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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial became a national sensation. Despite Muybridge’s crime, the artist’s patron, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired the photographer to answer the question of whether the four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground all at once—and together these two unlikely men launched the age of visual media. Written with style and passion by National Book Award-winner Edward Ball, this riveting true-crime tale of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads puts on display the virtues and vices of the great American West.
Jack Bristow is a writer who's life has been altered dramatically ever since having contracted Lyme disease twelve years ago. After several failed attempts at getting better--antibiotics, herbals, anti-malarials--Mr. Bristow concluded there had to be something else. Enter detox. This book contains many different herbs and methods Mr. Bristow uses daily to become more functional and "feel human" again. Characters and incidents in said book have been exaggerated for comedic effect. But the detox methods the author lays out are one hundred percent authentic. Wildly funny, informative and surprisingly poignant "The Art of the Detox" is the work of a tenacious man who refuses to let his disease define him in his quest to help himself and others.
Describes Shipman's remarkable life and fifty of her major works, including the Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio; Longue Vue Gardens in New Orleans; and Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. Richly illustrated, this expanded edition reveals her ability to combine plants for dramatic impact and create spaces of the utmost intimacy.
Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association.