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  • The City

    A World History

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Liverpool: The Hurricane Port

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Scousers believe they live in a special place, one that has more in common with Salvador da Bahia, New Orleans or Gdansk than anywhere in England, and the city has always punched above its weight. In less than a hundred years, however, Liverpool's image has declined from a major mercantile player known as the Second City of the Empire to what some social commentators have described as a cultural ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Yearbook of Transnational History

    (2020)

    by Austin E. Loignon, Eszter Gantner, Heidi Hein-Kircher, Barry L. Stiefel, Máté Tamáska, Cor Wagenaar, Aleksander Lupienko, Andrew Lees, Alan Lessoff ...
    The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban history. It brings together articles that investigate the transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to modernize cities ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Character Is Destiny

    The Autobiography of Alice Salomon

    Edited by Andrew Lees, Dr ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer, activist, and educator. A prolific author, Salomon also played a key role in the transatlantic ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology

    by Simon Shorvon, Alastair Compston, Andrew Lees, Michael J. Clark, Martin Rossor ...
    As the first neurological hospital in the world, founded in 1859, the National Hospital, Queen Square, and its affiliated Institute of Neurology remain leading neurological centres providing exceptional clinical services, teaching and research. Illustrated by over 100 historical images and much unpublished archival material, this book provides a comprehensive history of the National Hospital, the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Alzheimer's

    An Essential Guide to the Disease and Other Forms of Dementia

    by Dr Andrew Lees ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    A short, easily understandable account of Alzheimer's, by world expert Dr Andrew LeesBritain like the rest of the developed world is in the grip of a silent plague. Its thousands of victims can no longer make sense of the world and are contained for their own safety in fading Victorian piles and nondescript redbrick detention centres around the country. For them the present is a foreign country ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • William Richard Gowers 1845-1915

    Exploring the Victorian Brain

    by Ann Scott, Mervyn Eadie, Andrew Lees ...
    Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century. He is best remembered for his discovery of the eponymous 'Gowers' sign', for his invention of the patella hammer, and for authoring the classic two-volume neurology textbook Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. To date Dr Gowers has been the subject of only one published biography, while ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

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  • They Thought They Were Free

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    by Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans ...
    National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." — The New York TImesThey Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the ... Read more

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  • 100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Age-Related Memory Loss

    by Jean Carper ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author "gives readers of all ages 100 doable strategies for keeping brains sharp and bodies healthy" (William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Healthy Brain Book).Most people think there is little or nothing you can do to avoid Alzheimer's. But scientists know this is no longer true. In fact, prominent researchers now say that our best and perhaps only hope of defeating ... Read more

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  • Hope and Glory

    A People’s History of Modern Britain

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. Stuart goes to Orgreave and Windsor, Wembley and Wootton Bassett, assembling a unique cast of Britons from Sir Edmund Hillary to Sid Vicious along the way.It’s quite ... Read more

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  • The Other Brain

    From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science

    by R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D. ...
    Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked—until now. The Other Brain examines the growing importance of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the brain, and the role they play in how the brain functions, malfunctions, and heals itself.Long neglected as little more than cerebral packing ... Read more

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