John Gordon

First published in 1968, THE GIANT UNDER THE SNOW created a fascinating world of magic, ancient evil and curses long before Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Three children find an ornate Celtic buckle. To them it's treasure, a fantastic find. They have no idea that it has awakened a giant who has lain at rest for centuries. Little do they know that an evil warlord and his Leathermen have also awaited this moment, this chance to wield their deadly power. In a chilling tale full of menace and suspense the final battle between good and evil must be fought. This is a story that transcends age. Beautifully written, subtle and evocative, THE GIANT UNDER THE SNOW transports the reader into an intensely atmospheric world where the imagination knows no bounds.

The Giant Under the Snow

The House on the Brink

When a teenager follows a strange trail in the marsh, he finds himself haunted by the legend of King John's lost treasure and increasingly aware of mysterious undercurrents in the town where he lives.

A Story of Suspense

A collection of thirty short stories published previously in variously titled collections.

The Supernatural Tales of John Gordon

Left in the Dark

A Life of Christ for Young People

Three Children of Galilee

All around Harry Hogge weird things are happening. In his father's hotel, a sinister club is meeting. In a house nearby, a woman plays cards while listening to murder being committed elsewhere. And underground something monstrous is stirring from centuries of sleep, with a hunger for flesh.

The Flesh Eater

Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, Mrs Knowles, becomes convinced that something evil has emerged from the river near her house. What is the secret of the strange and terrifying mystery of the bog? And what does it have to do with a local legend of a man who died there in the reign of King John while guarding a fabulous treasure? Dick and Helen are determined to find out, but they may soon find themselves in greater danger than they ever imagined. Originally published for teenage readers, The House on the Brink (1970) has earned a reputation over the years as a classic of ghostly fiction in the M. R. James mode that will appeal to readers old and young alike. Long out of print and scarce on the secondhand market, John Gordon's chilling novel returns at last to haunt a new generation of readers. 'The two best novels in the M. R. James tradition are Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness and John Gordon's The House on the Brink.' - Rosemary Pardoe 'Evok[es] a world of mysterious menace . . . extremely exciting.' - Robert Nye, The Times (London)

David Reiss

Gabriel Kirtchuk

Maggie McAlister

In clinical work, an awareness of patients' subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and treatment planning by describing a structured approach to eliciting patients' core relationship patterns. These patterns consist of the roles and scenarios into which they repeatedly cast themselves and others with whom they interact. Maladaptive patterns, in which vicious cycles and self-fulfilling prophecies of misperception, misunderstanding or provocation escalate, cause pain and havoc in personal relationships and can adversely affect both professionals' decisions and the overall delivery of treatment. This book shows how to use vital information that is often not made available to treatment teams in order to understand such potential pitfalls rather than succumb to them.

An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice

Consulting to Chaos

Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories

Great Britain. Court of Exchequer

William Newland Welsby

Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber : Trinity Term, 10 Vict., to [Hilary Vacation, 19 Vict.], Both Inclusive

The Exchequer Reports

The telephone call started it all; started that old anxiety, the bile rising in the throat. It brought back the fear, anxiety and insecurity that Jake had felt most of his life. That phone call pitched him back in time and propelled him on a cross-country trek that was sure to end in disaster. It ripped him from the family and the happy life he had built back to the unforgiving and manipulative family that he had left. That phone call was so much more than a summoning for reconciliation. It was an order to dance again to the old tune that he had been raised listening to. It was a command to return to drama and dysfunction, to anger and a world of bitter resentment. Across the country the deadening roar of his motorcycle plays counterpoint and backbeat to the memories of the history of his life; a life of chaos, destruction and frustration playing in his head. His motorcycle and his mind wander aimlessly into the Arizona desert, through the wilds of New Mexico and into the reassuring mountains of Colorado before shooting boldly across the plains with the focus of a bullet to face his appointment with an uncertain future, and to bury an unforgiving past. Jake returns to the fold to set things right once and for all, but that call is much more than a telephone call. It is an insistence that Jake recognize a new order; to acknowledge a fundamental reorganization of role and rank, and ultimately to accept and embrace this novel dynamic. People, places, and events spin out of control quickly upon Jake's arrival, and he is conveniently there to spin with them, or to finally put a stop to the twirling disorder.

