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1) The strange case of Dr. Couney: how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
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[2018]
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284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies-by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, and at the same time make good money displaying...
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When Dawn Raffel was a very small child, her father used to read to her nightly from The Restless Universe-a layman's guide to physics by the Nobel Laureate Max Born. Although she loved the time spent with her father, she didn't-despite his statements to the contrary-comprehend a word of the physics. It was her first recognition that love so often comes with imperfect understanding. The 21 stories in Further Adventures in the Restless Universe are...
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Dawn Raffel talks about her newest book: 'The Secret Life of Objects is my life story told through some of my possessions. Each chapter is a vignette about a simple object - a coffee mug, a vase, a pair of earrings, my mom's prayer book... Each object encapsulates a passage in my life in a way that, I think, resonates for a lot of people. 'One morning, I was drinking my coffee out of the mug that I take from the cupboard every day, even though I have...