Bøger af John M. Harris

A biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, that illuminates landmarks in American health care, including the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, and the revolution in laboratory medicine.

It is widely recognized that spiral grain in trees severely reduces the value of sawn timber through warping and loss of strength, and that it also causes problems for other wood uses as diverse as transmission poles or plywood.

Beginning with J.S. Bach's harpsichord concertos composed in the beginning of the eighteenth century, John Harris embarks on a musical tour that takes the reader from Germany and Austria through Europe, North America, South America, and Asia, tracing the history of music composed for harpsichord or piano and orchestra. Cloth edition originally published in 1997.