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  • The Discovery of Insulin

    de Michael Bliss ...
    This edition of a landmark work of scholarship includes both a new preface by the author and a new foreword that places the book in its historical context.When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose patients with diabetes back to life. Defying the average timeline, the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Modern Medicine

    Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

    de Michael Bliss ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help—not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, but by actually treating or even curing diseases, and significantly improving our lives.For most of human history, however, that was far from the case, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Plague

    A Story of Smallpox in Montreal

    de Michael Bliss ...
    In January 1885, as the people of Montreal celebrated one of the greatest winter carnivals of the century, a deadly epidemic inched its way through the city streets. When the case of a railway porter suffering from smallpox was gravely mishandled, what followed was a “carnival of death” causing the preventable demise of over 3,000 Montrealers.In Plague, historian Michael Bliss uncovers one of the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Right Honourable Men

    The Descent of Canadian Politics from MacDonald to Chrétien

    de Michael Bliss ...
    Updated with an insightful and controversial assessment of Jean ChrétienSince first published in 1994, Right Honourable Men has remained the definitive source for Canadians wanting to know more about the quality of our leaders and the personalities behind the policies. Now, in this timely new edition, Bliss evaluates Jean Chrétien's record and asserts that he was actually a conservative prime ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

    A Life in Medicine

    de Michael Bliss ...
    William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Laurel and Hardy's Comic Catastrophes

    Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films

    de Michael Bliss ...
    Series series Film and History
    One of America’s most beloved comic duos, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have entertained generations of viewers with their unique, heartwarming brand of slapstick comedy. The pair’s teamwork and friendship set their films apart, softening both pratfalls and hardships, and earning them a cherished place in cinema history. From their first joint on-screen appearance in 1921’s The Lucky Dog through ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Writing History

    A Professor’s Life

    de Michael Bliss ...
    One of Canada's best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic of the world he has known, Michael Bliss draws on extensive personal diaries to describe a life that has taken him from small-town Ontario in the 1950s to international recognition for his books in ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Harvey Cushing

    A Life in Surgery

    de Michael Bliss ...
    Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss captures Cushing's professional and his personal life in remarkable detail. Bliss paints an engaging portrait of a man ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Invasions USA

    The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s

    de Michael Bliss ...
    Out of more than 180 science fiction films produced in the United States between 1950 and 1959, twenty were concerned with the notion of an invasion. Of these, a select number used the invasions as metaphors of issues that were of importance to America at the time, such as assaults upon individuality and marriage and debates about the supremacy of the human race. The invasion may be real (The Day ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

    Figuring the Social

    Edición de Alison Li, Shelley McKellar, Elsbeth A. Heaman ...
    A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds

    Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds

    de Bernie Lucht, Eugen Weber, George Woodcock, Paul Goodman, Northrop Frye, George Steiner, Ronald Wintrobe, John McKnight, Michael Bliss, William Kristol, Bob Rae, Abraham Rotstein, John Crispo, Charles Taylor, Bernie Farber, Bob Davis, James Orbinski, Gerald Caplan, Hannah Arendt, Robert Lowell, Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, Tariq Ali, Ursula Franklin, Robert Fulford, Janice Stein, Richard Holbrooke, Bernard Lewis, Tony Judt, Margaret MacMillan, George Monbiot, Sylvia Ostry, Roméo Dallaire, Conor Cruise O’Brien ...
    For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Let the People Judge

    Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement

    de Grant Ferrier, Suzanne Iudicello, Jack Archer, Mary Ann Glendon, Carl Safina, Thomas Eisner, Michael Bliss, Donald Connors, Randall Snodgrass, Beverly Reece, Tom H. Watkins, Roy Morgan, Jim Bernfield, Neil Hamilton, Beth Parke, Sharon Dennis, Janet Ellis, Don Judge, Robert Ekey, Thomas Michael Power, Florence Williams, Robert Woodmansee, Dana Larsen, Henry Carey, Meri Loeks, Linda Trocki, Eve Pell, Tarso Ramos, Douglass North, Philip Brick, Jon Roush, Teresa Erickson, William Riebsame, Holmes Rolston, III ...
    One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD