Bubonic Plague

The bubonic plague is a disease spread by fleas that live on rats. Outbreaks of the disease killed millions of people. Read this book to learn more...

Reducere. The bubonic plague wreaked havoc in the fourteenth century. Learn about the germ that causes the illness, how fleas spread it, and how putting sail...

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, ...

Explore the history behind the bubonic plague that left Europe reeling from one of the greatest losses in history The Black Death is the name most ...

lague looks at the most frightening diseases and epidemics in the history of medicine. These include the bubonic plague or Black Death, its effects...

Reducere. "With the outbreak of the coronavirus strain COVID-19, the Church is forced to ask questions we have not had to face since the recurring outbreaks ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian ...

New B-format paperback - The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the med...

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. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of The Black Death, then keep reading... The Black Death was the first recorded pandemic...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of The Black Death, then keep reading...The Black Death was the first recorded pandemic in Europe a...

This sweeping, multidisciplinary exploration of the major epidemics since the Black Death reveals the impact of diseases ranging from bubonic plagu...

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...

Reducere. When it comes to memorizing Bible verses, most people approach it with about as much enthusiasm as they would bubonic plague. How sad Putting God's...

Reducere. Julian of Norwich lived through the dreadful bubonic plague that killed close to 50% of Europeans. Being an anchoress, she 'sheltered in place' and...

Reducere. Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world ...

DescriptionThe 5, 000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have treated his gallstones, Lyme disease, and hardening of the arteries wi...

Reducere. Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel ha...

Reducere. Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to mode...

Reducere. The Second Edition of A History of the Later Roman Empire features extensive revisions and updates to the highly-acclaimed, sweeping historical sur...

DescriptionWritten in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and a...

From the bestselling author of The House of Mondavi a riveting, revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San F...

Reducere. Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Uni...

Reducere. "There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regar...

Reducere. "There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regar...

Reducere. Viral Literature: Alone Together in Georgia assembled 32 writers from Georgia's creative community to encounter the COVID-19 pandemic with the best...