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Product Description: Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same...read more

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9780719087967 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art.

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By James Patrick Cronin (narrator)

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9781531816674 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, August 30, 2016), cover price $9.99

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9781250058393 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, September 29, 2015), cover price $27.99

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9781250105400 | Griffin, August 30, 2016, cover price $16.99

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9781421420325 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2016, cover price $65.00

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9781421420332 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2016), cover price $35.00

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Product Description: While unknown to many living in western New York, the Kevin Guest House has served thousands of critically ill individuals and their families for over 40 years. Quietly nestled within the expanding Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus of Buffalo, New York, the demand for the facility continues to increase...read more
By Denis Garvey (foreword by)

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9781467116817 | Arcadia Pub, August 1, 2016, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: While unknown to many living in western New York, the Kevin Guest House has served thousands of critically ill individuals and their families for over 40 years.

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Product Description: In this autobiography, Josef Rösch, a leading pioneer in interventional radiology from its inception to the present, documents his life and discusses important aspects of his work, focusing especially on those procedures that he developed or improved and that were popularized by his lectures and publications...read more

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9783319338187 | Springer Verlag, July 15, 2016, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: In this autobiography, Josef Rösch, a leading pioneer in interventional radiology from its inception to the present, documents his life and discusses important aspects of his work, focusing especially on those procedures that he developed or improved and that were popularized by his lectures and publications.

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Product Description: Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing...read more

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9780813574394 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 22, 2016, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing.

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Product Description: While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than 18,000 people...read more
By Margie Lenhart (narrator)

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9781522677079 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 5, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever.

Product Description: Yorkshireman Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) studied and built his medical career in London. From 1860 he specialised in psychiatry, working at hospitals and in private practice, and from 1863 to 1878 he was joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science...read more

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9780890931684 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1977, cover price $75.00
9780313269431 | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1977, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos.

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9781108080460, titled "The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Yorkshireman Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) studied and built his medical career in London.

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Product Description: Medicine’s Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease—and its remedy—to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world...read more

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9781910232941 | Pavilion, July 1, 2016, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Medicine’s Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease—and its remedy—to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.

Product Description: The physician and botanist William Woodville (1752-1805), a proponent of inoculation against smallpox, was in 1791 appointed physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital. Five years later, Edward Jenner announced his experiments with vaccination - inoculation with the much milder cowpox, which conveyed immunity to smallpox without the attendant risk of catching the often fatal disease...read more

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9781108077699 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: The physician and botanist William Woodville (1752-1805), a proponent of inoculation against smallpox, was in 1791 appointed physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital.

Product Description: This book has been described as a 'watershed work [which] has probably not received the credit it deserves'. Its author, John Pringle (1707-82), gained his experience of military medicine as physician to Lord Stair, the commander of the British army in Europe...read more

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9781108079532 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book has been described as a 'watershed work [which] has probably not received the credit it deserves'.

Product Description: The Quaker philanthropist Samuel Tuke (1784-1857) was the grandson of William Tuke, the founder in 1796 of the Retreat at York, a pioneering asylum for the insane which championed compassionate care and the abolition of physical restraints...read more

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9781108080279 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The Quaker philanthropist Samuel Tuke (1784-1857) was the grandson of William Tuke, the founder in 1796 of the Retreat at York, a pioneering asylum for the insane which championed compassionate care and the abolition of physical restraints.

Product Description: An army surgeon and later deputy inspector of hospitals in Jamaica, James Dillon Tully (1785-1827) witnessed at first hand the spread of the plague through the Mediterranean in the early nineteenth century. In particular, he was instrumental in controlling the disease in Corfu and Cephalonia...read more

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9781108079273 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: An army surgeon and later deputy inspector of hospitals in Jamaica, James Dillon Tully (1785-1827) witnessed at first hand the spread of the plague through the Mediterranean in the early nineteenth century.

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9781421421087, titled "Health and Humanity: A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 26, 2016, cover price $45.00

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By Coleen Marlo (narrator)

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9781522694755 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 21, 2016), cover price $9.99

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By Kelly Birch (narrator)

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9781522671206 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 21, 2016), cover price $9.99

By Alice Gilmour (narrator)

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9781522668190 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 14, 2016), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time...read more
By Bryan Reid (narrator)

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9781522694144 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 14, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Could Lincoln have lived?

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By Napoleon Ryan (narrator)

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9781522693901 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 14, 2016), cover price $9.99

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9780226169880 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 9, 2014), cover price $35.00

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9780226379401 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 6, 2016), cover price $25.00
9780318414201, titled "Reading Success for School and Home" | Revised edition (Creative Resources, June 1, 1989), cover price $10.95 | also contains Reading Success for School and Home

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