The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles

The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles

Author: Jeremy Agnew

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1476683832

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Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus. This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine. The author argues that quackery should not be defined by the ineffectiveness of a therapy, but rather be based on the fraudulent intent of the people who pushed dishonest and deceptive remedies.


Franchising

Franchising

Author: Harold Brown

Publisher: Law Journal Press

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 1706

ISBN-13: 9781588520111

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Provides agreements and completed pre-sale disclosure statements. It includes the transition from the former FTC pre-sale disclosure regulations to the new FTC Franchise Rule and NASAA Guidelines.


The Predator State

The Predator State

Author: James Galbraith

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 141656683X

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A progressive economist challenges popular conservative-minded economic practices, in a scathing critique of Reagan-Bush policies that contends that the political right is misrepresenting the consequences of free-market and free-trade ideals. 50,000 first printing.


Forecast

Forecast

Author: Mark Buchanan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1608198529

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Picture an early scene from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy hurries home as a tornado gathers in what was once a clear Kansas sky. Hurriedly, she seeks shelter in the storm cellar under the house, but, finding it locked, takes cover in her bedroom. We all know how that works out for her. Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions--storms--seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react. Why are we so often blindsided by these things, left outdoors with nothing but our little dogs? More to the point: how did Kansas go from blue skies to tornadoes in such a short time? In this deeply researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets--that they are for the most part stable, with occasional interruptions--are simply wrong. Markets really act more like the weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days, or even hours. The Physics of Finance reimagines the basics of how economics, with consequences that affect everyone.


MARVELOUS ENGLISH ESSAYS

MARVELOUS ENGLISH ESSAYS

Author: Prof. Avtar S Virdi

Publisher: GTP North America Publishing House, Canada

Published: 2012-09-03

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0992032822

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This book has essays for the students who wish to take the IELTS, TOEFL, LPI and other english challenge exams. It also caters to the needs of high school students. There are synonyms of difficult words given at the end of the book that help students to many ways. The author has thrown an open challenge to all that if any body in the world shows a book on essays with better quality stuff, he/she will be awarded $10,000 Cdn.


Journal of Proceeding and Addresses

Journal of Proceeding and Addresses

Author: National Education Association of the United States

Publisher:

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 1270

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association.


Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World

Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World

Author: Seymour Chatman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0520907663

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Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. Though traditional audiences have balked at the "opacity" of Antonioni's films, it is precisely their rendered surface that is so eloquent once one learns to read it. Not despite, but through, their silences the films show a deep concern with the motives, perceptions and vicissitudes of the emotional life. This study covers films not dealt with in any other book on the great director, including Il mistero di Obertwald (1980) and Identificazione di una donna (1982), which have not yet been seen in the U.S. Its coverage of the early documentaries and features, when Antonioni was forging his new and original stylistic "language," is especially full. In a free-ranging analysis of the evolution of Antonioni's style that quotes liberally from Antonioni's own highly articulate writings and interviews, Chatman shows how difficult it was for the filmmaker to liberate his art from the conventional means of rendering narrative, especially dialogue, conventional sound effects, and commentative music. From his first efforts to his triumphant achievements in the tetralogy of L'avventura, L'eclisse, and Il deserto rosso, Antonioni's acute sensibility struggled to achieve the mastery that has won him a secure place in film history. Chatman's study is the only complete account of Antonioni's work available in English. Its novel visual approach to the films while attract not only film scholars but also readers interested in painting and architecture—both important elements of Antonioni's work.