During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumours that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. This text interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did.

An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.

Part of the Made Easy 'series', this is a pocketbook designed to help the junior doctor in the interpretation of the chest X-ray. It describes the range of conditions likely to be encountered on the wards and guides the doctor through the process of examining and interpreting the film, based on the appearance of the abnormality shown.

This is a companion to Eat Right 4 Your Type . Based on a connection between blood type and diet, this guide shows how to set up a nutritional programme designed specifically for each blood type. The book is full of nutrition information, individualized 30-day meal plans and over 200 recipes.

Contains sections on viral hepatitis, in which each type of virus has its own chapter. This book also includes sections on cholestasis, fulminant hepatitis and ascites. It contains coverage of immunology of the liver and the role of cytokines in disease and therapy.