David Arthur John Tyrrell's Books

Cold Wars

The Fight Against the Common Cold

By: David Arthur John Tyrrell,Michael Fielder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cold Wars

The Fight Against the Common Cold

By: David Arthur John Tyrrell,Michael Fielder

Cold Wars tells the story of the common cold, the most widespread disease of all. From ancient Egypt to the space age, colds have plagued mankind, and many attempts have been made to find a cure. Today, we spend millions of pounds on remedies and businesses lose millions of pounds through employee sickness- but are we any closer to conquering the cold? In the aftermath of the Second World War, a concerted effort was made in the UK to resolve the scientific conundrum of the common cold. A Common Cold Unit was established near Salisbury, making use of some rather primitive facilities provided by the American Red Cross, and for nearly 50 years was part of the British medical establishment. Much of the research was done on volunteers, who came in large numbers to the CCU to spend days in isolation while scientists attempted to give them a cold. Many eminent scientists, including James Lovelock, were part of the attempt to understand the common cold. This book begins with a brief history of colds through the centuries, describing what earlier generations believed and the strange treatments they tried. That the cold was caused by a virus was only uncovered at the beginning of the last century. The authors vividly describe the establishment of the Common Cold Unit, and its work in uncovering the causes and transmission of the cold and analysing possible treatments. Finally, they assess the progress made in recent years in understanding the psychological aspects of colds, and the latest research on prevention and cures. Cold Wars offers a fascinating account of an eccentric, but effective, attempt to unravel the mysteries of the common cold.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

019263285X

ISBN 13

9780192632852

Land of Giants

The Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950

By: David Lavender,David Sievert Lavender

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Land of Giants

The Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950

By: David Lavender,David Sievert Lavender

The story of the explorers, traders, settlers, and industrialists who came to the Pacific Northwest during its 200-year development.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

512

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803279051

ISBN 13

9780803279056

Antimicrobial Drugs

Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph

By: David Greenwood

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Antimicrobial Drugs

Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph

By: David Greenwood

Between 1935 and 1944 the field of microbiology, and by implication medicine as a whole, underwent dramatic advancement. The discovery of the extraordinary antibacterial properties of sulphonamides, penicillin, and streptomycin triggered a frantic hunt for more antimicrobial drugs that was to yield an abundant harvest in a very short space of time. By the early 1960s more than 50 antibacterial agents were available to the prescribing physician and, largely by a process of chemical modification of existing compounds, that number has more than tripled today. We have become so used to the ready availability of these relatively safe and highly effective 'miracle drugs' that it is now hard to grasp how they transformed the treatment of infection. This book documents the progress made from the first tentative search for an elusive 'chemotherapy' of infection in the early days of the twentieth century, to the development of effective antiviral agents for the management of HIV as the millennium drew to a close. It also offers a celebration of the individuals and groups that made this miracle happen, as well as examining the inexorable rise of the global pharmaceutical industry, and, most intriguingly, the essential input of luck. Infection still maintains a high profile in both medicine and the media, with the current threats of 'superbugs' such as MRSA acquired in hospital, and a potential resistance to antibiotics. This book tracks the history of antimicrobial drugs, a remarkable medical triumph that has provided doctors with an amazing armoury of safe and effective drugs that ensure that reversion to the helpless state of the fight against infection witnessed in the early 1900s is extremely unlikely. This timely compendium acknowledges the agents that have surely led to the relief of more human and animal suffering than any other class of drugs in the history of medical endeavour.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191560073

ISBN 13

9780191560071

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

By: David R. B. Kimbell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

By: David R. B. Kimbell

Norma is by common consent the finest of the ten operas composed during Vincenzo Bellini's short career, representing his genius more comprehensively than is usually the case with any single work by an operatic composer. This 1998 handbook provides the biographical and cultural context of the opera. It gives a full synopsis and an examination of the music and poetry, which is rooted in the aesthetics of early nineteenth-century Italian opera. Professor Kimbell suggests something of the impression Norma has made on our imaginations and sensibilities in the 165 years since it was first produced in Milan in December 1831. He considers the great interpretations of the eponymous leading role. His discussion also embraces Bellini's work more generally by presenting some of the critical reactions to his music.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521485142

ISBN 13

9780521485142

Rochelle Hudson

A Biography and Career Record

By: David C. Tucker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rochelle Hudson

A Biography and Career Record

By: David C. Tucker

Rochelle Hudson's career as an actress was planned from the start (born in 1916) by her ambitious stage mother. Given rigorous dance and musical training as a child, Hudson won her first film contract at the age of 14. A WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931, she co-starred with actors such as W.C. Fields, Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Will Rogers and Fredric March in classic films like Imitation of Life (1934) and Les Miserables (1935). But within a few years, she was stuck in B movies and frustrated. Stepping away from Hollywood, Hudson worked as a realtor and a rancher, and even did wartime espionage work for the Navy. She continued acting occasionally, in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), the TV sitcom That's My Boy (1954-55), and the campy horror film Strait-Jacket (1964). A timeless beauty, she was married (and divorced) four times before her untimely death in 1972 at age 55. Drawing on personal papers, interviews with family and friends and genealogical research, this first account of Rochelle Hudson's life and work depicts a talented and outspoken woman who built a successful career on her own terms. The annotated filmography provides synopses, critical commentary and reviews for nearly 60 feature films.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

219

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476689504

ISBN 13

9781476689500

Music for a Mixed Taste

Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

By: Steven David Zohn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Music for a Mixed Taste

Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

By: Steven David Zohn

This first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extra musical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

721

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190247851

ISBN 13

9780190247850

Rothstein

The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

By: David Pietrusza

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rothstein

The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

By: David Pietrusza

History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more -- and less -- than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein's November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll's place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

530

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0465029396

ISBN 13

9780465029396

The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding

The State of Nature and the Nature of the State

By: Stuart Sim,David Walker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding

The State of Nature and the Nature of the State

By: Stuart Sim,David Walker

In this new study the authors examine a range of theories about the state of nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, considering the contribution they made to the period's discourse on sovereignty and their impact on literary activity. Texts examined include Leviathan, Oceana, Paradise Lost, Discourses Concerning Government, Two Treatises on Government, Don Sebastian, Oronooko, The New Atalantis, Robinson Crusoe, Dissertation upon Parties, David Simple, and Tom Jones. The state of nature is identified as an important organizing principle for narratives in the century running from the Civil War through to the second Jacobite Rebellion, and as a way of situating the author within either a reactionary or a radical political tradition. The Discourse of Sovereignty provides an exciting new perspective on the intellectual history of this fascinating period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351891499

ISBN 13

9781351891493

Cold Wars

The Fight Against the Common Cold

By: David Arthur John Tyrrell,Michael Fielder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cold Wars

The Fight Against the Common Cold

By: David Arthur John Tyrrell,Michael Fielder

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

019263285X

ISBN 13

9780192632852

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War

By: David R. Como

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War

By: David R. Como

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War charts the way the English civil war of the 1640s mutated into a revolution, in turn paving the way for the later execution of King Charles I and the abolition of the monarchy. Focusing on parliament's most militant supporters, David Como reconstructs the origins and nature of the most radical forms of political and religious agitation that erupted during the war, tracing the process by which these forms gradually spread and gained broader acceptance. Drawing on a wide range of manuscript and print sources, the study situates these developments within a revised narrative of the period, revealing the emergence of new practices and structures for the conduct of politics. In the process, the book illuminates the eruption of many of the period's strikingly novel intellectual currents, including assumptions and practices we today associate with western representative democracy; notions of retained natural rights, religious toleration, freedom of the press, and freedom from arbitrary imprisonment. The study also chronicles the way that civil war shattered English protestantism - leaving behind myriad competing groupings, including congregationalists, baptists, antinomians, and others - while examining the relationship between this religious fragmentation and political change. It traces the gradual appearance of openly anti-monarchical, republican sentiment among parliament's supporters. Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War provides a new history of the English civil war, enhancing our understanding of the dramatic events of the 1640s, and shedding light on the long-term political and religious consequences of the conflict.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

