John Crosby

Ian Crosby

How to Hypnotise

Bill Ransom

Dian Million

Gail Tremblay

Elizabeth Woody

"'Water,' a compilation of 12 artists' and 5 poets' expressions, highlights insights and cultural meanings centered on one basic element"--Leaf following title page.

Water

Why was the Spanish Flu known as the Spanish Flu? What caused the Spanish Flu? Where did the Spanish Flu come from? Why was it known as the 'Spanish Flu?' The Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain, although news insurance of it did. At some point of global warfare, Spain was an impartial united state with an unfastened media that covered the outbreak from the start, first reporting on it in Madrid in late 1918. In the meantime, Allied countries and the crucial Powers had wartime censors who protected up information of the flu to hold morale excessive. Because Spanish information resources were the most effective ones reporting at the flu, many believed it originated there (the Spanish, in the meantime, believed the virus came from France and called it the "French Flu.") Scientists up to this day, do not understand in which country did the Spanish Flu really originated, though theories factor to France, China, Britain, or the USA, where the first acknowledged case turned into pronounced at Camp Funston in citadel Riley, Kansas, on March 11, 1918. a few believe infected infantrymen unfold the sickness to other navy camps throughout the United States of America, then delivered it to distant places. In March 1918, 84,000 American infantrymen headed across the Atlantic and had been accompanied with the aid of 118,000 more the following month. This book covers: History Of Flu Epidemic Of 1918 The Rampant Virus How Did The Flu Epidemic Of 1918 Spread? Toward The End Of The Great War The War And Virus That Changed World And much more! It's unknown precisely where the unique stress of influenza that induced the pandemic came from; however, the 1918 flu was first found in Europe, the USA and regions of Asia earlier than spreading to nearly each different part of the planet within a number of months. One uncommon issue of the 1918 flu was that it hit many beforehand healthy, younger people-a set usually proofed against this kind of infectious illness or virus. despite the fact that the death toll attributed to the Spanish flu is frequently estimated at 20 million to 50 million victims internationally, different estimates run as high as a hundred million victims-around 3 percentage of the world's populace. the exact numbers are impossible to know due to a lack of medical report-preserving in many places. via the summer time of 1919, the flu pandemic came to a cease, as those that were inflamed both died and developed immunity. nearly 90 years later, in 2008, researchers introduced they'd determined what made the 1918 flu so lethal: a group of 3 genes enabled the virus to weaken a sufferer's bronchial tubes and lungs and clear the manner for bacterial pneumonia. All of these present-day pandemics takes renewed interest in to the Spanish Flu, or "forgotten pandemic," so-named due to the fact its spread changed and overshadowed by the deadliness of WWI and contained within by using news blackouts and poor document-maintaining.

The Great Influenza Flu of 1918; Flu Epidemic of 1918 that Became a Pandemic, the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918

Le Clou de la saison

Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles. In this fascinating new book, John Crosby describes the filial relationships of 20 historical figures to illustrate the different ways they related to their fathers, and what this can tell us about love, authority and the wider family context. Sons and Fathers is an approach to understanding this son-father conflict based on early life experience rather than upon psycho-historian or psycho-biographical material and theorizing. Each vignette is designed to be read as a biographical account, but is bookended by a section reflecting on how each man’s relationship to his father can be understood in the context of key developmental theories, in particular those of Eric Erikson and Murray Bowen’s family system theory. The book also includes an extended introduction to both theorists for those unfamiliar with their work, as well as a discussion of the role of corporal punishment as a method of disciplining children. From Michael Jackson to Bing Crosby, Joseph Stalin to John F Kennedy, this is a uniquely accessible but insightful book that will appeal to both general readers as well as students of Developmental Psychology across the lifespan, Family Studies, Marriage and Family therapy, and related subjects. It will also appeal to professionals working in the area, including social workers, counsellors and therapists.

Challenges to paternal authority

Sons and Fathers

With Love and Loathing

John Crosby

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