2016, ISBN: 9780975363522

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New York: Penguin Random House, 2016. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. Hardcover. 12" X 10 1/4". 320pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with creasing and 1" tear to top edge of rear cover. Ge… Mehr…

New York: Penguin Random House, 2016. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. Hardcover. 12" X 10 1/4". 320pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with creasing and 1" tear to top edge of rear cover. Gentle bumps to corners of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book. Discover medicine through time! Here's what you'll find in this illustrated history book about medicine: Offers a broad and accessible visual history of medicine from the first herbal remedies to efforts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic Intriguing narratives are illustrated with photographs, paintings and artifacts Offers a vivid, compelling and informative read written in an engaging and colourful style Excerpts from documents, diaries and notebooks offer fascinating eyewitness accounts This medicine history book charts fascinating developments in diagnosis, surgery, healing and drugs through the ages. Feature spreads explore key medical concepts in detail and enhance the reader's understanding of human anatomy, surgical instruments and medical developments. Clear diagrams explain major diseases like cancer, and trace the progression of medical treatment through time, from ancient healing arts to scurvy and smallpox to modern psychiatry. Double-page features tell the story of the men and women involved in the extraordinary evolutions of this scientific field from Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale. It's the perfect book for medical professionals, students of medicine or anyone with a keen interest in medicine, science or social history.(Publisher)., Penguin Random House, 2016, 2.75, USA: Popular Books., 1946. ADVENTURE (Pulp Magazine). August 1946; -- Volume 115 #4 The Hand of Herouba by Keen L. Perc; Writers- Keen L. Perc; William Du Bois; Henry John Colyton; Allan R. Bosworth Steve Hail Georges Surdez; R. W. Daly; Byron W. Dalrymple; Franklin Gregory; ILLUSTRATOR - Painted Cover by Peter Stevens; PUBLISHER - Popular PLACE- USA; DATE - August 1946; EDITION First by Publisher BOOK TYPE - PULP Magazine DESCRIPTION; ** TWO COMPLETE NOVELETTES; The Hand of Herouba by Keen L. Perc; Aces Over Eights by William Du Bois; ** SERIAL NOVEL; Sword Land by Henry John Colyton; ** SIX SHORT STORIES; Point for a Star by Allan R. Bosworth Hellions for Hilo by Steve Hail; Ten Minutes with the Great by Georges Surdez; Salt on the Braid by R. W. Daly; The Lord and Uncle Ax by Byron W. Dalrymple; The Pocket of Wun Tu Foo by Franklin Gregory; ** ;>> Chipped to edges & creasing to covers; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus.. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by Peter Stevens Cover Art.. PULP Magazine!., Popular Books., 1946, 2.75, Escanaba, MI: NECESSARY EVIL PRESS, 2006. Book. Illus. by CANIGLIA (jacket art). Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HB - Signed & Numbered ltd. edition # 220 of 450 (also inscribed by author on dedication page) - FINE/FINE - "All across the world, people suddenly vanish in the blink of an eye. God has called his faithful home, but the invitations for Steve, Charlie and Frank got lost. Now they must set off on foot through a nightmarish landscape in search of answers. In search of God. In search of home"...., NECESSARY EVIL PRESS, 2006, 5<