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"A poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist, and aphorist, Goethe was the German equivalent of Dante plus Shakespeare, a multifaceted universal genius. He put everything he had into this version of the famous myth of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil for worldly fame and riches. People face such choices every day - in this volume, Prof. Thomas Wayne presents the story in a contemporary voice." --
Faust --- Doctor Faust --- Doctor Faustus --- Dr. Faust --- Dr. Faustus --- Faustus
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Premiering the day after the JFK assassination, Doctor Who humbly launched one of the entertainment world's first super-brands. We begin with a look at TV programming of the day and the original pitch documents before delving into the Daleks, which almost didn't make the cut but inspired many monsters to follow. After three years, First Doctor William Hartnell left, prompting the BBC to recast their hit rather than end it, giving us the first "regeneration" and making TV history. We follow the succession of Doctors-including Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, exiled to Earth and targeted by the Master-
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"Great innovations take place within great institutions. Founded in 1819, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Canada's oldest hospitals and has created a nurturing environment for early Canadian innovations in heart surgery. The Heartbeat of Innovation tells the story of the brilliant surgeons who worked there and the hospital environment that provided an incubator to the many people--skilled perfusionists, dedicated nurses, and pioneering cardiologists--who participated in the revolution in heart surgery that took place along University Avenue in Toronto. Supported by historical records, hospital archives, personal memoirs, and interviews, this book is an extensive and descriptive account of the seemingly inexorable development of cardiac surgery at this leading academic health science centre. It pursues several themes: the complexity of this surgical specialty, its generally male-dominated nature, the trend to teamwork in practice, and the evolution and incorporation of original research into this branch of healthcare. These strands are woven together to demonstrate how the TGH has evolved into such a dominant leader in the competitive and demanding field of cardiac surgery. Canadian hearts may beat with pride at the knowledge that one of the major stories in modern medicine took place here--and continues here."--
Heart --- Surgery --- History. --- Toronto General Hospital. --- Toronto General Hospital --- Ontario --- Canadian medical history. --- Dr. Gordon Murray. --- Dr. Tirone David. --- Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow. --- Toronto hospitals. --- cardiology. --- heart surgery. --- history of cardiac surgery. --- medical innovation. --- Surgery.
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Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children and adults for decades. And as Donald Pease shows in this marvelous biography, the seemingly haphazard trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resemblance to the zigzag plot lines of his children's books. Here is an engaging look at a man who indeed lived a zigzag life, by turns a cartoonist, ad agency artist (for Flit bug killer), author, caricaturist, documentary-film writer and producer, political cartoonist, and editor. Pease follows Ge
Authors, American --- Illustrators --- Children's literature --- Authorship. --- Seuss, --- Dokter Seuss --- Doḳṭor Sus --- Dr. Seuss --- Dr. Sus --- Dr. Zois --- Sus, --- Доктор СЬюз --- סוס, --- זויד, --- דוקטור סוס --- דוקטור --- Seuss, Theophrastus --- Susi bo shi --- 蘇斯博士 --- 苏斯博士 --- Geisel, Theodor Seuss, --- LeSieg, Theo., --- Stone, Rosetta, --- Seuss, Dr. --- Authors [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- Authorship
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Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who examines the famous BBC science fiction show as a cultural artifact in dialogue with other science fiction, with politics and religion, and with the culture at large, both in terms of how it reflects and comments upon that culture and in terms of the audience and the peculiarities of its response. This book enables researchers in film and media to make historical, industrial, aesthetic, and ideological connec...
