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America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918by Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521541751 (0-521-54175-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918'Book summary:Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide claiming over 25 million lives, more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-striken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. [via]
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- America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918: ISBN 0521833949 (0-521-83394-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918: ISBN 0521386950 (0-521-38695-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918: ISBN 0521385474 (0-521-38547-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918: ISBN 0521541751 (0-521-54175-1)
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And the Band Played onby Randy ShiltsISBN 0613298721 (0-613-29872-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Band Played on'Book summary:In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, who he claims cut funding, ignored calls for action and deliberately misled Congress. Shilts doesn't stop there, wondering why more people in the gay community, the mass media and the country at large didn't stand up in anger more quickly. The AIDS pandemic is one of the most striking developments of the late 20th century and this is the definitive story of its beginnings. [via]
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The Black Deathby P. ZieglerISBN 0061315508 (0-06-131550-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Death'Book summary:'as exciting and readable an account as you could wish' -- The Guardian
The major study of the origins, progress and economic and social effects of the plague throughout Europe in the 14th century. [via]
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The Black Death and the Transformation of the Westby David Herlihy, Samuel Kline CohnISBN 0674076133 (0-674-07613-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Death and the Transformation of the West'Book summary:In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.
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The Brief History of the Deadby Kevin BrockmeierISBN 1400095956 (1-4000-9595-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brief History of the Dead'Book summary:From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the Citys only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory. [via]
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Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793by J. H. PowellISBN 0812214234 (0-8122-1423-4)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Diseaseby Kenneth F. KipleISBN 0521530261 (0-521-53026-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866by Charles RosenbergISBN 0226726770 (0-226-72677-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866'Book summary:Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of The Cholera Years.[via]
"A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought . . . this volume is also to be commended for its skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease."I.B. Cohen, New York Times
"The Cholera Years is a masterful analysis of the moral and social interest attached to epidemic disease, providing generally applicable insights into how the connections between social change, changes in knowledge and changes in technical practice may be conceived."Steven Shapin, Times Literary Supplement
"In a way that is all too rarely done, Rosenberg has skillfully interwoven medical, social, and intellectual history to show how medicine and society interacted and changed during the 19th century. The history of medicine here takes its rightful place in the tapestry of human history."John B. Blake, ScienceMore editions of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866:
Christyby Catherine MarshallISBN 0800780086 (0-8007-8008-6)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Cobra Eventby Richard PrestonISBN 0345409973 (0-345-40997-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cobra Event'Book summary:In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can't stop biting herself. All the reader can do is hope she'll die quickly, but Kate Moran's body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston--a Jacobean master of ceremonies par excellence--takes us through them in bizarre and bloody detail.
Clearly, whatever Kate had was a head cold with a scientific vengeance. Preston's heroine, Alice Austen, a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, realizes--in the first of several gripping autopsy scenes--that the girl's nervous system had been virtually destroyed. So far, only one other person is known to have died in the same way, but he was a homeless man. Austen must connect the two cases, seemingly linked only by the subway, before the media gets hold of them and drums up a paranoia-fest--and before the virus's creator can kill again.
The Cobra Event is itself a paranoia-fest, a provocative thriller that makes you wonder exactly how much bioterrorism is taking place in the real world. Preston, best known for his terrifying chronicle of the Ebola virus, The Hot Zone, and other impeccably researched nonfictions, is not content to create fast-paced nightmarish scenes. His novel is instead a complex morality tale anchored in uncomfortable fact. Preston is keen to convey the "invisible history" of bioweapons engineering and, equally, to show the unsung heroism of his scientific detectives (along with that of the nurses and technicians who literally sacrifice their lives for medicine). Like their creator, these characters are not without a sense of humor. One calls the manmade virus "the ultimate head cold." Readers will never forget literally dozens of scenes and will never again see the subway, rodents, autopsy knives, and--above all--runny noses in the same light. [via]
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The Coming Plagueby Laurie GarrettISBN 0140250913 (0-14-025091-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming Plague'Book summary:Where's your next disease coming from? From anywhere in the world--from overflowing sewage in Cairo, from a war zone in Rwanda, from an energy-efficient office building in California, from a pig farm in China or North Carolina. "Preparedness demands understanding" writes Pulitzer-winning journalist Laurie Garrett, and in this precursor to Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health she shows true understanding of the patterns lying beneath the new diseases in the headlines (AIDS, Lyme) and the old ones resurgent (tuberculosis, cholera). As the human population explodes, ecologies collapse and simplify, and disease organisms move into the gaps. As globalisation continues, diseases can move from one country to another as fast as an aeroplane can fly.
