LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard swiderski

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  • X-Ray Vision
    Richard M. Swiderski / Richard MSwiderski
    X-ray vision at first was the revival of the phantasmagoria and ground-penetrating sight of earlier centuries attached to the new technology of X-rays in the early twentieth century. The image-idea of the existence of rays that allow prepared eyes to see into clothing, through walls and into the earth, not feasible in fact, generated fictions and surrogates of how living beings...
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    32,91 €

  • Poison Eaters
    Richard Swiderski
    Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them. Readers interested in the human history of drugs and medicine, in feats of endurance usually survived and i...
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    32,60 €

  • Calomel in America
    Richard M. Swiderski / Richard MSwiderski
    Formed as a word and a chemical compound in an culturally diverse Europe, calomel came to America as a solution to epidemics also imported. It grew into a primary gesture, both medical and commercial, of the healing professions. Opposition to its use, founded on experience with the effects of consuming it, took the form of song and satire that echoed faintly after the drug was ...
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    32,84 €

  • Quicksilver
    Richard M. Swiderski
    Though modern scientists recognize mercury as a harmful environmental pollutant and one of the world’s most dangerous elemental toxins, mercury was once considered a wondrous substance capable of eradicating internal disease, revolutionizing the paint and cosmetics industries and even entertaining the masses as part of amateur magic tricks and witch doctor scams. This work tr...
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    57,11 €

  • Anthrax
    Richard M. Swiderski
    Bacillus anthracis--anthrax--had largely faded from public consciousness until it resurfaced as a terrorist weapon in 2001. It was always with us, lurking in the soil and hosted by our livestock. Long before it was identified as a specific bacterium in the late 1800s, ''anthrax'' was a catchphrase for a variety of diseases and symptoms, from ancient biblical plagues to a painfu...
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    57,27 €

  • The Metamorphosis of English
    Richard M. Swiderski / Richard MSwiderski
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    97,26 €

  • Teaching Language, Learning Culture
    Richard M. Swiderski / Richard MSwiderski
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    121,65 €