Plague Merchants

Download Plague Merchants full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Plague Merchants ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Plague Merchants

Author : R. Darryl Fisher
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595001726
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Plague Merchants by : R. Darryl Fisher

Download or read book The Plague Merchants written by R. Darryl Fisher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plague Merchants describes the horrifying feasibility of a genetically engineered virus, formed from AIDS and influenza, that creates a doomsday weapon. If unleashed in a crowded subway, the resulting plague can sweep across the country, spread by airborne contagion, annihilating every other person. The creator of this weapon of mass destruction is the world-renowned and enigmatic molecular biologist Michelle Exeter, cloistered in a testing facility of the Neogenics biotechnology company in the Texas Hill Country. Her clandestine biological-weapons research is underwritten by covert Defense Department funds funneled through United States Senator Prentiss Standridge and company CEO Charles Dunn. A delirious Hispanic, found wandering the roadside near the research laboratory, is rescued by two policemen. His death in the local ER from fulminant lung hemorrhage mystifies physician Hector Morales, and he solicits the aid of Dr. Betty Freeman, a Neogenics director, in identifying the cause of death. Within 72 hours one of the policemen exposed to the Hispanic dies a similar death, asphyxiating from hemorrhage into his lungs, confirming its infectiousness. When the scientific director of the company discovers the scope of viral-weapons production he is brutally silenced, his death made to appear a suicide. Then Chairman of the board, Nobel laureate Hadley Thorne, promptly disappears after his visit to the Hill Country research laboratory to shut down the illicit viral-weapons program. Dr. Freeman tenaciously pursues the mystery of these deaths and disappearances, suffering the disbelief of her family and police when she accuses Dr. Michelle Exeter of developing a viral-warfare weapon. Dr. Exeter, realizing that soon her life's work will be exposed by Betty Freeman and that she will be disarmed by the authorities, rushes to release her deadly recombinant virus in retribution for the Gulf-War attack by the United States that killed her unborn child and her mother. Only Betty Freeman can prevent the impending viral epidemic that would wipe out half the United States as the authorities refuse to believe her Cassandra warnings. In a race against the clock, Betty chases Michelle and her engineer father, Abdel Azziz, from Texas to Washington, DC where Michelle plans to release her deadly air-borne virus at the Washington Mall during the July 4th festivities. In a standoff of biblical proportions, Betty confronts Michelle in the Metrorail-subway station beneath the crowded Mall.

Plague Merchants

Author : Benjamin Jacob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Plague Merchants by : Benjamin Jacob

Download or read book Plague Merchants written by Benjamin Jacob and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathogens cause disease. This is well known. Less well known is the role humans play in causing pandemics. Weaving contemporary accounts with the latest research, Plague Merchants provides a fascinating insight into some of the most notorious pandemics in history. Going beyond statistics it reveals their human tragedy and the often-ignored human factors which cause them. What lessons, it asks, can we learn from the past to prevent the next catastrophic plague?Dr Benjamin Jacob has been writing and teaching for over twenty years. He has lectured in subjects as diverse as film, literature, social science and social justice. His writing has appeared in various books, magazines, and journals.

Plague Merchants

Author : Benjamin Jacob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Plague Merchants by : Benjamin Jacob

Download or read book Plague Merchants written by Benjamin Jacob and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathogens cause disease. This is well known. Less well known is the role humans play in causing pandemics. Interweaving contemporary accounts and the latest medical research, Plague Merchants goes beyond statistics and scientific analysis to bring the tragic human cost of each pandemic vividly to life. Considering a range of pandemics including The Black Death, cholera, Spanish Flu, HIV, malaria, and the often ignored cardiovascular pandemic (responsible for nearly 18 million deaths every year), this gripping study reveals the patterns of human behaviour which turn epidemics into pandemics and asks what lessons must be learnt from the past to prevent the next catastrophic plague.

The World the Plague Made

Author : James Belich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219168
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The World the Plague Made by : James Belich

Download or read book The World the Plague Made written by James Belich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.

The Plague

Author : Joanne Dahme
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458779734
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Plague by : Joanne Dahme

Download or read book The Plague written by Joanne Dahme and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen year-old Nell bears an uncanny resemblance to King Edward the Third's daughter, Princess Joan. The king brings Nell and her brother George from the murky streets of 14th-century London so that Nell can be the body double for the princess in times of danger. When the plague takes the princess' life, Joan's brother, the Black Prince, forces Nell to continue in her role so he can marry her to the Prince of Castille in Joan's place. Nell, however, is determined to return to England to report the princess' death to the King.

