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A novel of Berlin, living with the Bomb, Punk, protest and alternatives, setin West Berlin in the 1980s, when the city was a focal point of the Cold Warand surrounded by the Berlin Wall and Communist East Germany. The missilesare armed and waiting in their silos. If nuclear war breaks out there willbe a four minute warning. There is no internet and perhaps NO FUTURE.Reality? Sur-reality? Or hyper-reality? In this punk-lit novel Kurtis Sundayprovides an on-the-spot account.

John Lionel Stretton, born on 20th September 1860, was the third generation of surgeons in the family. Following his grandfather, William Birch of Barton-under-Needwood, he started his medical career as apprentice to his father, Samuel, in 1877, before becoming a celebrated surgeon in his own right. In his long career at Kidderminster hospital he performed over 40,000 operations and was responsible for many improvements to the hospital and the services that it provided to the community.In addition to his unstinting service to the local population, Lionel left a legacy for which the whole world can be grateful. He was responsible for the introduction of tincture of iodine to sterilise the skin, several surgical inventions and development of a range of aseptic hospital equipment.When he retired in 1938, in response to encouragement from his many friends and colleagues, Lionel put pen to paper, producing a book for the general reader entitled "Fifty-six Years a Surgeon - Recollections and Reflections". Trying to get this published in 1940, he received only rejections and must have been bitterly disappointed that he never saw it on the bookshelves before his death in 1943.Thankfully, a copy of the manuscript survived and, finally, published to recognise and publicise his innovative and pioneering contributions to medicine.

Who this book is for?This book is for anyone who wants or needs to learn how to build their business via networking.It will save you time, effort and money.If you are starting out in business and need to find prospects, leads and clients through word of mouth recommendations and referrals then this book is a superb resource to get you going effectively right from the start.If you have been networking for a while but have seen little return for your efforts, this book will assist you in gaining a better understanding of the aims networking, identify and improve on your weak areas and help you generate more success.If you are a well-established organisation that wishes to send employee teams out to networking events in order to build the business further, you would do well to ensure that they understand what is expected of them in order to achieve the objectives you set. This book will help them and it will help you.It is sometimes difficult to promote an intangible service due to the fact that potential clients cannot see the "product" and may take more convincing to buy. Business networking, when done well, is a tremendous way to establish and promote your professional offering, build a solid network of referral contacts and boost your profits.

The feisty illegitimate Anna was a determined girl. At 17 she deserted her foster parents and ran away from home to find the father she never knew. Destitute in the steel-making town of Dowlais she married for security when she was told the lie that her father was dead. However, an industrial town was not for a girl who had been brought up in a middle class home and educated. The humble home and the drudgery it brings from the work of a steel-making husband were not for her. Her feminist leanings soon found sympathy with the suffragette movement and she fled to London to join the cause. For several years she gave her full support often getting into trouble. Arrested for illegal activity she was jailed, force-fed almost to death at Holloway and thrown out before her demise should embarrass the authorities. She was rescued by her aristocratic friend who secured a job for her as a maid with an upper class household. The master`s son attempted to rape her, she fought him off injuring him. Accused of seduction she was sacked and blacklisted. Rescued from suicide by a man she had befriended, he persuaded her to return to Wales. Back in Dowlais she fell in love and married Emlyn, a collier, believing her first husband had died. After having four children the marriage turned sour when her in-laws despised her and the work that comes with a large family wore her down. The marriage was at a crisis point when John, her first husband, turned up and claimed her. Seeing a way out of her despair, she left her children with Emlyn and re-joined John.For a time John`s elevated position as a supervisor in the steelworks gave her the life she had wanted. Tragedy struck when John died in an accident at work leaving her with two children. On his death bed he confessed he had lied to her years ago: her father was alive. She embarked on a two-year campaign to search for her father leaving her children with a neighbour. The search was futile, what`s more John`s relatives had come to claim her children accusing Anna of neglect. Again, under desperate circumstances she married a man older than herself for security. However, he was in ill health and he died several years later leaving Anna destitute and with two young children. Alcohol and self-neglect took over until she ended in a home for the aged where she learned the truth about her father after he had died. She had known him almost all her adult life but never thought that he, an aging evangelist she had befriended, could ever be her father.The story covers many subjects including love, class distinction, war, religion and poverty in a cosmopolitan community. It`s a mixture of heartache and drama but has its moments of comedy as well as apathy, keeping the reader enthralled in the novel till the last page.