Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Enlightenment
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    Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Enlightenment
    Sebastien Allard , Robert Rosenblum , Guilhem Scherf , and MaryAnne Stevens
    Manufacturer: Royal Academy of the Arts
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    Portraiture was at a crossroads from 1770Â-1830, a period when the influence of monarchs and aristocrats waned in favor of the new pioneers of democracy. This beautifully illustrated catalogue traces the evolving presentation of the portrait sitter, with sumptuous full-color reproductions of works by masters presented alongside lesser-known but equally intriguing pieces. An international team of scholars provides valuable information on sitters as well as artists, plus discussions of key works from the Enlightenment and revolutionary period.
    Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait
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    Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait
    Ronald Taylor
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    ASIN: 0300072007

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    What is the culture of a city? Is it the corporate personality, the politics of the founders, the undertaking of its artists and visionaries? Berlin and Its Culture surveys all these arenas, paying particular attention to the writers, philosophers, actors, and later, interior designers and filmmakers. In relating the lives and accomplishments of its inhabitants, Ronald Taylor maps the social patterns of the city in fascinating detail.

    Taylor takes care to include accounts of life in both East and West Berlin, and while he does provide some coverage of Nazi culture, he does not perform an in-depth analysis. Rather, with his focus on the periods of artistic proliferation, he writes at length on the Romanticism of Berlin's early years and the flourishing of literature during the Weimar period.

    The book itself is a weighty, glossy endeavor. The reader can not turn a page or two without encountering an illustration, painting reproduction (often in color), or elaborate map of the changing face of the city. Berlin and Its Culture is a visual, visceral treat and an appealing survey of one of the world's most complex locales.

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    5 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, well-written, interesting.......2000-04-10

    This book may seem a bit daunting at first, given the density of text (even though there are a lot of photographs), but if you know anything about either German culture or Berlin, you will find a foothold in the book and learn a great deal as you continue reading it. A particularly cheering feature is the amount of time the author spends on Berlin from its foundation to the 1840s, a period that many other authors either rush over or treat poorly. Moreover, in limiting himself to the most significant and representative works or artists in each period, Taylor leaves a lasting impression at the end of every chapter--there's a lot of information here, but it's organized so as not to be overwhelming, and particularly the repeated pattern of literature, music, art, architecture, is helpful. Also, the illustrations are beautiful and well chosen.
    Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding (American Portrait (Hill and Wang))
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    • The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
    Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding (American Portrait (Hill and Wang))
    Darren Staloff
    Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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    ASIN: 080905356X
    Release Date: 2007-02-06

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    Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squire—each steered their public lives under the guideposts and constraints of Enlightenment principles, and for each their relationship to the politics of Enlightenment was transformed by the struggle for American independence. Repeated humiliation on America’s battlefields banished Hamilton’s youthful idealism, leaving him a fervent disciple of enlightened realpolitik and the nation’s leading exponent of modern statecraft. After ten years in Europe’s diplomatic trenches, Adams’s embrace of the politics of Enlightenment became increasingly that of the gadfly of his country. And Jefferson’s frustrations as a reformer and then Revolutionary governor in Virginia led him to go beyond his previous enlightened worldview and articulate a new and radical Romantic politics of principle.

    Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson is a marvelous reminder that the world of ideas is inextricably bound up in the long trajectory of historical events.

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    4 out of 5 stars A Thoughtful Book.......2005-11-09

    Darren Staloff offers a compelling and insightful study on the influence of Enlightenment thought on Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Staloff starts with an introduction on the Enlightenment, followed by a lengthy chapter on each of his three subjects in question, with a little more emphasis on Jefferson. Staloff asserts that the influence of the Enlightenment was most evidenced and put into practice in this country during the period of the framing of our government, and especially through the thoughts and actions of these three prominent founders.

    As Staloff mentioned, the Enlightenment was the combination of a diverse set of ideas and beliefs espoused by a host of philosophes, including Newton, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau and so many others who helped define this new mode of thinking. They were believers in science and railed against `enthusiasm', defined as political and especially religious zeal. They believed in the importance of education, reason, commerce, and in most cases a more republican form of government. Staloff discusses this much better than I can. In essence, these philosophes and their writings contributed fodder to the three founders he discusses in their attempts to help frame our government and setting forth the direction they wanted the country to take.

