Joseph Cummins

Cómo la política puede convertirse en un asunto personal (y cómo este fenómeno puede cambiar el curso de la Historia)Joseph Cummins, uno de los grandes maestros de la narrativa histórica, da vida al drama que originaron las peleas politicas y militares mas despiadadas de todos los tiempos. Combates cuerpo a cuerpo en el campo de batalla, conflictos dinasticos y religiosos por la pugna del poder, maestros del espionaje enfrentados desde distintos puntos del planeta... Rivalidades que provocaron verdaderos cataclismos, con enormes consecuencias sobre la vida de millones de personas y que han dejado el mundo tal y como lo conocemos hoy.Un relato absorbente y enriquecedor que proporciona una nueva vision de como la politica puede llegar a convertirse en un asunto personal, desentrañando las complejas razones que llevaron a determinadas personas de poder a tomar algunas de las decisiones que cambiaron el curso de la historia.

An updated and illustrated compendium of mudslinging, character assassinations, and below-board election strategies from U.S. presidential politics throughout history! Discover the dirty tricks of the covert and the sleazy in this giftable volume for American history buffs (New York Times Magazine).Covering 225-plus years of smear campaigns, slanderous candidates, and bad behavior in American elections, this comprehensive history is the authoritative tour of political shade-throwing from George Washington to Barack Obama. You might think todays politicians play roughbut history reveals that dirty tricks are as American as apple pie. Let the name-calling begin! 1836: Congressman Davy Crockett accuses candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly wearing womens clothing: He is laced up in corsets! 1864: Candidate George McClellan describes his opponent, Abraham Lincoln, as nothing more than a well-meaning baboon! 1960: Former president Harry Truman advises voters that if you vote for Richard Nixon, you ought to go to hell! Full of sleazy and shameless anecdotes from every presidential election in United States history, Anything for a Vote is a valuable reminder that history does repeat itself, lessons can be learned from the past (but usually arent), and our most famous presidents are not above reproach when it comes to the dirtiest game of allpolitical campaigning.

La llegada de Colón a América, la Inquisición española, la toma de la Bastilla, la Revolución de Octubre, el desembarco de Normandía, el asesinato del presidente Kennedy, la caída del Muro de Berlín…

Grandes episodios desconocidos de la Historia es un libro original y atípico en el que confluyen rigor y conocimientohistórico con un interés especial en desenterrar partes de la historia realmente desconocidas. Partiendo de la Ley de las consecuencias imprevistas, segun la cual la historia, al igual que la vida de una persona, se rige por sucesos imprevisibles y a veces casuales, el autor arroja luz sobre algunos de los episodios mas curiosos y siniestros que la mayoria de historiadores han elegido obviar.

Julio Cesar contra Pompeyo, Enrique II contra Tomás Becket, Isabel I contra María Estuardo, Napoleón Bonaparte contra Wellington, Hitler contra Ernst Röhm, Stalin contra Trotski, Kennedy contra Nixon

Touted as a potential breakthrough cancer therapy in the 1980s by the scientific community and publications such as TIME and Newsweek magazine, the reputation of interferon has not lived up to its early promise. Interferons are small proteins with anti-viral and anti-cancer effects, which have the power to modulate the functioning of the immune system. But Dr. Joseph Cummins, an early interferon pioneer, holder of sixteen US medical patents, author of more than sixty scientific publications, as well as having taught veterinary medicine at the University of Missouri, University of Illinois, and Texas A & M University, argues that the current thinking on interferon is fundamentally flawed. Interferon is created in small quantities in the body in response to infection, and seems to work best at these low dosages. However, the public health cowboys, working under the assumption that anything good in tiny amounts must be better in massive amounts, pursued exactly the wrong strategy. High-dose interferon does not work in the body and may even cause problems. The first remarkable results for interferon and the flu were reported by the Soviets in the 1970s, but Western medicine discounted these findings because they believed the dosages were so low they couldnt possibly be effective. In the 1980s, when interferon was expensive to produce and only small quantities could be manufactured, the results were remarkable. Dr. Cummins was an early pioneer of low-dose interferon, and his remarkable findings among animals led to collaborations with medical doctors for human trials, even going so far as Africa at the height of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Cummins reviews the evidence for this inexpensive, safe treatment and makes an eloquent argument for medical science to take another look at interferon to tackle todays most challenging health conditions, including COVID-19.