The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
Author: The Onion
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 031613323X

Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.

Degenerate Art

Degenerate Art
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 423
Release: 1991-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810936539

Looks at the reconstructed exhibit of degenerate art censored by the Nazis in 1937

Genealogy of the Exline and Axline Family

Genealogy of the Exline and Axline Family
Author: Edythe Wilson Thoesen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1952
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

"The immigrant with whom we are primarily interested was Georg Christoff Oechslen. Tradition has it that his family had lived in Alsace for a generation or two already after leaving Schaffhausen, and that his father had been impressed into the Army of Frederick William I ... [he] was born about 1705-1706 ... arrived in Philadelphia on October 2, 1727 on the ship "Adventure" ... apparently lived in the vacinity of Philadelphia for a few years, joining in that extensive excursion of the "Pennsylvania Germans" to Loudoun County, Virginia ... He was married about the same time, but whether in Pennsylvania or Virginia is not known, nor is the maiden name of his wife known, other than that she was called Catherine"--Page 18. Descendants eventually adopted the surname Exline and Axline. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, California and elsewhere

How Women Saved the City

How Women Saved the City
Author: Daphne Spain
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 338
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781452905419

In the extensive building projects of these associations - boarding houses, vocational schools, settlement houses, public baths, and playgrounds - she finds evidence of a built environment created by women.".

'The Supreme Triumph of the Surgeon's Art': A Narrative History of Endocrine Surgery

'The Supreme Triumph of the Surgeon's Art': A Narrative History of Endocrine Surgery
Author: Martha A. Zeiger
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012-12-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0983463980

Endocrine surgery - the subspecialty of general surgery involving diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands as well as the endocrine pancreas - is a rapidly growing field of medicine that has a rich and fascinating history. As recently as the mid-19th Century, surgery for thyroid goiter was described as "horrid butchery" and believed by many to be too dangerous for any surgeon to attempt. Through the ingenuity and tireless efforts of surgeons in Europe and the U.S., thyroidectomy became a safe and even elegant operation, one that renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon William Halsted would describe in 1926 as representing "the supreme triumph of the surgeon's art." In this unique and captivating book, these and other seminal stories from the history of endocrine surgery are vividly retold by the current leaders in the field.

Claiming the City

Claiming the City
Author: Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801488856

The author brings together the voices of citizens and workers and the power dynamics of civic leaders including James J. Hill and Archbishop John Ireland.