    Hamilton was a most accomplished man in life, championing the American cause during its struggle against Great Britain, serving in the continental army as an aid to General Washington, primary author of many of the essays in the Federalist Papers supporting the Constitution, serving as Secretary of Treasury during the Washington Presidency, and symbolizing the primary voice for a stronger central government. Hamilton was never beloved, nor is he today. He had character traits that don't usually win admiration, but the power of his mind and his influence could not and cannot be denied. He was a controversial figure in his time and remains so. But as Staloff confirms, it was Hamilton's vision of America, with its emphasis on a stronger central government and increased wealth and power though industry and commerce that became the eventual reality. Hamilton really understood the essence of realpolitik.

    John Adams was without doubt one of the most dedicated men to the cause of American independence. Adams was a principled man who did not always take popular positions, but he took them because he believed it right, such as defending the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre incident. He worked tirelessly in his diplomatic positions, especially in securing loans from the Dutch. Adams also had a profound belief, as the others did, in the value of education as being the best safeguard to protect liberty. Through the crafting of the Constitution to its eventual implementation, Adams was a renowned constitutional theorist and contributed greatly to the concept of a system of checks and balances. Adams was not without his own faults. He could be excessively vain and easy to anger. Some criticized him for being monarchial and disdainful of the people. Adams, through his broad knowledge of history, developed a keen awareness of human nature, thus wanting a system of checks and balances in government.

    Staloff's last chapter is dedicated to the political life of a true Renaissance man, Thomas Jefferson. The gifted writer of the Declaration of Independence who, among other things, championed freedom of speech and religion as well as limited government, would also be the source of America's romantic vision. It was Jefferson, according to Staloff, who was the first to establish a vision for his country. In his case, he believed in the superiority of the independent yeoman farmer and a fiscally responsible as well as restrained federal government. He helped create the party system and ably led his political faction to power.

    Jefferson was seemingly both radical and conservative depending on the issue. He abhorred slavery, yet became defensive when he felt his home state of Virginia and the rest of the South was being assaulted by the political and economic forces of the North. Jefferson saw the dangers of slavery and its threat to the Union, yet he became a forceful advocate for states' rights and did little to hinder the `peculiar institution'. He was more radical in his belief in the value and necessities of periodic revolutions as a means to stop the growth of oppressive and unchecked governments that threatened the liberties of the people. Regardless of what you thought of the man and the society he was part of, his brilliance and contributions, like those of Hamilton and Adams, were profuse and far-reaching.

    Staloff makes a good effort in showing the influence of the Enlightenment on these particular founders and the making of our nation. Its influence was undeniable, but it wasn't the only influence. Many of these men looked to the Greek and Roman models and the developments in the British state. Much has been written recently on the founders and the early history of our republic and that's an understatement. His portraits of these three distinguished founders are well worth reading, even if there isn't a lot of new information. A solid, well thought out book.

    3 out of 5 stars The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding.......2005-11-03

    ~Hamilton, Adams and Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment~ is a forceful attempt to lay the foundations of the American republic squarely upon the Enlightenment. It aims to present three founding fathers in particular as the embodiment of Enlightenment political thought. This book is good for no other reason than the fascinating vignettes sketching the life, thought and politics of Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson - the triumvirate that forged the early American Republic.

    Hamilton is presented as a shrewd practitioner of Enlightenment realpolitik who banished his youthful idealism after enduring the battlefield deprivations of the War for Independence. Hamilton is perhaps the most lionized of the three gentlemen. Staloff judiciously explains how the adroit Hamilton's economic policies and role as Treasury Secretary earned him recognition as father of modern statecraft in America.

    Adams the quintessential Yankee is presented as "an American curmudgeon." He authored a number of important political tracts such as his 1765 Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law and his 1787 Defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States of America. This sketch is perhaps the haziest of the three. It occasionally stirs off into directions that have little to do with the life and politics of John Adams.

    Jefferson - the visionary Virginia squire - is presented as a Romantic man of letters and an Enlightenment rationalist. Jefferson's rationalism is of course tempered by a quixotic romanticism shaped by his unique experience in both France and rural Virginia. Staloff weaves together a pugnacious portrait, vaguely sympathetic and at other times disdainful of Jefferson. He covers everything from Jefferson's agrarian vision, his zeal for meritocratic public education, his racial views and finally his constitutional thought.

