{"title":"Mel Crocker","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the poignant stories of Mel Crocker, exploring themes of love, loss, and resilience with heartfelt honesty. Perfect for readers seeking emotionally resonant contemporary fiction with relatable characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"black-cats-and-dumbos-book-mel-crocker-9780971290105","title":"Black Cats and Dumbos","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the nineteenth century to form the English public health service are clearly highlighted. However the main emphasis of the narrative is on developments from the Second World War onwards, in some of which the author has had a degree of personal involvement as a schoolchild, medical student, hospital doctor, Army doctor and public health physician.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work as a whole reveals the persisting nature of communicable diseases throughout history and strongly argues that, although the relevant importance of individual infections may vary over time, man's struggle against the microbiological world can never be relaxed. How England has been affected is described in detail and evidence is put forward to suggest that complacency (or at least misjudgement) concerning the ever-present risks of emerging and re-emerging infections, led unwisely to the dismantling in 1974 of its established arrangements for their control, along with the subsequent need, frequently repeated, to create new structures for this purpose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will appeal strongly to all students and practitioners of public health along with those interested in English social history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530759020817,"sku":"CIN0971290105G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50375637958929,"sku":"CIN0971290105VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50859919999249,"sku":"GOR006778298","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010034729233,"sku":"NIN9780971290105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971290105.jpg?v=1751235209"},{"product_id":"black-cats-and-dumbo-s-book-mel-crocker-9780830683918","title":"Black Cats and Dumbo's","description":"From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature. Among the handful of such tales to emerge in the twentieth century, one of the most enduring surely must be Sir Francis Chichester's account of his solitary, nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eGipsy Moth IV\u003c\/i\u003e. The story of how the sixty-five-year-old navigator singlehandedly circumnavigated the globe, the whole way battling hostile seas as well as his boat's numerous design flaws, is a tale of superhuman tenacity and endurance to be read and reread by sailors and armchair adventurers alike. First published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, \u003ci\u003eGipsy Moth Circles the World\u003c\/i\u003e was an instant international best-seller. It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure. Francis Chichester's 1967 singlehanded circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed. He completed the voyage with just one stop and 226 days at sea. It was an amazing performance; that he was sixty-five years old made it the more so. Chichester then sat down to write one of the great narratives of modern voyaging.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49995719573777,"sku":"CIN0830683917G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51575722246417,"sku":"CIN0830683917VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0830683917.jpg?v=1750703640"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-mel-crocker.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}