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London: A Social History

London: A Social History

Roy Porter

Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney

But they were only up for about three minutes before Vice Principal Roy spotted them. Mr Roy said you weren''t allowed to write “fabrications” about the other candidates. So I told Mr Roy that the thing about the head lice was true, and how it practically closed down the whole school when it happened. But he took down all my posters anyway. So today, Marty Porter was going around handing out ​ lollipops to buy himself votes while my posters were sitting at the bottom of Mr Roy''s trash ...
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Roy Porter

Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
Dictionary of the History of Science

Dictionary of the History of Science

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William F. Bynum, E. Janet Browne, Roy Porter. WILLIAM F. BYNUM E. JANET BROWNE ROY PORTER Dictionary of the History of Science PRINCETON LEGACY LIBRARY DICTIONARY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Subject Astronomy ...
The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie ...

The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie ...

Roy Hemming

Describes the careers of Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers, and Warren, looks at the movies made from their musicals
Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Jane Porter

Jane Porter, Anna Maria Porter. prodigies of valour, Eustace and Baldwin de Bouillon gained the walls in one quar-' ter; and Godfrey, with De Bourg, and their followers on the other. My Baron and his, were with the latter. The town was carried ...
Blood & Guts

Blood & Guts

Roy Porter

A brief but engaging history of medicine covers the field in lively fashion, from ancient Indian healing practices that combined diet and meditation to modern pharmaceuticals such as Viagra. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.
The Boring Days and Awesome Nights of Roy Winklesteen:

The Boring Days and Awesome Nights of Roy Winklesteen:

Sally Dill

Roy''s arms and unwound them from his waist. “I mean...I never have before. Sorry, kid. I''m just used to being on my own. You know...no one to answer to, no worrying about somebody worrying about me. You need to get home now. Your parents must be worried sick.” “No, it''s okay,” Roy assured him. “I went home— then came back, hoping you would be here. My parents don''t know anything...no one does.” “Good. You''re a good kid, Roy Winklesteen,” Bart said, as he rustled Roy''s hair.
General Edward Porter Alexander at Antietam: Account of the ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at Antietam: Account of the ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.
Robertson Report

Robertson Report

E. Dale Hastin Smith

Lester Franklin Saffell. 2. Ruth Harriet Porter b 5 Jun 1900 Union Co, IA; m. 23 Jul 1917 George Anderson. 3. Edith Leota Porter b 31 Aug 1901 Union Co, IA; m 12 Feb 1927 Phil E. Petty. 4. Gladys Alona Porter b 29 Mar 1904 Union Co, IA; ...
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860

Roy Porter

Drawing together much fragmentary material and providing a detailed bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.
Roy Story: The Amazing and True Rags-to-riches Account of an ...

Roy Story: The Amazing and True Rags-to-riches Account of an ...

Roy Bucek

Roy Story is a captivating read that will take you back in time and challenge you to build a brighter future.
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Sourcebook

Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Sourcebook

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Andrea A. Rusnock, 'The Weight of Evidence and the Burden of Authority: Case Histories, Medical Statistics and Smallpox Inoculation in Roy Porter (ed.), Medicine in the Enlightenment (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia, Rodolpi, 1995), pp.
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical ...

The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical ...

Steve Schifferes

Notes 1 Dilwyn Porter pioneered research into the history of the financial press: Dilwyn Porter, '“A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public”: Harry Marks and the Financial News, 1884–1916', Business History, 28 (1986), pp. 1–17; Dilwyn Porter, ...
Save by Roy: Patrick Roy and the Return of the Colorado ...

Save by Roy: Patrick Roy and the Return of the Colorado ...

Terry Frei

Patrick Roy and the Return of the Colorado Avalanche Terry Frei, Adrian Dater. As Foote met the media after the first period, he naturally was asked if he had considered his road roommate—Roy—to be possible coaching material. “I knew that ...
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery

Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery

Elizabeth Haiken

" -- Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement "This is an important book, raising provocative questions about the ubiquity of cosmetic surgery in our culture.
The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

Frances Porter Stewart

Frances Porter Stewart. UC-NRLF HIINIHIWIHHMH lli) llHHlilNVIIHIHIIIV В 5 BDC ] ULB The alooholysis of some amine salts By Frances Porter Stewart. Front Cover.
Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Marli F. Weiner

... Steven M. Stowe, “Seeing Themselves at Work: Physicians and the Case Narrative in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American South,” American Historical Review 101 (February 1996): 41–79; W. F. Bynum, Stephen Lock, and Roy Porter , eds., ...
Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940

Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940

Greta Jones

485-947; Lowe, 'William R. Wilde', pp. 630-6; Gearoid Crookcs, Dublin's Eye and Ear: the making of a monument (Dublin, 1993). For the emergence of specialist hospitals during the nineteenth century, sec Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter ...
Flesh in the Age of Reason

Flesh in the Age of Reason

Roy Porter

Aylwin Clark, An Enlightened Scot: Hugh Cleghorn, 1752–1837 (Forfar: Black Ace Books, 1992). G.Kitson Clark, The Making of Victorian England (London: Routledge, 1965). J. C. D.Clark, 'The Decline of Party, 1740–1760', English Historical ...
Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World

Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World

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Senior Research Fellow Department of Historical and International Studies Dilwyn Porter, Dilwyn Porter, Adrian Smith. Contents. List of contributors vii Introduction 1 ADRIAN SMITH AND DILWYN PORTER 1 Sport and national identity in ...
Peace and Security: Implications for Women

Peace and Security: Implications for Women

Elizabeth Porter

Implications for Women Elizabeth Porter, Anuradha Mundkur. NEW APPROACHES TO PEACE AND CONFLICT PEACE AND SECURITY: implications for Women Elisabeth Porter & Anuradha Mundkur Professor Elisabeth Porter teaches ...
Histories of Sexuality: Antiquity to Sexual Revolution

Histories of Sexuality: Antiquity to Sexual Revolution

Stephen Garton

VernL. Bullough,aThe Development of Sexology in theUSA in the Twentieth Century«, in Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich (eds.),Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science:The History ofAttitudes to Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ...
Money at the Store: By Jennifer Rozines Roy & Gregory Roy

Money at the Store: By Jennifer Rozines Roy & Gregory Roy

Jennifer Rozines Roy

"Reinforces both budgeting and calculator skills, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world"--Provided by publisher.
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Roy Strong

This first volume of diaries takes the reader into the heart of his career from 1967 to 1987, vividly recording events as they happened, and revealing Sir Roy to be not just a mercurial and brilliant administrator but also a shrewd observer ...
The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

Cole Porter

From "Begin the Beguine" to "It's Delovely" to "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "I Get a Kick Out of You", here are the complete lyrics to the much-loved songs of Cole Porter--800 songs meant to be hummed, sung, danced to, and remembered.

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