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Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times

Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times


Paperback, 272 pages, release 1996-05-22
Arno Karlen
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684822709


Associated words: lehrbuch biochemie

Spores, Plagues and History: The Story of Anthrax

Spores, Plagues and History: The Story of Anthrax


Paperback, 227 pages, release 2003-06-25
Chris Holmes
Durban House
ISBN: 1930754450

Spores, Plagues and History is the tale of one of history's most deadly bacterium, which has been causing natural disease since the time of Moses and man made illness since World War II. Beginning wit…

Review: Big book about the anthrax history Moses Forward
This big book about the history of the anthrax covers a lot of ground in relatively few sides. The more I get to know about the author, the more I understand that this man knows what he talks…

Medical terms: allergic rhinitis

Viruses, Plagues and History

Viruses, Plagues and History


Paperback, 240 pages, release 2000-04-20
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195134222

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…

Review: The focus on the historical influence makes this book worthwhile
It is a shame that the determining influence of transferable illnesses on the history ordinarily in school books unterplays becomes. This information must be confessed by every educated person…

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Viruses, Plagues and History

Viruses, Plagues and History


Hardcover, 224 pages, release 1998-01-22
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195117239

…Oldstone discusses the influenza virus of 1918 to 1919 which may have killed as many as 50 million people worldwide and certainly helped England, France and the U.S. defeat Germany in World War I and…

Review: The focus on the historical influence makes this book worthwhile
…The unselfish devotion of the doctors, nurses and religious orders who decided to remain whose 60% did not survive. Nevertheless, there, is, some weaknesses. The third chapter, on it…


The Black Death: A History of Plagues 1345-1730

The Black Death: A History of Plagues 1345-1730


Paperback, 192 pages, release 2002-02
Andrew Spicer, William Naphy
Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 0752423088

Review: A plague on Us
We worry about plague; AIDS is still fright-like, even if it is treated with the substantial success and new (although for no reason) frighten at a woman with the ebola virus…

Reference index: year book of pain

The Power of Plagues

The Power of Plagues


Paperback, 431 pages, release 2006-01-20
Irwin W. Sherman
ASM Press
ISBN: 1555813569

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 acc…

Review: Excellent introduction to the illness in the society
This book tyres in an ambiguity which is published for a high price by a quite mysterious scientific society. I hope that a mass publisher has the sense to buy the rights and to bring out him…

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Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues-Out of the Present & Into the Future

Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues-Out of the Present & Into the Future


Hardcover, 448 pages, release 1997-02-01
Frank Ryan
Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316763837

Who needs Stephen King when there are such real life horrors as those described in Dr. Frank Ryan's new book, Virus X to keep sleep at bay? Such exotic killers as Ebola and Necrotizing Fasciitis rub e…

Review: Excellently read
This author gives a lot of information about that, like doctors with nothing, with plagues are made in the uncivilised areas of Africa fighting, improvise equipment. He discusses in it what to search…

The most popular terms: september october

American Plagues: Lessons From Our Battles With Disease

American Plagues: Lessons From Our Battles With Disease


Paperback, 273 pages, release 2004-09-14
Stephen H. Gehlbach
McGraw-Hill Medical
ISBN: 0071437908

Highly readable, American Plagues relays the most important epidemics in U.S. history. The author's engaging writing style helps readers understand the major concepts in the spread of disease and the…

Review: Excellently well in writing and informatively
This book is pleasant as well as ingrossing and is also packed with the historical and scientific information. Accessable to somebody which is interested in the history of the illness in America, or…

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Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues

Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues


Paperback, 336 pages, release 1997-08-28
Christopher Wills
Basic Books
ISBN: 0201328186

Helix Book
In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrou…

Review: This is not about the yellow fever or the black goddesses
I bought this book because I looked for something about the epidemiology of the yellow fever. There is nothing about the yellow fever in this book in which it is mentioned only three times,…

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Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them

Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them


Paperback, 224 pages, release 2004-08-31
Mark Jerome Walters
Island Press
ISBN: 1559637145

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…

Review: A good, quick introduction to a very important field
This year it is the west virus of the Nile kills birds, horses and people for the first time where I live in northern California. Last year we have read about the appearance of SARS…

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