Dally, Ann:Women under the Knife
- Taschenbuch 2014, ISBN: 9780091745080
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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives. … Mehr…
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014, 2.5, LONDON: FLEETWAY. UK Format comic. Colour and black and white art. Features Judge Dredd(Horror House), Maniac 5(Funeral For A Friend), Tharg's Terror Tales(The Operatives), Brigand Doom(The Magus), Robo-Hunter(The Hoagyman: illlustrated text story), Durham Red(Ghosts), Bix Barton(Violent Night, Holy Night), plus a feature on horror films. Slight wear/creasing on cover edges. Comic grade: Fine. Location: CCB1/O . Fine. Paperback. First Printing. 1994., FLEETWAY, 1994, 5, UK: Silver Link Publishing Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0947971130 Dust jacket complete except price clipped, small nick to top of spine. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Numerous b/w photographs. 144 pages clean and tight. THE Great Western Railway was a company that inspired a powerful spirit of pride and loyalty amongst its workforce. Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835, the GWR was unique in that it was the only British railway company to retain its name through the Grouping of 1923 and, by the time of Nationalisation on January 1 1948, the Company enjoyed an unbroken tradition established over more than 100 years. GWR Reflections depicts `God's Wonderful Railway' as recorded primarily by the press photographer, from the broad gauge era of Brunel to the early years of British Railways Western Region, following Nationalisation in 1948. Featured prominently in these pages are the prestige services and named trains of the GWR, together with a fascinating selection of Royal Train duties between Paddington and Windsor. Whilst the enthusiast photographer has often concentrated mainly on locomotives and trains, the press photographer's job was to record all aspects of railway development and activity, so also featured in this book are interior and exterior views of passenger rolling-stock, diesel and petrol railcars, goods trains, permanent way work, civil engineering operations, and the impressive Swindon Works locomotive test plant. Coverage of special interest focuses on the growth and development of the GWR's London terminus at Paddington in the 20th century, and the Company's railway and shipping activities associated with a visit to Fishguard by the giant Cunard liner Mauretania in 1909. Detailed captions and explanatory text in the book are the result of lengthy research by acknowledged GWR historian Keith Beck, whose expert comment is combined with many unique and previously unpublished photographs to produce an attractive album of historic merit. The superb photographs are all drawn from the historical archives of the HultonDeutsch Collection; most of the pictures were produced by the Topical Press Agency. The Hulton-Deutsch Collection is a commercial picture agency with more than 10 million pictures in its files. The pictures are supplied for every conceivable purpose to a wide range of commercial organisations for use in books, newspapers, television programmes, magazines, games and advertisements. ., Silver Link Publishing Ltd, 1987, 3, London: Headline. Very Good/Very Good. 2005. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo Dimensions: 15.5 x 3.8 x 23.6 cm 0755310411 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 416 pages clean and tight. Trafalgar was a victory that would change the course of the Napoleonic wars and that would lead to the British Navy ruling the waves for more than a century. In Christopher Lee's new book he re-evaluates our preconceptions of this final and decisive battle and also looks at the events that led up to it. Through the prism of the preceding years he paints a picture of the personalities and the intrigues that were operating at this time, and particularly of the creation of a national hero in Horatio Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon, who is reputed to have kept a bust of Nelson on his desk. The battle itself was nearly two years in the making with Nelson scouring the Atlantic for the French fleet. In Lee's book the reader will be taken on that journey with Nelson and his men, giving them a front-row view of the biggest story in Britain's maritime history. ., Headline, 2005, 3, London: Hutchinson Radius. Very Good/Very Good. 1991. Hard Cover. 8vo 009174508X Dust jacket complete, unclipped in a clear protective sleeve. Green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. xxv, 289 pages clean and tight. WOMEN UNDER THE KNIFE is the story of how modern surgery developed through experiments on women. In 1811 Fanny Burney, then Madame d'Arblay, wrote a harrowing journal about an operation she had endured for breast cancer. These were the days before anaesthetics, and many people preferred to suffer their pain - whatever the consequences - rather than to submit to the terrifying hands of the surgeons. And many surgeons dared not do what they knew in theory would relieve the suffering of their patients. Because operations on ovaries were the major development of internal surgery in the nineteenth century, it was women who bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and who also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was their compliance. From the first operation in America in 1809, the saving of much suffering was achieved at the expense of prolonged surgery endured by both black slaves and prosperous whites. Later in the Victorian era there was even a craze for mutilating operations such as `spaying' and clitoridectomies to `cure' hysteria and masturbation, as well as questionable interventionalist surgery in pregnancy and childbirth which still continues to this day. The story continues with the obstacles faced by the earliest women doctors, such as Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Women Under the Knife is an extraordinary history, giving a vivid picture - literary, medical and sociological - of Victorian society in America and Europe. ., Hutchinson Radius, 1991, 3<
