Thomas Morris: 29 books
The Matter of the Heart
A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.
For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on.
Then, in the late nineteenth century,...
Dubliners 100
Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Thomas Morris's Dubliners 100 invites new and established Irish writers to create 'cover versions' of their favourite stories from James Joyce's Dubliners. Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyce's classic short story collection one hundred years after its publication. It serves to bring...
Recollections of Military Service in 1813, 1814, and 1815, through Germany, Holland, and France
including some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo [New Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This account of military service during the Peninsular War penned by the late sergeant of the 2nd Battalion of the 73rd Regiment of Foot, Thomas Morris, who was not even born by the time of the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. At the tender age of 16 in 1812 he became a substitute volunteer...
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
**"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.**
A...
by Thomas Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Once interested in the air, science soon began to take up that commonplace but baffling phase of it called the weather. Now, of all matters under the sun the weather was the deepest intrenched in superstition and hearsay. From the era of Noah it had been made the subject of more remarks unrelieved...
by Thomas Morris Longstreth
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
FORECAST Science is certainly coming into her own nowadays,—and into everybody else’s. Every activity of man and most of Nature’s have felt her quickening hand. Her eye is upon the rest. Drinking is going out because the drinker is inefficient. The fly is going out because he carries germs. And...
by Thomas D. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically,...
by Thomas W. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The first works of Thomas W. Morris, followed by poetry collections of a negative and positive nature, disconnection, surrealism and love.
The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke
Excerpts from new and classic titles by bestselling authors in the field, with an Introduction by James Martin, SJ.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With an Introduction by New York Times bestselling author James Martin, SJ, HarperOne presents The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter. This free sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and classic titles from leading authors in the field, including C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, Ann...
by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
by Lord Byron, Golden Deer Classics, Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson...
by Plato, Thomas More, Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...
KING ARTHUR - Ultimate Collection: 10 Books of Myths, Tales & The History Behind The Legendary King and His Knights
Le Morte d'Arthur, The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, Sir Lancelot and His Companions, Idylls of the King, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Mabinogion, Celtic Myths & Legends…
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
King Arthur is a legendary British ruler who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. This Ultimate Collection contains the most important 10 books about King Arthur, The Holy Grail, Sir Lancelot, Sorcerer...