wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
ISBN: 9780385494694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal...
During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that sta...
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74,09 zł |
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Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America
ISBN: 9780226893846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In Banquet at Delmonico's, Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a crucial intellectual encounter, culminating with an exclusive farewell dinner held in English philosopher Herbert Spencer's honor at the venerable New York restaurant Delmonico's in 1882. In this thought-provoking and nuanced account, Werth firmly situates social Darwinism in the context of the Gilded Age. Banquet at Delmonico's is... In Banquet at Delmonico's, Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen... |
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100,55 zł |
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Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War
ISBN: 9781501153976 / Angielski / 20-08-2024 Książka dostępna od: 20-08-2024 |
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121,18 zł |
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The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug
ISBN: 9780671510572 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing -- atom by atom -- both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS.
You will be hooked from start to finish, as you go from the labs, where obsessive, fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a... Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being p...
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82,32 zł |
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Damages
ISBN: 9781416594918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. DAMAGES is the riveting true story of one family's legal struggles in the world of medicine. At the urging of a friend, the Sabias filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Humes and Norwalk Hospital. Barry Werth takes us through the seven-year lawsuit, allowing us to see the legal strategy plotted by the Sabias' attorneys, Connecticut's premier medical malpractice law firm.
DAMAGES is the riveting true story of one family's legal struggles in the world of medicine. At the urging of a friend, the Sabias filed a medical mal...
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106,81 zł |
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The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma
ISBN: 9781451655674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this timely and much praised book, Barry Werth draws upon inside reporting that spans more than two decades. He provides a groundbreaking close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of Big Pharma that it inhabits. In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then America's most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge industry giants and transform health care. Werth described the company's tumultuous early days during the AIDS crisis in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, a celebrated classic of science and...
In this timely and much praised book, Barry Werth draws upon inside reporting that spans more than two decades. He provides a groundbreaking close-up ...
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82,32 zł |
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31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon, and a Government in Crisis
ISBN: 9781400078684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 31 Days, acclaimed historian Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days of August 1974, following Richard Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's -accidental president, - Gerald Ford. The Watergate scandal had torn the country apart. In a dramatic, day-by-day account of the new administration's inner workings, Werth shows how Ford, caught between political expedience, the country's demands for justice, and his own moral compass, struggled valiantly to restore the nation's tarnished faith in its leadership. With deft and refreshing...
In 31 Days, acclaimed historian Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days of August 1974, following Richard N...
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94,67 zł |