America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Paperback - Alfred W. Crosby

Reducere. Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the f...

Reducere. Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages o...

Reducere. Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precis...

We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started bur...

Reducere. DescriptionButte was an incomparable city, but in late 1918, some of the things that made it so exceptional also made it incredibly cruel. That yea...

Reducere. The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 appeared suddenly at the end of the First World War and with explosive impact took the lives of at least 30 milli...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty milli...

Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History - Alfred W. Crosby

Reducere. A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now fea...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, bringing ...

Reducere. A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most ...

Reducere. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowe...

Reducere. In 1918, fourteen-year-old Daisy's family has fallen on hard times. Her sister Elsie's fiance was recently deployed to fight in World War I, and he...

A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing sepa...

New in paperback - The first biography of Alfred the Great's son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.Publisher: Amberley Publish...

Reducere. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, "The Politics of Heroin" includes meticulous documentation o...

DescriptionEdward the Elder succeeded his father Alfred the Great to the kingdom of Wessex, but was largely overlooked by his contemporaries (at le...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...

From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown re...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Aviva ChomskyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 209 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. Life-Changing Journey... but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be fille...

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Reducere. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon--what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals abou...

Reducere. DescriptionThe bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David CrosbyWith: Carl GottliebA thorough and candid autobiography that is both a personal journey and a cultural history o...

From the pages of Look, the magazine that defined the fifties, comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in A...

Publisher: BookLife PublishingAuthor(s): John WoodNumber of pages: 24Collection: Outbreaks!Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 252 x 252 x 11Cover ty...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Eric LeeIllustration(s): Maps 18pp mono plate sectionNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimen...

Reducere. The wild horse, popularly known as the mustang, is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know what it st...

Reducere. It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Fr...