Ian Williams

Cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams introduces us to the troubled life of Dr Iwan James, as all humanity, it seems, passes through his surgery door. Incontinent old ladies, men with eagle tattoos, traumatised widowers Iwans patients cause him both empathy and dismay, as he tries to do his best in a world of limited time and budgetary constraints, and in which there are no easy answers. His feelings for his partners also cause him grief: something more than friendship for the sympathetic Dr Lois Pritchard, and not a little frustration at the prankish and obstructive Dr Robert Smith. Iwans cycling trips with his friend Arthur provide some welcome relief, but even the landscape is imbued with his patients distress. As we explore the phantoms from Iwans past, we too begin to feel compassion for The Bad Doctor, and ask what is the dividing line between patient and provider? Wry, comic, graphic, from the humdrum to the tragic, his patients stories are the spokes that make Iwans wheels go round in this humane and eloquently drawn account of a doctors life.

UN MAL MEDICO es un libro del autor WILLIAMS,IAN editado por SALUDARTE EDICIONES. UN MAL MEDICO tiene un c�digo EAN 9788412134704, de la colecci�n MEDICINA y consta de 228 p�ginas.

A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams own, Reproduction explores unconventional connections and brilliantly redefines family.

Fast electric model power boats have long outclassed other boat types in terms of speed, and racing them is becoming an ever-more popular pastime. Success in this exciting hobby relies not just on the skill of the boats handler, but on the design and build of the boat as well. Illustrated with numerous photographs and diagrams showing technical details, this book looks at all aspects of building a model electric power boat, including How to choose a model and spot design flaws, especially in moulded hulls, and how to repair many of those faults, Brushed and brushless motors, and their speed controllers, drive systems and propellers, Guidance on rechargeable cells and the correct chargers, and safety tips for lithium polymer cells, Tips on construction and how to set up a boat for racing, Detailed instructions for building a wooden three-point outrigger hydroplane and Radio systems, wiring and connectors. While the emphasis of this book is on performance for competition use, beginners and recreational boaters are well catered for as many of the chapters start from first principles, rather than assuming a high level of initial competence. It covers all aspects of fast electric boating, from hull design right through to racing at world championships and setting speed records. Therefore, whether you are looking to compete or operate fast electric power boats as a hobby, it is a must-have addition to your library.

This books was previously release as Tatyana, however it has since been revamped and the erotic parts have been re-added to the story with a lot more additional content.In an effort to save the race, and fleeing a dying Earth, Hugh Goodwin and his family enter Cryo-Stasis so they can be safely evacuated from a plague riddled planet. They are revived over a century later to a very different world. A world were breeding is controlled and regulated by a corrupt and omnipotent cabal of beings that no longer consider themselves to be human. Once again, Hugh needs to flee, only this time, he is taking the tools hell need to not only start over, but try to stop the sadistic murderers bent on controlling the remainder of the human race.

Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old-fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era. Ian Williamss book -- as biting and multilayered as the drink itself -- triumphantly restores rums rightful place in history, taking us across space and time, from the slave plantations of seventeenth-century Barbados (the undisputed birthplace of rum) through Puritan and revolutionary New England, to voodoo rites in modern Haiti, where to mix rum with Coke risks invoking the wrath of the gods. He also depicts the showdown between the Bacardi family and Fidel Castro over the control of the lucrative rights to the Havana Club label. Telling photographs are also featured in this barnstorming history of the real "Spirit of 1776."

