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Wendy Orent
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Free Pr
Publication date
April 1, 2012
Pages
276
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781451695854
ISBN-10
1451695853
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$18.99
Other format details
sci/tech
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people - 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hundred years earlier, the Justinian Plague destroyed the Byzantine Empire and ushered in the Middle Ages. The plague of London in the seventeenth century killed more than 1,000 people a day. In the early twentieth century, plague again swept Asia, taking the lives of 12 million in India alone. Even more frightening is what it could do to us in the near future. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian scientists created genetically altered, antibiotic-resistant and vaccine-resistant strains of plague that can bypass the human immune system and spread directly from person to person. These weaponized strains still exist, and they could be replicated in almost any laboratory. Wendy Orent's Plague pieces together a fascinating and terrifying historical whodunit. Drawing on the latest research in labs around the world, along with extensive interviews with American and Soviet plague experts, Orent offers nothing less than a biography of a disease. Plague helped bring down the Roman Empire and close the Middle Ages; it has had a dramatic impact on our history, yet we still do not fully understand its own evolution. Orent's retelling of the four great pandemics makes for gripping reading and solves many puzzles. Why did some pandemics jump from person to person, while others relied on insects as carriers? Why are some strains more virulent than others? Orent reveals the key differences among rat-based, prairie dog-based, and marmot-based plague. The marmots of Central Asia, in particular, have long been hosts to the most virulent and frightening form of the disease, a form that can travel around the world in the blink of an eye. From its ability to hide out in the wild, only to spring back into humanity with a terrifying vengeance, to its elusive ca
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Hardcover
from Free Pr (May 1, 2004)
9780743236850 | details & prices | 288 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A history of the plague documents its outbreaks from the early Roman Justinian plague, to the Black Death, to more recent occurrences, identifying the conditions that can precipitate an epidemic and offering a sobering prognosis for its potential as a bioterrorist weapon.
About: A history of the plague documents its outbreaks from the early Roman Justinian plague, to the Black Death, to more recent occurrences, identifying the conditions that can precipitate an epidemic and offering a sobering prognosis for its potential as a bioterrorist weapon.
Paperback
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from Free Pr (April 1, 2012)
9781451695854 | details & prices | 276 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $18.99
About: Plague is a terrifying mystery.
About: Plague is a terrifying mystery.
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