wyszukanych pozycji: 9
The Italian Boy : Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
ISBN: 9781844133307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, it became known that a group of body snatchers - two men in particular, John Bishop and Thomas Williams, called the 'London Burkers' - were supplying the anatomy schools with fresh 'examples' for dissection.
The case became known as 'The Italian Boy' and caused a furore which led directly to the passing of controversial legislation which marked the... Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notori...
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69,02 zł |
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
ISBN: 9781844133314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by a talented young historian.
In 1887, government inspectors were sent to report on the horrifying, often lethal, living conditions of the Old Nichol, a notorious 15-acre slum in London's East End. Among much else, they found that the rotting 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative properties in the capital for their absent slumlords. Peers of the Realm, local politicians, churchmen and lawyers were making profits on these death-traps of as much as 150 per cent per annum. Before long, Old Nichol became a focus of... A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by a talented young historian.
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58,39 zł |
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780099541868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incarceration, the support that their plight aroused in the public mind and the newspapers, and doctors' shifting arguments about what constituted insanity.
12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incar...
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79,64 zł |
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation
ISBN: 9780861544554 / Twarda / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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113,04 zł |
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
ISBN: 9781619023222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 473 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science, mad-doctors, alienists, priests and barristers, to raise the matter to a level of "science," capable of being used by conniving relatives, "designing families" and scheming neighbors to destroy people who found themselves in the way, people whose removal could provide their survivors with money or...
The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other pe...
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82,95 zł |
Fundraising for Churches: 12 Keys to Success Every Church Leader Should Know
ISBN: 9781938077838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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174,51 zł |
Education in Out-Of-Home Care: International Perspectives on Policy, Practice and Research
ISBN: 9783030263744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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329,96 zł |
Biologics in Otolaryngology, an Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, Volume 54-4
ISBN: 9780323835367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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393,65 zł |
100 Roses Burned: One Hundred Roses Burned
ISBN: 9780578711218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,49 zł |