Hands The Achilles Heel

Author : Peter Ffitch
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788033015

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Hands, the Achilles’ Heel by Peter Ffitch Pdf

Peter Ffitch brings us an exciting new evolutionary theory that undermines humanity's grandiose views of our role in the natural hierarchy. While all other books about human evolution and hands have concentrated on our ability to manipulate objects and create artefacts, Hands, the Achilles' Heel reveals the much darker side to the use of hands that, as yet, has not been disclosed. Peter traces our ancestors' evolution to become terrestrial primates, freeing our hands from arboreal locomotion and allowing them to grasp and hole other members of their own species for restraint and coercion. The consequent repercussions for humanity's social and sexual behaviour has resulted in a catastrophic loss of autonomy for the human female compared to other animal species. This also resulted in the heteronomous controls by which we now regulate our lives. Understandably, our loss of autonomy has lead to us becoming the most tense, anxious and fearful species that has ever lived, which tragically has given rise to our present desecration of the planet. The question is, can we now move towards an enlightened future in which heteronomous controls become a relic of our dystopian past, allowing autonomy to regain its original priority and enabling us to live and survive within nature, just as the animals have done since the beginning of evolution?

Author : Karyn Rae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Widows
ISBN : 0996092250

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The Achilles Heel by Karyn Rae Pdf

Annie Whitman's ordinary Midwest life is shattered with the sudden death of her husband Jack. Thirty-five and failing at life as a widow, she turns to the comforts of vodka in an attempt to camouflage the cold sheets of an empty bed. The necessary inebriation helps her to cope with Jack's death, but proves to be a deterrent in recovering any sense of normalcy. After spending several months at the bottom of a bottle, Annie stumbles upon a lockbox in the crawl space of her basement. Opening this box also opens her eyes to the likelihood that Jack Whitman might not have been the honest and doting man she married. Annie embarks on a mission to the Virgin Islands to uncover the truth about her husband's past and seek safety from her brother-in-law, who seems to be the captain of his own sinking ship. While settling into paradise, she meets the wickedly handsome, but surprisingly reserved Kessler Carlisle, who is struggling with his retirement from country music superstardom. With Kessler's help, Annie discovers the heart's uncanny ability to heal, and the possibility that dead men don't always keep their secrets-even if they're buried in the Caribbean waters of St. Croix. The Achilles Heel delves into the formidable fact that everyone harbors darkness, and some will go to the depths of the ocean to keep their secrets hidden.

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218656

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The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden Pdf

"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--

Author : Raymond W. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471748588

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Capitalism's Achilles Heel by Raymond W. Baker Pdf

For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism’s Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker shows how Western banks and businesses use secret transactions and ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds and how these tactics negatively affect individuals, institutions, and countries.

Author : Sean Flannery
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466813069

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Achilles' Heel by Sean Flannery Pdf

U.S. military intelligence analyst Bill Lane is on the trail of a Romeo-class Russian sub. The sub was supposed to be harmlessly scuttled at a submarine graveyard, and the mastermind behind its theft, an ex-KGB agent named Valeri Yernin, was supposed to be dead. But Bill Lane will have to prepare himself for one more surprise when he finally tracks down his target--because his opponent will be devastatingly ready for him. "Top-flight adventure writer Flannery brings back U.S. military intelligence analyst Bill Lane and his lover, British agent Frannie Shipley, this time hot on the trail of an old Russian submarine, which is said to have been sunk with all hands but has in fact been sold to unfriendly powers. " - Publishers Weekly At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Homer,William Lucas Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QA2

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The Iliad by Homer,William Lucas Collins Pdf

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826133

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Pdf

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.

Author : Carl Wieland,Don Batten,Robert W. Carter,Jonathan D. Sarfati,Emil Silvestru,Tas Walker,James F. A. Mason,John Hartnett,David Catchpoole,Mark Harwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Bible and evolution
ISBN : 192164382X

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Evolution's Achilles' Heels by Carl Wieland,Don Batten,Robert W. Carter,Jonathan D. Sarfati,Emil Silvestru,Tas Walker,James F. A. Mason,John Hartnett,David Catchpoole,Mark Harwood Pdf

"9 Ph.D. scientists explain evolution's fatal flaws, in areas claimed to be its greatest strengths."--Cover.