While the human race battles itself... the advantage moves to the microbes' court. They are our predators and they will be victorious if we, Homo sapiens, do not learn how to live in a rational global village that affords the microbes few opportunities.
Her picture is not entirely bleak: epidemics grow when a disease outbreak is amplified--by contaminated water supplies, by shared needles, by recirculated air, by prostitution--and controlling disease amplifiers is within our power, a matter of money, people and will. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via] 
Dryland's Endby Felice PicanoISBN 1560235209 (1-56023-520-9)
Softcover, Haworth Press, Incorporated, The
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Ebolaby William T. CloseISBN 0970337116 (0-9703371-1-6)
Softcover, Meadowlark Springs Productions Llc
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Encyclopedia of Plague & Pestilenceby George C. KohnISBN 1853267538 (1-85326-753-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Epidemicby Brian R. WardISBN 0789469898 (0-7894-6989-8)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Epidemics in Colonial Americaby John DuffyISBN 0804616647 (0-8046-1664-7)
Hardcover, Kennikat Press
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Evolution and Healing: The New Science of Darwinian Medicineby George C. Williams, Randolph M. NesseISBN 1857995066 (1-85799-506-6)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sickby Noel Thomas BoazISBN 0471352616 (0-471-35261-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick'Book summary:Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage-- which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:
Level of Evolution
Cause of adaptive failure
resulting disease or problem
Pre-life
Environmental poisons
Certain birth defects
Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like)
Viral infection
Colds/flu/HIV
Morula (sponge-like)
Cellular stress
Cancer
Chordate
Physical stress
Back pain
Fish
Excess dietary salt
Hypertension/heart disease
Amphibian
Tobacco smoke
Lung cancer/emphysema
Lower primate
Excess dietary sugar
Diabetes mellitus
Higher primate
Vitamin C deficiency
Scurvy
Ape
Excess dietary protein
Gout
Homo sapiens
Reduced dietary variety
Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies [via]More editions of Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick:
Explaining Epidemics: And Other Studies in the History of Medicineby Charles E. RosenbergISBN 0521395690 (0-521-39569-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Fever 1793by Laurie Halse AndersonISBN 0689848919 (0-689-84891-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fever 1793'Book summary:On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her fans with a riveting and well-researched historical fiction. Fever 1793 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that wiped out 5,000 people--or 10 percent of the city's population--in three months. At the close of the 18th century, Philadelphia was the bustling capital of the United States, with Washington and Jefferson in residence. During the hot mosquito-infested summer of 1793, the dreaded yellow fever spread like wildfire, killing people overnight. Like specters from the Middle Ages, gravediggers drew carts through the streets crying "Bring out your dead!" The rich fled to the country, abandoning the city to looters, forsaken corpses, and frightened survivors.
