LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Margaret R O'Leary

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  • The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911-1913
    Dennis S. O’Leary MD / Dennis SO’Leary MD / Margaret R. O’Leary MD / Margaret RO’Leary MD
    In The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911-1913: Violent and Not Imagined, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous midwestern disease epidemic. The authors bring the events to startling life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the resolute efforts of the Kansas City medical, nursing, and health department communities to care fo...
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    16,64 €

  • The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911-1913)
    Dennis S. O’Leary MD / Dennis SO’Leary MD / Margaret R. O’Leary MD / Margaret RO’Leary MD
    In The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911-1913): Origin of the Meningococcal Vaccine, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous southwestern disease epidemic. They also describe the development of the intraspinal antimeningitis serum treatment for curing the disease and the meningococcal vaccine for preventing it. The authors bring the events to bla...
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    16,27 €

  • Louise Humann (1766-1836)
    Margaret R. O’Leary / Margaret RO'Leary / Margaret RO’Leary
    Upon Mademoiselle Louise Humann’s death in 1836, a distraught Abbé Théodore Ratisbonne said of his spiritual mother, “Here lays this sweet, strong Christian who, from the depths of her quiet, secluded home, has exercised more influence on the world of her time than will ever be known!” Yet in an era when women had few opportunities to excel or contribute to society outside the ...
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    19,64 €

  • The English Professor
    Dennis S. O’Leary / Dennis SO'Leary / Dennis SO’Leary / Margaret R. O’Leary / Margaret RO'Leary / Margaret RO’Leary
    Across the span of more than forty years, Raphael Dorman O’Leary, a professor of English rhetoric and English literature, taught his students at the University of Kansas to think straight, to put sinew into their sentences, and to embrace the magnificent literary treasures of their mother tongue. The English Professor, by authors Margaret R. O’Leary and Dennis S. O’Leary, offer...
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    30,07 €

  • Notes from Oxford, 1910-1911
    MD Margaret R. O’Leary / MD Margaret RO'Leary / MD Margaret RO’Leary
    Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman O’Leary passionately imparted to his students his love of writing and English literature at the University of Kansas. When he died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects were passed to several relatives until Dennis O’Leary, and his wife, Margaret, discovered his papers while restoring a family house. Amid Prof...
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    16,59 €

  • Cerf Berr of Medelsheim 1726-1793
    MD Margaret R. O’Leary / MD Margaret RO'Leary / MD Margaret RO’Leary
    On December 7, 1793, an old man lay motionless at last, surrounded by his family, rabbis, and members of the society who would prepare his body for Jewish burial. Sixteen days after he was sentenced to jail, his family would go to extraordinary efforts to bury him in a Jewish cemetery ordered destroyed by the French government just two weeks earlier. The old man was Cerf Berr ...
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    19,23 €

  • Dr. Thomas Addison 1795-1860
    Margaret R. O’Leary MD / Margaret RO'Leary MD / Margaret RO’Leary MD
    Dr. Thomas Addison (1795–1860): Agitating the Whole Medical World presents Dr. Addison’s life story, considers his reception during his lifetime, and recognizes his profound contributions to modern medicine. Dr. Addison weathered five years of scorching criticism from peers for asserting that the adrenal glands were essential to life and that diseased adrenal glands could darke...
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    19,00 €

  • Forging Freedom
    Margaret R. O’Leary / Margaret RO'Leary / Margaret RO’Leary
    Forging Freedom is the first full-length biography of Cerf Berr of Médelsheim (1726-1793), the formidable eighteenth-century emancipator of the French Jews. His early business providing forage for thousands of horses of the French military garrisoned in Alsace grew into a huge military supply business that earned him the profound respect of French Kings Louis XV and XVI. After ...
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    22,36 €

  • Adventures at Wohelo Camp
    Dennis S. O’Leary / Dennis SO'Leary / Dennis SO’Leary / Margaret R. O’Leary / Margaret RO'Leary / Margaret RO’Leary
    This is the true story of the 1928 Wohelo camp experience offourteen-year-old Emily Sophian (1913-1994) of Kansas City,Missouri.The story is told in part through letters to her parents, Dr. and Mrs.Abraham Sophian, and to her schoolteachers, Mère Emmanuel andMère Irene of the Roman Catholic Notre Dame de Sion School inKansas City.Luther and Charlotte Gulick founded Wohelo in 19...
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    20,87 €

  • Tragedy at Graignes
    Margaret R. and Dennis S. O’Leary / Margaret Rand Dennis SO'Leary / Margaret Rand Dennis SO’Leary
    Tragedy at Graignes tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian, the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village. Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where ...
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    18,60 €

  • Anaxagoras and the Origin of Panspermia Theory
    Margaret R O'Leary / Margaret R O’Leary
    Origin of Panspermia Theory is an overview of an ancient natural philosopher’s revolutionary ideas on the origin of life in the conservative religious culture of fifth-century BC Athens. The obsession of Ionian philosopher Anaxagoras with natural science and his utter rejection of supernatural explanations for happenings in the physical universe violated deeply venerated relig...
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    7,46 €

  • The Dictionary of Homeland Security and Defense
    Margaret R O'Leary / Margaret R O’Leary
    The Dictionary of Homeland Security and Defense confronts the scourge of terrorism with the greatest weapon of all: knowledge. The Dictionary of Homeland Security and Defense adds value to the world’s terrorism literature by collecting, organizing, and defining for the first time in one place thousands of high-profile words and terms. These words and terms cover the gamut of co...
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    25,67 €

  • Measuring Disaster Preparedness
    Margaret R O'Leary / Margaret R O’Leary
    Measuring Disaster Preparedness is the seminal work on using measurement to manage the disaster preparation process. Its audience is that diverse group of local leaders and public servants whom communities of various types and sizes will hold to account to plan for, mitigate, and if necessary, respond to natural--and unnatural--disasters.Written by a seasoned expert with almost...
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    12,02 €