In the glittering yet suffocating world of Victorian London, where reputation is everything and secrets are currency, one young Duke carries a truth that could ruin himor set him free.Elias Hawthorne, newly the Duke of Ravensworth, lives under the crushing expectations of the aristocracy. Groomed to be the perfect gentleman, he must uphold a flawless public image, marry well, and secure his familys legacy. But in the quiet hours of night, when societys eyes are elsewhere, Elias longs for something forbidden something real.Enter Gabriel Marwoodthe compassionate and quietly rebellious son of a celebrated pastor. Though outwardly gentle, Gabriel possesses a strength of spirit that challenges every rule Elias has been raised to obey. A chance encounter binds them in a growing bond neither dares to name, yet both struggle to deny.As their worlds pull them in opposite directions, whispers of scandal begin to rise. Londons elite watches closely. Enemies circle quietly. And Elias is forced to confront the question that haunts him:Is he willing to risk his entire life for the man he cannot forget?A Gentlemans Secret is a tender, slow-burning homoerotic romance of longing, loyalty, and dangerous desirewhere two men must decide whether love is worth defying an empire built on silence.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZEA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe eagerly awaited follow-up novel from the Giller prize-winning author of Reproduction, Youve Changed is a daring and clever dissection of a crumbling marriage between two people who are morphing in ways that confound each other.Middle-aged and about to be dumped from his construction job, Beckett is not feeling his bestespecially since his wife, Princess, is already pressuring him to improve himself. Shes a fitness instructor who spends a lot of time and energy finetuning every inch of her body. Still, they both think their marriage is basically fine, until a couple of friends show up for a visit, their mutual affection and sexual chemistry loudly on display. In one weekend, they upset the tenuous balance between Beckett and Princess, throwing them into parallel midlife crises.Princess thinks the problem is physical, and attempts to revive Becketts interest with relentless surgical alterations and bodily enhancements that have the opposite effect on her husband. Beckett tries to woo Princess back to him by relaunching his contracting business, laying his manly accomplishments at her feet. Then, while Princess is away pursuing even more drastic beauty measures, Beckett meets Gluten, an energetic and erratic man devoted to living in the moment, whom Beckett feels drawn to in ways that surprise him. Beckett is changing, Princess is changing: what will happen to their already stressed marriage?Sharp, inventive and absurdly funny, Youve Changed is a wild ride exploring identity, insecurity, intimacy and desire, and who individuals become when they unite, and how they change despite promising not to.

one of the years most exciting releases - The Herald China is building the worlds first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology. Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale, bullied Western tech companies and academics (though many have been willing accomplices) and intimidated critics worldwide. In doing so, it has become a model for aspiring dictators everywhere. Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, showing how it has been driven by the enigmatic Xi Jinping, now effectively president for life, and how it impacts the daily lives of Chinese citizens, particularly dissidents and those from ethnic minorities. Supporting interviews and first-hand accounts from those whose lives have been turned upside down or worse highlight the chilling and ruthless efficiency with which the government can now act. The book also considers the wider implications for the rest of the world. How to deal with an increasingly strident, aggressive Beijing is one of the biggest challenges facing the West in what has become a technological Cold War.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, Chinas global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have replaced diplomacy. Trade and investment, even big-spending tourists and students, have been weaponised. Beijing has strengthened its alliance with Vladimir Putin, supporting Russias aggression in Ukraine, and brooks no criticism of its own flagrant human rights violations against the Uyghur population in western China. Leaders in the West say they dont want a cold war with China, but its a little late for that. Beijing is already waging a more complex, broader and more dangerous cold war than the old one with the Soviet Union. And it is intensifying. This thought-provoking and alarming book examines this new cold wars many fronts - from Taiwan and the South China Sea to the Indian frontier, the Arctic and cyberspace. In doing so it proclaims the clear and sobering message that we must open our eyes to the reality of Chinas rise and its ruthless bid for global dominance.

This is the terrifying story of Chinas vampire economy. State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. However, none seems to capture the predatory, at times surreal, nature of the economy of the worlds most populous nation nor the often bruising and mind-bending experience of doing business with the Middle Kingdom. Rules and agreements mean little. Markets are distorted, statistics fabricated, foreign industrial secrets and technology systematically stolen. Companies and entrepreneurs, at home and abroad, are bullied often with the collusion of the victims themselves. The Party is in every boardroom and lab, with businesses thriving or dying at its will. All this is part of realising President Xi Jinpings ambition of China becoming the worlds pre-eminent economic, technological and military power. One of the Financial Times Best New Books on Economics in 2024

A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to todays urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man moving through the world.With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized peoplethe whiplash of race that occurs while minding ones own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but sometimes they are deadly. Spurred by the police killings and street protests of 2020, Williams realized he could offer a perspective distinct from the almost exclusively America-centric books on race topping the bestseller lists, because of one salient fact: he has lived in Trinidad (where he was never the only Black person in the room), in Canada (where he often was), and in the United States (where as a Black man from the Caribbean, he was a different kind of "only"). Inspired by the essays of James Baldwin, in which the personal becomes the gateway to larger ideas, Williams explores such things as the unmistakable moment when a child realizes they are Black; the ten characteristics of institutional whiteness; how friendship forms a bulwark against being a target of racism; the meaning and uses of a Black persons smile; and blame cultureor how do we make meaningful change when no one feels responsible for the systemic structures of the past. With these essays, Williams wants to reach a multi-racial audience of people who believe that civil conversation on even the most charged subjects is possible. Examining the past and the present in order to speak to the future, he offers new thinking, honest feeling, and his astonishing, piercing gift of language.

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint. Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results. Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant sons fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicias life at a typically inopportune moment, the books exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed.