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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Holly Tucker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-21 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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“Tucker writes with gusto . . . high drama.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring
City of Light, City of Poison
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Holly Tucker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-21 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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“A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution… Thanks to Tucker’s sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded p
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Holly Tucker
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-21 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"Excellent…Tucker’s chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating." —The Economist In December 1667, maverick physicia
Death in the City of Light
Language: en
Pages: 442
Authors: David King
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-05 - Publisher: Crown

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The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts
Pregnant Fictions
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Holly Tucker
Categories: Childbirth
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "tru