In the foreground of this story is 16-year-old Mattie Cook, whose mother and grandfather own a popular coffee house on High Street. Mattie's comfortable and interesting life is shattered by the epidemic, as her mother is felled and the girl and her grandfather must flee for their lives. Later, after much hardship and terror, they return to the deserted town to find their former cook, a freed slave, working with the African Free Society, an actual group who undertook to visit and assist the sick and saved many lives. As first frost arrives and the epidemic ends, Mattie's sufferings have changed her from a willful child to a strong, capable young woman able to manage her family's business on her own. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870by Katherine OttISBN 0674299116 (0-674-29911-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Fluby Gina Bari KolataISBN 1417618019 (1-4176-1801-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flu'Book summary:Feeling tired, achy, and congested? You'll hope not after reading science writer Gina Kolata's engrossing Flu, a fascinating look at the 1918 epidemic that wiped out around 40 million people in less than a year and afflicted more than one of every four Americans. This tragedy, just on the heels of World War I and far more deadly, so traumatized the survivors that few would talk about it afterward. Kolata reports on the scientific investigation of this bizarre outbreak, in particular the attempts to sequence the virus' DNA from tissue samples of victims. She also looks at the social and personal effects of the disease, from improved public health awareness to the loss of productivity. (The disease affected 20- to 40-year-olds disproportionately.)
How could this disease, now almost trivial to healthy young people, have become so virulent? The answer is complex, invoking epidemiology, immunology, and even psychology, but Kolata cuts a swath through medical papers and statistical reports to tell a story of an out-of-control virus exploiting an exhausted world on the brink of transition into modern society. Through letters, interviews, and news reports, she pieces together a cautionary tale that captures the horror of a devastating illness. Research marches onward, but we're still at the mercy of something as simple as the flu. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Ghost Mapby Steven JohnsonISBN 1594489254 (1-59448-925-4)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Map'Book summary:Steven Johnson, bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good for You, is fantastically gifted, and anyone who doubts it need only consider this: in The Ghost Map, Johnson manages to make filth, overpopulation, feces and death the cornerstones of one of the year's snappiest page-turners. On the simplest level, The Ghost Map is the true-life tale of the cholera scourge that slammed London in 1854 and the two passionate and whip-smart men who ferreted out its cause. But it's also a biography, a detective saga, a horror story, a history lesson, a sociological rumination on cities, an unlikely but gripping celebration of the modern sewer system and a vivid portrait of historic London life.
"London's underground market of scavenging had its own system of rank and privilege, and near the top were the night-soil men," Johnson observes. "Like the beloved chimney sweeps of Mary Poppins, the night-soil men worked as independent contractors at the very edge of the legitimate economy, though their labor was significantly more revolting than the foraging of the mud-larks and toshers."City landlords hired the men to remove the "night soil" from the overflowing cesspools of their buildings. The collecting of human excrement was a venerable occupation; in medieval times they were called rakers. [But] the work conditions could be deadly: in 1326, an ill-fated laborer by the name of Richard the Raker fell into a cesspool and literally drowned in human shit."
Nice. Clearly much more than just a dry recitation of data--though the depth of Johnson's research is obvious--The Ghost Map is a hair-raiser that cooks from page one. A big reason is Johnson's ability to personify and animate what he terms "the invisible kingdom of microscopic bacteria," transforming cholera into a nefarious three-dimensional villain with a role to play and zest for the part.
His work as biographer also impresses. Johnson gives us two protagonists all but forgotten by history who really should be feted: Dr. John Snow, who 150 years ago in an era of superstition and tenaciously held scientific notions, managed to work out the simple equation that excrement + drinking water = death. We also meet Reverend Henry Whitehead who similarly helped to crack the cholera riddle by flat-footing it through Soho, interviewing residents and survivors and eventually coming to believe that Snow was onto something with his water-borne disease theory. (The prevailing wisdom of the day held that disease was airborne and linked to smell).
It is no exaggeration to say that Snow's efforts changed the world. Ditto engineer Joseph Bazalgette, whose sprawling, visionary English sewer system Johnson likens in stature and scope to the Eiffel Tower and Brooklyn Bridge. The Ghost Map is a great, great book, stuffed with cool factoids and told by a writer so conversant in his topic that it plays like an exquisite yarn shared over friendly beers. --Kim Hughes [via]More editions of The Ghost Map:
The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666by Neil HansonISBN 0471218227 (0-471-21822-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Great Influenza: The Story Of The Deadliest Pandemic In Historyby John BarryISBN 0143036491 (0-14-303649-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in Historyby John M. BarryISBN 0143034480 (0-14-303448-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History'Book summary:No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.
