Matthew Smith

The Secret Tapes of Marilyn Monroe

Victim 

Maxwell Nicoll

Slamdown Town (Slamdown Town Book 1)

The author of Vendetta: The Kennedys reopens the Marilyn Monroe case, using previously unreleased tapes illuminating the emotional life of the actress, as well as forensic evidence, to reconstruct the last days of Monroe and prove that her "suicide" was actually foul play. Reprint.

Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death

Marilyn's Last Words

To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. For others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. This book parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that now dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. Surveying the history of food allergy from ancient times to the present, Another Person's Poison also gives readers a clear grasp of new medical findings on allergies and what they say about our environment, our immune system, and the nature of the food we consume. For most of the twentieth century, food allergies were considered a fad or junk science. While many physicians and clinicians argued that certain foods could cause a range of chronic problems, from asthma and eczema to migraines and hyperactivity, others believed that allergies were psychosomatic. Another Person's Poison traces the trajectory of this debate and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Are rising allergy rates purely the result of effective lobbying and a booming industry built on self-diagnosis and expensive remedies? Or should physicians become more flexible in their approach to food allergies and more careful in their diagnoses? Exploring the issue from scientific, political, economic, social, and patient-centered perspectives, this book is the first to engage fully with the history of what is now a major modern affliction, illuminating society's troubled relationship with food, disease, and the creation of medical knowledge.

A History of Food Allergy

Another Person's Poison

Michael Carroll

Laurel Sills

Judge Joseph Dredd has tackled hardened killers and would-be revolutionaries, he’s taken beat-downs and bounced back, he’s even arrested his own brother. In his third year, he’ll become embroiled in the growing anti-robot movement; he’ll head back out to the Cursed Earth; and he’ll fall afoul of the secretive SJS – and not for the last time…

Judge Dredd Year Three

A shockingly revealing book about the life and death of one of the 20th century's greatest icons. Marilyn Monroe, a talented actor, who remains an ideal of western female beauty today, died in what was popularly thought at the time to be a suicide, on August 5, 1962. She was only 36 years old. Victim offers a new exploration of what really happened to Marilyn. Long the subject of passionate conjecture -- Smith uncovers new truths with this book based on a never-before-seen transcript of Marilyn Monroe's last tape, made for her psychiatrist just a week before she died. Matthew Smith is an expert on John F. Kennedy's presidency and has written several books about J.F.K. and the events surrounding Marilyn's death. In The Men Who Murdered Marilyn he presented new interviews with friends and associates of Marilyn. Now, in his latest book, he delves even deeper into the subject with material taped directly from Marilyn herself speaking to the most trusted confidante she could have -- her psychiatrist. What was Marilyn's state of mind just before her death? Victim offers new evidence as well as Marilyn's personal opinions about the famous crowd she was part of -- Frank Sinatra, Mae West, John F. Kennedy and other significant characters in her tragic story. A landmark book to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Marilyn's death. A must-have for the millions of Marilyn fans around the world. "From the Hardcover edition.

Victim

A boy’s wish to be a star wrestler is granted in this wacky middle-grade fantasy Ollie and his older brother, Hollis, have wrestling in their blood: Their mom was a pro whose dreams of stardom were dashed by a devious opponent. Now she’s an overworked, underpaid ref at Slamdown Town, the local arena. Ollie’s goal in life is to win the golden championship belt for his mom—immediately followed by his other goal: to hang his bully of a brother from the roof by his tightie-whities. But there’s one problem: Ollie inherited their estranged dad’s puny frame, while Hollis got their mom’s brawn. Thus Ollie has resigned himself to a fate of wrestling mediocrity and wet willies . . . until the day Hollis gifts him a piece of stale gum and forces him to chew it. Ollie soon discovers that the gum—bought on eBay and formerly chewed by a wrestling legend— has an unusual side effect: the ability to physically transform Ollie into a pro wrestler. As Big Chew, Ollie’s finally able to put Hollis in his place and be a star. But when trouble befalls his family, being Big Chew gets a lot more complicated. In the end, Ollie knows he can’t have it all; and it’s only when he asks himself who he really is that he learns what it means to be a champion.

