Author: Daniel Kalla Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780765357939 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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In this new thriller from the international bestselling author of "Pandemic," Dr. Noah Haldane suspects that factors other than nature have ignited the spread of the deadly prion responsible for Mad Cow Disease. He just has to stay alive long enough to sound the alarm.
Author: David Scroggins Publisher: ISBN: 9781478304883 Category : Languages : en Pages : 268
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Set in a lush fantasy world, Winter's Plague is the story of a small village ravaged by a deadly plague. Many villagers die violent deaths, their bodies incinerated by those who love them to keep the horrible disease from spreading. Those who are not disposed of quickly enough rise from their final resting places to wreak havoc among the living. Valthian DeFathis is a young country noble who must face the tragedies befalling his beloved land. His family has been left with the task of sorting through the wreckage of a once-peaceful village to find a solution to the madness. Meanwhile, a sinister religious movement, bent upon converting lost souls with thinly-veiled lies, attempts to sweep across the world, conquering those who are unable to fend for themselves.Darkness, deceit and pure chaos await the town of Solstice. Can young Valthian find a way to end the sorrow and restore peace? Or has winter's plague spread too far to be controlled?
Author: Dean Phillip Bell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429777833 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
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Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world. During the early modern period frequent and recurring outbreaks of plague and other epidemics around the world helped to define local identities and they simultaneously forged and subverted social structures, recalibrated demographic patterns, dictated political agendas, and drew upon and tested religious and scientific worldviews. By gathering texts from diverse and often obscure publications and from areas of the globe not commonly studied, Plague in the Early Modern World provides new information and a unique platform for exploring early modern world history from local and global perspectives and examining how early modern people understood and responded to plague at times of distress and normalcy. Including source materials such as memoirs and autobiographies, letters, histories, and literature, as well as demographic statistics, legislation, medical treatises and popular remedies, religious writings, material culture, and the visual arts, the volume will be of great use to students and general readers interested in early modern history and the history of disease.
Author: Marilyn Chase Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0375757082 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 301
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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.
Author: C. L. Werner Publisher: ISBN: 9781849701501 Category : Fantasy fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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More than a thousand years after the Age of Sigmar, the Empire he struggled to create has ben brought to the edge of ruin by greedy, imcompetent ruler Boris Goldgather. Without warning, a terrible and deadly plague strikes, wiping out entire villages and leaving towns eerily silent through long frozen months. As the survivors struggle to maintain order and a worthy military presence, vermin pour up from the sewers and caverns beneath the cities, heralding a new and unspeakable threat--the insidious skaven!
Author: Ole Jørgen Benedictow Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527583058 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 761
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Historical studies of plague are predominantly related to individual local epidemics, often associated with the Black Death. However, this unique book provides a complete presentation of the entire Second Plague Pandemic in Norway, from the Black Death to the last outbreaks of plague in 1654. It begins with a succinct presentation of the history of plague and its basic clinical and epidemiological features, while also drawing upon new scholarship and research. It confirms the great genetic stability of the plague contagion, and shows that the outbreaks and spread of plague can be studied in interaction with two historical societies of two historical periods, the late medieval society and the early modern society. The changes and differences in epidemiology and dynamics of plague between the two halves of the pandemic are gateways to understanding how plague epidemics are transmitted, disseminated and evolve. The book’s long-term perspective allows it to study plague’s epidemiology and to identify consistent long-term features.
Author: Quinn Blackbird Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 732
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If you tried to run, you know what would happen, Winter.I would hunt you down and burn the world to find you...The world has gone to shit. All that's left are a few bands of rogue survivors, more dangers than ever, those violence-loving rotters, and me and my dog, Cleo. Well, it should just be Cleo and me. And it was, until--I found them. A group of mercenaries in this plagued, wintery world. Once high-ranking soldiers, something has turned them dark in this new life we all lead. And my darkness calls to theirs...Leo saves my life, Castle keeps me safe, and I'm torn between the two. Only, it's more than returned feelings that have them watching over me, and I quickly learn that my place in this group is not optional. I can't leave any time I want. I've been taken captive. And I see no way out. Not without breaking my own heart in the process. Winter Plague is the complete (books 1 - 4) collection of the Winter Plague series, second edition. Warnings for explicit scenes, love triangle, dark romance, and graphic violence.
