Author: Lindsey Fitzharris File Type: epub Warning She spares no detail! Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake *A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly Fascinating and shocking. Kirkus Reviews* (starred review) hrThe gripping story of how Joseph Listers antiseptic method changed medicine forever hrIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theatersno place for the squeamishand surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These medical pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than their patients afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldnt have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history. hrFitzharris dramatically recounts Listers discoveries in gripping detail, culminating in his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infectionand could be countered by antiseptics. Focusing on the tumultuous period from 1850 to 1875, she introduces us to Lister and his contemporariessome of them brilliant, some outright criminaland takes us through the grimy medical schools and dreary hospitals where they learned their art, the deadhouses where they studied anatomy, and the graveyards they occasionally ransacked for cadavers. hrEerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world.**ReviewReaders interested in the medical field cant go wrong with this one. --BookishA PW Picks Books of the Week . . . pulsating, technicoloured . . . [Fitzharris] has an eye for morbid detail, visceral imagery and comic potential. Wendy Moore, *The Guardian*Book of the Day, The GuardianThe Butchering Art is a formidable achievement a rousing take told with brio, featuring a real-life hero worthy of the ages and jolts of Victorian horror to rival the most lurid moments of Wilkie Collins John J. Ross, *The Wall Street Journal*[Fitzharris] paints a compelling portrait of a man of conviction, humor and, above all, humanity. . . The Butchering Art is thoroughly enjoyable.-- The GuardianIn The Butchering Art, Lindsey Fitzharris becomes our Dante, leading us through the macabre hell of nineteenth-century surgery to tell the story of Joseph Lister, the man who solved one of medicines most daunting and lethal puzzles. With gusto, Dr. Fitzharris takes us into the operating theaters of yore as Lister awakens to the true nature of the killer that turned so many surgeries into little more than slow-moving executions. Warning She spares no detail! Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake and *The Devil in the White City*With an eye for historical detail and an ear for vivid prose, Lindsey Fitzharris tells a spectacular story about one of the most important moments in the history of medicine the rise of sterile surgery. The Butchering Art is a spectacular bookdeliciously gruesome and utterly gripping. You will race through it, wincing as you go, but never wanting to stop. **Ed Yong, bestselling author of I Contain MultitudesThe Butchering Art is medical history at its most visceral and vivid. It will make you forever grateful to Joseph Lister, the man who saved us from the horrors of pre-antiseptic surgery, and to Lindsey Fitzharris, who brings to life the harrowing and deadly sights, smells, and sounds of a nineteenth-century hospital. Caitlin Doughty, bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and *From Here to Eternity*The Butchering Art is a brilliant and gripping account of the almost unimaginable horrors of surgery and postoperative infection before Joseph Lister transformed it all with his invention of antisepsis. It is the story of one of the truly great men of medicine and of the triumph of humane scientific method and dogged persistence over dogmatic ignorance. Henry Marsh, bestselling author of *Do No Harm*Electric. The drama of Listers mission to shape modern medicine is as exciting as any novel. Dan Snow, BBC presenter and authorExcellent . . . [Fitzharris] infuses her thoughtful and finely crafted examination of this [antiseptic] revolution with the same sense of wonder and compassion Lister himself brought to his patients, colleagues, and students . . . a remarkable life and time. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Fitzharris knows how to engage readers in fascinating and shocking details about medical history . . . In deftly capturing an epochal moment when medicine and science merged, the author also offers an important reminder that, while many regard science as the key to progress, it can only help in so far as people are willing to open their minds to embrace change. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A slightly gory, occasionally humorous, and very enjoyable biography of a man whose kindness, care, and curiosity changed medicine forever. Susanne Caro, *Library Journal*EmptyAbout the Author Lindsey Fitzharris received her PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Oxford. She is the creator of the popular website The Chirurgeons Apprentice, and the writer and presenter of the YouTube series Under the Knife. She has written for The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Lancet, and New Scientist. She lives in the English countryside with her husband, Adrian Teal, and their two cats.

Author: Wendy Cope File Type: epub In her first collection of new poetry since 2011s acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates the half-forgotten stories of our lives with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experience of childhood and marriage and writing poignantly about the passing of time. In several of the poems she reimagines Shakespeare in unorthodox fashion in others she offers heartfelt tributes to friends and to public figures including Eric Morecambe and John Cage. Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formal brilliance and empathetic insight which have delighted readers for years, and shows why Wendy Cope is one of our best-loved poets.

Author: Arthur Graves Canfield File Type: pdf Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis of nearly six-hundred reappearing characters shows that some appear only briefly, in no significant role others play important parts and some become principals in later action. **

Author: Wallace Thurman File Type: epub The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgans skin is black. So black that its a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and friends. Seeking a community where she will be accepted, she leaves home at age eighteen, traveling first to Los Angeles and then to New York City, where in the Harlem of the 1920s she finds a vibrant scene of nightclubs and dance halls and parties and love affairs ... and, still, rejection by her own race. One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, and the first novel to openly address prejudice among black Americans, The Blacker the Berry . . . is a book of undiminished power about the invidious role of skin color in American society. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. **Review The first novel to focus its plot on race prejudice or colorism among African Americans . . .Apart from the vibrant character of Emma Lou, Thurmans novel presents some of the most layered portrayals of New York City life Ive ever come across, from seedy employment agency waiting rooms to swank Harlem hot spots.Maureen Corrigan, NPRs *Fresh Air* About the Author Wallace Thurman (19021934), a novelist, essayist, editor, and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and moved to Harlem in 1925. In 1926 he became the editor of the socialist journal The Messenger, where he published the early stories of Langston Hughes. He left The Messenger later that year to co-found the literary magazine Fire!! along with Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, among others. The Blacker the Berry . . . , his first novel, was published in 1929 he wrote two other novels,Infants of the SpringandThe Interne, and a play,Harlem. Allyson Hobbs(introduction) is an associate professor in the department of history and the director of African and African American studies at Stanford. Herfirst book,A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in American Life, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in American history and the Lawrence Levine Award for best book in American cultural history, bothfrom the Organization of American Historians. Hobbs is aDistinguished Lecturerfor theOrganization of American Historians and a contributor to newyorker.com andThe New York Times Book Review.