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), classical economist and influential monetary theorist. Its chief purpose is to examine Tooke’s contributions to political economy with the aim of bringing to light its unified nature and its important legacy to contemporary economics. In doing so the book aims to throw new light on monetary analysis within the framework of classical economics. There remains no comprehensive account of Tooke’s contributions that is concerned with showing his lasting and ongoing influence on the development of monetary thought. The book provides an interpretation and analytical study of Tooke’s political economy from the standpoint of the classical tradition. This enables a demonstration of how his constructive contribution throws a new light on monetary thought in this tradition.

Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics

Beka and Charley...left alone by their parents more than a year ago. They are trapped in a city surrounded by a massive wall. Time is running out for the two of them to uncover the secrets behind their capture and to realize their best hope for survival could cost them everything.

Second Sun

Despo Kritsotaki

Vicky Long

This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a gender perspective and considering professional developments as well as changing social and legal contexts, including deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion that it might well be possible to learn from such historical attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are worth considering in future and which are best confined to the past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come. Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Past, Present and Future

Preventing Mental Illness

This is part one of my life after prison. The thing you read in this short story are base on events that happened in my life.

After Prison

My Life

On a cold rainy day Jack Darring, a rookie beat cop finds his dad, Rick Darring a homicide detective dead in an alleyway, hacked up by an axe. Now it's up to him to find his father's killer with the aid of his supernatural friend Stake, who has a mysterious past with Jack, but why did he come back and is it related to the death of his father?

A Dimensions Universe Novel

The Dark Streets

Rebecca Levene

Al Ewing

The Best of Tomes of the Dead, Volume 1

A Monograph

Nemesis the Warlock

The people of America were not satisfied that Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidential inquiry into the murder of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 had revealed the truth. This inspired a ‘people's investigation’, the nature and the scale of which were unequalled. It was the beginning of a quest to establish the truth which has so far taken 50 years and which still goes on. Who Killed Kennedy? is an exhaustive account of that quest, through the eyes of a historian who has been involved in it from the very beginning. It is a story of treachery, lies, deceit and murder. As the investigation has progressed over the years, the revelations have been breathtaking, the facts staggering and the real story so dramatic that fiction simply cannot equal it.

The Definitive Account of Fifty Years of Conspiracy

Who Killed Kennedy?

Luka Sun goes on a raping and murder spree. Detective Sam Jones hunts him down. Things really get out of hand and Sam ask for help in being this guy in. After a year of hunting him down they get him. But Luka escapes two time and keeps killing and raping women.

Luka Sun Goes on a Crime Spree

The Second Plot

Alice Keene

The Life and Work of Sir Matthew Smith, 1879-1959

The Two Mr. Smiths

David Gentilcore

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current century, the link between dietary innovation and health/disease is not a new one. From new fads in foodstuffs, through developments in manufacturing and production processes, to the inclusion of additives and evolving agricultural practices changing diet, changes often promised better health only to become associated with the opposite. With contributors including Peter Scholliers, Francesco Buscemi, Clare Gordon Bettencourt, and Kirsten Gardner, this collection comprises the best scholarship on how we have perceived diet to affect health. The chapters consider: - the politics and economics of dietary change - the historical actors involved in dietary innovation and the responses to it - the extent that our dietary health itself a cultural construct, or even a product of history This is a fascinating and varied study of how our diets have been shaped and influenced by perceptions of health and will be of great value to students of history, food history, nutrition science, politics and sociology.

Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics

In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in the United States. He contended that the epidemic should not be treated with drugs such as Ritalin but, instead, with a food additive-free diet. Parents and the media considered his treatment, the Feingold diet, a compelling alternative. Physicians, however, were skeptical and designed dozens of trials to challenge the idea. The resulting medical opinion was that the diet did not work and it was rejected. Matthew Smith asserts that those scientific conclusions were, in fact, flawed. An Alternative History of Hyperactivity explores the origins of the Feingold diet, revealing why it became so popular, and the ways in which physicians, parents, and the public made decisions about whether it was a valid treatment for hyperactivity. Arguing that the fate of Feingold's therapy depended more on cultural, economic, and political factors than on the scientific protocols designed to test it, Smith suggests the lessons learned can help resolve medical controversies more effectively.

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