Author: Isla Jones Publisher: Plague ISBN: 9781977024374 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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In a world ravaged by the dead, our words are all we have left. Who will tell the story of the last stand? I will. My name is Winter, and this is my story. The world has been lost to a new strain of rabies, one that ravages those it infects and turns them into blood-thirsty killers. I don't know how I've survived for so long, but I have. And then, I met a group ... I met him. Winter's Plague is the found memoir of a cowardly survivor in a cruel world. Winter writes of how she wandered across the states to find her sister, only to find the first group of survivors she'd seen in five months.A band of thirty survivors are led by the mysterious soldiers, but Winter quickly realises that Leo----the one who saved her life, the one in charge----has a secret. And it lies in the restricted RV with the top-secret cargo.But there are two rules she learns fast in the group: Know your place and stay away from the restricted R.V. Or die.
Author: Kathleen Pribyl Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319559532 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 309
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This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science. It investigates the climatic background for the two most significant risk factors for life in the crisis-prone England of the Later Middle Ages: subsistence crisis and plague. Based on documentary data from eastern England, the late medieval growing season temperature is reconstructed and the late summer precipitation of that period indexed. Using these data, and drawing together various other regional (proxy) data and a wide variety of contemporary documentary sources, the impact of climatic variability and extremes on agriculture, society and health are assessed. Vulnerability and resilience changed over time: before the population loss in the Great Pestilence in the mid-fourteenth century meteorological factors contributing to subsistence crises were the main threat to the English people, after the arrival of Yersinia pestis it was the weather conditions that faciliated the formation of recurrent major plague outbreaks. Agriculture and harvest success in late medieval England were inextricably linked to both short term weather extremes and longer term climatic fluctuations. In this respect the climatic transition period in the Late Middle Ages (c. 1250-1450) is particularly important since the broadly favourable conditions for grain cultivation during the Medieval Climate Optimum gave way to the Little Ice Age, when agriculture was faced with many more challenges; the fourteenth century in particular was marked by high levels of climatic variability.
Author: Wendy Orent Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451699212 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people -- 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hundred years earlier, the Justinian Plague destroyed the Byzantine Empire and ushered in the Middle Ages. The plague of London in the seventeenth century killed more than 1,000 people a day. In the early twentieth century, plague again swept Asia, taking the lives of 12 million in India alone. Even more frightening is what it could do to us in the near future. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian scientists created genetically altered, antibiotic-resistant and vaccine-resistant strains of plague that can bypass the human immune system and spread directly from person to person. These weaponized strains still exist, and they could be replicated in almost any laboratory. Wendy Orent's Plague pieces together a fascinating and terrifying historical whodunit. Drawing on the latest research in labs around the world, along with extensive interviews with American and Soviet plague experts, Orent offers nothing less than a biography of a disease. Plague helped bring down the Roman Empire and close the Middle Ages; it has had a dramatic impact on our history, yet we still do not fully understand its own evolution. Orent's retelling of the four great pandemics makes for gripping reading and solves many puzzles. Why did some pandemics jump from person to person, while others relied on insects as carriers? Why are some strains more virulent than others? Orent reveals the key differences among rat-based, prairie dog-based, and marmot-based plague. The marmots of Central Asia, in particular, have long been hosts to the most virulent and frightening form of the disease, a form that can travel around the world in the blink of an eye. From its ability to hide out in the wild, only to spring back into humanity with a terrifying vengeance, to its elusive capacity to develop suddenly greater virulence and transmissibility, plague is a protean nightmare. To make matters worse, Orent's disturbing revelations about the former Soviet bioweapon programs suggest that the nightmare may not be over. Plague is chilling reading at the dawn of a new age of bioterrorism.
Author: Daniel Kalla
Author: David Scroggins
Author: Dean Phillip Bell
Author: Marilyn Chase
Author: C. L. Werner
Author: Ole Jørgen Benedictow
Author: Quinn Blackbird
Author: Isla Jones
Author: Kathleen Pribyl
Author: Wendy Orent