Silent Shock

Author : Michael Magazanik
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925095098

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Silent Shock by Michael Magazanik Pdf

The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head. Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new wonder drug for morning sickness called thalidomide. For fifty years the Rowe family cared for Lyn. Decades of exhausting, round-the-clock work. But then in 2011 Lyn Rowe launched a legal claim against the thalidomide companies. Against the odds, she won a multi-million-dollar settlement. Former journalist Michael Magazanik is one of the lawyers who ran Lyn’s case. In Silent Shock he exposes a fifty-year cover up concerning history’s most notorious drug, and details not only the damning case against manufacturers Grünenthal—whose enthusiastic promotion of their lucrative drug in the face of mounting evidence beggars belief—but also the moving story of the Rowe family. Spanning Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Sweden and, of course, Germany, Silent Shock is an epic account of corporate wrongdoing against a backdrop of heroic personal struggle and sacrifice. Michael Magazanik has worked as a journalist for the Age, the Australian and ABC-TV, and is now a lawyer with Slater & Gordon. He lives in Melbourne with his partner and three children. ‘Magazanik exposes myths and concealments on a grand scale... A compelling read. Highly recommended.’ BookMooch ‘Magazanik—a lawyer on the Rowes’ legal team and a former journalist—has woven an extraordinary story...Magazanik has moulded [the Rowes'] story into a modern Australian myth, the battlers who took on the pharmaceuticals and won.' Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘A harrowing read of the damage wrought by this infamous drug.’ WA Today ‘A frightening account of secrets in the pharmaceutical industry and the inspiring story of a family and their legal team that just wouldn't give up.’ Law Society Journal ‘Silent Shock is an ambitious, important book...Magazanik does an excellent job.’ Australian Book Review

Author : Darrell Young,James W. Johnson
Publisher : Rocky Nook, Inc.
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781681986333

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Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III by Darrell Young,James W. Johnson Pdf

Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Author : Sir John Russell Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC32DG

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A System of Medicine: Local diseases by Sir John Russell Reynolds Pdf

Author : Sir John Russell Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503401268

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A System of medicine v. 4, 1877 by Sir John Russell Reynolds Pdf

Author : Sir John Russell Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Medical literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858044781668

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A System of Medicine ...: Diseases of the heart by Sir John Russell Reynolds Pdf

Author : Paul W. Ogden
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 1563680580

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The Silent Garden by Paul W. Ogden Pdf

This sensitive guide is firm support in helping parents make their difficult choices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112059732948

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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jishin Gakkai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UOM:39015069528316

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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan by Jishin Gakkai Pdf

Author : Nihon Jishin Gakkai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z293521602

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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan by Nihon Jishin Gakkai Pdf

Author : Broderick Chow,Eero Laine,Claire Warden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317385073

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Performance and Professional Wrestling by Broderick Chow,Eero Laine,Claire Warden Pdf

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport. Topics such as the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle are explored in relation to professional wrestling, with work by both scholars and practitioners grouped into seven short sections: Audience Circulation Lucha Gender Queerness Bodies Race A significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art, Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.

Author : Juliet Nicolson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802197047

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The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson Pdf

This account of British life in the wake of World War I is “social history at its very best . . . insightful and utterly absorbing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great War had left in its wake. Grief and shock overwhelmed the psyche of the British people—but from their despair, new life would slowly emerge. For veterans with faces demolished in the trenches, surgeon Harold Gillies brings hope with his miraculous skin-grafting procedure. Women win the vote, skirt hems leap, and Brits forget their troubles at packed dance halls. And two years later, the remains of a nameless combatant would be laid to rest in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Westminster Abbey, as “The Great Silence,” observed in memory of the countless dead, halted citizens in silent reverence. This history of two transformative years in the life of a nation features countless characters, from an aging butler to a pair of newlyweds, from the Prince of Wales to T. E. Lawrence, the real-life Lawrence of Arabia. The Great Silence depicts a nation fighting the forces that threaten to tear it apart and discovering the common bonds that hold it together. “A pearl of anecdotal history, The Great Silence is a satisfying companion to major studies of World War I and its aftermath . . . as Nicolson proceeds through the familiar stages of grief—denial, anger and acceptance—she gives you a deeper understanding of not only this brief period, but also how war’s sacrifices don’t end after the fighting stops.” —The Seattle Times “It may make you cry.” —The Boston Globe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : UOM:39015022399177

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Motor Record by Anonim Pdf

Including 'Automobile buyers' reference.'

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307371300

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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein Pdf

From the bestselling author of No Logo—the gripping story of how America’s “free market” polices exploited crises and shock for three decades from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the "War on Terror." In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of one the most dominant ideologies of our time: Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

Author : James L. Neibaur,Terri Niemi
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810887411

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Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts by James L. Neibaur,Terri Niemi Pdf

By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was the highest ranked silent on the American Film Institute's survey of the 100 greatest films. Before Keaton ventured into longer works, however, he had honed his skills as an actor, writer, and director of short films produced in the early 1920s. In Buster Keaton’s Silent Shorts: 1920-1923, James L. Neibaur and Terri Niemi provide a film-by-film assessment of these brilliant two-reelers. The authors discuss the significance of each short—The High Sign, One Week, Convict 13, The Scarecrow, Neighbors, The Haunted House, Hard Luck, The Goat, The Playhouse, The Boat, The Paleface, Cops, My Wife’s Relations, The Blacksmith, Frozen North, Daydreams, The Electric House, The Balloonatic, and The Love Nest—to the Keaton filmography, as well as each film’s importance to cinema. Offering a clear and in-depth perspective on these 19 films, the authors explain what makes these shorts effective and why they’re funny. Buster Keaton’s Silent Shorts will enlighten both scholars and casual fans alike about the early work produced by one of cinema's most gifted comedians and filmmakers.

Author : Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn
Publisher : PHOENIX SOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0922356696

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Silent Blood Suckers of the Tangled Webs by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn Pdf