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32 produkter
Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
132 kr
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"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick...· A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from virtually every orifice...These are just a few of the anecdotal gems that have until now lain undiscovered in medical journals for centuries. This fascinating collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.From seventeenth-century Holland to Tsarist Russia, from rural Canada to a whaler in the Pacific, many are monuments to human stupidity – such as the sailor who swallowed dozens of penknives to amuse his shipmates, or the chemistry student who in 1850 arrived at a hospital in New York with his penis trapped inside a bottle, having unwisely decided to relieve himself into a vessel containing highly reactive potassium. Others demonstrate exceptional surgical ingenuity long before the advent of anaesthesia – such as a daring nineteenth-century operation to remove a metal fragment from beneath a conscious patient’s heart. We also hear of the weird, often hilarious remedies employed by physicians of yore – from crow’s vomit to port-wine enemas – the hazards of such everyday objects as cucumbers and false teeth, and miraculous recovery from apparently terminal injuries.Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history.
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A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and a twice-widowed pensioner tries to persuade the lovely Mrs Morgan to be his date at the town's summer festival...Set in Caerphilly, a sleepy castle town in South Wales, Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected ways, offering vivid and moving glimpses of the lost, lonely and bemused. By turns poignant, witty, and tender - these entertaining stories detail the lives of people who know where they are, but don't know what they're doing.This is the work of a young writer with a startlingly fresh voice, an uncanny ear for dialogue and a broad emotional range. We Don't Know What We're Doing is a major launch for the Faber fiction list in 2015.
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A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023'Brilliant, funny, unsettling. . . Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story' SALLY ROONEY'With precision, wry humour and a generous heart, Morris visits life's agonies and ecstasies.' NATHAN FILER'A fierce and tender suite of stories' LUCY CALDWELL'Thomas Morris is incredibly gifted within the form. It's so heartening to read his work.' SARAH HALL 'Funny, sad, complex, unexpected, and worthy of multiple readings.' JON MCGREGOR'Pleasurably off-kilter, gently acerbic and sadly wise' COLIN BARRETTThe new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.From a child attending his first football match, buoyed by secret magic, and a wincingly humane portrait of adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes of a seahorse, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace, hope and benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery.Philosophically acute. Wincingly humane. Strikingly original. This outstanding suite of stories is bursting with a bracing emotional depth. Open Up cracks the heart as it expands the short story form.Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing:'Heart-hurtingly acute, laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years.' ALI SMITH, Guardian 'Books of the Year''Masterly. . . marvellous grace and wit.' PHILIP HENSHER'That tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own'. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection.' Irish Times'Morris's fresh, direct writing style feels brand new.' Metro'Radiant' Independent
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A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE'I love this book.' BRANDON TAYLOR 'Extraordinary and original.' Sunday Times'Brilliant, funny, unsettling.' SALLY ROONEY 'Impressive.' Irish Times'A writer beyond compare.' ALI SMITH'Fierce and tender.' LUCY CALDWELL'Astounding.' COLIN BARRETT 'Worthy of multiple readings.' JON McGREGORThe new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.From Wales to Croatia to the depths of the ocean, these five achingly tender stories of (dis)connection are bursting with emotional vulnerability. A child attends his first football match, buoyed by secret magic; a young seahorse grapples with grief and loss; a troubled young man gets his birthday teeth. Strikingly original and wincingly humane, Open Up seeks to find grace, hope and benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery.Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing:'Heart-hurtingly acute, laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years.' ALI SMITH, Guardian 'Books of the Year''Masterly. . . marvellous grace and wit.' PHILIP HENSHER'That tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own'. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection.' Irish Times'Morris's fresh, direct writing style feels brand new.' Metro'Radiant' Independent
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A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023'Brilliant, funny, unsettling. . . Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story' SALLY ROONEY'With precision, wry humour and a generous heart, Morris visits life's agonies and ecstasies.' NATHAN FILER'A fierce and tender suite of stories' LUCY CALDWELL'Thomas Morris is incredibly gifted within the form. It's so heartening to read his work.' SARAH HALL 'Funny, sad, complex, unexpected, and worthy of multiple readings.' JON MCGREGOR'Pleasurably off-kilter, gently acerbic and sadly wise' COLIN BARRETTThe new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.From a child attending his first football match, buoyed by secret magic, and a wincingly humane portrait of adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes of a seahorse, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace, hope and benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery.Philosophically acute. Wincingly humane. Strikingly original. This outstanding suite of stories is bursting with a bracing emotional depth. Open Up cracks the heart as it expands the short story form.Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing:'Heart-hurtingly acute, laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years.' ALI SMITH, Guardian 'Books of the Year''Masterly. . . marvellous grace and wit.' PHILIP HENSHER'That tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own'. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection.' Irish Times'Morris's fresh, direct writing style feels brand new.' Metro'Radiant' Independent
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Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyce s classic short story collection one hundred years after its publication. It serves to bring together ambitious new writers, like Elske Rahill, with well-known voices, like Patrick McCabe, looking in, reacting to and reinterpreting Joyce. Dubliners 100 is a celebration, an invitation, a tribute, and a wonderful collection in itself.
