Author: Alexander MARJORIBANKS (of Marjoribanks.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Tour from Modern Athens to the Loire and La Vendée, in 1835, Etc
Author: Alexander MARJORIBANKS (of Marjoribanks.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Tour from Modern Athens to the Loire and La Vendée, in 1835
Author: Alexander MajoribanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Tour to the Loire and La Vendee in 1835
Author: LoireEssays on Political Economy
Author: Frédéric BastiatPublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Doctors
Author: Sherwin B. NulandPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307807894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Immoral Memories
Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720615579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), creator of such masterpieces as Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, was perhaps the greatest of all film directors. He wrote his autobiography in 1946, two years before his death, and it is a work of major importance in the light it sheds on his personality and mercurial genius. Vivid, eccentric and free-ranging, Immoral Memories is written in a style reminiscent of the brilliant visual effects of montage and dynamic progression that characterize its author's film-making technique. He recounts his life in Russia from the time of the Revolution, during which he served in the Bolshevik army as a volunteer, his travels in the West and his encounters with a remarkable medley of individuals during his long career. He gives us unique insights, too, into his triumphs and tribulations. His disappointments and despair were exemplified by the banning of the film Ivan the Terrible, Part II, which was not released until fifteen years after his death. And he never expected his autobiography to be published in Russia. Yet in answer to his query "Has there been life" he replied that there had been "life lived acutely, joyously, tormentedly, at times even sparkling, unquestionably colourful, and such a life that, I suppose, I would not exchange for another""--Publisher's description.
Author: Honoré de Balzac