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The Cholera Years

The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

de Charles E. Rosenberg ...

A history of the nineteenth-century epidemic and a "skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease" ( The New York Times).Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. In ... Leer más

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A history of the nineteenth-century epidemic and a "skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease" ( The New York Times).Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. In
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Cholera Years, The

The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

de Charles E. Rosenberg ...

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6 hora 36 minutos

Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written ... Leer más

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Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written
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Our Present Complaint

American Medicine, Then and Now

de Charles E. Rosenberg ...

The renowned medical historian examines the current tensions in American healthcare in this "cogently written and well documented" book ( Choice).In Our Present Complaint, Charles E. Rosenberg examines today's dilemmas in American medicine within their historical and social contexts. He begins with an insightful look at the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how ... Leer más

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The renowned medical historian examines the current tensions in American healthcare in this "cogently written and well documented" book ( Choice).In Our Present Complaint, Charles E. Rosenberg examines today's dilemmas in American medicine within their historical and social contexts. He begins with an insightful look at the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how
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The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System

de Charles E. Rosenberg ...

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in History.“[A] splendid history of the hospital in America... What makes this an important book is that Mr. Rosenberg has managed to tell the story of the hospital as a microcosm of American society... It is remarkable that an institution so central to our society, and to our medical system as the hospital has been for the last 100 years, has had to wait so ... Leer más

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Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in History.“[A] splendid history of the hospital in America... What makes this an important book is that Mr. Rosenberg has managed to tell the story of the hospital as a microcosm of American society... It is remarkable that an institution so central to our society, and to our medical system as the hospital has been for the last 100 years, has had to wait so
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A Short History of Medicine

de Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Charles E. Rosenberg ...

A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay.Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine.Covering the broad sweep of ... Leer más

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A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay.Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine.Covering the broad sweep of
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The Best of MetaStellar Year One

Best of MetaStellar, #1

de Kerry E.B. Black, Glenn Bresciani, William C. Burns, Jr., Stephen Case, James Cato, Barry Charman, Charles Q Choi, DC Diamondopolous, Jelena Dunato, Andrew Dunn, Tony Dunnell, Jonathan Ficke, Melody Friedenthal, Adam Gaylord, Charles Hand, Amanda Hard, Neil Harrison, Bridget Haug, Ted Hayden, Joshua Jones, Michael M. Jones, E. E. King, Katrinka Mannelly, Beth McCabe, Matt McHugh, M.V. Melcer, Marshall J Moore, Bret Nelson, Wendy Nikel, Spencer Nitkey, Avery Parks, Sarah Pauling, Louis B. Rosenberg, Aeryn Rudel, Robert Runte, Nina Shepardson, Adrian Simmons, Caren Gussoff Sumption, R. J. Theodore, Surina Venkat, Nicole Walsh, Geordie Morse, Marie LeClaire, Maria Korolov ...

Series Libro 1 - Best of MetaStellar
Forty-one enthralling stories from the most talented new science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers.MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and horror launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors, and artists from around the world.Since then, it's published hundreds of short stories by hundreds of writers, both original ... Leer más

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Forty-one enthralling stories from the most talented new science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers.MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and horror launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors, and artists from around the world.Since then, it's published hundreds of short stories by hundreds of writers, both original
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Rembrandt's Religious Prints

de Charles M. Rosenberg ...

A stunning catalogue of the seventy religious prints from the 2017 exhibition, featuring detailed background information on each piece.Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved ... Leer más

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A stunning catalogue of the seventy religious prints from the 2017 exhibition, featuring detailed background information on each piece.Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved
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The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington

A Novel

de Charles Rosenberg ...

A Finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History"A clever and imaginative tale." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling authorA thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington.British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in ... Leer más

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A Finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History"A clever and imaginative tale." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling authorA thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington.British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in
... Leer más
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Poets & Their Inner Demons – Dead Before 30

Poems by poets all linked by suffering similar issues

de John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wilfred Owen, Christopher Marlowe, Emily Bronte, Thomas Chatterton, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, Phyllis Wheatley, Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Amy Levy, Alfred Lichtenstein, Charles Sorley, Alan Seeger ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

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2 hora 51 minutos

The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death.In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.The long roll call of names and ... Leer más

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The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death.In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.The long roll call of names and
... Leer más
Concepts of Nature

Ancient and Modern

de Barry Cooper, Melissa Moschella, Jeremy Seth Geddert, Jesse Covington, James R. Stoner Jr., Christopher O. Tollefsen, Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Charles T. Rubin, Amy Gilbert Richards, Anna Bonta Moreland, Randall S. Rosenberg, Gregory R. Beabout, Thomas W. Smith, Glenn Hughes, Stephen M. Fields ...

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and ... Leer más

$46.99 USD

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
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The Day Lincoln Lost

de Charles Rosenberg ...

An inventive historical thriller that reimagines the tumultuous presidential election of 1860, capturing the people desperately trying to hold the nation together—and those trying to crack it apart.Abby Kelley Foster arrived in Springfield, Illinois, with the fate of the nation on her mind. Her fame as an abolitionist speaker had spread west and she knew that her first speech in the city would ... Leer más

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An inventive historical thriller that reimagines the tumultuous presidential election of 1860, capturing the people desperately trying to hold the nation together—and those trying to crack it apart.Abby Kelley Foster arrived in Springfield, Illinois, with the fate of the nation on her mind. Her fame as an abolitionist speaker had spread west and she knew that her first speech in the city would
... Leer más
Best British Short Stories 2015

de Rebecca Swirsky, Matthew Sperling, Joanna Walsh, Jenn Ashworth, Tamar Hodes, Bee Lewis, Uschi Gatward, Emma Cleary, Jim Hinks, Jonathan Gibbs, Neil Campbell, Hilary Mantel, Alan McCormick, Alison Moore, Helen Marshall, Julianne Pachico, Helen Simpson, Charles Wilkinson, Nicholas Royle, K. J. Orr, Tracey S. Rosenberg ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …"Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief ... Leer más

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"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …"Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief
... Leer más

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