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First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as a recollection of the experiences and knowledge of Sir Arthur Newsholme, the book covers a period in which phenomenal progress was made.

First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme’s Fifty Years in Public Health and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject. It is in part autobiographical as the author recollects and reflects upon his experiences of the system. The book is divided...

Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney, (born July 24, 1843, Derby, Derbyshire, Eng.—died Dec. 3, 1920, Folkestone, Kent), a specialist in the chemistry of photography, especially noted for his development of a photographic emulsion that he used to map the solar spectrum far into the infrared. Commissioned...

15 Tales Of Adventure Début Of Bimbashi Joyce The Surgeon Of Gaster Fell Borrowed Scenes The Man From Archangel The Great Brown-Pericord Motor The Sealed Room Tales Of Medical Life A Physiologist's Wife Behind The Times His First Operation The Third Generation The Curse Of Eve A Medical Document...

Sod Sitting, Get Moving! is the must-have guide to keeping fit and healthy in your sixties, seventies and beyond. Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. You will feel better, look better...

Originally published in 1920. Author: Sir George Grierson, K.C.I.E Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences / Kashmir Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Story of Viga-Glum. Sir Edmund Head I HAVE heard the question asked, "What interest can attach to the language and literature of a small and remote island, the inhabitants of which never exceeded 60,000 in number?" The population of Iceland has always been insignificant, and its...

This collection of Sherlock Holmes works by the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle includes the following classic tales of deduction: Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Broker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual and others.

Chronicles of the Canongate is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. The MacTavish family lived near Oban in 1775. Hamish MacTavish Mohr ("Senior"), a daring freebooter, had met his death in an encounter...

St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott, Bart..

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle went on to write more tales of his famed detective, His Last Bow is chronologically the final adventure of Sherlock Holmes. His Last Bow is a fitting swansong with Sherlock’s senses being forced to operate at their highest capacity. The story is part mystery and part...

First published in 1823, this book narrates the disastrous expedition undertaken by Naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin up the Coppermine River in North America. Franklin (1786–1847) and nineteen others set out in 1819, initially with guides from the Hudson Bay Company until the...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. “The Last Galley (and Other Stories)” is a collection...

The Gully Of Bluemansdyke, And Other Stories SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Author of "Micah Clarke," "The White Company," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," &c. [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]