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  • The Dancing Plague

    The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness

    by John Waller ...
    A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human natureIn the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance. Bathed in sweat, she continued to dance. Overcome with exhaustion, she stopped, and then resumed her solitary jig a few hours later. Over the next two months, roughly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Treatise on the Incubus: Night-Mare, Disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams and Nocturnal Visions

    by John Waller ...
    The enjoyment of comfortable and undisturbed sleep, is certainly to be ranked amongst the greatest blessings which heaven has bestowed on mankind; and it may be considered as one of the best criterions of a person enjoying perfect health. On the contrary, any disturbance which occurs in the enjoyment of this invaluable blessing, may be considered a decisive proof of some derangement existing in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • General Practice--Demanding Work

    Understanding Patterns of Work in Primary Care

    by John Waller, Paul Hodgkin ...
    General practitioners are moving into a more central and accountable role in managing NHS resources. To achieve this they need to monitor, understand and plan the everyday services they offer. This book shows the reader how. It provides insights and practical suggestions on how demand can be met effectively and efficiently. It shows how to improve service provision and guidance is given on how to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Treatise on the Incubus

    Night-Mare, Disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams and Nocturnal Visions

    by John Waller ...
    A Treatise on the Incubus, or Night-Mare, Disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams and Nocturnal VisionsThere must however be some reason for the universal opinion that it always attacks persons lying on the back. I was for a long time of opinion myself, that I was always lying in that position when the paroxysm came on, but as the disease gained strength, and the paroxysms hung more pertinaciously upon ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Fabulous Science

    Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

    by John Waller ...
    The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian' genetics. Joseph Lister's famously clean hospital wards were actually notorious dirty. And Einstein ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Heredity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Waller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of heredity is fundamental to how we see ourselves and others. It goes far beyond the obvious continuity of physical traits across generations. We routinely ascribe similarities in personality, intellect, outlook, and aptitude between family members to what's passed down in sperm and eggs. The simple idea that children take after their ancestors has long been central to science and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Discovery of the Germ

    by John Waller ...
    Series series Revolutions in Science S.
    20 incredible years that revolutionised our understanding of disease. Breathtakingly rapid, the discovery that germs cause disease was both revolutionary and rich in human drama. John Waller describes the scientific virtuosity, outstanding intellectual courage and bitter personal rivalries that gave birth to this exceptional sea-change in scientific thinking. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Were the Waldenses Baptists or Pedo-Baptists

    by John L. Waller ...
    Even during the world’s midnight, when the dark cloud of papal superstition was spread in blackness over the moral sky of the civilized nations, here and there a star was seen, bright, beautiful and peculiar, pouring celestial splendor upon the surrounding gloom. When Popery was the world’s despot-when, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, the Man of Sin had ascended to the throne of ... Read more

    $2.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Were the Waldenses Baptists or Pedo-Baptists?

    by John L. Waller ...
    Even during the world’s midnight, when the dark cloud of papal superstition was spread in blackness over the moral sky of the civilized nations, here and there a star was seen, bright, beautiful and peculiar, pouring celestial splendor upon the surrounding gloom. When Popery was the world’s despot-when, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, the Man of Sin had ascended to the throne of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Learning Adult

    Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis

    Edited by John Holford, Marcella Milana, Richard Waller, Sue Webb ...
    Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage critically with his theorisation of learning, and with his extensive writings on the sociology, politics, ethics and history of adult education, and on ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America

    by John C. Waller ...
    Series series Health and Wellness in Daily Life
    This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "medical care" was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice.Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America covers a period of dramatic change in the United States by examining our changing understanding of the nature of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning

    Edited by Richard Waller, John Holford, Sue Webb, Peter Jarvis, Marcella Milana ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world.Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research on education and learning in adulthood, this ... Read more

    $242.09 USD