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All the authors were working at the Middlesex Hospital in London when the AIDS services there were expanding to fill a need, from 2 beds in 1986 to two wards today. The authors were frontline staff looking after all aspects of HIV infection within a wider general medical context. Many are now consultants or senior lecturers. It is the aim of the book to provide an insight into HIV and AIDS as a overview for someone starting to work in this field or who sees such patients occasionally and requires some basic guidelines. For this reason the chapters are based predominantly on organ systems and are divided into sections covering the presenta- tion, methods of investigation and treatment or action required of relevant conditions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603364749585,"sku":"GOR002320609","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0714529303.jpg?v=1751327643"},{"product_id":"road-to-lagoa-santa-book-henrik-stangerup-9780586086667","title":"The Road to Lagoa Santa","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608427733265,"sku":"GOR007192410","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0586086668.jpg?v=1751359634"},{"product_id":"seducer-book-henrik-stangerup-9780714528946","title":"The Seducer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn obscure 19th-century Danish man of letters is the hero of this biographical fiction from Danish novelist Stangerup ( The Road to Lagoa Santa ). Critic, journalist, poet and novelist, Peder Ludvig Moller died in a French mental asylum in 1865 at the age of 51, having squandered his gifts and energy in sensual pursuits. In tracing the demons that chase Moller throughout Europe and eventually destroy him, Stangerup seamlessly incorporates his research into the narrative: descriptions of European capitals in the 19th century are intensely atmospheric; the speeches of his Moller are direct citations. But he fails to vivify the obsessions that drive his character, chief among which is hatred of arch-nemesis Soren Kierkegaard. Readers without an understanding of the intellectual currents of the time (Hegel's systematic philosophy; Kierkegaard's prefiguration of existentialism and engagement with Christianity) will not grasp the significance of Moller's fatal ambitions and appetites; for them, the novel will lack the necessary urgency. (From \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e\/ Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStangerup, in a preface to this English translation of his Danish novel, insists that it is a novel, not a biography disguised as a novel. Peder Ludwig Moller was a Danish writer and critic, a contemporary of Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen, and the novel follows him on a kind of drunk and debauched European tour. He lacked Joyce's strength of exile, silence and cunning. He was a realist, and fought against the waves of romanticism and idealism. But like many realists, he could not bear much reality. He went wild on hashish, alcohol and unsafe sex and died of syphilis in Dieppe. He spent much of his tour in Germany, and like most Danes today, he felt that the Germans knew absolutely nothing about food. He found the boys dimwitted, clumsy and loutish, the men had hands like shovels and belched and farted, while the women had gross feet and piss-colored hair. Berlin was the pits, and Weimar was worse. He wrote articles and letters in vitriolic disgust and sent them back to Denmark to earn money. We might well say so what to all this cultural and culinary kvetching were it not for the lively style of Stangerup, who seduces us into a sympathy for this latter day literary Viking by the sheer quality of the writing. Moller was a critic, who could discern the power of a Baudelaire or a Hans Christian. Sean Martin's translation reads with ease and enhances the rightful position of the Danish language on the European mindscape. --From \u003cem\u003eIndependent Publisher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639279952145,"sku":"GOR004884583","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0714528943.jpg?v=1751137152"},{"product_id":"road-to-lagoa-santa-book-henrik-stangerup-9780714527970","title":"The Road to Lagoa Santa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's been over a year since Giulia Falcone fled the convent, and her new case is the stuff of nightmares: she's going back. Giulia's former Superior General has hired Driscoll Investigations to confirm that the sudden death of Sister Bridget, a troubled young Novice, was a suicide in order to squelch a lawsuit. Did something drive Sister Bridget to desperation? Or was she murdered? Gathering every ounce of courage to confront her past, Giulia dons the dreaded habit--putting a serious damper on her budding romance with her boss, Frank--and returns to the Motherhouse to investigate. 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