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Banting: A Biography by Michael Bliss 9780802073860
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Frederick Banting was thirty-one when he received the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of insulin. He was catapulted to instant fame, for which he was neither personally nor professionally... -
William Osler: A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss
Booksplease Price: £36.60William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's... -
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss 9780195329612
Booksplease Price: £36.60Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery. Drawing on new... -
Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal Michael Bliss 9781049801377
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In January 1885, as the people of Montreal celebrated one of the greatest winter carnivals of the century, a deadly epidemic inched its way through the city streets. When the case of a railway porter... -
The Discovery of Insulin: Special Centenary Edition by Michael Bliss 9781487529130
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin, discovered by the Canadian research team of... -
Between the Bullets: The Spiritual Cinema of John Woo by Michael Bliss 9780810841109
Booksplease Price: £65.97Originally a Hong Kong-based director, John Woo is now considered one of the ten most successful directors working in American films, receiving world-wide attention for his highly stylized violence... -
Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business by Michael Bliss 9781772441529
Booksplease Price: £42.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441529Author Michael BlissFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint -
Dreams within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir by Michael Bliss 9780809322848
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.48What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream. Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of ""Picnic at Hanging Rock"" as so pivotal in explaining the films... -
Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business by Michael Bliss 9781772441512
Booksplease Price: £31.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441512Author Michael BlissFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint -
The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease by Michael Bliss 9780226059013
Booksplease Price: £16.75At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of what ails us, doctors almost certainly will be able to help -... -
The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease by Michael Bliss 9781442641754
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Originating in the prestigious Joanne Goodman Lecture Series, and drawing on the author's series of award-winning books, The Making of Modern Medicine explores the foundations of medicine through... -
Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s by Michael Bliss 9781442236516
Booksplease Price: £46.75Out of more than 180 science fiction films produced in the United States between 1950 and 1959, twenty were concerned with the notion of an invasion. Of these, a select number used the invasions as... -
The Word Made Flesh: Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese by Michael Bliss 9780810835894
Booksplease Price: £61.04The Word Made Flesh is an exploration of the thematic concerns and the underlying humanism and morality found in Martin Scorsese's films. It contains individual chapters on fifteen Scorsese films,... -
Laurel and Hardy's Comic Catastrophes: Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films by Michael Bliss 9781538101537
Booksplease Price: £85.48One of America's most beloved comic duos, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have entertained generations of viewers with their unique, heartwarming brand of slapstick comedy. The pair's teamwork and... -
A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch by Michael Bliss 9780813178141
Booksplease Price: £32.30One of the most innovative films ever made, Sam Peckinpah's motion picture The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the film was considered controversial because of its powerful,... -
The Americanization of Canada by Samuel E Moffett 9780802061430
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47For too long the history of Canadian society has been hidden in secondhand bookstores, the dark corners of library stacks, and the privacy of the occasional graduate seminar. Contrary to what often... -
Queen Versus Louis Riel by Desmond Morton 9780802062321
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74The transcript of Louis Riel's trial has never been readily accessible to the general reader interested in the 1885 Rebellion and related events. This work will promote knowledge of the facts, and... -
Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories: Revised Edition by Robert Bothwell 9780774806534
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Relations between Canada and Quebec have never been easy. Beginning with the Conquest and working through the many political permutations before Confederation and since, there has always been... -
The Rapids by Alan Sullivan 9780802061485
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66For too long the history of Canadian society has been hidden in secondhand bookstores, the dark corners of library stacks, and the privacy of the occasional graduate seminar. Contrary to what often... -
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds by Bernie Lucht 9780864924391
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.06For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program's 40th... -
XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame by Neil Seeman 9780772786272
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and... -
The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by Mary Henley Rubio 9780199029648
Booksplease Price: £25.51The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fifty percent of the material removed to save space, as well as to reflect a quaint, marketable vision... -
SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children by David Wright 9781442647237
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation...