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Taking the World in for Repairs

Taking the World in for Repairs

Richard Selzer

A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback. Richard Selzer retired as a surgeon in 1984 to write about his profession.
Rituals of Surgery

Rituals of Surgery

Richard Selzer

Selzer's first collection of short stories (originally published in 1974) weaves together the fantastic and grotesque with surgical precision.
Raising the Dead

Raising the Dead

Richard Selzer

This tale of survival remains unsentimental as Selzer grounds what was surely a terrifying experience in humor, emphasized by use of third person narrative.
Letters to a Best Friend

Letters to a Best Friend

Richard Selzer

Richard Selzer / Peter Josyph 2009 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a ...
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Richard Selzer

In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeon’s art.
What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer

What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer

Peter Josyph

" The sparkling wit, profound insight, and unique poetic vision that characterize works such as Raising the Dead, Taking the World in for Repairs, Mortal Lessons, and all of Selzer's writing are present in every one of these lively ...
Diary

Diary

Richard Selzer

Following the success of such books as "Confessions of a Knife" and "The" "Doctor Stories," Selzer's diary entries recount life lived in the shadow of both achievement and disappointment.
A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink

A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink

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Blood and Ink Kevin Kerrane. Richard politely agreed, and the student pulled out a notebook. “OK,” the young man said, “my first question is: Who are you?” I walked away in exasperation. “Who are you?” confirmed a stereotype of TV reporters ...
Letters to a Young Doctor

Letters to a Young Doctor

Richard Selzer

A timeless collection by the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.
Confessions of a knife

Confessions of a knife

Richard Selzer

Merging art and religion with science, these largely autobiographical essays delve deeply into the emotional territory of medicine commonly avoided by other writers.
Imagine a woman and other tales

Imagine a woman and other tales

Richard Selzer

Stories of sweetness and light these are not; but those with a taste for the truly suspenseful and horrific need to go no farther than these investment, disturbing tales by a master of the genre.
Richard Selzer and the rhetoric of surgery

Richard Selzer and the rhetoric of surgery

Charles M. Anderson

The works Anderson examines are "Jonah and the Whale" (an important early short story) and the first three essays in Mortal Lessons.
The Doctor Stories

The Doctor Stories

Richard Selzer

A collection of short stories exploring what it means to tend to the sick and dying includes "Avalanche," "Whither thou goest," "The Masked Marvel's last toehold," "Pages from a wound dresser's diary," and "Poe's lighthouse"
Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer

Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer

L. K. Samuels

... David Friedman, James Gallagher, Karl Hess, Gary Hudson, Samuels Konkin III, Robert LeFevre, Martin Masse, Richard Maybury, Wendy McElroy, Robert Poole, Mark Selzer, Butler Shaffer, Rod Boyer, David Walter, Jeffrey Hummel.
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Charles Johnson in Context

Charles Johnson in Context

Linda F. Selzer

King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Viking, 2000. Jones, Ken. The New Social Face of Buddhism: An Approach to Political and Social Activism. Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2003. Jones, Marlene. " Moving ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

Rob Stone

... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery,  ...
Richard III

Richard III

Richard Andersen

Richard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life

Programming of Life

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Bill Nielsen

Dawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89,  ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Richard Watson

A N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - ­ temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Richard Leslie Hills

This is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.
Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx

Richard M. Gaines

Richard M. Gaines. Richard M. Gaines ARCHAEOTERYX A Buddy Book by Richard M. Gaines \ .__. Cover.

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