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Author | : Adrian Teal |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1908717769 |
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Many of us think of the ill-behaved celebrity and the tabloid splash as modern inventions, but the antics of footballers and soap stars are as nothing when set alongside the hell-raising of the 18th century celebs. The Gin Lane Gazette is stuffed with true stories of boozy MPs who settled their political differences with duels in Hyde Park; peers of the realm who sat the unburied corpses of their cherished mistresses at their dinner tables; entertainers who rode horses standing upright in the saddle, while wearing a mask of bees; and famous courtesans who ate 1,000-guinea banknotes stuffed into sandwiches, simply to make a point. Before it was dashed from their lips by the Victorian party-poopers, our Georgian forebears drank deep from the cup of life.
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Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Stevyn Colgan |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1908717823 |
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For many years we've known about Six Degrees of Separation: the idea that every person on the planet can be linked by a chain of just six individuals. Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts – a kind of Six Degrees of Information. Called the Connectoscope, it will teach you, among many other things, what humans taste like to robots, why there were bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, and how to make Superman gay. Colgan sets out to prove that everything can be connected. As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how.
Author | : Lindsey Fitzharris |
Publisher | : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374117292 |
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The gripping story of how Joseph Lister’s antiseptic method changed medicine forever
Author | : Lindsey Fitzharris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2023-10-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1547606045 |
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Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse. Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy. Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.
Author | : Fireside pictorial annual |
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1878 |
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Download The Fireside annual [afterw.] pictorial annual [formerly Our own fireside] conducted by C. Bullock Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 1374 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Gazettes |
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Total Pages | : 1158 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Download The North-China Herald & Supreme Court & Consular Gazette Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Download Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lindsey Fitzharris |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374719667 |
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A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.