480

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191017701

ISBN 13

9780191017704

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Christ in a Postmodern World

By: David F. Wells

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Christ in a Postmodern World

By: David F. Wells

In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802824552

ISBN 13

9780802824554

The Long Apprenticeship

A Writer's Memoir

By: David Pierce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Long Apprenticeship

A Writer's Memoir

By: David Pierce

After an established career as a literary critic, David Pierce turns his attention to the story of his own life. From a working-class upbringing to an education in Catholic boarding schools and seminaries in Sussex and Surrey, and then onto university at Lancaster, his story is both personal and evocative of the changes that Britain underwent from the post-war period until the present. With chapters on his father’s lost Jewish family and his mother’s Irish heritage, this is a memoir that celebrates continuity and difference. Whether as a child witnessing the disappearing house dances in the west of Ireland or commenting on the impact of change and the new, Pierce is a compelling story-teller who lets us into the chosen scene with a mixture of emotional engagement, honesty, and humour. In Pierce’s record of his life, his writing is sensitive, thoughtful and committed. At each stage he digs deep to reflect on what was happening to him, and these reflections ensure that the reading experience is both full and rewarding. Whether he is discussing his earliest memories or a photo of himself as the eleven-year-old boy he once knew, each episode is part of a larger inquiry into the nature of consciousness and how we record and internalise the world. On every page we are invited to reflect with Pierce on what we are reading and on what constitutes the material that comprises a memoir. We accompany the author from a destiny obscure to a prose writer of distinction. The Long Apprenticeship, which contains 28 illustrations, will appeal to fans of biographies and memoirs. It covers the following life experiences:the discovery of oneself as a writerthe process involved in writing a memoir and in the uncovering of memorythe attention to the self within a social historythe effect of a religious upbringing and the recuperation of the self thereafter.Thinking about the purpose of a memoir, David said: ‘A memoir is like an underground stream that comes to the surface. You write for those who have gone before and for posterity as much as for yourself.’

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

329

Publisher

Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1780881029

ISBN 13

9781780881027

Gold Seeking

Victoria and California in the 1850’s

By: David Goodman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gold Seeking

Victoria and California in the 1850’s

By: David Goodman

The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804724806

ISBN 13

9780804724807

Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1

The Travels, 1850 Version

By: David Thompson,William E. Moreau

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1

The Travels, 1850 Version

By: David Thompson,William E. Moreau

David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The tale spans the years 1784 to 1807 and extends from the Great Lakes to the Rockies, from Athabasca to Missouri. A distinguished literary work, the Travels alternates between the expository prose of the scientist and the vivid language of the storyteller, animated throughout by a restless spirit of inquiry and sense of wonder. In the first volume of an ambitious three-volume project that will finally bring all of Thompson's writings together, editor William Moreau presents the Travels narrative as it existed in 1850, when the author was forced to abandon his work. Accompanying Moreau's transcription is an introductory essay and a textual introduction, extensive critical annotations, historical and modern maps, and a biographical appendix. The definitive collection of Thompson's works, The Writings of David Thompson will bring one of North American's most important early travellers and surveyors and his world to a whole new generation of readers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

423

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0773585001

ISBN 13

9780773585003

Book's by David Arthur John Tyrrell

Cold Wars

Cold Wars

Land of Giants

Land of Giants

Antimicrobial Drugs

Antimicrobial Drugs

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

Rochelle Hudson

Rochelle Hudson

Music for a Mixed Taste

Music for a Mixed Taste

Rothstein

Rothstein

The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding

The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding

Cold Wars

Cold Wars

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

The Long Apprenticeship

The Long Apprenticeship

Gold Seeking

Gold Seeking

Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1

Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email