LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james whorton

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  • Before Silent Spring
    James C. Whorton / James CWhorton
    Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton’s history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s.The book examines the period before the p...
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    85,75 €

  • Crusaders for Fitness
    James C. Whorton / James CWhorton
    To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again...
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    82,62 €

  • Angela Sloan
    James Whorton
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    13,88 €

  • Frankland
    James Jr. Whorton / James JrWhorton
    With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who goes hunting for a secret history and gets much more than he bargained for.John Tolley is a bumbling colle...
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    17,26 €

  • Approximately Heaven
    James Jr. Whorton / James JrWhorton
    From prizewinning short story writer James Whorton, Jr., Approximately Heaven is a marvelously rambunctious debut novel about one hapless man’s pursuit of happiness -- or at least another six-pack. Preferably both.Don 'Wendell' Brush is an unemployed 32-year-old Tennessee electrician who likes a few beers before lunch. Mary, his long-suffering wife, has decided to leave him, bu...
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    14,68 €

  • Nature Cures
    James C. Whorton
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    64,85 €