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Children's literature, American --- American children's literature --- American literature --- Seuss, --- Dokter Seuss --- Doḳṭor Sus --- Dr. Seuss --- Dr. Sus --- Dr. Zois --- Sus, --- Доктор СЬюз --- סוס, --- זויד, --- דוקטור סוס --- דוקטור --- Seuss, Theophrastus --- Susi bo shi --- 蘇斯博士 --- 苏斯博士 --- Geisel, Theodor Seuss, --- LeSieg, Theo., --- Stone, Rosetta, --- Characters
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Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television ""institutions"" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired an following that continues to grow. The book is based on over ten years of research including interviews with fans and followers of the series. In that period, though the fans may have changed, and ways of studying them as ""audiences"" may have also changed, the programmes have endured intact, with Star Trek for example now in its fourth television incarnation. Jo
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The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Reichsbahn, Alfred Mierzejewski offers the first complete account of the national railway under Hitler's regime. Mierzejewski uses sources that include Nazi Party membership records and Reichsbahn internal memoranda to explore the railway's operations, finances, and political and social roles from 1933 to 1945. He examines the Reichsbahn'
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Claire Louise Caudill is one of those rare people who have become legends in their own time. She delivered more than 8,000 babies over the years, in and around her hometown of Morehead, Kentucky. In 1995 she was named Country Doctor of the Year, and she has been interviewed by CBS and featured in USA Today. Dr. Caudill stopped delivering babies when she turned seventy, but today, at the age of 86, she remains in practice- her patients won't let her retire! Her friend Susie Halbleib has served as nurse in Caudill's clinic since it opened in 1946. Caudill was instrumental in establishing a hosp
Country life --- Women physicians --- Physicians --- Women in medicine --- Caudill, Claire Louise --- Dr. Louise --- Kentucky --- Kentuck --- US-KY --- KY --- Ken. --- Kent. (State) --- Bluegrass State --- Commonwealth of Kentucky --- Virginia
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Long description: Sei es die Suche nach Heimat und Identität in der scheinbar grenzenlosen Weite der Wüste (Lawrence of Arabia, 1962), die Flucht in die Stille der eiserstarrten Weite Russlands (Dr. Zhivago, 1965), der kollektive Widerstand im unbekannten Birma (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) oder die verstörende Konfrontation mit sich selbst in der Fremde des polyphonen Indiens (A Passage to India, 1984) – Leans Filme, ihre Bildästhetik, aber vor allem ihre Geschichten von Begegnungen mit fremden Welten und unbekannten Kulturen, von teils privaten, teils großen Abenteuern sind bis heute unvergessen. In Erinnerung geblieben ist vor allem ihre bildgewaltige Erzählweise: großformatige Kameraeinstellungen wie die der purpurrot aufgehenden Sonne über der arabischen Wüste; das bizarr-romantisch verschneite Anwesen in Varykino oder die effektvolle und symbolträchtige Brückensprengung durch den tödlich verwundeten Nicholson – Bilder, die sicherlich nicht nur die Kinoästhetik ihrer Zeit revolutioniert, sondern auch auf der Cinemascope-Leinwand den Zuschauer gefesselt und begeistert haben. Die Arbeitsthese dieser Arbeit ist, dass sich die Filme von David Lean über immer wiederkehrende Erzählmuster beschreiben lassen, bei denen ‚Räume‘ eine wichtige Funktion übernehmen. Räume übernehmen auch auf der Ebene der Erzählung eine Funktion und sind jenseits ihrer ästhetischen Erfahrbarkeit relevant. Zu Beginn von Leans Filmen findet der Zuschauer eine Art topografische Landkarte (topografische Räume) vor, die von unterschiedlichen Figuren mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen aufgeladen wird (semantische Räume). Was Leans Hauptfiguren mit bestimmten Räumen verbinden, widerspricht der herrschenden Norm ihres Umfeldes: Hier trifft Heimat auf Fremde, Himmel auf Hölle, Abenteuer auf Gefahrenpotenzial. An den Grenzen der Bedeutung von Räumen entstehen also inhaltliche Konflikte: Leans Hauptfiguren sind ‚anders‘, sehen ihre Welt ‚anders‘, entsprechen damit nicht der Norm und werden von ihrem Umfeld als Störfaktor wahrgenommen.
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