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Chapters: Hans Selye, Camran Nezhat, Achim Peters, Harvey Cushing, Robert Sapolsky, Victor Horsley, Zvi Laron, Joycelyn Elders, Geoffrey Frank Grant, Constantin Ion Parhon, Thomas Addison, Raymond Hoffenberg, Robert M. Boyar, Ved Prakash Kamboj, Pierre Marie, Michel Chrétien, Francine Ratner Kaufman, D. Sudhaker Rao, Bernhard Zondek, Herbert Dudley Purves, Henry Friesen, Hashimoto Hakaru, Roger Guillemin, Ricardo Asch, Richard Burkewood Welbourn, Jean Dussault, Solomon Berson, Berta Scharrer, Paul Walfish, Moustapha Kassem, Fernand Labrie, Alfred Jost, Timothy O'brien, Henry Kronenberg, Eugène Gley, Philip Showalter Hench, George Redmayne Murray, Angelo Digeorge, Arthur Biedl, Kamel Ajlouni, Stafford Lightman, Hugo Steiner, Isuf Kalo, R. V. Jayakumar, Morris Simmonds, Jeremy Allgrove. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Camran Nezhat, M.D., M.D., FACOG, FACS is a laparoscopic surgeon and reproductive endocrinology and infertility sub-specialist who has been teaching and practicing medicine and surgery as a clinical professor of surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California since 1993. He is a pioneer and leading practitioner in the field of laparoscopic surgery, also referred to as minimally invasive, endoscopic, keyhole, and Band-Aid surgery. Nezhat is best known for the surgical innovation referred to as video-laparoscopy or operating off the monitor for performing advanced operative video-laparoscopy, a method and philosophy now accepted as the gold standard for all forms of endoscopic surgery, but which was, until recently, considered a controversial and questionable departure from classical surgery (aka, laparotomy or open surgery). Nezhat introduced several innovations that were at fir...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6353243 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Church History, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8801 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Of locustae and dangerous men: Peter Damian, the Vallombrosans, and eleventh-century reform (1).
Author: Kathleen G. Cushing
Publication: Church History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 740(18)

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At once glamorous and loathsome, vampires are among the most memorable figures in the literature and film of the horror genre. These undead beings, possessed of supernatural powers of metamorphosis and hypnotism, stalk the night for the blood of the living. They have fascinated and terrified generations of writers and readers. Here are 18 bone-chilling tales of these bloodsucking creatures of the night, written by some of the most distinguished writers of the genre.

From premier writers including Anne Rice and Bram Stoker, the stories in this collection represent some of the finest horror writing spanning the past two centuries. Here are gothic melodramas set in Russia and Germany, as well as more modern twists on the vampire legend that take place in contemporary England and the United States. These are tales of decadence, lust, and loathing; they capture the dark side of the human psyche, dead and undead. Making few concessions to the squeamish, the tales in this collection will keep readers awake at night.

Stories include:
• "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker
• "Phantoms" by Ivan Turgenev
• "The Lovely Lady" by D.H. Lawrence
• "The Master of Rampling Gate" by Anne Rice
• "The Undead" by Robert Bloch


Each of these finely-crafted tales is guaranteed to leave readers with goosebumps.

A foreward from the late actor Peter Cushing, who starred in numerous vampire and horror films, is a fitting introduction to this collection of horrifying and captivating tales.

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Pretty good and broad collection
I first picked up this book while browsing at a book store and was so taken in by the very first story, "Phantoms" that I had to buy it.
The book covers the entire spectrum of vampire stories in all ways.Stories first published over 140 years ago as well as modern work appear in this collection.
There are also alot of original takes on the vampire story, moving away from the tried and tired stories.
Some of the stories are a bit long and may seem to drag on, but with any collection, not every story will be great.

If you're a fan of vampire folklore and/or horror you should definitly take a look at this book.

Most importantly it has Master of Rampling Gate - Anne Rice
I probably got this as a ... remainder when I worked at ... around 1995, or maybe it was regular price, not important. This is a collection of short vampire stories by different authors. I don't know where else Anne Rice's first short story "The Master of Rampling Gate" is published other than the oop graphic novel I was lucky to find a long time ago. This is a must have for the vampire fanatic who's just getting into vampires and wants some tastes from classic to modern. Honestly I have only read the Anne Rice story. Other things in the book include Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker), Close Behind Him (John Windam), and a bunch more by authors I don't really know any other stories by.

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A History of Horrors traces the life and spirit of the 'House of Hammer' from its fledging days of the late 1940s, through its successes of the 1950s and 60s, to its decline in the 1970s. Through the eyes of many of the studio's key players, and through the works of film critics and historians, the book paints a vivid and fascinating picture of the rise and fall of a film empire, offering what author Denis Meikle refers to as 'the truth behind that legend.' ... Read more

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I love Hammer Movies
The history of Hammer Studios is full of ups and downs and when it ends it is so softly and it breaks the heart . If your a fan of Hammer movies read it . I read it some years ago when it first came out .
I have such fond memories of Hammer Horror films . And with dvds I own many . The history of that incredible company and the people who created the movies is apart of film history .
And Hammer Studios is Back ! Let Me In . Is the new Hammer film . You can now call Hammer the studio that wouldn't die .

Film studies collections with a special focus on British film will find it a fine addition
Denis Meikle is a film critic and graphic designer turned author, and here provides a fine biography of some of the best-known British fantasy and horror films. College-level film studies collection will find this documentary a vivid survey of the changing British film industry, with chapters considering both major productions and industry trends. Film studies collections with a special focus on British film will find it a fine addition.

Eye-opening, to the point of ruining the magic
The good news is that for more-than-casual Hammer horror fans, this is a meticulously researched studio history, written from the business perspective, that goes far deeper than the usual rehashes found in horror encyclopedias and video guides. Meikle does a great job of putting the British film industry into a larger 1950s and '60s context, and sheds the light on Hammer's spotty U.S. distribution history for those of us who grew up on this side of the pond as frustrated young monster magazine readers wondering why the movies in our monster magazines (especially in the later years) never came to theaters or only played grindhouses and drive-ins.
The bad news is that the author is so down on Hammer's output in general that you wonder how he ever mustered the enthusiasm to tackle the topic in the first place. It's one thing to flail the usual whipping posts (he calls "Scars of Dracula" "irredeemably tacky"). But the harsh tone extends to even the usually acknowledged classics, such as "The Mummy" and "Curse of Frankenstein." Maybe Meikle feels it goes without saying that Hammer often captured lighting in a bottle in spite of its own scripts and budgets that today wouldn't even measure up to first-run syndication TV such as "Hercules." You appreciate the clear-eyed approach, but Anchor Bay seems to have a better attitude with its "even the cheesy stuff has its charms" approach to the background materials on its DVD releases.
If anything, a Hammer fan goes away from the book feeling it's a miracle these films came out as good as they were, after the author unveils the cynicism and/or studio heads' lack of faith in the source material that U.S. fans always took for granted with our "The British do this stuff best" assumptions. ... Read more

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Scrolls of Love is a book of unions. Edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic, it joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters.It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of the methodological and theological perspectives.Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the collection of essays moves beyond it; alert to contemporary trends, the volume returns venerable interpretive tradition to center stage. Most significantly, it is interfaith.Despite the fact that Jews and Christians share a common text in the Hebrew Scripture, the two communities have read their Bibles in isolation from one another, in ignorance of the richness of the other's traditions of reading.Scrolls of Love brings the two traditions into dialogue, enriching established modes of interpretation with unconventional ones. The result is a volume that sets rabbinic, patristic, and medieval readings alongside feminist, psychoanalytic, and autobiographical ones, combining historical, literary, and textual criticism with a variety of artistic reinterpretations--wood cuts and paper cuts, poetry and fiction. Some of the works are scholarly, with the requisite footnotes to draw readers to further inquiry: others are more reflective than analytic, allowing readers to see what it means to live intimately with Scripture.As a unity, the collection presents Ruth and Song of Songs not only as ancient texts that deserve to be treasured but as old worlds capable of begetting the new. ... Read more

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Based on the characters created by popular fantasy author Capt. W. E. Johns, Biggles: Adventures in Time casts Neil Dickson in the title role. Biggles is a World War I British flying ace with a gift for time travel. Sucked into Biggles' adventures is a 1980s fast-food entrepreneur, played by Alex Hyde-White. Once he's figured out what's what, Hyde-White vows to help Biggles stay alive. Also along for the ride is Hyde-White's girlfriend Fiona Hutchinson. The beauty part of Biggles: Adventures in Time is that the audience is just as disoriented and confused as Hyde-White; as a result, the film never lowers itself to the Pat and Predictable. - Hal Erickson-- Features Peter Cushing's last screen performance. ... Read more

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