Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, Hardcover - Paul Farmer

Reducere. In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical dese...

Reducere. "Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak...

Reducere. Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate a...

Based on contemporary newspaper accounts and genealogical records, Digging Dusky Diamonds tells the story of the people who made the anthracite coa...

Reducere. Praise for Hal Hellman Great Feuds in Mathematics ""Those who think that mathematicians are cold, mechanical proving machines will do well to read ...

Reducere. The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern worldHall Hellman tells the lively stori...

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The farmer meets new friends and goes on an unexpected adventure to the circus in this whimsical and touching trilogy of wordless picture books fro...

So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Jack OgdenA lavishly illustrated, in-depth early history covering two thousand years of diamond jewelry and commerce, from ...

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically...

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The beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world. Since early times, diamonds have been treasured...

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Contributor(s): Author: Paul FarmerForeword by: Amartya SenPathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to i...

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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

Reducere. Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United Sta...

Telling the story of the collapsing world of Gedaliah Berman, a rich but unscrupulous Jewish diamond merchant at the time of the First World War, t...

From the 3rd century Japanese Empress, Jingu to the 20th century British social reformer, Octavia Hill, Jewell has collected together 100 of the br...

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Reducere. Told in a unique dual-narrative format, The Diamond and the Boy follows the stories of both natural diamond creation and the life of H. Tracy Hall,...

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Reducere. DescriptionRevolution and war come with a price in the fourth volume of USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay's The Aermian Feuds Series.Returning...

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

Description George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely u...

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Reducere. DescriptionBill Gates has called Paul Farmer one of the most amazing people he has ever met. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says that "...

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Reducere. Take a step back in time with the "Original Fannie Farmer Cookbook, " the official how-to-cook-everything book from the esteemed Boston Cooking Sch...

Reducere. Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides a...

Reducere. DescriptionTo mark Philip Jos Farmer's 100th Birthday, Meteor House is proud to present a mammoth collection worthy of the Grand Master. With over ...

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow de...

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DescriptionThe Battle of Westport, Missouri (today, part of Kansas City) was the largest Civil War battle west of the Mississippi. Troops from as f...