    Staloff presents the Enlightenment in his introduction, and presents abstract principles of the Enlightenment. He postulates the idea that America's founding ideals "are inconceivable outside of an Enlightenment context." He declares, "historians of the Enlightenment recognize it as the source of our modern, secular worldview, from our ideals of religious toleration, individual liberty, and free speech to our practices of representative government and unfettered development." Staloff sketches a background of the Enlightenment and attempts postulate how the politics of the Enlightenment were the crux of the American founding. Staloff further proclaims, "wherever this worldview has taken root, it has transformed society, sweeping aside traditional values and institutions in its wake." I object that the guiding purpose of the founding fathers was to sweep aside the institutions and customs of the past. The American Constitution in many ways fortified traditions, customs and institutions of old, and sought to improve upon them. Unlike revolutionary Enlightenment France, Christianity was not swept aside by an Enlightenment intelligentsia to forge a secular state. Moreover, many time-honored traditions chiefly from Britain lived on in America after the founding as many live on today. Staloff spuriously postulates that the United States "was forged in the crucible of the Enlightenment; no other nation bears its imprint as deeply." Such a bold statement certainly fits France more so than the United States.

    That the Enlightenment influenced the founding generation is to be admitted, but the American revolutionary and founding generation had innumerable other influences perhaps much more profound. In his book the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, historian Bernard Bailyn made a more accurate statement in tracing the sources and traditions of the American founding. Bailyn never purported America to have just one intellectual foundation, but rather he recognized the complex interplay of traditions and eighteenth-century innovations. Such influences included: the (1) Classics, the (2) English Common Law tradition, the (3) Enlightenment, (4) Puritanism and the (5) English Libertarian Tradition. In the Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk advanced a similar but somewhat distinguished hypothesis tracing the roots of American order. First, the groundswell of classical education in the years leading up to independence profoundly influenced the founders. Hamilton, Adams and Jefferson were deeply ingrained in the classics, well-versed in Latin, and ancient history. Second, the Anglo-American common law tradition was indebted to the English common law tradition of Blackstone and Coke. That legal tradition came to life long before the Enlightenment and can be traced back to ancient Saxon law and the Magna Carta. Third, the Enlightenment did influence American founders. But its influence was limited and the character of Enlightenment thought embraced by Americans was much different. Radical social critics like Voltarie, Rousseau and Beccaria had a rather marginal influence in America. The founders tended to look more to conservatives like Hume and Montesquieu. What's more, American political thought had a depth of originality that transcends immediate European influences. In Enlightenment France, it was hoped to restore the ancien régime. In America, the founders embraced the classics not to emulate Greece or Rome per se, but learn from their troubled history, and affirm their rejection of any modern political parallels to the despotic ancien régime. Forth, Protestantism and the ideas emanating from covenant theology were instrumental in shaping the covenant origins of the American polity and the political thought of the founding generation. Natural law had a distinctly Christian flavor in eighteenth-century America. The pamphleteer Alexander Hamilton had proclaimed, "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Fifth, the English libertarian tradition in the eighteenth-century as embodied in Cato's Letters by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon were a powerful influence on the founding generation. These Old Whigs had stressed the Country and Court dichotomy. They defended equality, localism, and property rights, and opposed the spoliation of countryside by the court party to buttress their corrupt system of patronage and privilege. The colonists saturated in Old Whig libertarian thought naturally gravitated to these ideas.

    In précis, Staloff's book is intriguing at times, particularly his sketch of Hamilton, but his hypothesis is lacking substance. Overall, there is much to be wanted. I found the thesis fanciful, reductionist and otherwise unsubstantiated. It remains rather ridiculous to purport the overarching foundation of the American founding to be ideals of Enlightenment, particularly when so many other weighty influences are completely marginalized. Separated from the book's reductionist thesis, the book is marginally redeemed by the expositions on the life, thought, and political activities of three prominent founding fathers. This book probably will only resonate with modern-day Enlightenment ideologues looking to vindicate their modern, liberal, and secularist ideology by claiming the American founding generation as their own.
    Allan Ramsay: Painter, Essayist and Man of the Enlightenment (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
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      Allan Ramsay: Painter, Essayist and Man of the Enlightenment (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
      Alastair Smart
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      Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
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        Carol Gibson-Wood
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        Jonathan Richardson, one of his generation's foremost portrait painters, was also one of the most influential art theorists in eighteenth-century Britain. In this critical biography, Carol Gibson-Wood provides for the first time a detailed account of Richardson's personal life and professional career, along with an analysis of his theoretical writings set in the context of art debates of the day.Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
        Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
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        Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
        Anne L. Poulet
        Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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        ASIN: 0226676471

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        Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whether sculpting a head of state, an intellectual, or a young child, Houdon had an uncanny ability to capture the essence of his subject with a characteristic pose or expression. Yet until now, Houdon's exquisite sculptures have never been the subject of a major exhibition.

