Deze Schotse predikant was een bekend biograaf en spreker, beroemd om zijn boeken over het leven van vooraanstaande predikanten. Zijn geschriften verkenden ook zijn reizen in het Heilige Land en boden lezers een uniek perspectief op zijn reizen. Hij leverde een belangrijke voorrede aan het werk van een Schotse dichter, wat zijn betrokkenheid bij literaire en spirituele thema's verder benadrukte. Zijn literaire productie wordt gekenmerkt door een diepe interesse in het leven en de nalatenschap van inspirerende figuren.
Named Temujin at birth by his nomadic family in early Mongolia, the great Genghis Khan used his skill and cunning to create the Mongol Empire and conquer almost the entire continent of Asia. As ruler of the largest empire in human history, he was as respected as he was feared. This book tells his story.
A beautifully written, fully illustrated, colourful textbook of obstetrics and gynaecology that will fully serve the needs of medical students and junior doctors for a modern, comprehensive yet understandable textbook. It shares all the attributes - clear presentation and writing style, boxes, lists, tables and drawings - of the other very successful 'Saunders' Clinical' books, including Kumar and Clinical Medicine and Henry and Clinical Surgery. Students and practitioners will appreciate having an O&G book with the same approach, format and style to the very successful 'Kumar & Clark' family of books.
In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN cross paths in Cambodia. Andrew strives for a better world through his life-saving work as a doctor. Heidi, a social worker, is in need of a challenge and a paycheck, and Ken is fresh from Harvard and brimful of idealism. As their stories interweave through the years, from Rwanda, Bosnia and Somalia to Haiti, the trio reveal a world of witnessed atrocities, primal fear, desperate loneliness and base desires. They fend off terror and futility with revelry, humour and sex; ask hard questions about the world order America has created, the true power of the UN, and whether there is any possibility for change. This is a startling celebration of the power of humour and friendship, of the limits of human compassion, and the need for a warm body and a cold beer during a Condition Echo lockdown. A book that shows the human cost of global politics and the tragic truth that wars are much more avoidable than our governments would ever admit. A brilliant, provocatively funny and fast moving book.