237 kr
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Speech of the Hon. Thomas Morris, of Ohio
In the Senate of the United States, February 6, 1839, In Reply to the Hon. Henry Clay
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
334 kr
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Speech of the Hon. Thomas Morris, of Ohio
In the Senate of the United States, February 6, 1839, In Reply to the Hon. Henry Clay
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
167 kr
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348 kr
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385 kr
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216 kr
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Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
237 kr
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Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
372 kr
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The Provosts of Methven: Biographical Notices of the Provosts, with Charters and Other Documents Relating to the Provostry.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
222 kr
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346 kr
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Life of Thomas Morris
Pioneer and Long a Legislator of Ohio, and U.S. Senator from 1833 to 1839.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
379 kr
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Recollections Of Military Service In 1813-1815, Through Germany, Holland, And France (1845)
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
367 kr
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
253 kr
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155 kr
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A thrilling investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2022.'All the shocks and surprises of the best crime fiction' The Times Crime ClubDublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.Yet there is no sign of a murder weapon and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. Thousands of pounds in gold and silver are left untouched at the scene of the crime.Augustus Guy, Ireland's most experienced detective, teams up with Dublin's leading lawyer to investigate the murder - but the case defies all explanation. Then a local woman comes forward, claiming to know the killer...'An intriguing and compelling true-crime whodunnit' Irish Times'A true-crime masterclass... As compelling as any thriller' Philip Gray, author of Two Storm Wood
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'Thrilling... The “dizzying” story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie, Sunday TimesFor thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing ‘blue baby’ procedure to the first human heart transplant. The Matter of the Heart gives us a view over the surgeon’s shoulder, showing us the heart’s inner workings and failings. It describes both a human story and a history of risk-taking that has ultimately saved millions of lives.
241 kr
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'This real-life murder mystery had as many twists and turns as an Agatha Christie whodunit' Daily Mail on The Dublin Railway Murders A shocking murder. A suspect with an alibi. A courtroom trial that gripped a nation.On an autumn night by the London docks, shipyard magnate Isaac Blight is found shot dead in his own armchair. Within hours, rumours spread across London and all fingers point to his business partner, Richard Patch. But Patch has an alibi, he has no obvious motive, and the crime scene is anything but clear.Enter three men who will change the face of British justice: brilliant young surgeon Astley Cooper, relentless magistrate Aaron Graham, and courtroom superstar William Garrow. Together, they help forge the foundations of modern detective work.What unfolds next is the trial no one wants to miss. Cabinet ministers angle for seats, British royals flock to the gallery, and the future king of France watches from the wings as the court case takes twist after twist.Blood on the Thames races through the backstreets and courtrooms of Georgian London, blending vivid history with the taut suspense of a classic crime novel. A true story of greed, intrigue and a death that would echo far beyond the docks.Praise for Thomas Morris:'A true-crime masterclass: meticulous, vivid and as compelling as any thriller' Philip Gray ' The research that has gone into this book is simply staggering' Daily Telegraph
Sergeant Morris of the 73rd Foot
the Experiences of a British Infantryman During the Napoleonic Wars-Including Campaigns in Germany and at Waterloo
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
222 kr
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Sergeant Morris of the 73rd Foot
The Experiences of a British Infantryman During the Napoleonic Wars-Including Campaigns in Germany and at Waterloo
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
375 kr
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359 kr
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318 kr
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Speech of the Hon. Thomas Morris, of Ohio
in the Senate of the United States, February 6, 1839
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
162 kr
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