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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Department of Public Health: July 1, 1917 to June 30, 1918The State Department of Public Health, created by the Civil Ad ministrative Code, came into being at a time when the Nation and State were beginning to adapt themselves to the new and complex problems of a Nation at war. These problems were encountered very early in the history of the department and were so urgent in character that they had to be ...

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Excerpt from The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1846, Vol. 6On the morning of the 17th I amputated the arm by the circular Operation about two inches above the elbow joint. He recovered in a reasonable time without any unfavorable symptoms. The stump was a bad one in consequence of a redundancy of integuments.Case II. - A negro man, 30 years of age, has had a large ulcer of many years' standing, causing swelling of the foot and leg f...

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Excerpt from Practical Essays on Medical Education, and the Medical Profession, in the United StatesSuppose, what is not the fact, that to common-school attainments, our students added the first principles of mathe maties, and the other sciences, constituting an academical course, would they then be properly qualified? I again ah swer they would not, and/this brings us to the consideration of the learned languages, as an introduction to profes...

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Excerpt from The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1844, Vol. 1On the successful employment of Belladonna as a prophylactic during the prevalence of Epidemic Scarlatina.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1844, Vol. 1On the successful employment of Belladonna as a prophylactic during the prevalence of Epidemic Scarlatina.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from Shakespeare and His Times, Vol. 1 of 2: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticism on His Genius and Writings, a New Chronology of His Plays, a Disquisition on the Object of His SonnetsSir Thomas - never forgotten by Shakspeare - this Cause, and probably also Debt, as his Father was now in reduced Circumstances, induced him to leave the Country for London about l586 - Remarks on this Removal.About the PublisherForgotten Books ...

This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute context of new technologies, a new focus on resiliency, and global environmental change. It includes contributions from experts from around the globe whose research, advocacy, teaching, work, or service in the natural or social sciences deals with risk communication and/or management surrounding natural and technological disasters, ...

Excerpt from Biography and History of the Indians of North America, From Its First DiscoveryThis edition has been dela ed many months I consequence of a hope I had entertained of living to be assured that the lorida war was at an end. That time may now be considered to have arrived. On the events of that war, as will be seen, I have been full and (particular, and, if events of importance have esca d me, it was not because I had not use great e...

The appearance of three comets in the autumn of 1618 touched off a controversy of such proportions that its effects are still inextricably associated with some of the most dramatic events marking the dawn of our modern era. This volume contains the principal works, in English translation, that were published during the extended controversy between Galileo and the Jesuits over the nature of comets, concluding with a commentary by Johann Kepler....

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel,  transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.

The author examines the factors which influence terrorists' target selection. In particular he looks at the influence of the ideologies, strategies and tactics of terrorist groups, and describes how these are restricted by the terrorists' resources, by protective and anti-terrorist measures, by the society within which the terrorists operate, and by the nature of the terrorists and their supporters. He concludes that terrorists' target selecti...

From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding of a chronically marginalized demographic. In Critical Appropriations, Drake contends that these fluid and hetero-geneous characterizations of blac...

Il tempo passato in ufficio aumenta ogni giorno, come la quantità di cose da fare, mentre la vita privata si riduce a poco o niente. Tutto è sacrificato sull'altare del lavoro. Ma grazie al downshifting è possibile smetterla con tutto questo e godersi la vita. Forte della propria esperienza, John Drake propone infatti una serie di azioni e di stratagemmi che per lavorare meno, permettendo di dedicare il tempo ritrovato alle cose che contano da...

The continental margins of the world constitute the most impressive and largest physiographic feature of the earth's surface, and one of fundamentally great geological significance. Continental margins have been the subject of increasing attention in recent years, an interest focused by a body of new data that has provided new insights into their character. This interest was further stimulated by the realization that, in addition to the abunda...

Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Department of Public Health: July 1, 1917 to June 30, 1918 The State Department of Public Health, created by the Civil Administrative Code, came into being at a time when the Nation and State were beginning to adapt themselves to the new and complex problems of a Nation at war. These problems were encountered very early in the history of the department and were so urgent in character that they had to be...