilization in Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire to the collapse of Muslim political unity, the book explores the rise of colonialism, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, the creation of Israel, the Nakba, and the continuing crisis in Ga...

In the final installment of The Olive Tree Remembers series, Mariam leaves Gaza carrying little more than her faith, her convictions, and a determination to bear witness.When she joins an international humanitarian flotilla attempting to deliver medical aid across a heavily monitored sea, she finds herself among activists, clergy, students, lawyers, and ordinary people from different nations united by a single purpose. What begins as a peaceful voyage soon becomes a confrontation w...

This book recounts the sometimes humorous, sometimes instructive, life story of a disillusioned Episcopal Priest, containing his critiques of churches and religions, and some life lessons learned from his experiences. It may ruffle the feathers of the very pious.Holy Sh*t: Life Lessons Learned by The Reverend John L. Abraham certainly does not come from a conventional point of view. Reverend Abraham served congregations for nearly twenty-two years, taught World Religions at a unive...

This book elaborately covers all topics of swine management like breeding, feeding, housing, health management and pork production technology.The book is well supported by a large number of illustrations and tables which makes the understanding of the text very simple and easy. It will be very useful for all students as well as professionals. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Before walls, before checkpoints, before fear learned the language of law, Gaza was a place where life moved slowly—under olive trees, beside bread ovens, beneath a single sky shared by many faiths.The Olive Trees Remember is a sweeping literary novel that traces the long arc from Ottoman-era coexistence to modern Gaza's fracture, told through memory, loss, and moral awakening. At its heart stands Mariam—a young woman shaped by inherited stories of dignity and shaken by th...

This is a comprehensive manual for anybody reaching the end of life, and for their caring friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. The author, an Episcopal priest, describes in detail the formidable challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after they no longer have any hope of recovering any reasonable quality of life. Specific subjects include:the nature of physical death;legal documents to clarify one's wishes;