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In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war-but in the isolated community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages, charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and-sometimes-secret attachments. But when the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terr...

In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has been weaving through multiple books since her National Book Award-winning collection, Ship Fever. The six exquisite stories in Natural History are set largely in a small community in central New York state and portray some of her most beloved characters, spanning the decades between the Civil War ...

Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in the history of knowledge. During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation-from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to sc...

Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams o...

In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war?but in the isolated community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages, charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. When the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice. Set in...

Focusing on developing states, this book captures and deliberates on best models to build their capacity and capability to become innovative. It emphasizes the organic links among economic growth, innovation, and wealth creation through entrepreneurship. In addition, it identifies and discusses some of the key factors that are required for the development of national systems to support an innovation-centric culture that is essential for the su...

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The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever, " the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's mo...

Der junge Mendel streift durch seine Erbsenpflanzung, ein verwunschener Ort, in dem er das Geheimnis der Erblehre lüften wird und doch bald selbst nicht mehr daran glaubt. Zwei Frauen stellen sich gegen zähe Vorurteile und zweifeln die Lehrmeinungen an. Der alte Carl von Linné hat der Natur eine taxonomische Ordnung übergestreift, doch der Name seiner Tochter entschwindet im Nebel. Das heisere Gezänk nistender Möwen, nachtschwarze Jaguare, Vög...

Flamingo B format edition of this literary novel based around the Victorian obsession with mapping and classification - which even extended to the inhospitable environment of the icy Arctic. A tale of endeavour and polar peril which tells the story of a nineteenth century Arctic expedition and of the women who were left behind.

Von den Balkonen des Sanatoriums fällt der Blick auf die nebelumschlungenen Flüsse und Berge, einen einsamen Fuchs und die gewundene Straße zum Dorf. Während Europa im Ersten Weltkrieg versinkt, führen die Patienten der Tuberkuloseklinik hier am Tamarack Lake ihren eigenen Kampf ums Überleben. Als ein Neuankömmling vorschlägt, einmal die Woche für einen Vortrag zusammenzukommen, gerät der Alltag im Hospital aus den Fugen. Leidenschaftlich stü...

This collection features three peer-reviewed literature reviews on reducing antibiotic use in dairy production.The first chapter describes the regulatory control of medicines in the United Kingdom and European Union and discusses the wider implications of antimicrobial use in dairy production and the need for change in the way we view and use medicines. The chapter also proposes how medicine prescribing practices in the dairy industry may unde...

Der eigenbrötlerische Naturforscher Erasmus Wells verbringt seine Tage zwischen verstaubten Exponaten. Als ihm aber die Teilnahme an einer Arktisexpedition angeboten wird, wagt er sich aus seinem Kokon. Stolz werden große Ziele verkündet, doch je tiefer sie in den Norden vordringen, desto bedrohlicher wird die Umgebung. Unaufhaltsam schließt sich der arktische Winter um das Schiff. Die undurchdringliche Polarnacht, die krachende Kälte, die bl...

1847. Thousands of Irish emigrants are boarding ships to flee the potato famine at home, hoping for a better life in Canada. Yet, many do not survive the crossing. Those who do reach Canada, arrive weakened, starving and riddled with disease and are forced to stay in quarantine on Grosse Isle, an Island just outside Quebec. This is the story of one doctor's seemingly hopeless struggle against the deadly disease that threatens to spread inland...

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Alcune lettere inedite di Mendel e un drammatico episodio d'infanzia sono l'eredità che lega Antonia a suo nonno. Perso nel limbo fra ricordi e realtà, il vecchio Linnaeus combatte con la scomparsa della sua leggendaria memoria. Due biologi marini si innamorano sulla labile linea di confine fra terra e mare, ma devono fare i conti con la labilità dei sentimenti. Di racconto in racconto, Andrea Barrett applica il suo microscopio narrativo a que...

Andrea Barrett's novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusetts. When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke—friend of Reba's childhood, friend of her heart—is her husband, discord ...