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The Smiling Spleen: Paracelsianism in Storm and Stress

The Smiling Spleen: Paracelsianism in Storm and Stress

Walter Pagel

In this final work of his life, Pagel concentrates on Paracelsianism as a historical phenomenon, giving major attention to the lesser-known figures who characterized the 'storm and stress' of the Paracelsian reform movement during the 16th ...
New Light on William Harvey

New Light on William Harvey

Walter Pagel

'This book is clearly an essential one-not only for the Harvey specialist, but also for all students of the Scientific Revolution.'
Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the ...

Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the ...

Walter Pagel

'... A work in the best tradition of bibliographical research... even the casual reader will be impressed to learn that, four centuries ago, the man who had the courage to burn in public the writings of Avicenna, recognised pulmonary ...
Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine

Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine

Walter Pagel

An intellectual biography of Van Helmont (1579-1644), showing a scholarly appreciation of his creative insights.
Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice ...

Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice ...

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh. The Table of the Chapters contained in Sir Walter Ralezgh's lnsttuctions to his Son. Vlrtuau: Person: to be made ehaiebctgf for friend' si' 60 Great eare to be had in the chafing of a Mfe 62 Men ha-ve been abased by ...
Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter ...

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter ...

Walter Goodwin Davis

Gardner-Moses Walter Goodwin Davis, Gary Boyd Roberts ... is written before the fact, the proof will have been read by Miss Sybil Noyes and will benefit from her careful and intelligent criticism. Walter Goodwin Davis Portland, Maine May 8 ...
Transactions of the Annual Session of the Peninsula ...

Transactions of the Annual Session of the Peninsula ...

Peninsula Horticultural Society

General Display— First, Walter B. Harris, Worton, Md $200.00 Single Box, Special— First, Walter B. Harris 50.00 Single Box— First, Walter B. Harris 25.00 Second, Wine & Garber, Woodside, Del 15.00 Three Boxes— First, Walter B. Harris ...
Walter's War: Memoirs of the Great War 1914-1918

Walter's War: Memoirs of the Great War 1914-1918

Walter E. Young

'Walter's War' is one such book. Written without the knowledge of his family and not discovered till after his death, this is the account of an ordinary soldier, who was awarded the Military Medal.
Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow

Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow

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30. Walter B. Gibson, personal papers. 31. Bernard A. Drew, ed., "Walter Gibson's Magicians/'Affic Revivals (1982): 1, 8. 32. Bernard A. Drew, "The Turn-ons of Yesteryear." 33. Will Murray, "Out of the Shadows— Walter Gibson." 34. Rex Miller.
Iris and Walter: True Friends

Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse, Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Iris and Walter: True Friends

Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Iris and Walter: True friends

Iris and Walter: True friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

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2. Art. forms. Jan Mieszkowski Film today articulates all problems of modern formgiving . . . Walter Benjamin, Arcades It is a foregone conclusion for me that there is no such thing as art history. Walter Benjamin, Letter to F. C. Rang Scarcely any ...
Primary Care Sleep Medicine: A Practical Guide

Primary Care Sleep Medicine: A Practical Guide

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A Practical Guide James F. Pagel, S. R. Pandi-Perumal. 10. 11. 12. ... Mindell JA, Emslie G, Blumer J, Genel M, Glaze D, Ivanenko A, Johnson K, Rosen C, Steinberg F, Roth T, Banas B. Pharmacologic management of insomnia in children and ...
The Lasalle Quartet: Conversations with Walter Levin

The Lasalle Quartet: Conversations with Walter Levin

Robert Spruytenburg

26 5 Richard Kapuscinski, Frank Pelleg, Erich Levin (Walter Levin's uncle), Rudolf Bergmann, Walter Levin, Ernst ... German emigrants were often derided by the prior generations of immigrants as yekkes (from German Jacke: 'jacket') for their ...
Iris and Walter and the Field Trip

Iris and Walter and the Field Trip

Elissa Haden Guest

When best friends Iris and Walter go on a field trip to an aquarium, Walter gets lost and a worried Iris helps Miss Cherry look for him.
Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Walter Cronkite

" Illustrated with heartwarming photos of Walter and Betsy Cronkite during the war from the family collection, the book is edited by Cronkite's grandson, CBS associate producer Walter Cronkite IV, and esteemed historian Maurice Isserman, ...
American poetry

American poetry

Walter Bates Rideout

Gay Wilson Allen, Walter Bates Rideout James K. Robinson ... Walter B. Rideout: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Vaughn Moody, Ezra Pound, T. S. ...
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg

Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg

Chris Ogden

"Moses and Walter Annenberg built a vast publishing empire and one of the nation's greatest family fortunes. ... [Eventually Walter] sold his publishing empire to Rupert Murdoch and began giving away the proceeds to improve U.S. education.
SAO Special Report

SAO Special Report

Walter Köhnlein

Walter Köhnlein. SAO Special Report No. 216 ON THE GRADIENT LINE OF THE EARTH'S ZONAL GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL Walter Kohnlein 63 ,/ Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts 0Z138 ...
Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought

Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought

Rupert Lewis

Placing Rodney's work in the larger tradition of West Indian involvement with continental Africa, Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought traces the evolution of Walter Rodney's political ideas through biography, analysis of his ...
The Rebel Box Set:

The Rebel Box Set:

Chrissy Peebles

Walter's gonna be devastated. He loved that girl.” “She couldn't have gone too far ,” Chad said, “but maybe we oughtta just let her go. She'll never survive out there, and she's a whole lot more trouble than Carla. Walter will never break her, not ...
Antitrust, the Market and the State: Contributions of Walter ...

Antitrust, the Market and the State: Contributions of Walter ...

James W. Brock

Contributions of Walter Adams James W. Brock, Kenneth G. Elzinga. (1951).] See also riposte by Walter Adams, "The 'Rule of Reason': Workable Competition or Workable Monopoly?" Yale Law Journal, pp. 348-370 (1954). 4. Federal Role in  ...
Walter, the Farting Dog

Walter, the Farting Dog

William Kotzwinkle

Walter the dog creates problems with his farts but becomes a hero when burglars enter the house.

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