Brilliant, driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a horrific, dangerous practice to what we now know as a lifesaving art. Imber delivers a major new biography of the doctor who invented modern surgery.
Leslie Preston Day Boeken
The excavation at Vronda Kavousi reveals two distinct cemeteries in East Crete, featuring tholos tombs from the Subminoan to Protogeometric periods and enclosure graves with cremation burials from the Late Geometric to Late Orientalizing periods. The volume includes a detailed examination of individual graves, covering architecture, human and faunal remains, pottery, and burial customs. Additionally, it analyzes the cremation process and provides insights into the society of the burial population, with appendices on pottery capacities and metallurgical studies of iron objects.