Bøker av Carolyn

The best way to survive cancer is to get the disease detected and treated as early as possible when it has not yet spread throughout the body. Most aggressive cancers, when they are diagnosed after they have already metastasized (grade 4), respond poorly to any kind of treatment whether it be surgical, chemical, or hormonal. The Davidson Cancer Research Foundation in Charleston, South Carolina, where only the most aggressive cancers qualify for treatment, consistently report over 50 percent cures, using a cytokine derived by their irradiating special equine nerve tissues. The center''s treatment is waiting for approval by the FDA and offers a money-back guarantee for failures.By secretly investigating the exact chemical nature of the treatment, Dr. William Della Torre Roller and his girlfriend, medical technologist Yolanda Ybarra, unearth the ghastly method by which the center actually harvests the cytokine and almost lose their lives in an effort to stop it.

In the 1850s the area consisted of three villages - Turnham Green along the main road to the west and the riverside hamlets of Chiswick and Strand on the Green, separated by fields, market gardens and the grounds of several large mansions. Since that time industry has come and gone, great houses have become institutions before succumbing to development, the fields have been built over and transport has moved from river boats and horse-drawn coaches to the six-lane A4. This is Carolyn and Peter Hammond's third book of old photographs of Chiswick, and once again they have assembled a wide and fascinating collection of images, including paintings and prints as well as photographs and postcards. These images are grouped in chapters by subject and combined with informative captions, allowing interesting comparisons as we trace Chiswick's journey through time from three rural hamlets to a cosmopolitan London suburb.

Grove House and its extensive estate in Chiswick were owned in the eighteenth century by Humphrey Morice, a not very successful politician and an animal lover. The story of the house has been reconstructed by Carolyn and Peter Hammond who have studied the country home for almost a decade. A wealth of period detail comes from the rare survival of letters written by the head groom to the lord of the house while he was in Italy for his health. They are a window into the daily life on the estate, describing the rather turbulent relationships between the servants in the house and the sometimes exciting events from the outside world. There was an attempted armed robbery, the theft of the walnut crop and the arrival of the Poor Law officers from a neighbouring parish to attempt to force one of the stable lads to pay for an illegitimate child he had apparently fathered... Here is real life in the country house during the period of English history, immortalized by the fiction of Jane Austen.