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  • The Top Ten Diseases of All Time

    de Professor Stacey Smith?, Professor, Professor Stacey Smith?, Professor ...
    Series series 101 Collection
    Infectious diseases have been with us for millennia and continue to pose a threat, from the irritation of flu season to the potential extinction of our species.We instinctively fear them and alter our behaviour as a result. The reason we bury bodies six feet deep is because that was the depth that stopped plague transmission from the dead in the Middle Ages. Many religious practices, such as ... Leer más

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  • Everything Is Tuberculosis

    The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

    de John Green ...
    **#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.**AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    de Laurie Garrett ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Patient Zero

    A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

    de Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen ...
    From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular ... Leer más

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  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    de Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Apollo's Arrow

    The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

    de Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD ...
    A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker)Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Plagues Upon the Earth

    Disease and the Course of Human History

    de Kyle Harper ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Viral Storm

    The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

    de Nathan Wolfe ...
    "One of the world's foremost virus hunters" ( Financial Times), Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the origins of the world's most deadly diseases and how we can combat and stop contagions.A "mix of biology, history, medicine, and first-hand experience [that] is potent and irresistible,"* The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age shares information Wolfe uncovered on his ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD

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  • Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History

    de Bryn Barnard ...
    “An engrossing introduction for young adult readers to the chillingly topical subject of man vs. microbe.” —The Wall Street JournalDid the Black Death destroy medieval Europe? Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan? Did yellow fever help end the slave trade? Remarkably, the answer to all of these questions is yes. Time and again, diseases have impacted the course of human history in ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

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  • Breath Taking

    The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs

    de Michael J. Stephen ...
    An expert in pulmonary medicine shares a wide-ranging exploration of the human lung: the organ that explains our origins and holds the keys to our future.We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. "Our lungs are the lynchpin between our ... Leer más

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  • This Mortal Coil

    A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

    de Andrew Doig ...
    A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and wher... ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Booster Shots

    The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health

    de Adam Ratner MD, MPH ...
    A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemicEvery single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially 100 percent of measles cases has been in our hands since before the moon landing. But this serious ... Leer más

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