Serendipity in the Summer Garden
It really does pay to stop all that summer toil and drudgery and start looking around you. There are wondrous discoveries to be made, lessons to be learned - and a few pleasant surprises. With heat and drought beginning to feel like the plagues ... [... more]
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William McNeill
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 ... [... more]
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Plagues
 Artist: Devil Wears Prada Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0854132001172 MPN: 51 Original Release Date: 2007-08-21 Release Date: 2007-08-28 UPC: 854132001172 Tracks: Goats on a Boat Number Three, Never Forget HTML Rulez D00d Hey John, What's Your Name Again? Don' [... more]
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American Plagues: Lessons From Our Battles With Disease
Author: Stephen H. Gehlbach Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 614.40973 EAN: 9780071437905 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0071437908 Number Of Pages: 273 Publication Date: 2004-09-14 [... more]
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The Ten Plagues of Egypt
The Pesach Story: This is one of them most remarkable children_s books about the Pesach story, with a wonderful rhyming storytelling style as good as Dr Seuss, Shoshanna Lepon gets the story of Pesach and Moses struggle to free the Jews from Egypt, [... more]
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
From Amazon.com: Had it not been for viruses, the U.S. and Canada might today be one country; the African slave trade may not have been as extensive; and the Spanish almost certainly wouldn't have conquered the Aztecs and other New World native peoples. [... more]
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12 Tribes, 10 Plagues, and the 2 Men Who Were Moses: A ...
creative: I read this book in search of a countertradition to the bible as we know it today. This book suggests a very creative, as well as inspiring undergound voice in the bible, some of which may even contain an element of truth. Unfortunately, [... more]
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Shining a Light: Dr. Farmer sums up what you can hear in his lectures (he is an amazing speaker), read in journals, and hear in his interviews: The "modern day plagues" result directly from Structural Violence. I read this book for my culture [... more]
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Plagues and Peoples
From Amazon.com: No small themes for historian William McNeill: he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West to The History of the World. Plagues and Peoples considers the influence of infectious diseases on the course of history, and [... more]
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Spores, Plagues and History: The Story of Anthrax
One Doctor's Opinion: ANTHRAX! SMALLPOX! PLAGUE! Until recently, most Americans were unfamiliar with these terms or assumed they were a part of history. The October, 2001 anthrax cases catapulted this condition into the headlines and the minds of many. [... more]
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Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and ...
From Amazon.com: Whereas many popular books on microbes focus on contemporary pathogens and emerging epidemics, Arno Karlen's Man and Microbes provides a historical look at the coevolution of humans and microorganisms. Karlen speculates that infections [... more]
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Atlantis And The Ten Plagues Of Egypt
Plausibly argued?: That's the quote from the Times Literary Supplement. If this book is "plausibly argued", then what ISN'T plausibly argued? One has to wonder whether the British press ever credibly criticizes anything that is dreamed up by a [... more]
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