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Publisher: Phoenix Source Distributors, Incorporated
Keywords: plagues, politburos, criminal
Published: 1994-05-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1569350418
ISBN-13: 9781569350416
Author: Alejandro Morales
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: plagues, doll, rag
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1991-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1558851046
ISBN-13: 9781558851047
a novel akin to Latin American magical realists
Author: William H. McNeill
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: peoples, plagues
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-02
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0385121229
ISBN-13: 9780385121224
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill expl
Author: Irwin W. Sherman
Publisher: ASM Press
Keywords: plagues, power
Number of Pages: 431
Published: 2006-01-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1555813569
ISBN-13: 9781555813567
"The Power of Plagues" offers a fascinating examination of epidemic diseases within a historical context. Engagingly written, this new volume presents the science of plagues in an understandable and accessible manner, describing the nature and evolution of diseases and conveying their significance in shaping Western culture and civilization. Chapters present individual, independent plague stories complemented by relevant and historical illustrations. Major historic outbreaks are covered, including those of the Greek and Roman empires as well as the infamous Black Death. Contemporary and em
Author: Barth Anderson
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: plagues, saint, patron
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0553588354
ISBN-13: 9780553588354
In this biological thriller of the near future, postinsurrection Mexico has undermined the superpower of the United States. But while the rivals battle over borders, a pestilence beyond politics threatens to explode into a worldwide epidemic. . . .Since the rise of the Holy Renaissance, Ascension—once known as Mexico City—has become the most populous city in the world, its citizens linked to a central government net through wetware implanted in their brains. But while their dictator grows fat with success, the masses are captivated by Sister Domenica, an insurgent nun whose weekly pirate b
Author: Mark Jerome Walters
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: causing, plagues, modern, six
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1559637145
ISBN-13: 9781559637145
"In a clear, engaging style, Dr. Walters tells the tale of each disease like a detective story. He allows each mystery to unfold as it did in reality, often slowly, through the lives of the plants and animals involved, the first human victims, the government officials who tried to respond, and the scientists who ultimately explained what was happening." -NEW YORK TIMES"...a fascinating work of ecological journalism, utterly convincing in its argument: that our health and the health of the environment are intimately linked, and we overlook that link at our peril." -MICHAEL POLLAN, AUTHOR OF
Author: Karen Rivers
Publisher: Raincoast Books, Polestar
Keywords: plagues, deadly, crushes, cure
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-06-30
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1551927799
ISBN-13: 9781551927794
This follow-up to The Healing Time of Hickeys, covers the second half of hapless Haley Andromeda Harmony’s last year of high school. Haley likes to think she’s just a normal girl, plagued with all the normal doubts of a too-smart-for-her-own-good, slightly hypochondriac, hickey-prone teenager. In the first book devoted to her semi-glamorous life, she faced chicken pox, puzzled over her dad’s mysterious job, and documented in her diary the indifference of the object of her affections, J. T. Now, in her final months of high school, she must face the inevitable question: What happens ne
