An enthralling story of dark secrets and lost love on the hippy trail by a best-selling British author. 1976: friends, Marcus and Ruth, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth's niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their disappearance. Was it murder, as her father suspected, or a suicide pact as the police believed? Tracking down the trip's bus driver, Cassidy, Amber starts to piece together a lost world - the mystical vibrant hippy trail to India ...

Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves). Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades. They will therefore be new to many readers. It is our hope that bringing these volumes to light again will ...

Este livro descreve pesquisa elaborada com a proposta de contribuir para o entendimento da atratividade financeira do segmento de geração eólica com base em empreendimentos recentemente negociados no Brasil. O objetivo do estudo foi confrontar o retorno requerido por investidores em empreendimentos eólicos no país com a taxa de remuneração esperada para esse tipo de investimento. O trabalho foi conduzido como um estudo de campo a partir de informações do Leilão de Energia de Reserva realizado ...

Welcome to a genteel world of pimento cheese finger sandwiches, tall libations in frosted glasses, stiletto heels, aging Southern-belle sisterhood, and murder . . . In Dixie Divas, Trinket Truevine, her pal Bitty and their raucous fellow divas in the historic small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi, solved the murder of Bitty's ex-senator husband, Phillip. Now, in Drop Dead Divas, the Divas are sleuthing again. Their pal Naomi Spencer has been accused of murdering her fiance, drag race champion Race Champion. Soon, Naomi turns up dead, too. Talk about ...

El tema a tratar es de especial interés para los profesionales de la salud, cuyo trabajo asistencial, investigativo y docente se vea reforzado con el aporte de ésta obra ya que tiene datos donde los factores sociodemográficos de la costa caribe hacen que las mujeres sean vulnerables a la sepsis vaginal. Dicha sepsis es en la mujer factor clave para la sensibilidad al daño también del cervix. Durante el embarazo puede representar factor causal de aborto y amenaza de parto prematuro. Cito la frase de José Martí ...

Objetivo: Determinar o estado nutricional das crianças menores de 5 anos atendidas pela SILAIS Las Minas do município de Rosita, RACCN, Nicarágua, 2019. Desenho metodológico: Foi realizada uma pesquisa transversal descritiva, a amostra consistiu de 355 crianças menores de 5 anos, atendidas pela MINSA do Município de Rosita e pela Silais Las Minas. Foi aplicado um inquérito com variáveis relacionadas com características sociodemográficas, estado nutricional e tipos de desnutrição. ...

Difficult Sudoku puzzles deserve your careful attention. Unlike the easy puzzles, it will take minutes before you can figure out the patterns. It will require strong logic and memory skills to identify the correct answers out of a host of possibilities. Remember that there should be no repeated numbers. Are you up for the challenge?

Life—and love—is better with a bulldog…right? Everything is changing for Tiffany. Things used to be simple—Friendship Friday nights with her besties, Mackenzie and Molly, meeting up for late afternoon lattes and just enjoying the single life in Seattle. Now Molly is engaged. Can their friendship survive the change? Coffee is not just a drink, but a way of life for these three best friends, but Tiffany takes her love of coffee to a whole other level. Her job is assistant to an executive at Blue Moose Coffee Corporation, but it’s ...

This is a fascinating account of Napoleon and his Grande Armée invading Russia and then the torturous retreat that is now a by-word for poor military leadership and even worse decision making. Written by an officer serving under Napoleon, it gives a heart stopping first person view of one of the most famous botched campaigns in military history, a campaign that ended with 30,000 troops returning to France from an original force of over 600,000.

This study was conducted in Department of Pharmacology in association with Department of General Surgery in Mahatma Gandhi hospital, Dr. S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, over a period of one year. This study was prospective, cross-sectional, observational type including all post-operative patients till discharged, in the Department of General Surgery. A total of three hundred patients of either sex and adult age groups who fulfilled inclusion criteria were included in this study. Patients who absconded/discharged against medical advice and patients ...