Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic, Paperback - Gina Kolata

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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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...

Reducere. Bristol Bay Remembers: The Great Flu of 1919 tells the story, through first-hand accounts and photographs, of the Spanish Flu Pandemic that struck ...

Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more...

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

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. 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. How did he walk through walls, escape drowning, and shatter iron chains that were tightly wrapped around him?The rare photos in this book might hel...

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

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with ...

WinstonChurchill was far more than a just successful wartime leader. International war correspondent, WWI soldier and Nobel Prize winningwriter, Ch...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracot...

Reducere. The Story of the Chinese Zodiac. As the new year approaches, each animal wants it to be named after them, but no one can agree. The Jade Emperor de...

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

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1859, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known everywhere as A&P, began as a mail-order business located at 31 Vesey Street in...

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. In five days that small fire...

Reducere. Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, ...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone likes Josie, except the spoiled and arrogant Billy Detwiler. He calls her Pharmacy Girl, but it is no compliment. As the hazy d...

Reducere. (Book). The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar. When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's ``Mr. Tam...

DescriptionThe Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins--and explain how the past shaped the nati...

Reducere. In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice i...

Reducere. Here's the story of the Great Pyramid and the people who built it. In the author's telling, the Old Kingdom comes alive: a nation of farmers living...

Reducere. If God told you to build a massive Ark, would you build it? Well, Noah listened and built the biggest boat in the world. Even though he didn't unde...

We now call it The Great Realisationand, yes, since then there have been many. But that's the story of how it started ... and why hindsight's 2020.

Reducere. They were held in brutal captivity--and managed to make it out alive. This is their story. The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gi...

Reducere. Description"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Sa, which means Red Bird. Born in ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael LewisNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 22Cover type: Paperback / sof...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

A virologist's insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitable

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Mike Davis...

DescriptionA cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and Ameri...

Reducere. In a faraway village lives a talented little shoemaker--who also happens to be a leprechaun. He keeps the gold that he earns from making shoes hidd...

Reducere. An account of the Second World War, that is published in association with the Imperial War Museums. It examines the causes of the war, its great ba...

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