How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest.
While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel economic aid to a "Third Force". As his policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible to stand aside as an observer.
At first glance it could have been anything - a stone, a knotted root - until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...' It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk's teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to find. But the ill-conceived search ended badly. And with Monk safely behind bars, the momentum faltered. For forensics expert David Hunter, and those others who were part of the recovery team, life moved on. And the dead were left undisturbed.
Acland's DVD Atlas of Human Anatomy - 06- The Internal Organs
This DVD features the thoracic, abdominal, and reproductive organs. Each organ is shown in its natural location as well as in isolation, using a technique which enables the viewer to see organs as if they were weightlessly suspended in space, allowing a 360-degree view of the true shape of the structure without the distorting effects of gravity. Shots show the outer surface of the organs as well as cut-aways that present internal structure
The Name of the Wind (by Patrick Rothfuss)by Patrick Rothfuss
The originality of Rothfuss's outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution.As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star.
