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Tinderbox : how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it / Craig...

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Tinderbox : how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it / Craig...

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Tinderbox : how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it / Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin.

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Full title

Tinderbox : how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it / Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin.

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Publisher

New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Date

2012.

Call Numbers

N614.59939/15

Record Identifier

74VvG0W3OGKb

MMS ID

991012732369702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

421 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

Silent spread. Francistown ; Searching for the beginning ; One tiny speck of truth ; A tale of two viruses ; The lion and Dr. Livingstone ; Femmes vivant théoriquement seules ; The gift ; The Big Bang -- An epidemic of politics. Americanizing AIDS ; It can't be here already! ; Attention na SIDA ;...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

2012.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the bes...

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Full title

Tinderbox : how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it / Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Call Numbers

N614.59939/15

Record Identifier

74VvG0W3OGKb

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvG0W3OGKb

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ISBN

159420327X (hardback)

9781594203275 (hardback)

DDC

614.5993920096

MMS ID

991012732369702626

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