PAST LIVES is a medical thriller which explores the nightmare of multiple personality disorder uncovered by American neurosurgeon John Macandrew in one of his patients after brain surgery. His patient's agony and the dreadful revenge taken by her husband, who wrongly blames Macandrew for his wife's condition, brings him across the Atlantic in search of answers. His quest takes him from the windswept ramparts of Culzean Castle in Scotland to a research laboratory at Edinburgh University and from there to a remote Benedictine monastery; from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to Marseilles and across the Mediterranean to Corsica and Malta. Someone knows the secret of multiple personality disorder and they'd like it to stay that way. But the sinister biblical scholar, Dom Ignatius has already found it out and plans to use the knowledge for his own selfish ends - the uncovering of an eye witness to the events of two thousand years ago.PAST LIVES was first published in the UK by Allison & Busby Ltd. in 2006.Ken McClure is the internationally bestselling author of over twenty medical thrillers such as The Lazarus Strain, The Gulf Conspiracy, White Death and Dust to Dust. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages and he has earned a reputation for the accuracy of his predicitions. McClure's work is informed by his background as an award-winning research scientist with the UK's Medical Research Council.
This book may transform your perception of life and death. Eleven people share their healing journeys of discovery. They explain their past lives in glorious detail, demonstrating the emotional and physical healing that transforms each of them on a deep, spiritual level. But the most extraordinary result of recalling their past life memories is that they are no longer afraid to die.Denise Linn - internationally renowned author: "This remarkable journey into the past can truly heal your present life. I recommend this book " Deborah Monshin is a Past Life Regression Specialist with over 20 years experience in guiding people to recall their past life memories.
This quirky guide lists A to Z the many irrational ideas which lodge firmly in the human brain. Though many are familiar and notorious, they are here plucked from their niche locations and gathered, for the first time, under the catchy acronym 'PAP'. We yield to the attractive proposals of charismatic preachers and politicians, and we support the hunt for non-existent animals. Against all reason we trust financiers who offer ways to get rich quickly and we heed the confident therapists who tempt us to de-tox from mythical toxins.Most PAPs are harmless but some can lead us into danger. Unstoppable and always around, the author uncovers PAPs at the root of (nearly) everything. Our brain, he says, has a design fault: it is hard-wired to accept such PAPs, and offers evidence in an extensive bibliography .
Kurt Cobain. Michael Stipe. Gord Downie. What do all of these artists have in common? They have all been major influences on the author and her poetry. This book contains over 100 original poems written in the author's own poetic language that explore love, mental health, relationships, and good ol' rock and roll. With titles such as 'Lyrical Spaghetti', 'Electric Kiss' and 'Past Passed' each poem captures a moment in time, a feeling, a dream, or a series of events. Some poems sound like songs. Some songs sound like poems. You get to interpret it any way you want. Hang on for the ride ...
Kurt Cobain. Michael Stipe. Gord Downie. What do all of these artists have in common? They have all been major influences on the author and her poetry. This book contains over 100 original poems written in the author's own poetic language that explore love, mental health, relationships, and good ol' rock and roll. With titles such as 'Lyrical Spaghetti', 'Electric Kiss' and 'Past Passed' each poem captures a moment in time, a feeling, a dream, or a series of events. Some poems sound like songs. Some songs sound like poems. You get to interpret it any way you want. Hang on for the ride ...
Bike week is my favorite time of the year. I get to spend time with my girls and ride with a family that I'll never forget. Seeing him again was never part of my plan, but he stormed back into my heart. They always say love gets you when you least expect it, but mine rode back into my life on a Harley that I could hear from miles away.
In July 2013, just as a full-blown diplomatic row was erupting between Britain and Spain over the Rock of Gibraltar, Joseph Sanchez collapsed and died while cycling in Taraguilla, a Spanish village twenty miles north of the border. In this honest and sensitively written memoir Gibraltarian author M. G. Sanchez relates the hardships his family endured while trying to repatriate his father's remains during one of the most acrimonious phases in recent Gibraltarian history. Part-family memoir, part-act of remembrance, PAST: A MEMOIR mixes personal reminiscences with political and historical commentary in a shifting, multi-layered narrative which explores - and vigorously upholds - what it means to be Gibraltarian.Praise for PAST: A MEMOIR "With Sebaldian elegance and candor, M. G. Sanchez' s prose meanders through inner and outer geographies. PAST: A MEMOIR converses with photographs and personal memories as it crosses linguistic, cultural, national and genre lines. Sketch by sketch, Sanchez puts together a kaleidoscopic vision of his father and his family history: over four generations of Gibraltarians making a home in this outpost in the Mediterranean." Professor Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo, Departamento de Filolog a Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca. "M. G. Sanchez's memoir is a moving account of the personal and emotional consequences for Gibraltarians of Spain's ongoing claim over the sovereignty of the Rock. It will stand as an essential source for scholars of international relations and of history when it comes to writing about the social and cultural aspects of the Spanish claim. But more than that, the frankness with which the account is written will give support and comfort to people confronting the difficulties of personal loss."Dr Chris Grocott, University of Leicester, author of GIBRALTAR: A MODERN HISTORY. "I enjoyed M. G. Sanchez's memoir a great deal. Running through it is the theme of understanding and reconciliation, be it concerning his complex relationship with his late father, or Gibraltar's tempestuous relationship with Spain. It is a story that is simply and movingly told, one that shows how profoundly we are shaped by both our families and communities, but also by our own efforts to define ourselves as individuals." Dr Daniel Weston, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. "M. G. Sanchez succeeds where many scholars fail, humanizing the struggles of people who are often trapped between the Rock of Gibraltar and the hard place of Spain. This undoubtedly has become one of my favorite books on Gibraltar." Dr Bryce Peake, Department of Media and Communications Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "Writing PAST: A MEMOIR enables M.G. Sanchez to explore the political tension between Gibraltar and Spain, and to relate it to his own family history.... PAST becomes a passionate defence of Gibraltarian identity and cultural continuity, braiding a bitter-sweet patriotism with the mixed emotions of paternal love." Nicholas Rankin, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. "PAST: A MEMOIR is a personal and honest biographical account. M. G. Sanchez skilfully uses his personal experience, recollections and family album to provide a wider picture of Gibraltar. I particularly enjoyed the mention of certain corners and places in Gibraltar which I have passed many times without noticing. Next time I go to Gibraltar I will doubtlessly see them in a different light and stop a while " Dr David Levey, Departamento de Filolog a Francesa e Inglesa, Universidad de C diz. "This is a patient and sensitive memory of a father-son relationship, expressing universal sentiments familiar to anyone who has suffered loss, while at once capturing the idiosyncrasies of one family's experiences in the peculiar place that is contemporary Gibraltar." Dr Sasha D. Pack, Department of History, University at Buffalo.
Omar had his family back together once again, but he experienced a greater betrayal when he discovered Gena's infidelity. Gena denied being unfaithful, but she hid the real reason for abandoning their marriage. He feared trusting his heart, and she feared the danger she knew existed. Then before they could mend the rift in their relationship, trouble separated them once again. With both needing answers to an ultimatum neither one felt willing to yield too, time could run out for both Omar and Gena.
