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Book Absolute Poison

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geraldine Evans
  • Publisher : Geraldine Evans
  • Release : 2011-09-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Absolute Poison written by Geraldine Evans and published by Geraldine Evans. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #5 in series: The tyrannical Barstaple had known full well that he was hated by most of the office and his murderer made sure he died a horrible death; but then someone else is poisoned, and DI Joe Rafferty knows 0́4 especially given his own loathing of tyrannical bosses 0́4 that he is going to feel ambivalent about finding the murderer.

Book The Poison Squad

Download or read book The Poison Squad written by Deborah Blum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad." Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.

Book Shakespeare s Hyperontology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harald William Fawkner
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780838633830
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Hyperontology written by Harald William Fawkner and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing a number of poststructuralist devices, H. W. Fawkner employs an ontodramatic line of approach in order to suggest that a single hidden pattern of hyperontological suggestion organizes Shakespeare's entire imaginative outlook in Antony and Cleopatra.

Book The Water cure

Download or read book The Water cure written by Heinrich F. Francke and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlines of a New Theory of Disease

Download or read book Outlines of a New Theory of Disease written by Heinrich F. Francke and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legendary Game Player

Download or read book The Legendary Game Player written by Zhuan JiaLaoLi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a game without an external connection work? He was going to grind monsters with 10,000 low-leveled accounts! The diaosi Li Feng who was poisoned by the computer actually had the ability to open small accounts without limit! Hot blooded Jianghu Player, WOW players, Questioning players, Conquering players and other old game players must see it!

Book Healing with Poisons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yan Liu
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 0295749016
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Healing with Poisons written by Yan Liu and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.

Book The Journal of Physiology

Download or read book The Journal of Physiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ohio Medical Recorder

Download or read book The Ohio Medical Recorder written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dispensatory of the United States of America

Download or read book The Dispensatory of the United States of America written by Joseph Price Remington and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 2144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pure Products

Download or read book Pure Products written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Absolute Book

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  • Author : Elizabeth Knox
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2021-03-18
  • ISBN : 140594725X
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book The Absolute Book written by Elizabeth Knox and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER THE ENCHANTING EPIC THAT WILL TRANSPORT YOU TO OTHER WORLDS . . . 'AN INSTANT CLASSIC' GUARDIAN 'BEWITCHING' THE TIMES 'MIND-BLOWING' LAINI TAYLOR 'ASTOUNDING' FRANCIS SPUFFORD 'GORGEOUSLY WRITTEN' DEBORAH HARKNESS _______ Taryn Cornick barely remembers the family library. Since her sister was murdered, she's forgotten so much. Now it's all coming back. The fire. The thief. The scroll box. People are asking questions about the library. Questions that might relate to her sister's murder. And something called The Absolute Book. A book in which secrets are written - and which everyone believes only she can find. They insist Taryn be the hunter. But she knows the truth. She is the hunted . . . _______ The Absolute Book is a tale of sisters, ancient blood, a forgotten library, murder, revenge and a book that might just have the answer to everything. 'An instant classic . . . A work to rank alongside other modern masterpieces of fantasy such as Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series or Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Everything fantasy should be: original, magical, well read, compelling' GUARDIAN 'Astonishing. Gripping. Hugely ambitious. An extraordinary conclusion. Admire the sheer scope and grandeur' DAILY MAIL 'A marvellous argument for stories. There are Norse gods, references to Merlin, a tour through purgatory and a strange parallel world where magic is real and humans are bit players in the clash of supernatural realms. Bewitching' THE TIMES 'Contains multitudes, spanning the geographies of Canada, Britain and New Zealand; the cosmologies of fairies, demons and angels; and the genres of thriller, domestic realism and epic fantasy . . . I'm in awe of it' NEW YORK TIMES Review of Books 'Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE ABSOLUTE BOOK has something for everyone . . . Here is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful' DEBORAH HARKNESS, author of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 'Fantastical' THE TIMES 'Savour and absorb the world Knox conjures' SUNDAY TIMES 'Gorgeous. The payoffs and reveals are mind-blowing' LAINI TAYLOR, author of DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE 'An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book' FRANCIS SPUFFORD

Book Studies in Immunity

Download or read book Studies in Immunity written by Paul Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elements of Chemistry

Download or read book Elements of Chemistry written by John Lee Comstock and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Chronicle

Download or read book University of California Chronicle written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Chronicle

Download or read book University of California Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: