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European Costume and Fashion, 1490-1790

By: Francis Michael Kelly,Randolph Schwabe

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European Costume and Fashion, 1490-1790

By: Francis Michael Kelly,Randolph Schwabe

Authoritative, exhaustive guide provides detailed descriptions and accurate representations of conventional early-16th-century fashions for women; doublets of mid-century; Spanish trunk hose and ruffs from the early 17th century; an early-18th-century cousin of the modern suit for men; along with cravats, parasols, bustles, grandiose coiffures, and more. 211 illustrations.

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324

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Courier Corporation

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ISBN 10

0486423220

ISBN 13

9780486423227

A Short History of Costume & Armour

Two Volumes Bound as One

By: Francis M. Kelly,Randolph Schwabe

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A Short History of Costume & Armour

Two Volumes Bound as One

By: Francis M. Kelly,Randolph Schwabe

DIVMeticulously researched, well-illustrated history of fashion covers 800 years of style: civilian and military clothing of English upper classes for both sexes, 11th–19th centuries, plus accessories. 342 black-and-white illustrations. /div

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278

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Courier Corporation

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048614612X

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9780486146126

The Global Organ Shortage

Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses

By: T. Randolph Beard,David L. Kaserman,Rigmar Osterkamp

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The Global Organ Shortage

Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses

By: T. Randolph Beard,David L. Kaserman,Rigmar Osterkamp

Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process. In the United States, for instance, more than 10,000 people die every year either awaiting transplantation, or as a result of deteriorating health exacerbated by the shortage of organs. Issues pertaining to organ donation and transplantation represent, perhaps, the most complex and morally controversial medical dilemmas aside from abortion and euthanasia. However, these quandaries are not unsolvable. This book proposes compensating organ donors within a publicly controlled monopsony. This proposal is quite similar to current practice in Spain, where compensation for cadaveric donation now occurs "in secret," as this text reveals. To build their recommendations, the authors provide a medical history of transplantation, a history of the development of national laws and waiting lists, a careful examination of the social costs and benefits of transplantation, a discussion of the causes of organ shortages, an evaluation of "partial" reforms tried or proposed, an extensive ethical evaluation of the current system and its competitors.

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261

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Stanford University Press

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0804784647

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9780804784641

Jenatsch's Axe

Social Boundaries, Identity, and Myth in the Era of the Thirty Years' War

By: Randolph Conrad Head

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Jenatsch's Axe

Social Boundaries, Identity, and Myth in the Era of the Thirty Years' War

By: Randolph Conrad Head

During the turbulent events of Europe's Thirty Years' War, both ruthlessness and adaptability were crucial ingredients for success. In this engaging volume, Randolph C. Head traces the career of an extraordinarily adaptable and ruthless figure, George Jenatsch (1596-1639). Born a Protestant pastor's son, Jenatsch's career took him from the clergy to the military to the nobility. A passionate Calvinist in his youth, he converted to Catholicism and prudence as his power grew. A native speaker of the Romansh language, he crossed the boundaries of language and local loyalty in his service to France, Venice, and his own people. Violence marked every turning point of his life. After fleeing the "Holy Massacre" of Protestants in the Valtellina in 1620, Jenatsch helped assassinate the powerful Pompeius von Planta, in 1621, using an axe. He killed his commanding officer in a duel in 1629, and his own life ended in a tavern in 1639 when he was murdered -- with an axe -- by a man dressed as a bear. After his death, myth took over. Rumors spread that Jenatsch was killed by the same axe that he had wielded on von Planta -- and from there the story only got better, culminating in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's celebrated 1876 novel, Jurg Jenatsch. This study meticulously traces the social boundaries that characterized seventeenth-century Europe -- region, religion, social state, and kinship -- by analyzing a distinctive life that crossed them all. Professor Randolph C. Head teaches European History at the University of California, Riverside and is the author of Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons.

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