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Upon his father's death, Leo Vincey is left in the care of his father's confidant Professor Horace Holly with one parting gift - a strange casket that he is to open on his twenty-fifth birthday. The years pass and when the day arrives to open it, Leo and Horace discover the ancient and mysterious 'Sherd of Amenartas' the history of Leo's...

Anaphylaxis is the most dramatic and potentially life-threatening manifestation of an immediate-type hypersensitivity reaction. Although known for over 100 years, it still poses many unresolved questions, and its practical management and acute treatment are often more empiric in nature than evidence-based. In this book, a multidisciplinary group of...

Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. Zikali tells Allan he must seek out a great white sorceress who rules a hidden kingdom far to the north, and he charges Allan to take a message to her. So begins Allan's treacherous journey into...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Nutrition and Fitness Conference in Shanghai, held in November 2006 under the auspices of the World Council on Nutrition, Fitness and Health. Starting with a keynote presentation on nutrition, fitness and the concept of positive health from ancient times to the present, the focus then...

The last book in Baum's Oz series sees Princess Ozma and Dorothy travel to an obscure corner of the Land of Oz in order to prevent a war between the Skeezers and the Flatheads. The leaders of the two tribes are determined and Dorothy and Ozma find themselves imprisoned on the Skeezers' glass-covered island, which has been magically submerged to the...

After witnessing Ayesha's dramatic demise, Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have not given up their hope of seeing her again, following her dying promise that she would return. Sixteen years later and still haunted by her presence, they learn from a vision that She has been reincarnated and set off on a dangerous journey through unchartered lands,...