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The Blue Death

Author : Robert D. Morris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060730897
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Death written by Robert D. Morris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative vividly recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of lives, and the economic and political forces that opposed these researchers in a ferocious war of ideas. In the gritty world of nineteenth-century England, amid the ravages of cholera, Morris introduces John Snow, the physician who proved that the deadly disease could be hidden in a drop of water. Decades later in the deserts of Africa, the story follows Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch as they raced to find the cause of cholera and a means to prevent its spread. In the twentieth century, burgeoning cities would subdue cholera and typhoid by bending rivers to their will, building massive filtration plants, and bubbling poisonous gas through their drinking water. However, with the arrival of the new millennium, the demon of waterborne disease is threatening to reemerge, and a growing body of research has linked the chlorine relied on for water treatment with cancer and stillbirths. In The Blue Death, Morris dispels notions of fail-safe water systems. Along the way he reveals some shocking truths: the millions of miles of leaking water mains, constantly evolving microorganisms, and the looming threat of bioterrorism, which may lead to catastrophe. Across time and around the world, this riveting account offers alarming information about the natural and man-made hazards present in the very water we drink.

A Beautiful Blue Death

Author : Charles Finch
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429955333
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Blue Death written by Charles Finch and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Finch's debut mystery A Beautiful Blue Death introduces a wonderfully appealing gentleman detective in Victorian London who investigates crime as a diversion from his life of leisure. Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The grand house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prue had dabbled with the hearts of more than a few men, Lenox is baffled by the motive for the girl's death. When another body turns up during the London season's most fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle a web of loyalties and animosities. Was it jealousy that killed Prudence Smith? Or was it something else entirely? And can Lenox find the answer before the killer strikes again—this time, disturbingly close to home?

The Great Trouble

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0449818195
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book The Great Trouble written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suspenseful tale of two courageous kids and one inquisitive scientist who teamed up to stop an epidemic. “A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He’s being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he’s got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren’t so bad until that fateful August day in 1854—the day the deadly cholera epidemic (“blue death”) comes to Broad Street. Everyone believes that cholera is spread through poisonous air. But one man, Dr. John Snow, has a different theory. As the epidemic surges, it’s up to Eel and his best friend, Florrie, to gather evidence to prove Dr. Snow’s theory—before the entire neighborhood is wiped out. “Hopkinson illuminates a pivotal chapter in the history of public health. . . . Accessible . . . and entertaining.” —School Library Journal, Starred “For [readers] who love suspense, drama, and mystery.” —TIME for Kids

The Blue Death

Author : Joan Brady
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849839042
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Death written by Joan Brady and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations the Freyls have ruled Springfield, Illinois, capital of a state of great lakes and rivers. Now convicted killer David Marion threatens their invincibility, and he threatens it from within their own ranks. Water: it's blue gold, and the price on world markets is soaring. When Springfield gets a new mayor, it finds its supply under threat, not only from corporations out for the money but from a disease that appears from nowhere, that nobody can identify and nobody can treat. None of this interests David Marion until his own past surfaces and he finds himself caught between multinational leviathans at war over America's heartland.

Berserker

Author : Saberhagen, Fred
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1937422224
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Berserker written by Saberhagen, Fred and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met—and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battle craft carved a swath of death through the galaxy—until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man. These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy—and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things. This is Saberhagen’s classic book length collection of the first eleven Berserker stories. Meet Berserker hunter extraordinaire Johann Karlsen, his evil brother Felipe Nogara, The Third Historian of the Carmpan Race, gallant fighters of the killer machines and the deranged killer machine, Mr. Jester.

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera

Author : John Snow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book On the Mode of Communication of Cholera written by John Snow and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246442
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

The Medical Detective

Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783780622
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book The Medical Detective written by Sandra Hempel and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the great centres of power: the Privy Council, Whitehall and the Royal Medical Colleges. One man - alone and unrecognized - uncovered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. John Snow was a reclusive doctor, without money or social position, who had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and work out that cholera was spread through drinking water. The book draws extensively on nineteenth-century medical, political and personal records in order to describe what is both an important breakthrough for medical science and also a dramatic story with a cast of colourful characters, from the heroic to the frighteningly incompetent. The book is also full of fascinating diversions into aspects of medical and social history, from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to the Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoek's breeding of lice in his socks, and from Dickensian children's farms to riotous nineteenth-century anaesthesia parties.

