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For most people, the spectre of stroke stirs up images of lingering paralysis, with the potential for a diminishing quality of life, strained relationships, mental depression, before ultimate, untimely death finally takes care of it all. In light of these scenarios, My Stroke Recovery: The Genesis, by Sharon Young, serves as a shining counterpoint to a gloomy attitude towards stroke. Here, we see how a loving, caring, and supportive environment enables one to realize how God sometimes chooses to reveal the many ways by which His blessing may take form. My Stroke Recovery: The Genesis is a definite revelation of faith, unflinching devotion, unquestionable family values, and endearing, delightful innocence in the face of adversity.
Meet me Under the Bed is a work of fiction inspired by real people and events in the author's career as a psychiatric nurse. It is written with great affection for the patients and staff behind locked doors in behavioral health units. A young schizophrenic woman, who would only talk to staff from under her bed, inspired the title.
Tan Tock Seng, one of Singapore's most illustrious pioneers, was an influential Chinese community leader. In the early 1820s, he responded to Sir Stamford Raffles' call to open up Singapore for trade, and later became a prominent entrepreneur, a social leader of the Chinese community and a philanthropist. He also spearheaded the building of the Thian Hock Keng Temple as a rallying point for his fellow clansmen, as well as the Tan Tock Seng Hospital to provide medical services for people in Singapore.This book provides a comprehensive account of Tan Tock Seng's life, tracing his life and legacy, as well as the contributions of himself and his family. It also includes prominent family members ...
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This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period. Readers will discover nine essays studying the different sub-regions of the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas and exploring the nature and historiographical perception of piracy, maritime conflict and surreptitious activities. The authors probe the linkages between these occurrences with war and economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in particular, and look at the transition into the nineteenth century. The introduction covers the study of piracy in this period and chapters explore themes of Siak and ...