In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today.
The Washington Posts Jonathan Yardley said Barrys last book can "change the way we think." The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world. [via]
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Timeby John KellyISBN 0060006935 (0-06-000693-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time'Book summary:A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject matter and graphic detail. Credit Kelly's animated prose and uncanny ability to drop his reader smack in the middle of the 14th century, as a heretofore unknown menace stalks Eurasia from "from the China Sea to the sleepy fishing villages of coastal Portugal [producing] suffering and death on a scale that, even after two world wars and twenty-seven million AIDS deaths worldwide, remains astonishing." Take Kelly's vivid description of London in the fall of 1348: "A nighttime walk across Medieval London would probably take only twenty minutes or so, but traversing the daytime city was a different matter.... Imagine a shopping mall where everyone shouts, no one washes, front teeth are uncommon and the shopping music is provided by the slaughterhouse up the road." Yikes, and that's before just about everything with a pulse starts dying and piling up in the streets, reducing the population of Europe by anywhere from a third to 60 percent in a few short years. In addition to taking readers on a walking tour through plague-ravaged Europe, Kelly heaps on the ancillary information and every last bit of it is captivating. We get a thorough breakdown of the three types of plagues that prey on humans; a detailed account of how the plague traveled from nation to nation (initially by boat via flea-infested rats); how floods (and the appalling hygiene of medieval people) made Europe so susceptible to the disease; how the plague triggered a new social hierarchy favouring women and the proletariat but also sparked vicious anti-Semitism; and especially, how the plague forever changed the way people viewed the church. Engrossing, accessible, and brimming with first-hand accounts drawn from the Middle Ages, The Great Mortality illuminates and inspires. History just doesn't get better than that. --Kim Hughes [via]
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The Hot Zoneby Richard PrestonISBN 1568952058 (1-56895-205-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hot Zone'Book summary:A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction. [via]
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Madeby Norman CantorISBN 0060014342 (0-06-001434-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made'Book summary:One-third of Western Europe's population died between 1348 and 1350, victims of the Black Death. Noted medievalist Norman Cantor tells the story of the pandemic and its widespread effects in In the Wake of the Plague.
After giving an overview, Cantor describes various theories about the medical crisis, from contemporary fears of a Jewish conspiracy to poison the water (and the resulting atrocities against European Jews) to a growing belief among modern historians that both bubonic plague and anthrax caused the spiraling death rates. Cantor also details ways in which the Black Death changed history, at both the personal level (family lines dying out) and the political (the Plantagenet kings may well have been able to hold onto France had their resources not been so diminished).
Cantor veers from topic to topic, from dynastic worries to the Dance of Death, and from peasants' rights to Perpendicular Gothic. This makes for amusing reading, though those seeking an orderly narrative may be frustrated. He also seems overly concerned with rumors of homosexual behavior, and his attempt to link the savage method of Edward II's murder to a cooling in global weather is a bit farfetched.