Paul's Call

What was it really like for the soldiers of 2 New Zealand Division in the Second World War? How did they spend their time and how did they see their lives as servicemen, from training at home and sailing off to war, to setting up camp, relaxing off-duty, fighting in hostile environments and possibly being taken prisoner? This anthology is a personal selection of material describing the experiences of these men, with the great majority of the collection written from within its ranks. Colloquially known to its members as ‘The Div’, it was by far the major part of New Zealand’s Second Expeditionary Force, making it our main contribution to the war. Naturally it had a distinctly New Zealand character, and despite being caught in several difficult situations in its early years – and not necessarily of its own doing – it gained an international reputation for courage, reliability and achievement.In this book John Gordon presents a lively and illuminating selection of the published words of members of ‘The Div’ or those with close associations. The chosen extracts are drawn from memoirs, fiction, verse, news reports and magazine articles penned by soldiers of all ranks. The result is a compilation of the written views and experiences of over 80 insiders, creating an intimate glimpse of life and war within ‘The Div’. From the declaration of war to the return home, this is a sample of the experiences of well over 100,000 New Zealand men who served in the Division: how they coped with discipline and disaster, sacrifice and success. They write with the same frankness, humour, wry cynicism and understatement that they used to cope with the challenges of their war.

New Zealand Soldiers of 'The Div' Write About Their World War Two

A Job to Do

Glen Sweeney

Practical Advice for Investing in Income Property The Best Selling Book Real Estate: The Sustainable Investment offers advice and stories to make the learning curve a bit less steep and measurably safer, with proven strategies for reaching long-term investment goals by including income property in your asset allocation. Sustainable investing for sustainable living and a more secure financial future. What type of real estate investment is right for you? Making leverage actually work for you. How and why to get started now. What to look for in a partner before you say “I do.” An excellent overview of investment basics. Pro Forma Property Analysis Sheets inside and online. Insightful management lessons from the real world. Critical thinking about your investment timing. The first real estate book with its own iPhone app to make property analysis mobile and easy. Reading this book could be your best investment on the path to intentional success and that decisive moment when investment dreams become investment reality. From the authors of Real Estate: The Sustainable Investment comes the first of its kind mobile app—Real Estate Analytics. The Five-Star complement to the book is now available for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The Top-Rated book shows you how to make good investments. The app makes analyzing an investment property easy. Now, it's up to you to find the right property and make the investment. Used together, you have powerful tools to make better decisions. Website: The companion website for this book at www.thesustainableinvestment.com offers: Free printable versions of the Pro Forma Property Analysis templates featured in the book. Answers to frequently asked questions and chapter previews. More information about Real Estate Analytics, the free mobile app developed by the authors.

The Sustainable Investment: Strategies for the Next Generation

Real Estate

Anthony D. Whetton

Historically, the field of hematopoietic growth factor research began with the work of Carnot and Deflandre-in 1906 they suggested that the rate of erythropoiesis is regulated by a humoral factor found in the blood, namely, erythropoietin. From this comparatively early start, accelerating progress has been made in erythropoietin research, which demon strates the general trends in this field of study. Erythropoietin was purified to homogeneity by 1977 (from enormous quantities of urine from aplastic anemia patients). Subsequently, the gene for erythropoietin has been cloned (1985), and massive quantities of this growth factor have been produced for clinical trials (late 1980s onward). Erythropoietin has become established as a pharmaceutical product of great value in the treatment of a number of diseases, most notably chronic renal failure. Once the ligand had been cloned, interest turned to the erythropoietin receptor, which was cloned in 1989. Since then, structure/ function studies have been performed on receptor mutants, cellular signaling events down stream from the occupied receptor have been identified, and the specific producer cell types and molecular stimuli for erythropoietin production have been thoroughly investigated, as has the regulation of erythropoietin gene transcription. This schedule of events since the 1970s typifies that seen for a number of hematopoietic growth factors. Along the way, the hematopoietic growth factors have been recognized as members of the cytokine family of signaling molecules that are important in a number of different physiological and patholog ical situations (see below).

Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors and Their Receptors

Blood Cell Biochemistry

"This wonderful book is extremely detailed, wide-ranging, dense with insight, constantly inventive--in short, brilliant."--Roy Gottfried, Vanderbilt University "A majestic synthesis of scholarship and criticism, illuminating the 'fictive physiologies' of [these] writers with graceful erudition and elegant vigor. . . . His close readings of the many different texts never fail to surprise and to inform."--Robert H. Bell, Williams College John Gordon traces the ways that changing medical developments shaped the imagination of seven representative authors ranging across two centuries--William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath--and how received notions of medical fact play out in their writings, whether in the behavior of their characters or the workings of their own lyric sensibilities. No other work takes such a long view of medicine and at the same time examines the works of so many different authors with so small and detailed a lens. Moreover, none of these authors has ever received so searching a review of the physiological premises at work in their writings. Most author-focused studies have been essentially biographical considerations of an authors' medical history, real or imagined. This book concentrates on the author's writings. Further distinguishing Gordon's achievement is his all-encompassing synthesis of research and analysis. This account of "what was being written about the body and what was being made of what was being written" combines meticulous, lucid expositions of medical research (especially ways of understanding the body and the mind) with elaborate, striking interpretations of literary texts. Gordon's work contributes new and pertinent ideas to studies of every author in its purview, throwing countless details and major concerns into sharp relief. It greatly extends the limited medical material on Joyce, supplies scholars of Eliot, Thomas, Hopkins, and Plath with interpretations very different from the physical and emotional readings normally provided for those poets, and produces revelatory analyses of both Wordsworth and Dickens. John Gordon is professor of English at Connecticut College.

Romantic to Modern

Physiology and the Literary Imagination

Tekker Begdale had seen a ghost. Nobody believed him except Kit Huntley, and she did not want anybody else to know. Especially not Dan, her brother. Dan poured scorn on them - until one day he saw something which drew him into the mystery with terrifying results. With Dan helpless on the verge of disaster, Kit and Tekker have to set out on a quest to save him before it is too late - a quest which is strangely beautiful, but also dangerous and frightening. This is John Gordon at his very best. Of John Gordon's highly first book, The Giant under the Snow, Alan Garner wrote: "He uses adrenalin for ink" and this quotation could be used as the hallmark for all Mr Gordon's books.

The Edge of the World

Fighting for MacArthur is the only book that focuses on the role of the Navy and Marine Corps during the 1941-42 defense of the Philippines. The book includes the most detailed account ever published of the Japanese bombing of the Cavite Navy Yard outside Manila on 10 December 1941, the worst destruction ever to US Navy installation. The book also provides many new details about the 4th Marine Regiment that surrendered on Corregidor in May 1942, the only time the Marine Corps lost a regiment in combat. Fighting for MacArthur includes important insights on the origins of the difficult relationship between Army General Douglas MacArthur and the Navy and also compares MacArthur’s actions in the defense of the Philippines to those of Admiral Thomas Hart, the Commander of the Asiatic Fleet.

The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Phillipines

Fighting for MacArthur

John D. Ferguson

Louie Macari

Programming the BBC Micro is a 12-chapter book that begins with a description of the BBC microcomputer, its peripheral, and faults. Subsequent chapters focus on practice in programming, program development, graphics, words, numbers, sound, bits, bytes, and assembly language. The interfacing, file handling, and detailed description of BBC microcomputer are also shown.

Programming the BBC Micro

His second wife divorces him citing no reason. Boredom, another man? He never finds out. The company he works for folds. Taking a job in far away upstate New York. he rents an empty farmhouse on Coal Yard Road giving his only companion and loyal friend, his dog, a huge yard to run in. Winter and his new job are both harsh and endless. A seemingly random discovery forces him to examine his past soul-scared wounds. Starting with his early childhood and moving forward he comes to an honest reckoning of his independent self.

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