Death by Hollywood

Author : Steven Bochco
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408806711
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Death by Hollywood written by Steven Bochco and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One evening, spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbours through his $4,000 electronic telescope, Bobby witnesses a beautiful woman making love to a handsome Latin actor called Ramon. As their pillow talk turns ugly, Bobby watches in horror as the woman appears to bludgeon her lover to death with his own acting trophy. Instead of rushing to the cops, Bobby decides to find out more about the events that led up to the crime, and to use the material for his next movie screenplay. However, when he sneaks into the actor's apartment, the discovery he makes changes his life forever. Empowered by his secret knowledge, Bobby is able to seduce the beautiful woman, while forging a unique friendship with Detective Dennis Farentino, the cop in charge of the investigation. Before long Bobby has dragged the detective, his wife, his lover, and his agent into a Hollywood fun-house hall of mirrors, where only the most manipulative player will survive.

The Barbary Plague

Author : Marilyn Chase
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375757082
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Barbary Plague written by Marilyn Chase and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.

River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign

Author : William Glenn Robertson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469643138
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign written by William Glenn Robertson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this first volume of an authoritative two-volume history of the Chickamauga Campaign, William Glenn Robertson provides a richly detailed narrative of military operations in southeastern and eastern Tennessee as two armies prepared to meet along the "River of Death." Robertson tracks the two opposing armies from July 1863 through Bragg's strategic decision to abandon Chattanooga on September 9. Drawing on all relevant primary and secondary sources, Robertson devotes special attention to the personalities and thinking of the opposing generals and their staffs. He also sheds new light on the role of railroads on operations in these landlocked battlegrounds, as well as the intelligence gathered and used by both sides. Delving deep into the strategic machinations, maneuvers, and smaller clashes that led to the bloody events of September 19@–20, 1863, Robertson reveals that the road to Chickamauga was as consequential as the unfolding of the battle itself.

Blue Death

Author : Lillian O'Donnell
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780399143670
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Blue Death written by Lillian O'Donnell and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Blue Guide provides the first detailed description of the art and architecture of post-unification Berlin and Eastern Germany.

The Hound of Death

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006230061X
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Hound of Death written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories. A young Englishman visiting Cornwall finds himself delving into the legend of a Belgian nun who is living as a refugee in the village. Possessed of supernatural powers, she is said to have caused her entire convent to explode when it was occupied by invading German soldiers during World War I. Sister Angelique was the only survivor. Could such a tall tale possibly be true?

The Masque of the Red Death

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561330188
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Masque of the Red Death written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", Prince Prospero isolates himself and his wealthy guests to avoid a deadly plague. Despite his efforts to escape death, it invades his masked ball, proving that no one can escape fate.

The Death of Vishnu

Author : Manil Suri
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408833255
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Vishnu written by Manil Suri and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close.

Civilized to Death

Author : Christopher Ryan
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451659113
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Civilized to Death written by Christopher Ryan and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death “will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light” (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that “the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us” (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.

Death in Dark Blue

Author : Julia Buckley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425282619
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Death in Dark Blue written by Julia Buckley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aspiring suspense author finds herself writing mysteries by day and solving them by night in the second Writer’s Apprentice Mystery by the author of A Dark and Stormy Murder and the Undercover Dish Mysteries. In the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana, Lena London is settling into her dream job, but someone is making her life a nightmare… Things are beginning to go right for Lena. She’s got a new job assisting suspense novelist and friend, Camilla Graham. She lives rent-free in Camilla’s beautiful, Gothic house. She even has a handsome new boyfriend, Sam West. After being under attack by the media and his neighbors, Sam has recently been cleared of suspicion for murder. Journalists and townsfolk alike are remorseful, and one blogger would even like to apologize to him in person. But when she’s found dead behind Sam’s house, Lena must dodge paparazzi as she unravels the many mysteries that threaten to darken the skies of her little town and her newfound love with Sam.