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Plagues And Pencils
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Plagues And Pencils written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Art categories.
A remarkable collection of words and illustrations documenting the first year of the pandemic.
Plagues And Pencils
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2022-09-06
Plagues And Pencils written by Edward Carey and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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. Carey’s pencil fills the page with the marvelous and intriguing, picturing people, characters, animals, monsters, and his favorite bird to draw, the grackle. He reaches into history and fiction to escape grim reality through flights of vivid imagination—until events demand the drawings “look straight on.” Breonna Taylor, the Brontë sisters, John Lewis, King Lear, and even the portraits that mark the progress of the year for the Very Determined Young Man combine into a remarkable document of the pandemic and its politics. For Carey, though, trapped inside a home he loves, these portraits are something more, a way to chart time, an artist’s way of creating connection in isolation. With an introduction by Max Porter, this exceptional collection from the acclaimed author of Little marks a year of a man trapped with his pencil, determined to find solace amid uncertainty.
B A Year In Plagues And Pencils
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Gallic Books
Release Date : 2021-11-02
B A Year In Plagues And Pencils written by Edward Carey and has been published by Gallic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with categories.
The History Of The World In 100 Pandemics Plagues And Epidemics
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Author : Paul Chrystal
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2021-08-31
The History Of The World In 100 Pandemics Plagues And Epidemics written by Paul Chrystal and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with History categories.
This “timely, topical, informative [and] exceptionally well written” history explores the impact of disease from prehistoric plagues to Covid-19 (Midwest Book Review). Historian Paul Chrystal charts how human civilization has grappled with successive pandemics, plagues, and epidemics across millennia. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, this volume begins by defining what constitutes a pandemic or epidemic, taking a close look at 20 historic examples: including cholera, influenza, bubonic plague, leprosy, measles, smallpox, malaria, AIDS, MERS, SARS, Zika, Ebola and, of course, Covid-19. Some less well-known, but equally significant and deadly contagions such as Legionnaires’ Disease, psittacosis, polio, the Sweat, and dancing plague, are also covered. Chrystal provides comprehensive information on each disease, including epidemiology, sources and vectors, morbidity, and mortality, as well as governmental and societal responses, and their political, legal, and scientific consequences. He sheds light on how public health crises have shaped history—particularly in the realms of medical and scientific research and vaccine development. Chrystal also examines myths about infectious diseases, and the role of the media, including social media.
Plagues And Pandemics
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Author : Douglas Boyd
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-01-28
Plagues And Pandemics written by Douglas Boyd and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-28 with Health & Fitness categories.
An overview of deadly diseases from throughout world history spanning from prehistoric civilizations to the twenty-first century. All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travelers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilizations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430–426 BCE. When Roman Emperor Justinian I caught bubonic plague in 541 CE, contemporary historian Procopius described his symptoms: fever, delirium and buboes—large black swellings of the lymphatic glands in the groin, under the arms and behind the ears. That bubonic plague killed twenty-five million people around the Mediterranean. Later dubbed Black Death, it killed fifty million people 1346-1353, returning to London forty times in the next 300 years. The third bubonic plague pandemic started 1894 in China, claiming fifteen million lives, largely in Asia, before dying down in the 1950s after visiting San Francisco and New York. But it also hit Madagascar in 2014, and the Congo and Peru. The cause, yersinia pestis was identified in 1894. Infected fleas from rats on merchant ships were blamed for spreading it, but Porton Down scientists have a worrying explanation why the plague spread so fast. Any disease can go epidemic. Everyday European infections brought to the Americas by Cortes’ conquistadores killed millions of the natives, whose posthumous revenge was the syphilis the Spaniards brought back to Europe. The mis-named Spanish flu, brought from Kansas to Europe by U.S. troops in 1918 caused more than fifty million deaths. Fifty years later, H3N2 flu from Hong Kong killed more than a million people. One coronavirus produces the common cold, for which neither vaccine nor cure has been found, despite the loss of millions of working days each year. Chillingly, historian Douglas Boyd lists many other sub-microscopic killers still waiting for tourism and trade to bring them to us.
Plagues In World History
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Author : John Aberth
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2011-01-16
Plagues In World History written by John Aberth and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-16 with History categories.
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes toward them. The author argues that the ability of humans to alter disease, even without the modern wonders of antibiotic drugs and other medical treatments, is an even more crucial lesson to learn now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. Aberth's comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today.
Plagues And The Paradox Of Progress
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Author : Thomas J. Bollyky
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Plagues And The Paradox Of Progress written by Thomas J. Bollyky and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Medical categories.
Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good. Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of its decline. For the first time in recorded history, virus, bacteria, and other infectious diseases are not the leading cause of death or disability in any region of the world. People are living longer, and fewer mothers are giving birth to many children in the hopes that some might survive. And yet, the news is not all good. Recent reductions in infectious disease have not been accompanied by the same improvements in income, job opportunities, and governance that occurred with these changes in wealthier countries decades ago. There have also been unintended consequences. In this book, Thomas Bollyky explores the paradox in our fight against infectious disease: the world is getting healthier in ways that should make us worry. Bollyky interweaves a grand historical narrative about the rise and fall of plagues in human societies with contemporary case studies of the consequences. Bollyky visits Dhaka—one of the most densely populated places on the planet—to show how low-cost health tools helped enable the phenomenon of poor world megacities. He visits China and Kenya to illustrate how dramatic declines in plagues have affected national economies. Bollyky traces the role of infectious disease in the migrations from Ireland before the potato famine and to Europe from Africa and elsewhere today. Historic health achievements are remaking a world that is both worrisome and full of opportunities. Whether the peril or promise of that progress prevails, Bollyky explains, depends on what we do next. A Council on Foreign Relations Book
The Seventh Plague
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Author : James Rollins
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 2016-12-13
The Seventh Plague written by James Rollins and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-13 with Fiction categories.
Ten Plagues
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Author : Mary Nealy
language : en
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Ten Plagues written by Mary Nealy and has been published by Barbour Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Join the breakneck chase through Chicago for a murderous maniac. As the victims begin piling up, detective Keren Collins’s spiritual discernment is on high alert. Will she capture the killer before another body floats to the surface? Ex-cop, now mission pastor Paul Morris has seen his share of tragedy, but nothing prepared him to be a murderer’s messenger boy. Will his old ruthless cop personality take over, leading him to the brink of self-destruction? Can Keren and Paul catch the killer before the corpse count reaches a perfect ten?
Fables Vol 9 Sons Of Empires
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Author : Bill Willingham
language : en
Publisher: DC
Release Date : 2007-06-06
Fables Vol 9 Sons Of Empires written by Bill Willingham and has been published by DC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-06 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. The free Fables living in the mundane world have struck a decisive blow against the Adversary, destroying one of his most valuable assets at the very heart of his empire-and setting the stage for an all-out world between the worlds in the process. Now, while the ruler of the Homelands licks his wounds and gathers his forces, the denizens of Fabletown have a rare chance to savor the brief peace their victory has brought them. Everyone, however, knows that this is just the calm before the storm-and that even the winds themselves have to choose before it-s over. Collects issues #52-59 in Bill Willingham-s Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series.