        This lavish exhibition catalogue will immediately take its rightful place as the definitive work on Houdon. With more than one hundred color plates and two hundred black and white halftones, Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment illustrates every stage of the sculptor's fascinating career, from his early portrayals of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to his stunning portraits of American patriots such as George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Indeed the images we hold dear of legendary Enlightenment figures like Diderot, Rousseau, d'Alembert, and Voltaire are based on works by Houdon. More than mere representations, these sculptures provide us fascinating, intimate glimpses into the very core of who these figures were. Houdon's genius animated even his less illustrious subjects, like his portraits of his family and friends, and filled his sculptures of children with delicacy and freshness. Accompanying the images of Houdon's masterworks are four insightful essays that discuss Houdon's views on art (based in part on a newly discovered manuscript written by the artist) as well as his prominence in the highly varied cultures of eighteenth-century France, Germany, and Russia.

        From aristocrats to revolutionaries, actors to philosophers, Houdon's amazingly vivid portraits constitute the visual record of the Enlightenment and capture the true spirit of a remarkable age. Jean-Antoine Houdon finally gives these gorgeous works their due.

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        5 out of 5 stars Astonishing book about a brilliant sculptor.......2003-09-12

        I saw the Houdon exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and it is astonishing--as is this gorgeous catalogue. Houdon's brilliance as a portraitist and psychologist shines through in his amazingly lifelike busts of Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Thomas Jefferson, Catherine the Great, Voltaire and many more. In fact, the book offers a veritable Who's Who-or Who was Anybody--in the second half of the eighteenth century. Rogues and nobility alike brought miraculously to life in stone. This volume is a must for anyone interested in French, European or American art and culture of the revolutionary period. Lavishly illustrated, it promises to be the definitive work on Houdon for many years to come.
        Enlightenment Portraits
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          Enlightenment Portraits

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          Enlightenment Portraits permits us to see direct actors in history, people who took an active part in the collective adventures that put the human being at the center of Western civilizations vision of the world: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, and explorers, also soldiers and women.

          The Enlightenment's leading figures cast their light in an irregular and unequal way: areas and environments in which new ideas penetrated and took effect alternated with shadowy patches. The fundamental structures of society may have remained stable, but new ways of producing, of being, and of appearing made sometimes abrupt headway. Attitudes toward life, birth, love, marriage and sexuality, and death had begun to change.

          The twilight of the Enlightenment came at the end of the eighteenth century, part of a sequence of events of which the French Revolutions was simply the paroxysm.

          A subtle and complex study of the Enlightenment, this book allows contemporary readers to reflect on how nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars have constructed their views on eighteenth-century man.
          The Portrait Bust (Renaissance to Enlightenment)
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            Full illustrations with descriptions of the busts on display.
            Portraits of Praise: Devotionals of Encouragement and Enlightenment
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              Vrrious
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              A compilation of devotional thoughts by various contributors. Produced by the Literature and Outreach Ministries Committee of the Women of Worth Ministry of the Interchurch Holiness Convention. 250 pages. (PPR)
              The Scottish Enlightenment (Saltire Self-Portraits)
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                  Airborne bacteria in CAFOs: transfer of resistance from animals to humans.(Environews / Science Selections) : An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
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                    Best Way to Curb Antibiotic Resistance Is to 'Just Say No' to Unnecessary Prescriptions.(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
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                      Best Way to Curb Antibiotic Resistance Is to 'Just Say No' to Unnecessary Prescriptions.(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
                      Doug Brunk
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                      ASIN: B0008I43XY
                      Release Date: 2005-06-01

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                      This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on April 15, 2001. The length of the article is 404 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                      Title: Best Way to Curb Antibiotic Resistance Is to 'Just Say No' to Unnecessary Prescriptions.(Brief Article)
                      Author: Doug Brunk
                      Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
                      Date: April 15, 2001
                      Publisher: International Medical News Group
                      Volume: 31 Issue: 8 Page: 20

                      Article Type: Brief Article

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                      CDC plans to urge wider GBS testing. (Antibiotic Resistance a Concern).(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
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                        CDC plans to urge wider GBS testing. (Antibiotic Resistance a Concern).(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
                        Miriam E. Tucker
                        Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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                        ASIN: B0008EVNTK
                        Release Date: 2005-07-29

