Examines the history and devastating impact of smallpox, the first-ever disease to be eradicated, along with the potential implications of the disease for use in future biological warfare.

Product Description: Living in Palestine as the wife of the British Attorney General, Helen Bentwich was immersed in the politics and society of the early days of the British Mandate. Despite her connections she remained in some ways an outsider--a critical observer, writing candid weekly letters to her mother that give insight into the cauldron of races and traditions, the intolerance and the idealism, that lie behind the history of twentieth-century Palestine and the foundation of the state of Israel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the life and career of the British publisher George Smith, who discovered Charlotte Bronte and published other Victorian authors, including Thackeray, Gaskell, Eliot, and Ruskin