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Brand: Neil Bradbury
EAN: 9781250270757
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Neil Bradbury
EAN: 9780008523220
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week\n \n 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy Reichs\n \n\n\n As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring - and popular - weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict?\n\n\n In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes -some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved - are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function.\n\n\n Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the fascinating tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins, showing how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon's bedroom, A Taste for Poison leads readers on a fascinating tour of the intricate, complex systems that keep us alive - or don't.

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Brand: Neil Bradbury
EAN: 9781250624512
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Neil Bradbury
EAN: 9780008484583
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week\n \n 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy Reichs\n \n\n\n As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring - and popular - weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict?\n\n\n In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes -some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved - are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function.\n\n\n Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the fascinating tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins, showing how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon's bedroom, A Taste for Poison leads readers on a fascinating tour of the intricate, complex systems that keep us alive - or don't.

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Brand: Alisha Rankin
EAN: 9780226744858
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived-the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story.\n\n At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with \"experimental thinking\" long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend.\n\nThe Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.

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Brand: John Emsley
EAN: 9780192806000
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores the gruesome history of these elements and those who have succumbed to them in a fascinating narrative that weaves together stories of true crime, enduring historical mysteries, tragic accidents, and the science behind it all. The colourful cast includes ancient alchemists, kings, leaders, a pope, several great musicians, and a motley crew of murderers. Among the intriguing accounts is that of the 17th century poet Sir Thomas Overbury, who survived four attempts to poison him with mercury but died when given the poison in enema form - under whose direction remains uncertain. Here, too, is detailed the celebrated case of Florence Maybrick, convicted of poisoning her violent husband James with arsenic, but widely believed at the time to be innocent. The question of her guilt is still disputed.\n\nThreaded through the book alongside the history is the growing understanding of chemistry, and the effects of different chemical substances on the human body. Thousands suffered the ill effects of poisonous vapours from mercury, lead, and arsenic before the dangers were realized. Hatters went mad because of mercury poisoning, and hundreds of young girls working in factories manufacturing wallpaper in the 19th century were poisoned by the arsenic-based green pigments used for the leaves of the popular floral designs. Even in the middle of the 20th century, accidental mercury poisoning caused many deaths in Minamata Bay, while leaded petrol poisoned the whole planet, and arsenic still continues to poison millions is Asia.\n\nThrough vividly told stories of innocent blunders, industrial accidents, poisoners of various hues - cold, cunning, desperate - and deaths that remain a mystery, Emsley here uncovers the dark side of the Periodic Table.

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Brand: Haifaa Younis
EAN: 9781847742155
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Many of us may be unaware that some things that we do, are actually sins - acts of disobedience to Allah (swt). Even when we are aware of them, we don't think that our sins can have negative consequences for us, in our relationship with Allah (swt), other people, and even the world.\n\n\n\n\nLearning about sins is an eye-opening, transforming experience that changes your heart and mind. Furthermore, it makes you look at the world from a new perspective which can change your life forever. \n\n\n\n\nDiscover, dissect and digest how to prevent and even overcome that which poisons the heart of the believer.

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Brand: Chihiro Sakutake
EAN: 9781975393205
Categoria: Libri e riviste

After relentlessly training under Loren’s mentor to become the cutest couple ever, it’s time for Loren to face the last boss—Poison Princess Raffy’s father, the Demon King! But when a visit with him causes an enormous marital spat, a rift opens up between them...Will these lovebirds learn the art of compromise and build a relationship that will last through the ages?! Witness the fantabulous finale of these star-crossed lovers' life as newlyweds!

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Brand: E C Fremantle
EAN: 9781405920070
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'A gripping psychological thriller. Readers will be awake deep into the night, trying to untangle the truth' The Times 'Books of the Year'\n\nA marriage. A murder. One of them will hang for it. \n\n**PRE-ORDER DISOBEDIENT, THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM ELIZABETH FREMANTLE**\n________\n\nAutumn, 1615.\n\nFrances Carr is imprisoned in a cold, lightless room. \n\nShe is accused of murder.\n\nIn a cell nearby is her co-accused - her husband Robert.\n\nKept apart, Frances can only tell her side of the story.\n\nHow did she come to be here?\n\nCan she somehow prove her innocence?\n\nAnd what lengths will she go to to save herself?\n__________\n\n'Engaging, vivid and revelling in historical detail' Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent\n\n'The Miniaturist meets Gone Girl. Gripping and full of surprises' BBC History 'Books of the Year'\n\n'A tale of intrigue and ambition, this is a rich and fascinating book' Guardian\n\n'Immaculately detailed, dark, clever and compulsive' Daily Mail

