The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid, Hardcover - Lawrence Wright

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19--its origins, its wide-ranging repercu...

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Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 20 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 303 x 237 x 38Cover typ...

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This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters in order to understand the ways in which it ...

Publisher: Anthem PressNumber of pages: 244Collection: Anthem Ethics of Personal Data CollectionPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 24Cov...

Describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing narratives about COVID-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocat...

An achingly-funny journey into the fantasy life of a London author in lockdown - or is it fantasy? Penetrating satirical insight into responses to ...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, ...

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have ...

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Reducere. Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age...

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe's most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe's lifetime.

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai'ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of e...

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The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with ...

In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97, 000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on ...

Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great ...

The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than on...

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Publisher: Brown Dog BooksIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 209 x 27Cover type...

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Reducere. A Journal of the plague is an extraordinary historical account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the City of London by the Great ...

Reducere. Bearing witness to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic When New York City went into lockdown in March 2020, spiritual leader Micah Bucey found ...

** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found hims...

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Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans,...

The haunting cry of -Bring out your dead - by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with ...

Reducere. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Scholastic is re-releasing the ten original Magic School Bus titles in paperback. With updated scientific inform...