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The Discovery of Insulin

The Discovery of Insulin

Michael Bliss

In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and ...
What Goes Around Comes Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme

What Goes Around Comes Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme

Michael Bliss

This superb study by Michael Bliss and Christina Banks is the first book-length work to critically address the films of Jonathan Demme, from his first major work in 1974, Caged Heat, to his most recent, Philadelphia.
Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from ...

Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from ...

Michael Bliss

Now, in this timely new edition, Bliss evaluates Jean Chrétien's record and asserts that he was actually a conservative prime minister -- as conservative as Mulroney himself. And Chrétien's legacy?
The Dave Bliss Quintet: An Inspector Bliss Mystery

The Dave Bliss Quintet: An Inspector Bliss Mystery

James Hawkins

In this, his fifth escapade, Inspector David Bliss goes undercover once again, and heads to St. Juan sur Mer on the Côtes d’Azur.
Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social

Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social

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The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, with a foreword by John Fraser and Elizabeth McCallum, do honour to his influence, and, at the same time, reflect upon the writing of history in Canada at the end ...
Lineage book

Lineage book

Daughters of Colonial Wars

10-25-1732 References: Bliss Fam. in Am. by John Homer Bliss (1881) Grandson : Nathaniel Bliss B. Springfield MA 1-26-1671 D. Lebanon CT 1751 M. Springfield MA 2-3-1698 Mary Wright, b. Springfield MA 3-9-1676, d. Lebanon CT ante ...
The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great ...

The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great ...

Bliss Perry

Bliss Perry ... by a diffusion of knowledge through the community such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of." Was this merely the "tall talk" then so characteristic of Bliss Perry: CHAPTER V. THE KNICKERBOCKER GROUP.
Wedded Bliss

Wedded Bliss

Kathleen Y'Barbo

As executive chef at Austin's exclusive Bentley Crown Hotel, Bliss Denison thought she had it all.
Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, from about the ...

Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, from about the ...

Sylvester Bliss

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Fishing with a Worm, by Bliss Perry - Primary Source Edition

Fishing with a Worm, by Bliss Perry - Primary Source Edition

Bliss Perry

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Original Bliss

Original Bliss

A.L. Kennedy

The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it.
Bliss

Bliss

Lisa Green

Bliss is a small town with a big business, home of the Blue Steel manufacturing company, the largest manufacturer of guns and ammo. Rumor has it that the Feds are up to no good, and the citizens have had enough!
The Geography of Bliss

The Geography of Bliss

Eric Weiner

Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.
Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the ...

Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the ...

John Homer Bliss

About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A ...

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A ...

Phyllis Cole

Charles Hamilton, 1902), 1: 12, 41; John Homer Bliss, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America (Boston: Privately printed, 1881), pp. 53, 81. 2, Four generations of male Emersons, however, tried consciously to establish their descent from ...
The Minutemen and Their World

The Minutemen and Their World

Robert A. Gross

Notes; The New England Chronicle, or Essex Gazette, December 14, 1775 ( Barrett's gun shop); Shattuck, p. 352. 12. John Homer Bliss, comp., Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, from about the Year 1550 to 1880 (Boston, 1881), pp.
Missing: Presumed Dead: An Inspector Bliss Mystery

Missing: Presumed Dead: An Inspector Bliss Mystery

James Hawkins

Short-listed for the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Detective Inspector David Bliss has been transferred from London, England, to Hampshire in what appears to his new subordinates and superiors as a move down the career ladder ...
Missing: Presumed Dead: An Inspector Bliss Mystery

Missing: Presumed Dead: An Inspector Bliss Mystery

James Hawkins

Short-listed for the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Detective Inspector David Bliss has been transferred from London, England, to Hampshire in what appears to his new subordinates and superiors as a move down the career ladder ...
Banting: A Biography

Banting: A Biography

Michael Bliss

He died in a mysterious plane crash; a new preface to this edition discusses recent findings about the crash.
A bliss case: a novel

A bliss case: a novel

Michael Aaron Rockland

Friends and relatives try to understand why Sidney Kantor, a tenured professor, left his family and career to join a religious cult in India
Multiple Personality: An Exercise in Deception

Multiple Personality: An Exercise in Deception

Ray Aldridge-Morris

At this point, Sarah metamorphosed into a bewildered and tearful "Sue". (Bliss's original reference to this nurse appears some years earlier (Bliss, 1980) when he wrote "she claimed her name was not Lois but Jane." This inconsistency in detail  ...
The ManTantra Letters

The ManTantra Letters

Victor Bliss and Nathan James

He currently lives in Paris, where he works as an art critic, therapist, and kickboxing coach. Victor Bliss and Nathan James are creating a resource, The MANTANTRA Project, for men interested in evolving their sexuality to a higher level.
The Very Best Wedding Planner, Organizer & Keepsake

The Very Best Wedding Planner, Organizer & Keepsake

Alex Lluch

Lara Casey, Bliss Event Group Serving North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Georgia, Lara Casey, also the publisher of Southern Weddings Magazine, is one of the most sought-after planners in the South. Bliss Event Group can handle all ...
Inspector Bliss Mysteries 8-Book Bundle

Inspector Bliss Mysteries 8-Book Bundle

James Hawkins

This ebook bundle contains the first eight novels of the Inspector Bliss Mystery series by James Hawkins.
Writing History: A Professor’s Life

Writing History: A Professor’s Life

Michael Bliss

One of Canada’s best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History.
William Osler: A Life in Medicine

William Osler: A Life in Medicine

Michael Bliss

In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine.
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery

Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery

Michael Bliss

The author of The Discovery of Insulin chronicles the professional and personal life of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery.
Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir

Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir

Michael Bliss

Dreams Within a Dream makes Weir come alive in the emotional and intellectual ways that his films do.

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