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Every year, my focus has been to teach my students about being kind to others and being an upstander who stands for doing what is right and taking care of those who need it. I am a voracious reader and a devoted middle school English teacher. ![]() ![]() The economic downturn of the 1980’s led to the merging of these two facilities. Both the treatment’s initial successes and demand prompted the opening of a second facility in 1979, the Hospital Jardines de la Mesa. ![]() Gerson’s diet therapy was first introduced in Mexico around 1977, with the dedication of several beds at the Hospital La Gloria. Gerson was known for his many contributions to address chronic, degenerative and infectious disease, as well as, the documentation and remission of cancer. Our founding legacy, Gerson Therapy, represents the original medical practices of immuno-nutrition therapy developed by Max B. ![]() Since its inception-1979, CHIPSA has utilized Gerson's integrative medical practices, becoming a world renowned hospital in Mexico. CHIPSA / Gerson Hospital / Gerson Medical CenterĬHIPSA (Centro Hospitalario Internacional del Pacifico, S.A.) is a full service community hospital, within the ocean-front suburb of Playas de Tijuana. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: Some electronic material access codes are valid only for one user. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. ![]() May include "From the library of" labels. ![]() Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable).Books with markings of any kind on the cover or pages, books marked as "Bargain" or "Remainder," or with any other labels attached, may not be listed as New condition. New: A brand-new copy with cover and original protective wrapping intact. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is written in a form of shorthand, with names in longhand. Every year on the anniversary of the operation, he celebrated his recovery. In 1658, he underwent a dangerous operation for the removal of a bladder stone. In 1655, Pepys married 15-year-old Elizabeth Marchant de Saint-Michel, daughter of a Huguenot exile. After graduating, Pepys was employed as secretary to Edward Montagu, a distant relative who was a councillor of state during the Cromwellian protectorate and later served Charles II. He was educated at St Paul's School in London and Cambridge University. Samuel Pepys was born on 23 February 1633 near Fleet Street in London, the son of a tailor. © Pepys is famous for his diaries, which cover the years 1659 - 1669, but also enjoyed a successful career as a naval administrator and member of parliament. ![]() ![]() ![]() (The parasites enter the bloodstream through broken skin.) The disease is fatal, but before the parasites kill you, they make you kill other people.Īnyone who survives an attack but sustains a cut, contracts the disease. The parasites damage the brain, making people act like rabid animals. That person spreads disease to other parts of the country. Tiny parasites infect at least one person at ground zero. The book begins with the "accidental" release of a biological weapon into the air. ![]() (The *uncut* version was published in 1990.) This book was actually published about seven years *after* the original version of Stephen King's "The Stand." The original version of King's book was published in 1978. "The Brain Eaters" was published in 1985. ![]() This is a novel by the author of the "Howling" trilogy, Gary Brandner. ![]() ![]() More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works-from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov-by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. ![]() ![]() Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages. Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Joseph Frank was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. As his biographer Joseph Frank writes, Dostoevsky, a political reactionary and devout Christian, was horrified by Russia’s burgeoning industrialization and commercialization. ![]() A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time ![]() ![]() ![]() That comment, and several subsequent others, have drawn much pushback, including from the star of the Harry Potter films, Daniel Radcliffe. Rowling will serve as an executive producer on the project, news that was met with anger from many fans in recent years, Rowling’s statements on sex and gender have widely been deemed transphobic, including a June 2020 tweet that suggested only cisgender women experience menstruation. HBO Max (which will soon simply be called Max) officially ordered the Harry Potter adaptation to series on April 12, calling it a “faithful” interpretation of Rowling’s seven novels. As forewarned is forearmed, I’ve taken the precaution of laying in a large stock of champagne.” “Activists in my mentions are trying to organise yet another boycott of my work, this time of the Harry Potter TV show. ![]() “Dreadful news, which I feel duty bound to share,” Rowling quipped in a tweet on Friday. Rowling appears unbothered by criticism of her involvement with HBO Max’s upcoming Harry Potter series. ![]() ![]() This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. ![]() To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. "This essential volume explores the ways in which imperils is embedded in the disciplines of knowledge, and argues that the decolonization of research methods will help reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being."-Excerpt from back cover of paperback, 2nd edition. ![]() ![]() In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guildmasters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and in almost all of these particular classes, again, other subordinate gradations. In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. THE history of all hitherto existing society 2 is the history of class struggles.įreeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster 3 and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the struggling classes. The Communist Manifesto I Bourgeois and Proletarians 1 ![]() |