At the height of the Civil War, word spreads through the poorest quarters of New York City that a military draft is about to be implemented -- a draft from which any rich man's son can buy an exemption. The outrage this inspires escalates into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Down in the waterfront slum of Paradise Alley, three women -- Deirdre Dolan O'Kane, Ruth Dove, and Maddy Boyle -- struggle with their private fears as they wait for the storm to descend upon them. Deirdre, devastated by the news that her husband, Tom, has been wounded in Gettysburg, must turn for comfort and aid to two women she has always judged as morally depraved -- Ruth, married to an ex-slave, and Maddy, a hard-living prostitute.

Paradise Alley: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Kevin Baker

Genre Fiction

HarperAudio

Summer 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival in the second year of the war. Yet underneath the glitter, its black residents remain second-class citizens, and the neighborhood is a tinderbox, waiting for a match.Along these restless streets, two very different young men will cross paths. Their chance encounter will change both of their lives, and presage the battle for civil rights that is to come. Malcolm Little is a naive, cocky, troubled teenager and not yet the iconic civil rights leader Malcolm X. The Rev. Jonah Dove is the minister of one of Harlem's greatest churches, and lives in the blocks known as Strivers Row. Their lives intersect when Malcolm rescues Jonah and his wife from a group of drunken white soldiers. For Jonah, it is a crowning indignity that brings on a crisis of faith. But Malcolm, haunted by his own past, temporarily forgets the incident and plunges ecstatically into the nightlife of Harlem -- yet he finds it hollow at the core. Lonely and confused, he starts to have odd dreams and visions -- the beginning of a religious conversion that will overthrow his whole world.As race riots break out across the homefront, and Harlem slides toward the brink, Jonah and Malcolm must confront their own demons. Their next meeting, in the midst of turmoil, will lead them both to make fateful choices, for themselves and for their people.Completing his "City of Fire" trilogy, master storyteller Kevin Baker has once again woven an epic tale set against the panoramic backdrop of a vanished New York. Bold and exciting, evocative and unique, Strivers Row sets a new standard for modern historical fiction.

Strivers Row CD

United States

Once in a great while an extraordinary book is published that sets an entirely new standard in its field. A Manual of Acupuncture, published by Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications, is just such a book. Painstakingly researched over many years by Peter Deadman, editor-in-chief of The Journal of Chinese Medicine, and colleagues Mazin Al-Khafaji and Kevin Baker, this book has become the primary reference in the West for the study of acupuncture points and channels. With the subtle use of color to illustrate the acupuncture points and anatomical features, the new second edition of A Manual of Acupuncture is even more attractive and user-friendly than the first. Introductory chapters describe and illustrate the channels and collaterals, the various categories of points, and methods of selection, location, and needling. Ensuing chapters present each of the points of the 14 channels as well as the extra (miscellaneous) points, identified by their English and pinyin names, and Chinese characters. Each point is located in accordance with the most exacting anatomical standards to be found in any Western textbook. For each point there is a dedicated drawing, followed by regional body drawings. The quality of the 500 drawings is far superior to those in any other TCM text. There are also practical pointers for finding and needling the points, and cautionary information about what to avoid. In addition to point indexes by their English and pinyin names, there is an index identifying every part of the body reached by each of the channels, and separate indexes of point indications listed according to both TCM and biomedical symptoms.

A Manual of Acupuncture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Peter Deadman

Mazin Al-Khafaji

Alternative Medicine

Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications

The entire contents of A Manual of Acupuncture in an interactive, digital format! 
Point Location &amp; Needling:A video for every point; Shows how to locate and needle; Voiceover gives location, needling instructions and cautions 
Self-Testing Modules: Test your point location on images from the book; Test according to channels, point categories, body area or random points; Customize your own test, flag difficult points and re-test, add your own notes; Test your knowledge of Chinese point names; Test your knowledge of all channel pathways; Multiple-choice tests for U.S. exam preparation 
Plus . . . View, print and search every word in the book; High quality color graphics; Clickable icons on every point page bring up body area illustrations and Chinese pronunciation of point names; Full indexes;Interactive and customizable 21st century Bronze Man self-testing modules for points, channels, point names, etc.; Suitable for Windows or Macintosh formats. 
Minimum system requirements: DVD-ROM drive and 450MB hard drive space. (Computers with floppy disc drives may cause slight errors.) PC: Windows 2000, XP or Vista with Pentium III, 600MHz, 128MB RAM. Macintosh: OSX 10.3 running on a G3/G4 Power or Pentium Mac with 128MB RAM.

A Manual of Acupuncture Multimedia DVD-ROM (V1.2)

Tom Kennedy

Kate Simants

JCMP Ltd

Luna Park (Vertigo Crime)

Titan Books, Ltd.

Dreamland

Dreamland - Australian Edition

This novel offers a portrait of immigrant New York in the early 20th century, in which a host of characters confront the glowing promise and the harsh reality of the American dream. The cast includes a high-ranking politician, a Coney Island dwarf, and Drs Freud and Jung.

HARPER/COLLINS

Contemporary

Granta Books

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