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"Magnificently detailed and wide-ranging "—Steven Shapin, The New Yorker

Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart and John Oswald, who traveled to India in the eighteenth century, converted to the animal-friendly tenets of Hinduism, and returned to Europe to spread the word. Leading figures of the Enlightenment—among them Rousseau, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin—gave intellectual backing to the vegetarians, sowing the seeds for everything from Victorian soup kitchens to contemporary animal rights and environmentalism.

Spanning across three centuries with reverberations to our current world, The Bloodless Revolution is a stunning debut from a young historian with enormous talent and promise, "draw[ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before" (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the Natural World). 24 pages of illustrations..
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Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient's good, and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care.In this anthology, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand have created a rich presentation of Pellegrino's thought and its development. Pellegrino's work has been dedicated to showing that bioethics must be understood in the context of medical humanities, and that medical humanities, in turn, must be understood in the context of the philosophy of medicine. Arguing that bioethics should not be restricted to topics such as abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, physician-assisted suicide, or cloning, Pellegrino has instead stressed that such issues are shaped by foundational views regarding the nature of the physician-patient relationship and the goals of medicine, which are the proper focus of the philosophy of medicine.This volume includes a preface ("Apologia") by Dr. Pellegrino and a comprehensive Introduction by the editors. Of interest to medical ethicists as well as students, scholars, and physicians, "The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn" offers fascinating insights into the emergence of a field and the work of one of its pioneers..
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Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik


Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration of the art of fiction; its inventiveness anticipates the work of Joyce, Rushdie, and Fuentes in our own century. This Modern Library Paperback is set from the nine-volume first edition from 1759..
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TRISTRAM SHANDY is one of English literature's most curious, complex, and comic novels. Here, cleverly re-created in the anarchic style of cartooniest/illustrator Martin Rowson, Tristram travels with his faithful companion Pete through the torturous paths of the digressive world of Laurence Sterne's eccentric masterpiece, encountering along the way time travelers Oliver Stone, Martin Amis, and others. Illus..
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The importance of chemical communication is illustrated in this study with examples from a diverse range of animals including humans, marine copepods, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, moths, snakes, goldfish, elephants and mice. For students of ecology, evolution and behavior, Tristram Wyatt provides an introduction to the rapid progress in the understanding of olfaction at the molecular and neurological level. In addition, he offers chemists, molecular biologists and neurobiologists insights into the ecological, evolutionary and behavioral context of olfactory communication..
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In this work, Sharon Cadman Seelig tests traditional notions of genre by analyzing parallels between works that confound existing categories. Seelig pairs three 17th-century prose works with three other works, each of a later century: Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" with Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", Browne's "Religio Medici" with Thoreau's "Walden", and Donne's "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions" with Eliot's "Four Quartets". Proceeding from her authors' similarities in method and common sets of assumptions, (such as concern with process and discovery, time and eternity, or the nature of the self), she uncovers parallels showing that genre is not simply a set of formal features but rather a particular way of seeing the world that grows out of authorial attitude, impulse and occasion. Seelig's thesis - that a view of the world generates a rhetorical stance, stylistic mode and literary form - challenges many of the assumptions of traditional genre theory. She shifts attention from general formalist principles to the idiosyncratic and personal qualities of particular works and their marks of being connected - in ways that go beyond allusions of borrowings - to kindred texts. Her account of how texts generate other texts brings a fresh approach to the study of literary influence and implicitly argues that knowledge of immediate cultural contexts can no longer be viewed as sufficient for understanding important Western texts. In addition to its appeal to students and scholars interested in Sterne, Thoreau, Eliot or 17th-century literature, "Generating Texts" should interest literary sholars and students more generally, particularly those concerned with the interconnections between literary periods and genres..
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