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Author: Jonathan Skariton Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101970502 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Los Angeles, 2002. Alex Whitman is hired by an enigmatic collector to locate what could be the first movie ever made—Séance Infernale. Its creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those in the know to be the true inventor of motion pictures—not the Lumière brothers or Thomas Edison. In 1890, Sekular had boarded a Paris-bound train from Dijon, days before he was to present to the world his greatest new invention: a moving picture machine. But he never arrived at Gare de Lyon. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again. When Whitman tracks down what could be fragments of Sekuler’s famously lost film, questions are raised—about Sekuler, about the fate of him and his invention, and about the film itself. And the stakes become ratcheted up as these riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery. At once riveting, atmospheric, and filled with vivid historical detail, Séance Infernale is a heart-pounding work of mystery and suspense.
Author: Jonathan Skariton Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101970502 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Los Angeles, 2002. Alex Whitman is hired by an enigmatic collector to locate what could be the first movie ever made—Séance Infernale. Its creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those in the know to be the true inventor of motion pictures—not the Lumière brothers or Thomas Edison. In 1890, Sekular had boarded a Paris-bound train from Dijon, days before he was to present to the world his greatest new invention: a moving picture machine. But he never arrived at Gare de Lyon. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again. When Whitman tracks down what could be fragments of Sekuler’s famously lost film, questions are raised—about Sekuler, about the fate of him and his invention, and about the film itself. And the stakes become ratcheted up as these riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery. At once riveting, atmospheric, and filled with vivid historical detail, Séance Infernale is a heart-pounding work of mystery and suspense.
Author: Jacalyn Duffin Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400864674 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 473
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René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in hagiography and legend. Jacalyn Duffin's fascinating new biography relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters. She situates Laennec, the scientist and teacher, within the broader social and intellectual currents of post-Revolutionary France. Her work uncovers a complex character who participated actively in the dramatic changes of his time. Laennec's famous Treatise on Mediate Auscultation was his only published book, but two lesser known works were left in manuscript: an early treatise on pathological anatomy and a later set of lectures on disease. The three parts of Duffin's biography correspond to these books. First, she examines Laennec's student research on the emerging science of pathological anatomy, the background for his major achievement. Second, she uses his clinical records to trace the discovery and development of "mediate auscultation" (listening through an instrument, or mediator, to sounds within the human body). The stethoscope allowed clinicians to "see" the organic alterations inside their living patients' bodies. Finally, she explores the impact of auscultation on diagnostic practice and on concepts of disease. Analyzed here for the first time in their entirety, Laennec's Collége de France lectures reveal his criticism of over-enthusiastic extrapolations of his own method at the expense of the patient's story. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Jonathan SKARITON Publisher: Sonatine ISBN: 2355846545 Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 315
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Un thriller obsessionnel et fascinant Quelle est la teneur de Séance infernale, film mythique aujourd'hui perdu ? Et qu'est-il arrivé à son réalisateur, le Français Augustin Sekuler, mystérieusement disparu en 1890 lors d'un voyage en train entre la Bourgogne et Paris ? Le film est-il lié à une série de meurtres qui endeuillent la ville d'Édimbourg ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles Alex Whitman, chercheur de reliques cinématographiques pour riches collectionneurs, tente de répondre, sans se douter des dangers auxquels il s'expose. De Los Angeles à Genève en passant par Paris, un puzzle diabolique se met en place, sur lequel apparaît peu à peu l'incroyable vérité qui se cache derrière ce film maudit. À la façon de Theodore Roszak dans La Conspiration des ténèbres, Jonathan Skariton s'inspire de personnages et de faits réels (la disparition du pionnier du cinéma Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince), et nous propose une quête passionnante qui devient vite aussi obsessionnelle pour le lecteur que pour son héros.
Author: Jack Rollins Publisher: ISBN: 9780993062001 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 56
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A gothic Victorian chiller from the author of the Dr Blessing Series Albert Kench is summoned back to London from his travels in Australia, and is shocked to find that his sister has suffered horrific mental and physical damage. A man of science and progress, when Albert is told that Sally attended a seance prior to her collapse and has been touched by otherworldly forces, he believes there must be another, more rational explanation. Albert learns of a man who claims mastery of the dark arts, who may hold the key to Sally's salvation. Albert sets off in search of answers, but can he emerge victorious without faith, or will he be forced to accept the existence of a realm beyond the world around him?"
Author: Jonathan Skariton
Author: Jonathan Skariton
Author: Jacalyn Duffin
Author: Jonathan SKARITON
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Author: John Harwood
Author: John Harwood
Author: Jack Rollins
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