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Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 10
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 750
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-03-09
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1787382648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike sharks, epidemic diseases always lurk just beneath the surface. This fast-paced history of their effect on mankind prompts questions about the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of medical hubris, and how we should prepare as epidemics become ever more frequent. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behaviour and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.
Author: Michael Vecchione
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cephalopods found in neritic waters of the northeastern United States include myopsid and oegopsid squids, sepiolid squids, and octopods. A key with diagnostic illustrations is provided to aid in identification of the eleven species common in the neritic waters between Cape Hatteras and Nova Scotia; included also is information on two oceanic species that occur over the continental shelf in this area and that can be confused with similar-looking neritic species. Other sections comprise a glossary of taxonomic characters used for identification of these species, an annotated systematic checklist, and checklists of the 89 other oceanic species and 18 Carolinian and subtropical neritic species that might occur occasionally off the northeastern United States.
Author: Robert K. Heimann
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Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781258784287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tobacco Custom In America From Early Colonial Times To Present With More Than 300 Illustrations.
Author: Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher: W H Allen
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780753558287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles, to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, Zika and - now - COVID-19 epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. In The Pandemic Century, Mark Honigsbaum chronicles 100 years of history in 10 outbreaks. Bringing us right up-to-date with a new chapter on COVID-19, this fast-paced, critically-acclaimed book combines science history, medical sociology and thrilling front-line reportage to deliver the story of our times. As we meet dedicated disease detectives, obstructive public health officials, and gifted scientists often blinded by their own expertise, we come face-to-face with the brilliance and medical hubris shaping both the frontier of science - and the future of humanity's survival.
Author: Richard J. Heggen
Publisher: Richard Heggen
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 1227
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere
Author: Jim Remsen
Publisher: Sunbury Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017-02-07
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ISBN-13: 9781620068113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRural Northeastern Pennsylvania was a bucolic farming region in the 1800s-but political tensions churned below the surface. When a group of fugitive slaves dared to settle in the Underground Railroad village of Waverly, near Scranton, before the Civil War, they encountered a mix of support from abolitionists and animosity from white supremacists. Once the war came, 13 of Waverly's black fathers and sons returned south, into the bowels of slavery, to fight for the Union. Their valor under fire helped to change many minds about blacks. "Embattled Freedom" lifts these 13 remarkable lives out of the shadows, while also shedding light on the racial politics and social codes they and their people endured in the divided North. The men had found a safe haven in Waverly, but like other people of color in the 1800s and early 1900s, their freedom was uneasy, their battle for respect never-ending. Please visit the author's website, www.jimremsen.com. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: "A fascinating history that needs to be shared." -Mary Ann Moran-Savakinus, Director, Lackawanna Historical Society, Scranton "A well-researched and documented read that revisits the challenges of 13 freedom-seekers who served during the Civil War. A research gem." -Sherman Wooden, President, Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, Montrose, Pa.
Author: Walter J. Ciszek
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780829444544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith God in America is a collection of previously unpublished writings on Walter Ciszek, SJ's, post-imprisonment life and thoughts.
Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
