This mortal coil, Andrew Doig, Doig

Автор: Doig Ivan
Название: Heart Earth: A Memoir
ISBN: 1501156055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501156052
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 1839.00 р.
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Описание: Ivan Doig's companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky--inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II--is "a lyrical evocation of the Doigs' gallantly hardscrabble existence and love for the unforgiving Montana mountains" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Raised by his father and maternal grandmother, Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters, and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman emerged. His mother was as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as her son.

In this prize-winning prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death, and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. "Profoundly original and lustrous," (Kirkus Reviews) Doig eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit. Doig is "a colloquial stylist without equal...and Heart Earth is a book that repeatedly proves the power of language" (Los Angeles Times).

Автор: Doig Mary Jo
Название: Patchwork: A Memoir of Love and Loss
ISBN: 1631524496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631524493
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 2476.00 р.
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Описание: When a stunning mid-life event breaks open the emotional cocoon protecting Mary Jo Doig, the terrifying events of her childhood unravel-and she embarks on a painful but transformational journey to uncover the truth about her dark past.

Автор: Doig, Sarah E.
Название: Little history of suffolk
ISBN: 0750985992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780750985994
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Описание: The only concise yet comprehensive history of Suffolk, stretching from pre-history to the present day

Автор: Doig, Andrew
Название: This mortal coil
ISBN: 1526624419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526624413
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание:

A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022

'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist

'Full of curious facts' The Times

'Gripping and fascinating' Mail on Sunday

'The obvious beauty of This Mortal Coil is that in being a history of death, it is also a history of life, and a brilliant, fascinating one at that' Scotsman
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Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have lived?

University of Manchester Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at particular causes - from infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet - who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress.

This Mortal Coil is a thrilling story of growing medical knowledge and social organisation, of achievement and, looking to the future, of promise.