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Author | : Gerald Imber |
Publisher | : Kaplan Publishing |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2010-02-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Genius on the Edge introduces the public to the man who revolutionized modern surgery at the same time it weaves a compelling biography with a fascinating tour of American medicine at the turn of the 19th century. Coming of age in the wake of the Civil War, William Stewart Halsted became a doctor in an era when surgery was a dangerous game of chance. By the time of his death in 1922, Halsted had transformed surgery and had pioneered techniques and procedures that are routine in today's operating rooms. But this came at a high price-drug addiction and alienation from his friends and family. His enormous professional accomplishments, eccentric personal behavior, and lifetime of drug addiction defy conventional wisdom. In the first comprehensive portrait of this complex and indisputably brilliant man, author Gerald Imber-a renowned plastic surgeon himself-takes readers to the upper echelons of society in New York City and Baltimore, blending tales of Gilded Age decadence with captivating accounts from the front lines of medical discovery. Combining the historical atmosphere of The Alienist with an unconventional hero, Genius on the Edge celebrates one of history's most daring doctors. Book jacket.
Author | : Christopher Hilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Automobile racing drivers |
ISBN | : 9780552137546 |
From his World Championship victory in 1988 to his controversial disputes the following year and finally to his recapture of the title in 1990, Ayrton Senna has regularly made the headlines. Yet many regard him as a shy and introverted personality.
Author | : Eric Chaline |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1780238908 |
What could be better than diving into cool water on a hot day? In this enormously enjoyable and informative history of swimming, Eric Chaline sums up this most summery of moments with one phrase: pleasure beckons at the water’s edge. Strokes of Genius traces the history of swimming from the first civilizations to its current worldwide popularity as a sport, fitness pastime, and leisure activity. Chaline explores swimming’s role in ritual, early trade and manufacturing, warfare, and medicine, before describing its transformation in the early modern period into a leisure activity and a competitive sport—the necessary precursors that have made it the most common physical pastime in the developed world. The book celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming—attributes that Chaline argues could have contributed to the evolution of the human species. Swimming, like other disciplines that use repetitive movements to train the body and quiet the mind, is also a means of spiritual awakening—a personal journey of discovery. Swimming has attained the status of a cultural marker, denoting eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration, and excellence. Strokes of Genius shows that there is not a single story of human swimming, but many currents that merge, diverge, and remerge. Chaline argues that swimming will become particularly important as we look toward a warmer future in which our survival may depend on our ability to adapt to life in an aquatic world.
Author | : Max Lugavere |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0062562894 |
New York Times Bestseller Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere. After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about brain health and performance. For the better half of a decade, he consumed the most up-to-date scientific research, talked to dozens of leading scientists and clinicians around the world, and visited the country’s best neurology departments—all in the hopes of understanding his mother’s condition. Now, in Genius Foods, Lugavere presents a comprehensive guide to brain optimization. He uncovers the stunning link between our dietary and lifestyle choices and our brain functions, revealing how the foods you eat directly affect your ability to focus, learn, remember, create, analyze new ideas, and maintain a balanced mood. Weaving together pioneering research on dementia prevention, cognitive optimization, and nutritional psychiatry, Lugavere distills groundbreaking science into actionable lifestyle changes. He shares invaluable insights into how to improve your brain power, including the nutrients that can boost your memory and improve mental clarity (and where to find them); the foods and tactics that can energize and rejuvenate your brain, no matter your age; a brain-boosting fat-loss method so powerful it has been called “biochemical liposuction”; and the foods that can improve your happiness, both now and for the long term. With Genius Foods, Lugavere offers a cutting-edge yet practical road map to eliminating brain fog and optimizing the brain’s health and performance today—and decades into the future.
Author | : Chip Ingram |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780615416182 |
Author | : John Seabrook |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312535728 |
Essays explore inspiration and entrepreneurship in everyday Americans, including the story of Bob Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.
Author | : Gene N. Landrum |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1994-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1615925422 |
The much-awaited sequel to Landrum's Profiles of Genuis offers discussions of the elements that gave 13 extraordinary women--Mary Kay Ash, Margaret Thatcher, Estee Lauder, Maria Callas, and Jane Fonda, among others--the visionary perspective, operating style, and energy to achieve the edge over their competitors.
Author | : Thomas Fox Averill |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 080321068X |
A collection of short fiction by an O. Henry Award-winning author explores the transcendent and magical qualities that transform even the most mundane life in Midwestern Kansas, capturing the unique and extraordinary world of a young boy hunting for a runaway hourse, a couple ostracized in their small town, a grieving high school basketball star, and other colorful characters.
Author | : Victoria Charles |
Publisher | : Parkstone International |
Total Pages | : 1173 |
Release | : 2014-11-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1783109491 |
Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, the art of drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place in the sun. With major museums around the world, from the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focused on the art of draughtsmanship, drawing is receiving more critical and academic attention than ever before. This captivating text gives readers a sweeping analysis of the history of drawing, from Renaissance greats like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to Modernist masters like M.C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, and everyone in between.
Author | : Leopoldo Gout |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250045819 |
Three teen geniuses from around the world must win a Game witht he highest of stakes in this action-packed novel.