Coal starts at the bottom—in the basement of an old Seattle house—where Ken, a 42-year-old bachelor, stumbles across a box of letters that his sister Cole kept over the years. The... More > discovery brings Ken back to the day Cole died eight years ago. Emotions come like a flood, and suddenly Ken—having moved back to the empty family home after years of bouncing through relationships and life in general—has a plan. But Ken is unprepared for Carol, the seemingly upright nurse who turns out to be a little more on the wild side than first appears. And as he learns more about Carol, and himself, and his sister’s past, he pokes determinedly at the smoldering coals of spirit that push us to hope and live and to make hurtful mistakes. It is here, in the lessons learned from the aging of wood and wine and the fragile unpredictability of life that Ken realizes where real beauty resides. And so, despite having spent years stumbling through many relationships, he is intent on finding real love and a peaceful life. Sort of.< Less
This book contains Dr Una Coales's renowned 10 CSA commandments with tips on how to pass CSA and negate unconscious bias. Her consultation model has led to many CSA successes and offers of GP... More > partnerships. It is a must for any GP sitting the MRCGP CSA exam.< Less
This book is the ultimate study revision guide for the MRCGP AKT exam. Start with the anonymised study plans of top AKT candidates and then proceed through the book as I focus your AKT revision.
"Getting Schooled" is Lucas Coal's sensual tale of Gabriel Nolan flirting with danger, intrigue, murder, and dazzling Adriana Abilio, whose smile can turn a man to putty. Tall, rugged, and... More > hard-nosed, the P.I.’s attention is split between his job (nailing an arrogant crime lord) and his love interest. After all, Adriana is bright, confident, and sexy; all bonuses when she helps him with his investigation. Together they find no one is as he appears. Supposed allies are big question marks. And the more they dig, the more muddled everything gets. Can Gabe slog his way through the felonious quagmire to discover who's really pulling the strings? Murder complicates things, but if he can untwist the tangle of clues, will he find what he expects, or regret what he discovers? Chasing both excitement and a skirt, he'll inevitably find himself on the bad of side of town where murder hides in the shadows, and get schooled. Does a night to remember await him? Or a shallow grave?< Less
This book is the perfect guide for all GP trainees on how to make a successful transition from trainee to GP and answers all the questions you may have on how to write a CV for partnership, how to... More > secure partnership, what are your salaried GP rights, how much does a locum charge, how do I join the LMC, how do I become a media GP, how do I read the practice accounts, how do I become a GP in Australia, how do I become a GP trainer, etc. which may arise in your path towards achieving your dream goal, whether it is to be a GP partner, salaried GP, locum or portfolio GP.< Less
This book is written by a NHS GP and television presenter of Channel 4's Turn Back Your Body Series a series which aired both in the UK and globally. She shows you how to lose weight, the easy way.... More > Proven to have worked on all her 8 television contributors with the greatest weight loss achieved of 4 stone in 8 weeks. You too can set your target weight and watch the pounds shed off for good.< Less
Like a candle in the eye of a stationary tornado, there i was. The tornado swirling around me like the fear i have to love. The candle from the outside of the tornado seems untouched, untainted, and... More > pure, but as soon as the tornado grows bigger, stronger, the candle is picked up inside this storm, and around and around it whips, in circles it crashes. Over and over again...then it breaks. Like a worn now. Cut in half it can still live, and can just grow its other half back. So now instead of having one worm, you now have two. Fear is like a worm, split in half it only grows stronger, cut it into fourths; you get four pieces of one fear tearing you down, until you give up, give into it.< Less
Coal and the Environment covers issues related to coal mining and combustion, as well as the methods, technology, and regulation currently in use, or planned for the future, to meet our nation's... More > energy needs, while caring for the environment around us. Coal is our most important domestic fuel resource. It accounts for nearly 25% of our country's total primary energy production and produces half of our electric power. The objective in writing about coal is to relate the mining and use of this vital energy resource to the environmental concerns that affect our society.< Less
When sixteen-year-old coal digger Andy Stewart decides on his first day at work that there must be better and safer ways of knockin’ the black out (a euphemism for extracting more coal from the... More > earth), he sets about learning and developing technology to do so. But his lifelong friend and neighbor, Nick Rakos, takes a different route, through unionization, and they become bitter enemies. Both make marriages of convenience, but learn to love their wives with great passion. Caught up in the turmoil of the changes in the coalfields in the middle of the twentieth century, Andy reaches a high-level management position, while Nick becomes an efficient union organizer. After more than two decades of personal and professional antagonism, they cement their friendship again when they are hopelessly trapped in a mine cave-in. Based on real-life experiences, this is the story of coal camp people, their lives, their fears, their triumphs, their loves, their hates, and, yes, even their deaths.< Less
