Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills.
Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills.
Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills.
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Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley Pub., 1996.
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Date
1996.
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N614.49/26
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English
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xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. The Anatomy of Plagues. 1. The delicate balance between life and death. 2. The penumbra of disease. 3. The worst of times -- Pt. 2. Chief monster that has plagued the nations yet... 4. Four tales from the New Decameron. 5. Was the Indian plagued actually plague, and if not why not? -- Pt. 3....
In order to deal with these microbes we must understand the entire evolutionary environment in which they function - from tropical breeding grounds to the resistant temperate zones, from insect viruses to human plagues - and through this alone can we hope to control them. By giving these organisms t...
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Publisher
Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley Pub., 1996.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1996.
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Yellow Fever, Black Goddess turns the tables on past accounts, focusing not on the microbe hunters but on the microbes themselves, putting these exotic life-forms at center stage, telling their story as they fight to live at the very edge of the possible. Humans acknowledge the existence of our planet's primitive coinhabitants only when they do the...
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Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills.
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"First published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers under the title: Plagues : their origins, history, and future"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-317) and index.
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N614.49/26
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74Vvw5jdgqZg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvw5jdgqZg
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0201442353 (alk. paper)
9780201328189 (pbk.)
0201328186 (pbk.)
9780201442359 (alk. paper)
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614.49
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991004476289702626
