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Author: Craig Brandon
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Published: 2007
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ISBN-13: 9780979506710
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Author: Craig Brandon
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979506710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bert Ford
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold L. Platt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991-04-09
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0226670759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-11-15
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 0226556743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that the biggest economic story of our times is how China & India have embraced neoliberalism, Deirdre McCloskey suggests that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment or material causes, & a whole lot more on ideas & what people believe.
Author: Kenneth M. Sheldon
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2022-06-15
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1684750288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped in a rainwater cistern on his farm in the quiet town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Suspicion quickly fell on Dean's wife, an invalid in the early stages of dementia. Her friends, outraged at the accusations, pointed instead to a former tenant of Dean’s, whom many suspected of being a German spy. Others believed that Dean's best friend, a politically powerful banker and judge, was involved. Deep Water is based on extensive research into the Dean murder, including thousands of pages of FBI documents, Grand Jury testimonies, newspaper accounts, private correspondence, and the archives of the Jaffrey Historical Society.
Author: Elizabeth L. Lee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1501346881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer “there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio.” The Medicine of Art puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works by Gilded-Age artists such as John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are shown to function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum, and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy. The first study to address the place of organic disease-cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis-in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, this book looks at how well-known works of art were marked by disease and argues that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late 19th century.
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 698
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