Cantor wears his considerable scholarship lightly, but includes a very useful critical biography for further reading. While not an entry-level text on the Black Death, In the Wake of the Plague will interest readers looking for a broader interpretation of its consequences. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made: ISBN 0756780144 (0-7567-8014-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co - In the Wake of the Plague : The Black Death and the World It Made: ISBN 0684857359 (0-684-85735-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made: ISBN 0060014342 (0-06-001434-2)
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Journal of the Plague Yearby Daniel DefoeISBN 1419101803 (1-4191-0180-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journal Of The Plague Year'Book summary:Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct historically and fictionally the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.[via]More editions of Journal of the Plague Year:
- Journal of the Plague Year: ISBN 0486419193 (0-486-41919-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Journal of the Plague Year: ISBN 0460874624 (0-460-87462-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Journal of the Plague Year: ISBN 0460002899 (0-460-00289-9)
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in Londonby Daniel DefoeISBN 0760752370 (0-7607-5237-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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LA Pesteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
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Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American Historyby Sheila M. RothmanISBN 0801851866 (0-8018-5186-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us Allby Elinor Levy, Mark FischettiISBN 1400052750 (1-4000-5275-0)
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The Painted Veilby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1400034213 (1-4000-3421-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pandemicby Daniel KallaISBN 076535084X (0-7653-5084-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Centuryby Andrew NikiforukISBN 0670045195 (0-670-04519-5)
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Phenomenological Psychologyby E. HusserlISBN 902471978X (90-247-1978-X)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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The Plagueby Albert Camus, Stuart GilbertISBN 0075536498 (0-07-553649-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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Plagues and Peoplesby William H. McNeillISBN 0385121229 (0-385-12122-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plagues and Peoples'Book summary:This study describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilizations. Plague demoralized the Athenian Army during war, and ravaged the Roman Empire. In the 16th century smallpox was the decisive agent that allowed Cortez with only 600 men to conquer the Aztec Empire, whose subjects numbered millions. As recently as 1918-19, an epidemic of influenza claimed 21 million victims and seemed to threaten civilization itself. Diseases such as syphilis, cholera, smallpox and malaria have been devastating to humanity for centuries. This book, through an impressive accumulation of evidence, demonstrates the central role of pestilence in human affairs and the extent to which it has changed the course of history. [via]
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82by Elizabeth A. FennISBN 080907821X (0-8090-7821-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America.
By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia, smallpox broke out in Mexico City, whence it followed travelers going north, striking Santa Fe and outlying pueblos in January 1781. Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson's Bay.
The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-helath crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.More editions of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82:
A Prayer for the Dyingby Stewart O'NanISBN 0805061479 (0-8050-6147-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Disease, Plagues, and Pestilenceby Hans ZinsserISBN 1884822479 (1-884822-47-9)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Disease, Plagues, and Pestilence'Book summary:The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society over the past half-millennium. Intriguingly fascinating and entertaining reading for anyone who is interested in how society copes with catastrophe and pain. Relevant today in face of the worldwide medical calamity of AIDS. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1934, with over 75 printings. [via]
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpoxby Jennifer Lee CarrellISBN 0756786215 (0-7567-8621-5)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox'Book summary:A timely book about history's first desperate efforts to conquer the spotted beast of smallpox.
What is it like to be caught in the terror and chaos of a smallpox epidemic when you and those you love are unprotected? What is it like to get smallpox, or to watch your children battle the disease?
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story-both historical and timely-of two parents who dared to fight back against the disease. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they both flouted eighteenth-century European medical tradition by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stem the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again.
Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston: two iconoclastic figures who helped save the cities of London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known. [via]More editions of The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox:
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0517219018 (0-517-21901-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Differenceby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316346624 (0-316-34662-4)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference'Book summary:"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.
For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.
Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historicalby Anthony Bourdain, Breaulove Swells WhimsyISBN 1582341338 (1-58234-133-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Why We Get Sickby George C. Williams, Randolph M. NesseISBN 0679746749 (0-679-74674-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Why We Get Sick : The New Science of Darwinian Medicineby Randolph M. Nesse, George C. WilliamsISBN 0812922247 (0-8129-2224-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why We Get Sick : The New Science of Darwinian Medicine'Book summary:Is our tendency to "fix" our bodies with medicine keeping them from working exactly as they're supposed to? Two pioneers of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness is part and parcel of the evolutionary system and as such, may be helping us to evolve towards better adaptation to our environment. [via]
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plagueby Geraldine BrooksISBN 067091021X (0-670-91021-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague'Book summary:Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighboring towns and villages, and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, the young widow Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. With Mompellion and his wife, Elinor, she tends to the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence, and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, inexpressible feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife. Year of Wonders sometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction; Anna and Mompellion occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However, there is no mistaking the power of Brooks's imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Utrecht En De Cholera, 1832-1910by P. D. 't HartISBN 9060116992 (90-6011-699-2)
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