A Journal of the Plague Year ...

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Journal of the Plague Year ... by : Daniel Defoe

Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year ... written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plague Ports

Author : Myron Echenberg
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722334
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Plague Ports by : Myron Echenberg

Download or read book Plague Ports written by Myron Echenberg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three “pearls” of the Pacific; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America; Alexandria and Cape Town in Africa; and Oporto in Europe. Myron Echenberg examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and public health authorities, and especially on the citizenry, many of whom were recent migrants crammed into grim living spaces. He looks at how different cultures sought to cope with the challenge of deadly epidemic disease, and explains the political, racial, and medical ineptitudes and ignorance that allowed the plague to flourish. The forces of globalization and industrialization, Echenberg argues, had so increased the transmission of microorganisms that infectious disease pandemics were likely, if not inevitable. This fascinating, expansive history, enlivened by harrowing photographs and maps of each city, sheds light on urbanism and modernity at the turn of the century, as well as on glaring public health inequalities. With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, and ongoing fears of bioterrorism, Plague Ports offers a necessary and timely historical lesson.

Merchants' Association Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Merchants' Association Review by :

Download or read book Merchants' Association Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Food Fights & Culture Wars

Author : Tom Nealon
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468314521
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Food Fights & Culture Wars by : Tom Nealon

Download or read book Food Fights & Culture Wars written by Tom Nealon and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation. Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was also being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction. Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes. Among many conspiracies and controversies, the author meditates on the connections between the French Revolution and table settings, food thickness and colonialism, and lemonade and the Black Plague.

Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

Author : Nükhet Varlik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013380
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World by : Nükhet Varlik

Download or read book Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World written by Nükhet Varlik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.

The Black Death, 2nd Edition

Author : Diane Zahler
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1467703753
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Black Death, 2nd Edition by : Diane Zahler

Download or read book The Black Death, 2nd Edition written by Diane Zahler and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could a few fleas really change the world? In the early 1300s, the world was on the brink of change. New trade routes in Europe and Asia brought people in contact with different cultures and ideas, while war and rebellions threatened to disrupt the lives of millions. Most people lived in crowded cities or as serfs tied to the lands of their overlords. Conditions were filthy, as most people drank water from the same sources they used for washing and for human waste. In the cramped and rat-infested streets of medieval cities and villages, all it took were the bites of a few plague-infected fleas to start a pandemic that killed roughly half the population of Europe and Asia. The bubonic plague wiped out families, villages, even entire regions. Once the swollen, black buboes appeared on victims’ bodies, there was no way to save them. People died within days. In the wake of such devastation, survivors had to reevaluate their social, scientific, and religious beliefs, laying the groundwork for our modern world. The Black Death outbreak is one of world history’s pivotal moments.

Parliamentary Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drug Trade Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Drug Trade Weekly by :

Download or read book Drug Trade Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Plague No Contagious Disease, with Some Hints for the Prevention and Cure of the Plague

Author : Francois Chicoyneau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Plague No Contagious Disease, with Some Hints for the Prevention and Cure of the Plague by : Francois Chicoyneau

Download or read book The Plague No Contagious Disease, with Some Hints for the Prevention and Cure of the Plague written by Francois Chicoyneau and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Wake of the Plague

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476797749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis In the Wake of the Plague by : Norman F. Cantor

Download or read book In the Wake of the Plague written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Thoth

Author : Joseph Shield Nicholson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Thoth by : Joseph Shield Nicholson

Download or read book Thoth written by Joseph Shield Nicholson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoth is a Greek fantasy-romance about enchanting and incredibly strong women in Athens. Excerpt: "First of all, she was strong of will, and rather ruled than obeyed her parents; and she not only obstinately refused an honourable marriage, but spoke bitterly of the small esteem and respect in which the Athenians held their lawful wives..."

The Bubonic Plague

Author : Kevin Cunningham
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781617147623
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (476 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Bubonic Plague by : Kevin Cunningham

Download or read book The Bubonic Plague written by Kevin Cunningham and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the plague which caused one of the most catastrophic losses of life in history.