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Brand: Alex Marwood
EAN: 9780751570816
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'I devoured The Poison Garden . . . Gripping and utterly convincing, it's Alex Marwood at the top of her (already impressive) game' JOJO MOYES\n_________\n\nWhere Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again.\n\nNow twenty-two, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone - and if she is to keep herself safe in this new world, she has some important lessons to learn. \n\n Like how there are some people you can trust, and some you must fear. And about who her family really is, and why her mother ran away from them all those years ago.\n\n And that you can't walk away from a dark past without expecting it to catch up with you...\n\nShocking, tense and sharply written, The Poison Garden is the gripping new novel from the international bestseller and Edgar award-winning Alex Marwood.\n\n__________\n\nReaders love The Poison Garden:\n\n'Terrifying and unsettling, as if a harbinger for our times . . . Thrilling' LISA BALLANTYNE\n\n'This superbly eerie psychological thriller confirms Alex Marwood's reputation as the Queen of Unease' FRANCIS WHEEN, author of Strange Days Indeed\n\n'Absolutely chilling . . . Another brilliant, shockingly dark book from a master storyteller' SAM BLAKE \n\n'I really loved Alex Marwood's dark, tense (and disturbingly real) The Poison Garden . . . you want this for your summer reading' STELLA DUFFY\n\n'A dark and disturbing look at life inside a cult . . . I was transfixed' NetGalley reviewer\n\n'A story that will chill you to the bone . . . This is a must-read' NetGalley reviewer\n\n'Compulsive reading, this is an addictive suspenseful psychological thriller like no other' NetGalley reviewer\n\n'I was hooked from the first page and found it very hard to put down' NetGalley reviewer\n\n'For me, this was the perfect book. Intricate and captivating' NetGalley reviewer\n\n'This is my most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and wow! It's even better than I expected' NetGalley reviewer

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Brand: Serhii Plokhy
EAN: 9781786071767
Categoria: Libri e riviste

1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever.\n\n\n\nThis gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky. It is a tale of exploding parcels, fake identities, forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR’s most classified programme. By the time Stashinsky had his day in court, the whole world was watching.

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Brand: Charles C. Hofer
EAN: 9781398222595
Categoria: Libri e riviste

With big eyes and ears and colourful bodies, a lot of creatures in nature can look very cute. But don't always be fooled by their adorable appearance. When provoked, these animals can easily injure or kill a person. Their defence mechanisms, such as poison or sharp teeth and claws, can turn them from darling to deadly in seconds. Get ready to discover some of the world's cutest killers!

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Brand: Carol Harris;mike Brown
EAN: 9780750994873
Categoria: Libri e riviste

During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids and the response of rescue services was chaotic. But far from breaking morale, the Blitz galvanised public opinion in support of the war. Soon people became hardened by their experiences and attacks from the air became a normal, albeit terrible, part of daily life. Blitz Diary tells the story in a remarkable series of eyewitness accounts from the war's earliest and darkest days through to the end, when the V-2 rockets brought devastation without warning. Preservation of such first-hand accounts has become increasingly important as the Blitz fades from living memory. This expanded edition includes new chapters and new accounts from key eyewitnesses.

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Brand: Charles C. Hofer
EAN: 9781398222588
Categoria: Libri e riviste

With big eyes and ears and colourful bodies, a lot of creatures in nature can look very cute. But don't always be fooled by their adorable appearance. When provoked, these animals can easily injure or kill a person. Their defence mechanisms, such as poison or sharp teeth and claws, can turn them from darling to deadly in seconds. Get ready to discover some of the world's cutest killers!

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Brand: Malcolm Moyes
EAN: 9781803133232
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Between 1844 and 1868, three women were tried and found guilty of the brutal murder of members of their family by poison at the Lincoln Assizes. Two of them, Eliza Joyce and Priscilla Biggadike, were hanged; the third, Mary Ann Milner, committed suicide in her cell, hours before she was due to be executed. \n\n\nDrawing upon archive sources and the many divergent accounts in the popular press at the time, Attired in Deepest Mourning is the first comprehensive study of all three cases. It analyses in forensic detail the information, misinformation and fake news which defined the lives and deaths of three Lincolnshire women, both at the time, and subsequently. In addition, it presents hitherto unpublished material which takes the reader beyond the hackneyed narrative of the monstrous female poisoner to a more sympathetic understanding of the pressures and circumstances in which the women lived and died. \n\n\nAttired in Deepest Mourning is a local study which provides a valuable contribution to a full understanding of crime and punishment in mid-Victorian Britain.

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