Cutting Remarks
Cutting Remarks

Author: Sidney M. Schwab MD

Publisher: Frog Books

Published: 2006-03-31

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781583941478

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"A surgeon can kill you...and you'll sleep right through it." The most dramatic—and seemingly glamorous—of medical fields, surgery captivates the public's imagination. Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of one of America's top surgeons. Readers accompany Sidney Schwab through medical school at Case Western Reserve University; an internship; junior and senior residencies (with a detour to Vietnam, where he won a Purple Heart); and finally his chief residency years in San Francisco. With humor and poignancy—and sometimes graphic detail—Schwab recalls memorable surgeries, surgeons, and patients. He takes care to explain, in understandable and interesting fashion, a variety of diseases, medical issues, and surgical techniques. More than just a memoir, Cutting Remarks offers a compelling look at how trauma and surgery are handled at a major hospital, and provides valuable insight into a surgeon's relationship with both peers and patients.

Some Cutting Remarks
Some Cutting Remarks

Author: Ralph E. Winters

Publisher: Scarecrow Filmmakers Series

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Recounts the life of two-time Academy Award winner, Ralph E. Winters, whose career spanned two-thirds of the 20th century. Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system, Winters guides the reader through a history of American film editing, beginning with its earliest days when film was torn by hand. An essential, entertaining nuts-and-bolts look at the mechanics of editing, as well as Hollywood life alongside such luminaries as Billy Wilder, Sam Zimbalist, and Blake Edwards--a must have for film buffs and moviegoers alike.

Murcheston
Murcheston

Author: David Holland

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1429975539

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Shrouded within the dark corners of imagination, the werewolf holds a supreme place in fable and folklore-the nightbeast, stalking its prey under the light of a full moon. Such is the popular conception. But what of the beast himself? In the novel The Wolf's Tale, a werewolf documents his own case of lycanthropy. Amid the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, the author presents three gentlemen and one woman as they share the telling of this tale-the tale of Edgar Lenoir, Duke of Darnley: aristocrat and werewolf. When Lord Darnley learns that Elizabeth is pregnant with Merry's baby, he plans a hunt in the Carpathian Mountains to escape the pain of his unrequited love. Darnely goes alone and returns a changed man . . . a man who will then change Merry's and Elizabeth's lives forever. The centerpiece of the novel is Lord Darnley's journal chronicling his months as a werewolf. He views his condition not with horror, but with a fascination he believes to be thoroughly modern. Unfortunately, he is also narcissistic, ruthless, and ultimately, seduced by his own misguided self-interest to justify as natural and healthy the bestial desires that eventually consume him. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Difficulties of My Position
The Difficulties of My Position

Author: John Buckley Castieau

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0642107939

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"A career in the Victorian penal system might not seem to be a source of excitement or even great interest, but for John Buckley Castieau it was the trigger for nearly three decades of diaries that reveal not only what went on behind prison walls but also much about the colony's early history. J.B. Castieau was the governor of both Beechworth and Melbourne gaols as well as, somewhat disastrously, the Inspector-General of Penal Establisments."--Page 4 of cover.

"Something Terrible Has Happened To Frances"

Author: Kermit Vandivier

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 110589293X

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Frances Drake Nesbitt was murdered in her home in Troy, Ohio in the early '20s and to this day, no one really knows who the true murderer was, even though her husband admitted to killing her and was pardoned some 9 years later for a crime that some people say "he took the wrap for."

Laugh like an Egyptian
Laugh like an Egyptian

Author: Cristina Dozio

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 3110725517

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Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

A History of the Council of Trent
A History of the Council of Trent

Author: Theodore Alois Buckley

Publisher:

Published: 1852

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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My main purpose has been to follow Pallavicino in the history of the proceedings at each session, more especially when his narrative was corroborated by Paleotto. At the same time, I have freely introduced passages and reports of speeches from Father Paul, and have at all times noticed such discrepancies as seemed of real import to the reader. - Preface.

Classic Movie Fight Scenes
Classic Movie Fight Scenes

Author: Gene Freese

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1476629358

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Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began. But the filming of fight scenes has changed significantly through the years--mainly for the safety of the combatants--from improvised scuffles in the Silent Era to exquisitely choreographed and edited sequences involving actors, stuntmen and technical experts. Camera angles prevented many a broken nose. Examining more than 300 films--from The Spoilers (1914) to Road House (1989)--the author provides behind-the-scenes details on memorable melees starring such iconic tough-guys as John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan.

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies C.1840-c.1914
Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies C.1840-c.1914

Author: Rowan Strong

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0198724241

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Rowan Strong looks at the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, by examining the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies.