Rheumatic fever
Information on Rheumatic fever from NHS Choices including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, risks and treatment and with links to other useful resources Up until the middle of the twentieth century rheumatic fever was a very common disease, ... [... more]
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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon chronicled the latter half of the twentieth century with powerful portraits of artists, intellectuals, political figures, and events of the time. In a career spanning six decades, he turned fashion photography into an art form and ... [... more]
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Kimberly Williams
One of the most influential American interior designers of the twentieth century, Naomi Leff is best known as the creator of the flagship Ralph Lauren store in Manhattan. There she established the brand image, combining a distinctive ... [... more]
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T.S. Eliot
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and ... [... more]
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William Boyd
William Boyd's masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart-writer, lover, art dealer, spy-as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century. Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly ... [... more]
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Lara Everly
Peewee idolizes Jake, a big brother whose dream of auto mechanic glory are fueled by the hard road coming to link their Indiana town and futures with the twentieth century. And motoring down the road comes Irene Ridpath, a young librarian with ... [... more]
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Clarence Brown
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a ... [... more]
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John Burrow
Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century This unprecedented book by one of Britain's most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has ... [... more]
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Julie Kavanagh
Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the ... [... more]
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Richard Pare
The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were ... [... more]
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Selected Poems
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O'Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his ... [... more]
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Richard Greeman
Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most ... [... more]
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