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Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease
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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...read more
By Wendy Orent
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Hardcover:

9780743236850 | Free Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781451695854 | Free Pr, April 1, 2012, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Plague is a terrifying mystery.

Biowarrior: Inside the Soviet/Russian Biological War Machine
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Product Description: This extraordinary memoir by a leading Russian scientist who worked for decades at the nerve center of the top-secret "Biopreparat" offers a chilling look into the biological weapons program of the former Soviet Union, vestiges of which still exist today in the Russian Federal Republic...read more
By I. V. Domaradskii, Igor V. Domaradskij and Wendy Orent
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9781591020936 | Prometheus Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This extraordinary memoir by a leading Russian scientist who worked for decades at the nerve center of the top-secret "Biopreparat" offers a chilling look into the biological weapons program of the former Soviet Union, vestiges of which still exist today in the Russian Federal Republic.

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