Tag: Plagues

Free Download Katherine Hirschfeld, "New Wars and Old Plagues: Armed Conflict, Environmental Change and Resurgent Malaria in the Southern Caucasus"
English | ISBN: 3031311426 | 2023 | 133 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of "New Wars" to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between non-state actors generated the region’s largest epidemic of P. vivax malaria since the 1960s.

Free Download Robert Alpert, "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies"
English | ISBN: 1399521659 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 8 MB
American movies about infectious diseases have reflected and driven dominant cultural narratives during the past century. These movies – both real pandemics and imagined zombie outbreaks – have become wildly popular since the beginning of the 21st century.

Free Download The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics by Donald G. McNeil
English | January 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 166800139X | 384 pages | True EPUB | 3.11 MB
Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics-how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one.

Free Download The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C87CVGRN | 2024 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 290 MB
Author: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Narrator: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics-how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one. For millions of Americans, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. He was a regular reporter on The New York Times’s popular podcast The Daily and told listeners early on to prepare for the worst. He’d covered public health for twenty-five years and quickly realized that an obscure virus in Wuhan, China, was destined to grow into a global pandemic rivaling the 1918 Spanish flu. Because of his clear advice, a generation of Times readers knew the risk was real but that they might be spared by taking the right precautions. Because of his prescient work, The New York Times won the 2021 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

Free Download William G. Naphy, "Plagues, Poisons And Potions: Plague Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps c.1530-1640"
English | ISBN: 0719046416 | 2002 | 242 pages | PDF | 12 MB
With the 16th and 17th Century outbreaks of the Plague, came the arrests and executions of many hospital workers who were accused of conspiring to spread the disease. Plagues, Poisons and Potions contains a detailed study of this fascinating phenomenon associated with the Plague. It examines the courts and the part played by torture, as well as considering the socio-economic conditions of the workers, highlighting an early modern form of ‘class warfare’.

Free Download Dr Michael Hefferon, "of Plagues and Vampires: Believable Myths,and Unbelievable Facts From Medical Practice"
English | 2017 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 0994017286 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Of Plagues and Vampires-Believable myths,and unbelievable facts from medical practice.We often hear that myth is more important than reality.Is that why myth continues to play such a significant role in medicine? Do some notions, widely thought to be medical folklore,actually have a scientific basis?Dr Michael Hefferon explores the interfacewhere some of our traditional notions about health meet evidence-based medicine.Does listening to classical music really make you smarter?Did Vampires really exist?Should we all be on a gluten-free diet?Does wearing sunscreen really prevent skin cancer?Does drinking cranberry juice really prevent urinary tract infection?Dr Michael Hefferon practices as a Pediatrician in Kingston, Ontario, where he is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Oncology at Queens University.This book contains 33 medical "myths", which are explored,and referenced for further reading.Pictorial illustrations included.Introduced by Queens Chair of History of Medicine, Head, Department of Pediatrics,at Queens University, and former Editor of ‘Kingston This Week’

Free Download Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches by Edward Carey, Max Porter
English | September 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1477325867 | 240 pages | MOBI | 33 Mb
In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published on social media a sketch of "A Very Determined Young Man." The day after, he posted another drawing. One year and one hundred and fifty Tombow B pencil stubs later, he was still drawing.

Free Download Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B6GL1R5J | 2023 | 9 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Jonathan Kennedy
Narrator: Jonathan Kennedy

Free Download B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils by Edward Carey
English | November 2nd, 2021 | ISBN: 1913547205 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 15.09 MB
Author and illustrator Edward Carey presents a paean to connection at a time of isolation: a year of daily lockdown drawings posted on social media from his home in Texas.