It causes swelling (edema) of the legs. It can also cause sores on the legs. Muscles in your feet and legs help your veins move blood to the heart against gravity. The veins also have one-way valves that keep the blood from flowing backwards. The valves work like one-way gates.
This article is about the children's book by Dr. Seuss. For other uses, see Lorax (disambiguation) . The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the greedy Once-ler.
The Gunslinger is a novel by American author Stephen King and is the first volume in the Dark Tower series, of which King wrote in 1982 that he considers it his magnum opus. Initially a fix-up novel that strung together five short stories published between 1978 and 1981, it was first published in book form in 1982.