5 Results for : miasmic
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Grenfell, Stephen: The Miasmic Mist
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.05.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: The Miasmic Mist, Titelzusatz: Volume One: Sisters of Aphrodite, Autor: Grenfell, Stephen, Verlag: Balboa Press, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Action & Adventure, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 522, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 793 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Grenfell, Stephen: The Miasmic Mist
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.05.2018, Medium: Buch, Einband: Gebunden, Titel: The Miasmic Mist, Titelzusatz: Volume One: Sisters of Aphrodite, Autor: Grenfell, Stephen, Verlag: Balboa Press, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Action & Adventure, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 522, Informationen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag, Gewicht: 961 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Parsnips, Buttered: Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 223min
In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded. Dear Listener, Using letters, emails, tweets and telegrams I will show you how the things in your life that make you sad, low or anxious can soon appear trivial, insignificant and like a fish. In short, I will butter your parsnips. Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed. I love bed. While we are overwhelmed and confused by the miasmic cloud of information, there are those that seek to take advantage: there are parking fines, hate tweets, Nigerian email scams and Christmas newsletters from old school friends about their ugly kids. And just as we're getting round to doing something about it, we're distracted again. I, Joe Lycett, comedian, wordsmith, and professional complainer, am here to help. During my short life of doing largely nothing I've discovered solutions to many of life's problems, which I impart to you, dear Listener. Containing a centurion of complaint letters to unsuspecting celebrities, companies and anyone brave enough to clog up my phone, as well as illustrations, one-liners, jokes and life hacks, this little gem offers you a collection of tips and advice* for all manner of modern woe. By the time you have finished listening to this book you will have learnt how to: Reverse a parking fine Manipulate the tabloid press Navigate social media Respond to hate mail Out-weird Internet trolls Contest a so-called ripe avocado Send the perfect Christmas newsletter Defeat ISIS Take do ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Lycett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001040/bk_hodd_001040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fighting the Plague in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: The History of Ancient and Medieval Efforts to Prevent the Spread of Diseases , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine.Inevitably, that meant physicians tried a variety of practices to cure the sick, and many of them seem quite odd by modern standards. By the time Rome was on the rise, physicians understood that contagions arose and spread, but according to Galen, Hippocrates, and other Greco-Roman authorities, pestilence was caused by miasma, foul air produced by the decomposition of organic matter. Though modern scientists have since been able to disprove this, on the face of it there was some logic to the idea. Physicians and philosophers (they were very often the same, Galen being an example) noticed that disease arose in areas of poor sanitation, where filth and rotting matter was prevalent and not disposed of, and the basic measures to prevent disease - waste removal, provision of clean food and water, and quarantining - would have been obvious to them. The scenting of miasmic air with incense and other unguents to expel the foulness would also have thus made sense, though people now know that can’t stop the spread of a disease.Ancient physicians at the time believed that miasma was not the direct cause of disease but rather a catalyst. Maladies were caused by an imbalance of what Galen called the four humors. According to him (and Hippocrates before him), the body contained four kinds of fluids: Black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm. These ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194450/bk_acx0_194450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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