Edward Jenner is perhaps the world's most famous doctor. He developed a vaccination for smallpox beginning in 1796, long before the world knew about bacteria and viruses. He has been described as `the man who saved more lives than anyone else'. He bought The Chantry at Berkeley in 1785 and modified it to make a home fit for his beloved wife, Catherine. This book is the result of a three-year investigation that set out to discover the house that Jenner prepared for Catherine. It traces the origin of the house, which was built in 1707, and the many changes throughout the next 300 years. It turns out that the site has a history going back to Anglo-Saxon times. Edward Jenner lived there for only thirty-six years, but the house has been much changed since. The investigation set out to define the house that Edward Jenner lived in, separating it from the original and many changes afterwards. The book includes a great deal of information and stories about the people involved, including Edward Jenner and his family and estate. It also includes the inventory of Jenner's goods in 1823 and profiles of the internal plasterwork, which may be of interest to restorers and historians.

The places listed in this Guide are the most positively reviewed and recommended by locals and travelers. 2,000 places to visit organized in five groups. "TOP 500 SHOPS" (72 Store Categories), "TOP 500 RESTAURANTS" (81 Cuisine Types), "TOP 100 LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL BUILDINGS" (Landmarks, Historical Buildings, Parks, Churches, Botanic Gardens), "TOP 400 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTS" (Tours, Cultural Centers, Festivals, Cinemas, Event Places, Performing Arts), "TOP 500 NIGHTLIFE SPOTS" (Lounges, Bars, Pubs, Comedy Clubs, Nightclubs, Jazz & Blues). Plenty of places to just relax and enjoy your stay.

How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

The explosive and highly controversial National Book Award finalist that has forever changed the discipline of anthropology.

Thought to be the last "virgin" people, the Yanomami were considered the most savage and warlike tribe on earth, as well as one of the most remote, secreted in the jungles and highlands of the Venezuelan and Brazilian rainforest. Preeminent anthropologists like Napoleon Chagnon and Jacques Lizot founded their careers in the 1960s by "discovering" the Yanomami's ferocious warfare and sexual competition. Their research is now examined in painstaking detail by Patrick Tierney, whose book has prompted the American Anthropological Association to launch a major investigation into the charges, and has ignited the academic world like no other book in recent years. The most important book on anthropology in decades, Darkness in El Dorado will be a work to be reckoned with by a new generation of students the world over. A National Book Award finalist; a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. 16 pages of b/w photographs.

"In many respects, the most important book ever written about the Yanomami...."—Leslie Sponsel, University of Hawaii

"An astonishing tale of scientific vainglory and blinding pride....Subtly argued and powerfully written."—The National Book Award Foundation Judges' Citation

"[A] tale of self-interested agendas carried to such extremes as to seem an anthropological Heart of Darkness."—Los Angeles Times "Best Books of 2000"

"[W]ill become a classic in anthropological literature, sparking countless debates."—The New York Times Book Review, John Horgan

"Its most immediate effect may be to provoke a needed dialogue on the crucial importance of informed consent in anthropology."—The Chronicle of Higher Education, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

"An enthralling and well-researched look at the unscrupulous practices of anthropology and journalism."—Booklist, Vanessa Bush

"Copiously annotated and well documented... the culmination of a decade-long study of what Tierney claims is false science."—Publishers Weekly starred review

"Nowhere is there a better case study of the effects of intervention on tribal peoples..."—Christian Science Monitor

"[A] brilliant and shocking book....This book should shake anthropology to its very foundations."—Terrence Collins, Carnegie Mellon University

"An extremely important contribution."—John Frechione, University of Pittsburgh

"[C]arefully researched and documented...reveals an interlocking series of scandals that constitute the most flagrant violations of scientific ethics..."—Terrence Turner, Carnegie Mellon University

"[A] devastatingly truthful story of massive genocide in contemporary times."—Chief Wilma Mankiller, Board Member, The Ford Foundation

"The case of Napoleon Chagnon, as harrowingly documented by Patrick Tierney, appears to be an archetypal and unbelievably appalling one."—Alex Shoumatoff, author of The Rivers Amazon, and The World is Burning