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Emdr and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children: Infancy Through Adolescence Treatment Manual

Robbie Adler-Tapia and Carolyn Settle

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Expanded to include EMDR Therapy with infants to adolescents, this updated and revised manua - the...

The Lifeboat Service in England: The North West and the Isle of Man: Station by Station

Nicholas Leach

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition...

My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon and California Trails

Elizabeth Goss

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For kids who want to learn about what life was like on the Oregon and California Trails between...

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tarabu42 (7 KP) rated The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine in Books

Oct 29, 2017 (Updated Nov 2, 2017)

A detailed, visceral, cutting exploration, whose accessible style opens the world of early surgical developments to all readers. (0 more)

Not for the squeamish, the suffering of previous generations is laid bare as the path to modern germ theory is developed. (0 more)

The Butchering Art (2017)

Another reviewer said of Dr. Fitzharris' work that its one failure was its accessible style. As far as I am concerned, that is only a fault in a work if its author wants to keep it out of the eyes, hands, and minds of the general public. Like some of the best historians and investigative journalists of decades gone by, Dr. Fitzharris approaches her subject with an open candor, accepting him warts and all, and laying out his life as it happened, her only agenda being the service of history.

This book will make every reader grateful for the medicine of the modern age and will make you pause as you remember the lives of those passed before us who made the accomplishments from which we benefit possible.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated High Life (2019) in Movies

May 13, 2019 (Updated May 13, 2019)

High Life (2019)

2019 | Drama, Sci-Fi

4.5

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Art-house sci-fi movie takes the genre to a place it has never been before, but not necessarily somewhere you'd actually want to follow it. A ship-load of death-row inmates are launched into space to go and perform experiments on black holes; along the way nearly everyone's sex drive gets the better of them and there are tears (along with most other bodily fluids) before bedtime. And at bedtime. And after bedtime. Yes, this really is the plot.

High Life presumably is an attempt at a grand statement on the human condition, but ends up looking more like what would happen if the Big Brother house was sent into orbit - this is a film with a bleak, squalid, misanthropic outlook, not helped by its total lack of humour and increasingly odd and confounding plotting as it continues. It betrays a certain familiarity with the history of the genre, has reasonable production designs, and Pattinson's performance is not bad. But it's a strange, repugnant, impenetrable film with little actual entertainment value.