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Author : Fred Corry Bishopp
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Start the Mosquito War Now written by Fred Corry Bishopp and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V. A. MacAlister
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812549133
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Mosquito War written by V. A. MacAlister and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut novel, MacAlister combines crooked pharmaceutical companies, a CIA plot gone horribly awry, a terrorist weapon that comes in a small package, and a grief-stricken scientist determined to make America pay for its indifference to the suffering in Third World countries.
Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743437
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Mosquito written by Timothy C. Winegard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village. Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
Author : Andrew McIlwaine Bell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807137375
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Mosquito Soldiers written by Andrew McIlwaine Bell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies---malaria and yellow fever---on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.
Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139484508
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Mosquito Empires written by J. R. McNeill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.
Author : Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell
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Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mosquito Life written by Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard C. Wilkerson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438143
Total Pages : 1332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Mosquitoes of the World written by Richard C. Wilkerson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete reference work on mosquitoes ever produced, Mosquitoes of the World is an unmatched resource for entomologists, public health professionals, epidemiologists, and reference libraries.
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Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Ellingwood's Therapeutist written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Forest Leaves written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book World Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington Irving
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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buzz Bissinger
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062879944
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Mosquito Bowl written by Buzz Bissinger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation “Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as “The Mosquito Bowl.” Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in “The Mosquito Bowl” would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America’s campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.
Author : American Medical Association
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Total Pages : 1214 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen M. Masterson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698140133
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Malaria Project written by Karen M. Masterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the German model, then grew it tenfold. Quickly becoming the biggest and most important medical initiative of the war, the project tasked dozens of the country’s top research scientists and university labs to find a treatment to remedy half a million U.S. troops incapacitated by malaria. Spearheading the new U.S. effort was Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, the son of a poor Indiana farmer whose persistent drive and curiosity led him to become one of the most innovative thinkers in solving the malaria problem. He recruited private corporations, such as today's Squibb and Eli Lilly, and the nation’s best chemists out of Harvard and Johns Hopkins to make novel compounds that skilled technicians tested on birds. Giants in the field of clinical research, including the future NIH director James Shannon, then tested the drugs on mental health patients and convicted criminals—including infamous murderer Nathan Leopold. By 1943, a dozen strains of malaria brought home in the veins of sick soldiers were injected into these human guinea pigs for drug studies. After hundreds of trials and many deaths, they found their “magic bullet,” but not in a U.S. laboratory. America 's best weapon against malaria, still used today, was captured in battle from the Nazis. Called chloroquine, it went on to save more lives than any other drug in history. Karen M. Masterson, a journalist turned malaria researcher, uncovers the complete story behind this dark tale of science, medicine and war. Illuminating, riveting and surprising, The Malaria Project captures the ethical perils of seeking treatments for disease while ignoring the human condition.
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Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book Pennsylvania Medical Journal (1897-1923). written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
