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Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett , 1894-1961, American writer, b. St. Mary's co., Maryland. After a variety of jobs, including several years working as a detective for the Pinkerton agency, beginning in the early 1920s he found success as a writer, largely originating the "hard-boiled" school of detective... Read more |
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Book of life
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life boat
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Eternal life
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Life Support
Life Support Definition Life support refers to a spectrum of techniques used to maintain life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Purpose A patient requires life support when one or more vital organs fail, due to causes such as trauma, infection, cancer, heart attack, or chronic... Read more |
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Quality of life
QUALITY OF LIFE Before the 1970s, quality of life received little attention in the medical or public health literature, but since then the situation has been reversed. Despite its widespread use, the term "quality of life" has different meanings to different people. For some researchers and... Read more |
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life-zone
life-zone An original concept of C. H. Merriam (1894) describing the way in which changing vegetation forms give a series of life-zones in relation to temperature gradients. In modern ecology these life-zones are defined by reference to a range of interacting environment gradients, and reflect... Read more |
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Life Cycle
Life CycleThe eight stages of lifeConclusionBIBLIOGRAPHYThe observer of life is always immersed in it and thus unable to transcend the limited perspectives of his stage and condition. Religious world views usually evolve pervasive configurations of the course of life: one religion may envisage it as... Read more |
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Life expectancy
Life Expectancy Life expectancy refers to the number of years that people in a given country or population can expect to live. Conceptually, life expectancy and longevity are identical; the difference between them lies in measurement issues. Life expectancy is calculated in a very precise manner,... Read more |
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artificial life support
artificial life support systems that use medical technology to aid, support, or replace a vital function of the body that has been seriously damaged. Such techniques include artificial pacemakers , internal defibrillators , dialysis machines (see kidney, artificial ), and respirators. The use of... Read more |
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Johnson, Diane (Lain)
...an apocalyptic view of lives in Los Angeles; The...social and emotional life of a young American woman...of revolution. Lesser Lives (1972) is a biography...and she also wrote Dashiell Hammett: A Life (1983). Terrorists... |
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Profile: Anniversary of Dashiell Hammett's novel "The Maltese Falcon"
...RIDLEY: Bill Arney is an architect who lives at 891 Post Street, number 401. That's Dashiell Hammett's old apartment. Mr. ARNEY: It's not just Dashiell Hammett's apartment, it's also Sam Spade... |
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Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell...
...fervently, about Dashiell Hammett. They met in 1930...fall of the rest of his life. They rivaled Liz and...Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett were very complex...of delirium tremens. Dashiell Hammett beat ... |
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Red harvest. (Book Talk).(Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960)
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 Edited by Richard...pages, $25 In March of 1947, Dashiell Hammett, author of such classics of mystery...his daughter, describing how his life had been consumed with political... |
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A Look Back at the Legacy of Author Dashiell Hammett
...CHADWICK: That was Dashiell Hammett's contribution, too...American lives, usually city lives. Raymond Chandler [sp] said that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to people...you'll get off with life- that ... |
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Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett.(FIRST ENCOUNTERS)
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DASHIELL HAMMETT WAS clearly off his guard...adulation were less welcome. Hammett hated flamboyance; women...beginning, and although Hammett and Parker were closely...for the rest of their lives, the relationship ... |
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City jungles and expressionist reifications from Brecht to Hammett....
...and apparent lawlessness of city life create an atmosphere of anarchy that...and the subsequent death of inner life experienced by the subject of modern...The expressionist resonances in Dashiell Hammett's work are so pronounced that direct... |
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Dashiell Hammett's Soft-boiled Romance
...Novel of Dangerous Romance By Dashiell Hammett Knopf. 76 pp. $15.95 ALTHOUGH...in Black Mask, June 1923), Dashiell Hammett was the first good hardboiled...how people in certain walks of life speak and behave. To Raymond... |
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Review: Revisiting Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon"
...marks the 75th anniversary of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," one...memoirists have spilled more ink over Dashiell Hammett than over any other genre writer...ask where the author was in his life when he created it. ... |
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The politics of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest.(Essay)
Although Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest is often...ambiguous, reflecting Hammett's position at the time...Dashiell Hammett's novels transformed...politically contradictory life. From 1915 to 1922... |
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Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon Samuel Dashiell Hammett, author Michael Madsen, Sandra...2665 Brought to exciting life by a full cast (including...Kill Bill, Vol. 2"), Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese ... |
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