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21st-Century Miracle Medicine

RoboSurgery, Wonder Cures, and the Quest for Immortality

By: Alexandra Wyke

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21st-Century Miracle Medicine

RoboSurgery, Wonder Cures, and the Quest for Immortality

By: Alexandra Wyke

The future of healthcare may be very simple. You will sit in your living room chair and drink your tea, coffee, and beer. As you sip, the chair will absorb an encyclopedia of knowledge about your physical state of affairs. A life-management computer in your kitchen will integrate the data and then display it for you on your watch face. A daily physical work-up precisely tailored to your body will pop up on the display, showing you what you have to do over the next 24 hours to avoid all the major disease processes currently plaguing the world. This comprehensive data bank will draw on all the world's medical databases, which have been integrated to help you prevent disease. You will rise from your chair and undertake an exact modicum of exercise tailored to your requirements, performing proscribed activities that will build your stamina precisely based on your "chair data. " The health status-monitoring sweatshirt that you wear during exercise will continue its analysis throughout the day. Your diet will be calibrated from your medical database, which vii viii 21st-CENTURY MIRACLE MEDICINE will be stored in a now-common bathroom appliance, the special preventive care server. In fact, clothed in your own domestic decor, the home will become the most sophisticated medical center in the world. All you have to do is keep going, as medicine becomes an invisible service, and your life will be effortlessly extended ten to twenty years.

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Springer

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1489934669

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The Nature of Classical Collecting

Collectors and Collections, 100 BCE – 100 CE

By: Alexandra Bounia

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The Nature of Classical Collecting

Collectors and Collections, 100 BCE – 100 CE

By: Alexandra Bounia

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- General Preface to the Series -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reading Ancient Texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation -- Part I: Notions of Collecting in the Ancient World -- 2 Collecting Material Testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past -- 3 'Gifts-to-Men and Gifts-to-Gods': defining (collecting) values -- 4 The Concept of the Individual as a Cultural Category: its implications in classical collecting -- 5 Collecting in Time and Space in the Classical World -- Part II: Classical Collectors and Collections -- 6 Visiting Pliny's Collection: reading a 'museum' -- 7 Poet's Gifts, Collector's Words: the epigrams of Martial -- 8 'Luxury is Not for Everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity -- 9 'Furnishing' the Collector's World: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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Taylor & Francis

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135188526X

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9781351885263

Dorset (Slow Travel)

By: Alexandra Richards

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Dorset (Slow Travel)

By: Alexandra Richards

This new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Dorset (Slow Travel), Bradt’s popular and distinctive guide, offers in-depth exploration of one of England’s most popular counties. Author Alexandra Richards, Dorset born and bred, shares local insights to offer a wider, more personal selection of places to explore than any other guide, including attractions known only to locals, who normally keep the county’s treasures to themselves. The result encourages you to slow down and appreciate why this county deserves repeat visits. Dorset is quintessential rural England: rolling hills, thatched houses, winding lanes and stunning stately homes. Enchanting Dorset landscapes described in Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century novels are largely unchanged and are likely to remain so given that Dorset enjoys England’s highest proportion of conservation areas. The county is trimmed by the spectacular Jurassic Coast (starring locations such as Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove), England’s first natural World Heritage Site, whose cliffs are continuously revealing their prehistoric, fossilised secrets. History buffs, meanwhile, will love innumerable sites of archaeological interest, including Britain’s largest Iron Age hillfort, Maiden Castle. Practical information covers where and what to eat, where and what to see, and how to get around. This fourth edition: integrates recent changes across the county; covers additional villages in north Dorset; celebrates child-friendly activities; introduces local food and drink producers, artisans and community projects; and suggests new walks. Discover Dorset’s award-winning vodka made from milk; discover what really goes on at the Filly Loo Festival; challenge your tastebuds at the Great Dorset Chilli Festival; hunt fossils on beaches featured in the biopic film Ammonite, where Kate Winslet portrays world-famous palaeontologist Mary Anning; learn where never to say the word ‘rabbits’ (and why); discover the Lyme Regis rubber duck race; and get to grips with the fabulous Dorset dialect. Whatever your interest, be it local food, tours of award-winning wineries, horseriding, relaxing on award-winning beaches or spectacular coastal hikes, Dorset (Slow Travel) remains the essential companion guide for both enjoying the obvious sites and getting off the beaten track to understand what really makes this gorgeous, varied county tick.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1804691682

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9781804691687

Opera in the Jazz Age

Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain

By: Alexandra Wilson

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Opera in the Jazz Age

Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain

By: Alexandra Wilson

Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and popular culture at a moment when there was a growing imperative to categorize art forms as "highbrow," "middlebrow," or "lowbrow." In this provocative and timely study, Alexandra Wilson considers how the opera debate of the 1920s continues to shape the ways in which we discuss the art form, and draws connections between the battle of the brows and present-day discussions about elitism.

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0190912669

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The Politics of the Pantomime

Regional Identity in the Theatre, 1860-1900

By: Jill Alexandra Sullivan

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The Politics of the Pantomime

Regional Identity in the Theatre, 1860-1900

By: Jill Alexandra Sullivan

Focuses on the variety and independence of pantomime in the provinces, especially Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester. Explores official and local censorship and the relationships between local theaters, managers, authors and audiences.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1902806891

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21st-Century Miracle Medicine

RoboSurgery, Wonder Cures, and the Quest for Immortality

By: Alexandra Wyke

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RoboSurgery, Wonder Cures, and the Quest for Immortality

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Book's by Alexandra Wyke

21st-Century Miracle Medicine

21st-Century Miracle Medicine

The Nature of Classical Collecting

The Nature of Classical Collecting

Dorset (Slow Travel)

Dorset (Slow Travel)

Opera in the Jazz Age

Opera in the Jazz Age

The Politics of the Pantomime

The Politics of the Pantomime

21st-Century Miracle Medicine

21st-Century Miracle Medicine

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