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                        This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1293 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                        Title: CDC plans to urge wider GBS testing. (Antibiotic Resistance a Concern).(Brief Article)
                        Author: Miriam E. Tucker
                        Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
                        Date: February 1, 2002
                        Publisher: International Medical News Group
                        Volume: 32 Issue: 3 Page: 1(3)

                        Article Type: Brief Article

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                        Clinical capsules.(Infectious Diseases): An article from: Internal Medicine News
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                          Clinical capsules.(Infectious Diseases): An article from: Internal Medicine News
                          Sharon Worcester
                          Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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                          ASIN: B00082LGLC
                          Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                          This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on April 15, 2004. The length of the article is 691 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                          Title: Clinical capsules.(Infectious Diseases)
                          Author: Sharon Worcester
                          Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
                          Date: April 15, 2004
                          Publisher: International Medical News Group
                          Volume: 37 Issue: 8 Page: 63(1)

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                          Don't routinely give antibiotics for otitis media. (Dutch Physicians Are In Lead).(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
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                            Don't routinely give antibiotics for otitis media. (Dutch Physicians Are In Lead).(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
                            Nancy Walsh
                            Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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                            ASIN: B0008IFYI2
                            Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                            This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on October 15, 2001. The length of the article is 641 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                            Title: Don't routinely give antibiotics for otitis media. (Dutch Physicians Are In Lead).(Brief Article)
                            Author: Nancy Walsh
                            Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
                            Date: October 15, 2001
                            Publisher: International Medical News Group
                            Volume: 31 Issue: 20 Page: 26(1)

                            Article Type: Brief Article

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                            Enterococcus behind many UTIs in elderly; Tx resistance rises with age.(Gynecology): An article from: OB GYN News
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                              Enterococcus behind many UTIs in elderly; Tx resistance rises with age.(Gynecology): An article from: OB GYN News
                              Sherry Boschert
                              Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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                              ASIN: B000972P6G
                              Release Date: 2005-04-19

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                              This digital document is an article from OB GYN News, published by International Medical News Group on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 403 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                              Title: Enterococcus behind many UTIs in elderly; Tx resistance rises with age.(Gynecology)
                              Author: Sherry Boschert
                              Publication: OB GYN News (Magazine/Journal)
                              Date: February 1, 2005
                              Publisher: International Medical News Group
                              Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Page: 24(1)

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                              The FDA:s antibiotic resistance: if bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to current antibiotics, why is the FDA discouraging the development of ... Administration): An article from: Regulation
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                                The FDA:s antibiotic resistance: if bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to current antibiotics, why is the FDA discouraging the development of ... Administration): An article from: Regulation
                                Paul H. Rubin
                                Manufacturer: Cato Institute
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                                Release Date: 2006-07-14

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                                This digital document is an article from Regulation, published by Cato Institute on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 2965 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                Title: The FDA:s antibiotic resistance: if bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to current antibiotics, why is the FDA discouraging the development of new antibiotics?(Food and Drug Administration)
                                Author: Paul H. Rubin
                                Publication: Regulation (Refereed)
                                Date: December 22, 2004
                                Publisher: Cato Institute
                                Volume: 27 Issue: 4 Page: 34(4)

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                                Switch hitters: antibacterial compounds target new mechanism to kill microbes.(This Week): An article from: Science News
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                                  Switch hitters: antibacterial compounds target new mechanism to kill microbes.(This Week): An article from: Science News
                                  A. Cunningham
                                  Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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                                  ASIN: B000N6U4V6
                                  Release Date: 2007-02-05

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                                  This digital document is an article from Science News, published by Thomson Gale on January 13, 2007. The length of the article is 458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                  Title: Switch hitters: antibacterial compounds target new mechanism to kill microbes.(This Week)
                                  Author: A. Cunningham
                                  Publication: Science News (Magazine/Journal)
                                  Date: January 13, 2007
                                  Publisher: Thomson Gale
                                  Volume: 171 Issue: 2 Page: 23(1)

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                                  Tigecycline promising for complicated infections.(Rx): An article from: Internal Medicine News
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                                    Tigecycline promising for complicated infections.(Rx): An article from: Internal Medicine News
                                    Miriam E. Tucker
                                    Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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                                    ASIN: B00096TH04
                                    Release Date: 2006-07-14

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                                    This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on January 15, 2005. The length of the article is 736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                    Title: Tigecycline promising for complicated infections.(Rx)
                                    Author: Miriam E. Tucker
                                    Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
                                    Date: January 15, 2005
                                    Publisher: International Medical News Group
                                    Volume: 38 Issue: 2 Page: 51(1)

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