Half Lives. The Unlikely History of Radium, Hardback - Lucy Jane Santos

Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life.

Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life.Illustrations: 16 Illustrations, black and white

Had you said "What a guy " in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder ...

Publisher: Astra Publishing HouseAuthor(s): Maya MacGregorNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 34Cover type: HardbackR...

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How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of de...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heinz Dietrich SuppanThe Doomed Legions of Ottawa. . .At the turn of the 20th Century radium became a miracle cure for almo...

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A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane

Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and...

DescriptionIn this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Ha...

Reducere. The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of th...

This accessible book reveals the hidden Jane Austen - bitchy, gossipy, badly behaved at times - as well as showing the side we all love: the writer...

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A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries...

Reducere. During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob ...

First-ever account of the American women from the roaring 1920s who were poisoned by the paint they worked with, and courageously fought for justice.

This new edition of the most influential book about pirates ever written presents twenty action-packed biographies of the likes of Blackbeard and C...

Jesse Owens, Katherine Johnson, Sir David Attenborough, Dame Zaha Hadid, Stephen Hawking, Meryl Streep, Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling. Eight people from...

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Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of Captain Charles Johnson's tales of rogues includes the ver...

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Reducere. The gripping tale of Icie and Beckett, a girl and a boy separated by time but connected by a dangerous secret that both must protect.

The Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard...

The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion ...

A biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the m...

This graphic retelling of Jane Austen's story gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world in which she grew up.Publisher: Button Boo...

With Latin America home to some of the most draconian bans on abortion in the world, abortion rights is one of the most controversial and hotly-con...

The journey through Great War Fashion is not just about the changing clothes and fashions of the war years, but much more than that - it is a journ...

The must-read guide to thriving (not retiring) in the second half of your life, for anyone who is 50 years young, by change management specialist a...

"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th ce...

Lucy, Lady Houston's extraordinary life is revealed here in full for the first time

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prej...

A stunning book about significant medieval manuscripts; their authors, their histories and the moments that mark their lifetimes.Publisher: Quercus...

The brilliant new novel from the author of The Man I Think I Know, Half A World Away and All The Lonely PeoplePublisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s...

The incredible story of Britain's female gangsters from the seventeenth century to the present day.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Caitl...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Britt BunyardIllustration(s): 187 color photos + 42 b/w illus. 36 maps.Number of pages: 288Collecti...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Rachel Warren ChaddIllustration(s): Color photos + illus.Number of pages: 288Collection: The Lives ...

DescriptionClasses and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a ...

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With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessibl...

The life of Harry Perry Robinson-a born adventurer, a master of reinvention, and the ultimate witness to history. From a stint in the gold mines an...

Written in an accessible style and supported by robust research, Jane Hayter-Hames tells the intriguing story of one of the most fascinating moment...

Publisher: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, U.S.Author(s): Marla C. BernsIllustration(s): 309 color illus.Number of pages: 360Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Intre o bunica severa si o mamica trista, tanara Jane Victoria duce o viata cenusie si monotona, intr-un cartier al orasului Toronto, pe o strada c...

Reducere. For the first time in paperback, the culminating novel of Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Jo Walton's stunning Small Change trilogy. Following the awa...