Tag: Unfamiliar

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar A Conversation with Peter Haffner


Free Download Zygmunt Bauman, "Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A Conversation with Peter Haffner"
English | ISBN: 1509542310 | 2020 | 186 pages | EPUB | 220 KB
Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of our time and always strove to interrogate received wisdom and common sense, to make the familiar unfamiliar.

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Surgery An Unfamiliar History


Free Download Surgery: An Unfamiliar History by Nigel Keith Maybury
English | August 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1398411493 | 433 pages | PDF | 4.26 Mb
This is a fascinating account of surgery that throws light on forgotten and unknown aspects of its practice from antiquity to the present. It illuminates the rare periods of progress and also explains why there were lengthy times when no original operations were undertaken.

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