Surviving cerebral catastrophe: a tale of the mind, mortality and modern medicine.  On a trip to visit Pintubi friends in the remote western desert of central Australia, GP Dr Bill Williams wakes to a nightmare. Gisela, his wife, is felled by a thunderclap headache. What are the possibilities - migraine? neuralgia? or a burst blood vessel in her brain. They are 1500 kilometres from the nearest brain surgeon. Bill has to move fast, really fast.  Will the injury to memory, identity, language and consciousness be profound? Just how plastic is the human brain? Can it really be rewired? Bleed is a rollercoaster ride from dry riverbed to flying doctor, surgeon's knife to intensive care ward and way beyond.   Bill Williams explores the origins and challenges of scientific medicine in a gripping story of narrowly averted tragedy and miraculous endurance, a celebration of human ingenuity and love.    'Bleed is a thrilling tale told from both sides of the medical encounter.' - Dr Karen Hitchcock   '...packed with action and emotion - much too extraordinary to be fiction.' - Prof. Frederick Mendelsohn   'A great story of love, the most powerful force for healing we have.' - Prof. Rob Moodie

Bleed

Biographies & Memoirs

Williams, Bill

Community & Culture

Port Campbell Press

The Making of Manchester Jewry, 1740-1875

History

Manchester Univ Pr

Jews and other foreigners: Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933–40

Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees - Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian and Czech - who arrived in Manchester between 1933 and 1940.

Europe

Manchester University Press

Between 1933 and 1940, Manchester accepted almost eight thousand refugees from Fascist Europe. Among these were Jewish academics expelled from universities across Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy. Around two hundred were children from the Basque country, temporarily evacuated to Britain in 1937, as the fighting of the Spanish Civil War neared their home towns. Most were refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. 95% of the refugees from Nazism were Jews threatened by the increasingly violent anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime. The rest were Communists, Social Democrats, Pacifists, Liberals, Confessional Christians and Sudeten Germans. Several valuable studies have been written on the response of the British government to the refugee crisis. Yet this study is the first to assess the responses in of a single city; Manchester, which had long cultivated an image of itself as a 'liberal city'. Using documentary and oral sources, including interviews with Manchester refugees, Jews and other foreigners explores the work of those sectors of local society which took part in rescue work, including industrialists from the Manchester region, pacifist bodies, the University of Manchester, secondary schools in and around Manchester, Jewish communal organisations, the Society of Friends, the Rotarians, and the Roman Catholic Church. It considers the reasons for their choices to help, and assesses their degree of success, as well as the forces which limited their effectiveness. Though Jews and other foreigners has no specific reader in mind, it will be of particular interest to those studying the role of philanthropy and the Christian churches in Manchester society, the role of Zionism during the Second World War, the history of the British Jewish community, Britain's attitudes to immigrants and refugees, and issues surrounding the settlement and acculturation of newcomers to British society.

Edited by Bess and Ralph Anstis, the diary of an educated working-class man who worked in a colliery in the Forest of Dean, and set down his observations of the life and people there.

Diary of a Working Man: Bill Williams, Forest of Dean, 1872-1873

ANSTIS, Ralph

Anstis, Bess

Sutton Pub Ltd

Chihuahua: Images of Yesterday and Today

Hancock, Richard

University of Oklahoma Press

The author, a victim of cystic fibrosis, uses the character of Nathaniel, an imaginary disciple of Jesus, to clarify the meaning of grace, suffering, and forgiveness

Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken Disciple

Religion & Spirituality

Williams, Martha

Christian Books & Bibles

Morehouse Pub Co

Evocative and provocative explorations of biblical narratives in prose, poetry and art.

Manna in the Wilderness: A Harvest of Hope

Bill Williams claims he was born with a “spine in the shape of a question mark.” The question “why?” has haunted him ever since his two siblings died of cystic fibrosis while he wrestled with the disease. Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken Disciple chronicles Williams’ quest to find the answer. His poetic prose, the sharpness of his wit, and the profound nature of his struggle will leave you alternating between tears of sorrow, periods of laughter, and moments of breathtaking insight.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Morehouse Publishing

The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875

Holmes & Meier Pub

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