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Angela Sloan
ISBN: 9781451624403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn just how much there is to gain, and lose, when you go undercover. Angela Sloan, a seemingly average teenager living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is left to lie low and fend for herself when her father, a retired CIA officer, skips town in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Driving a Plymouth Scamp she has just learned to operate, Angela encounters strangers literally at every turn. A fugitive Chinese waitress won't get out of the car. A...
In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn ju...
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68,84 zł |
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Frankland
ISBN: 9780743244497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who goes hunting for a secret history and gets much more than he bargained for. John Tolley is a bumbling college dropout who yearns to become a bowtie-wearing, pipe-smoking historian. When he hears that Andrew Johnson's lost papers may have been preserved by an heir in Tennessee, he grabs his tweed jacket and heads...
With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carso...
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85,89 zł |
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Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers
ISBN: 9780691641898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in 1982. 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... To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns we... |
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956,18 zł |
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The dark of hangman's wynd
ISBN: 9781500705404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edinburgh, 1826: Corpses begin to turn up in Hangman's Wynd, one of the many dank alleyways that coil through the city's Old Town. Initially, the deaths are attributed to cholera morbus, an intestinal ailment rife among the residents of the Old Town's squalid tenements. But to David Arnesen, a professor at the city's medical school, it seems beyond chance that the victims are all prostitutes and that they die of the same symptoms in the same out-of-the-way location. He is certain the women are being murdered. But how? And why? And by whom? Using the tools of the new science of forensic...
Edinburgh, 1826: Corpses begin to turn up in Hangman's Wynd, one of the many dank alleyways that coil through the city's Old Town. Initially, the deat...
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63,05 zł |
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Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America
ISBN: 9780195171624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures, the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream medicine and numerous unorthodox systems.
This is the first comprehensive history of alternative medicine in America, examining the major systems that have emerged from 1800 to the present. Writing with wit and with fairness to all sides, Whorton offers a fascinating look at alternative... From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton sho...
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124,18 zł |
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Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
ISBN: 9780691645308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring, tracing the origins of the residue problem and exploring the complicated network of interest groups that formed around the issue. The author shows how... Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced t... |
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775,32 zł |
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Approximately Heaven
ISBN: 9780743244473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From prizewinning short story writer James Whorton, Jr., Approximately Heaven is a marvelously rambunctious debut novel about one hapless man's pursuit of happiness -- or at least another six-pack. Preferably both.
Don "Wendell" Brush is an unemployed 32-year-old Tennessee electrician who likes a few beers before lunch. Mary, his long-suffering wife, has decided to leave him, but Don, heartsick at the thought, beats her out the door. He reasons that if he leaves, Mary will have to stay behind in their ramshackle house to take care of their dog and cat. At least he'll know where... From prizewinning short story writer James Whorton, Jr., Approximately Heaven is a marvelously rambunctious debut novel about one hapless man's...
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72,98 zł |
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The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
ISBN: 9780199605996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.
Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and... Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth centu...
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84,87 zł |
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Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society
ISBN: 9780195135817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Inner Hygiene explores the serious health threat of constipation, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from the toxic effects of intestinal regularity. The book examines the evolution over the last two centuries of the belief that constipation is a disease brought on by an unnatural lifestyle of urban, industrial society. Particular attention is given to the many constipation therapies that people have used, including laxatives, enemas, mineral waters, bran cereals, yogurts, electrotherapy, calisthenics,...
Inner Hygiene explores the serious health threat of constipation, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures...
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281,48 zł |
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Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
ISBN: 9780691618296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring, tracing the origins of the residue problem and exploring the complicated network of interest groups that formed around the issue. The author shows how... Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced t... |
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300,30 zł |
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