Author : Marta González González
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317196440

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Achilles by Marta González González Pdf

Achilles is the quintessential Greek hero, but that does not mean that he is a conventional hero. His uniqueness is dictated by his birth, as the son of a sea goddess, and his education at the hands of a centaur. The hero’s exceptional nature also forms part of the tension that both unites and opposes him to Apollo. Achilles presents the different episodes in the life of this hero conventionally, in chronological order, based primarily on the Greek sources: birth, education, deeds in Troy, death and subsequent destiny as a figure of worship. On the other hand, this study employs the hero Achilles to reflect on various issues, all of them crucial for historians of the Greek world: what it meant to be and become a man in ancient Greece, what a hero’s aretê consisted of, how the Greeks represented the concepts of friendship and camaraderie, what moved them to revenge or reconciliation, what hopes they harboured as they faced their fate, how they imagined something as difficult to conceive of as a human sacrifice, and how they developed their ideas about the afterlife and hero cult.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090390745

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All Hands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doyle Brunson
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781580424943

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My 50 Most Memorable Hands by Doyle Brunson Pdf

This instant classic relives the most incredible hands by the greatest poker player of all time. Great players, legends, and momentous events in the history of poker march in and out of fifty years of unforgettable hands. Sit side-by-side with Doyle as he replays the excitement and life-changing moments of the most thrilling and crucial hands in the history of poker: from his early games as a rounder in the rough-and-tumble Wild West years where a man was more likely to get shot as he was to get a straight flush to the nail-biting excitement of his two world championship titles. Doyle brings to life the high stakes tension of sidestepping police, hijackers and murderers, competes for hands worth more than a million dollars, and sweats out situations where his last dollar relies on the outcome of a card. Engrossing, captivating, riveting, and ultimately educational, this is a momentous and thrilling collection of great stories and sage poker advice from the living legend himself. 168 pages

Author : American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),,Jeff McDonald
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449664756

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ALS Skills Review by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),,Jeff McDonald Pdf

ALS Skills Review provides detailed step-by-step instruction for every psychomotor skill presented in the Paramedic National Standard Curriculum. This resource teaches ALS students and providers how to perform each skill correctly and offers helpful information, tips, and pointers designed to facilitate progression through practical examinations or real-life emergencies. For each skill, you will find: -- Performance objectives, indications, contraindications, complications, and an equipment list -- Written step-by-step instructions to properly perform the skill with photos to demonstrate critical steps -- Helpful tips including Safety, Special Populations, and In the Field

Author : Hajo Thermann,Christoph Becher,Michael R. Carmont,Jón Karlsson,Nicola Maffulli,James Calder,C. Niek van Dijk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662540749

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The Achilles Tendon by Hajo Thermann,Christoph Becher,Michael R. Carmont,Jón Karlsson,Nicola Maffulli,James Calder,C. Niek van Dijk Pdf

This book, written by leading experts in the field, is a comprehensive guide to the best available techniques in Achilles tendon surgery. Each surgical procedure is described step by step, covering all of the approaches employed for the most common and important Achilles tendon pathologies. The clear descriptions are complemented by superb drawings prepared by a medical artist on the basis of photographs supplied by the authors. Pearls and possible pitfalls are identified to ensure optimal outcomes for patients. The book is the outcome of a collaboration among international Achilles tendon experts – the Achilles Tendon Study Group – that has already resulted in four other books on current concepts relating to the Achilles tendon. Like these previous volumes, The Achilles Tendon – An Atlas of Surgical Procedures is based on the highest level of evidence and expertise. It will be invaluable for orthopaedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, and residents, assisting them in their daily clinical work.

Author : Robert Rymore
Publisher : Imb Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Foot
ISBN : 190915167X

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Achilles Heel, Achilles Tendon , Achilles Tendonitis Explained. Achilles Tendon Tear, Stretches, Repair, Exercises, Aids, Treatments, Recovery, Altern by Robert Rymore Pdf

Millions of people are suffering from Achilles Tendonitis. This is another very informative book by Robert Rymore. He continues with his interest in writing medical educational guides. This guide is intended to be a tool, one that will give you an awareness of the process involved in Achilles Tendonitis. Treatment, Exercises, Symptoms, Causes, Recovery, Relief, Remedies, Massage, Vitamins, Minerals, Aids and Alternative Therapies are all covered. Readers will surely find much contribution by this book, to relief their pain or even to create a pain free healthy lifestyle. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straightforward, no nonsense fashion, Robert covers all aspects of Achilles Tendonitis, including lots of exercises. The content is informative, educative and easy to understand. " I have been a sufferer of achilles tendonitis for years. My physiotherapist keeps telling me to do exercise but I keep forgetting them. Now I just open the book, read what to do and do my exercises. I love the exercises in this book and by doing them on a very regular basis, I am astonished that I am basically pain free. Thanks!" Linda Thompson "Yes, my doctor did tell me what was going on in my heel but I wanted to learn more. This book has given me a lot more knowledge and I understand everything much better now. Everything is very clearly explained." Richard Ashdale

Author : Judge Bill Swann
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512727241

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Five Proofs of Christianity by Judge Bill Swann Pdf

This is a serious book, but it is full of whimsy. A veteran trial-court judge writes about his faith life, which ought to be boring, right? Far from it. You are in for a joyous ride.