Posted by admin on July 21, 2010 under ulcer | 
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![The Spanish Ulcer: A History Of Peninsular War]( "The Spanish Ulcer: A History Of Peninsular War")
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At last in paperback: The story of the savage war that drained Napoleon’s armies and set the stage for his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. “A splendid book.”- New York Times Book Review.
The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon’s troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with total defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington’s army crossed the Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called “the Spanish ulcer” ultimately helped bring down the French empire. Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as “a major achievement…the first brief and balanced account of the war to have appeared within our generation.” Illustrated with over a hundred maps and fifty contemporary drawings and paintings, this is a richly detailed history of a crucial period in history that resonates powerfully to this day-and figures prominently in Bernard Cornwell’s internationally acclaimed novels of the Napoleonic era.
-The Spanish Ulcer: A History Of Peninsular War
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Posted by admin on July 9, 2010 under ulcer |
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- ISBN13: 9780306810831
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
At last in paperback: The story of the savage war that drained Napoleon’s armies and set the stage for his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. “A splendid book.”- New York Times Book Review.
The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon’s troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with total defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington’s army crossed the Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called “the Spanish ulcer” ultimately helped bring down the French empire. Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as “a major achievement…the first brief and balanced account of the war to have appeared within our generation.” Illustrated with over a hundred maps and fifty contemporary drawings and paintings, this is a richly detailed history of a crucial period in history that resonates powerfully to this day-and figures prominently in Bernard Cornwell’s internationally acclaimed novels of the Napoleonic era.
$11.99-The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War
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Posted by admin on February 21, 2010 under Blood |
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“This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy.”
–Entertainment Weekly
From ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where machines test blood for diseases and scientists search for elusive cures, Bill Hayes takes us on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by way of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies. Hayes also recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man. As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man’s life, Five Quarts is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving.
$7.99-Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood
Posted by admin on February 18, 2010 under Blood |
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- ISBN13: 9780688176495
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times–a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Blood was described by judges as “a gripping page-turner, a significant contribution to the history of medicine and technology and a cautionary tale. Meticulously reported and exhaustively documented.”
Amazon.com ReviewDon’t faint! Blood may be a highly charged substance, symbolic of our spirit and essential for life, but we can gain much from reflecting on its power over us. Science journalist Douglas Starr has examined the history of blood’s medical uses, and his report is at once intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling.
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce covers the late 17th century to the present, detailing experiments with animal blood (one violent madman was briefly calmed by infused calf’s blood), the long ban on transfusions, direct artery-to-vein suture between donor and recipient, and today’s global blood-banking industry. It’s a great story that shows the long climb from great risk and heroism to relative safety.
Our greatest stumble during this climb–the AIDS crisis of the 1980s–is the meat of the book. How could it have happened? Why were so many people given contaminated blood products after clear warnings about the risks of infection? Starr is unafraid to name names and lay bare the political and financial decisions that condemned so many thousands of hemophiliacs and surgical patients to early deaths. Those who don’t learn from the past are bound to repeat it; Starr aims to help us keep the blood off of our hands. –Rob Lightner
$5.48-Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
