Kevin Brown

Rod is everything any young girl could dream of. Smart, handsome, caring, still with qualities as rich as those he still finds himself belittled and unappreciated by the love of his life, Candy. But with the looks of an African Beauty Queen along with her humorously hypnotizing personality it's practically impossible for him to remain angry for too long. Besides, he's from the suburbs, while Candy on the other end is from the Hood, the allure of her ghetto fabulous lifestyle is far too appealing to him. He's hooked and Candy knows. But while on a weekend vacation to Atlanta Rod shows Candy that while he may appear softer than the thugs she's grown up around he is undoubtedly the only real Man she's ever known.

Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver, Colorado, he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way, he learned everything you might ever want to know about karaoke and the people who enjoy it. The result is Karaoke Idols, a close ethnography of life at a karaoke bar that reveals just what we are doing when we take up the mic – and how we shape our identities, especially in terms of gender, ethnicity, and class, through performances in everyday life. Marrying a comprehensive introduction to the history of public singing and karaoke with a rich analysis of karaoke performers and the community that their shared performances generate, Karaoke Idols is a book for both the casual reader and the scholar: a fascinating exploration of our urge to perform and the intersection of technology and culture that makes it so seductively easy to do so.

American Boy is told in first person through the innocent eyes of an African American teenager, Samuel 'Pete' Turner. At the tender age of five, Pete witnesses the tragic death of his Father. Naturally this has a profound effect on Pete's entire life. Despite the fact that he is raised in a middle class enviroment by his loving Mother, Mary, Pete continually seeks love and guidance from basically any man who shows the slightest bit of interest in him. Unfortunately, he is surrounded by Men who do not fully know the meaning of being a man or even worse, Men that do not feel the need to lend a helping hand to insure that the young Men in their presence grow to be strong productive citizens. Contact info: Facebook: Kevin BrownInstagram: __KevinBrownE-mail: [email protected]

The Oxford American Handbook of Pulmonary Medicine is an essential quick reference guide to all the major respiratory symptoms and diseases. Each topic is covered in a consistent format including practical tips for both inpatient and outpatient care settings. The handbook features a section on practical procedures plus useful pages on lung and bronchial anatomy, CT anatomy, lung function, and blood gas nomograms. Edited and written by pulmonologists from the respected National Jewish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and residents, as well as a useful reference for practitioners. The Oxford American Handbook of Pulmonary Medicine is the indispensable, evidence-based source on the subject.

The twentieth century saw two world wars and many other conflicts characterised by technological change and severity of casualties. Medicine has adapted quickly to deal with such challenges and new medical innovations in the military field have had advantages in civil medicine. There has thus been interplay between war and medicine that has not only been confined to the armed forces and military medicine, but which has impacted on health and medicine for us all. These themes will be examined from the Boer War to the dawn of a new century, and a 'war against terror;' the experiences of individuals as doctors, nurses and patients, are highlighted, with personal, sometimes graphic, first-hand accounts bringing home the realities of medical treatment in wartime.

From almost the time when man first discovered the pleasures of sin, he has also experienced the torments of the Pox. Drawing on references from art and literature, stories of famous sufferers and medical documents, this book presents the history of syphilis and gonorrhoea, and their treatment, from the Renaissance to the antibiotic age.

The history of penicillin.

The history of penicillin.

Tommy goes to war

Isleworth in old photographs