Tag: Oddities

September 15, 2024

Freak Show Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

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Free Download Robert Bogdan, "Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit"
English | ISBN: 0226063127 | | 336 pages | AZW3 | 9 MB
From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative-the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment.

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January 8, 2024

Anatomical Oddities

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Free Download Anatomical Oddities by Alice Roberts
English | February 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1398510068 | 144 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
Every part of the human body has a name – and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals?Anatomical Oddities is an artistic and linguistic adventure, taking the reader on a journey to discover the hidden landscape of the human its crypts and caverns, gorges, islets and mountains. Along the way, we dip into the history of our relationship with the human body and the discoveries that paved the way for modern anatomy and medicine.Quirky, bizarre and beautiful, these pages feature original artworks from Professor Alice Roberts. The intricate details of the human body, the stories of people who unearthed its secrets, and the meanings of the words we use to describe it are laid bare.

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