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Babalu Aye : Santeria and the Lord of Pestilence
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Plague (Black Death & Pestilence in Europe)
The Black Death first hit Europe in 1347, ripping through towns, villages, and families Men, women, children, young and old succumbed to a painful, drawn-out death as pustules, abscesses, and boils erupted all over their bodies. Subsequent attacks of the disease, coming almost every decade, so limited the population that it was not until the 18th century that it managed to surpass the levels of the 1340s. For over 300 years, Europeans were stalked by death. In the end, this mysterious disease that had terrorized, terrified, and killed millions, disappeared as inexplicably as it had appeared. .
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Nosy in Nebraska: Of Mice...and Murder/Pride and Pestilence/The Miceman Cometh (Maxie Mouse Mystery Series Omnibus) (Heartsong Presents Mysteries)
Maxie, the World's Largest (Stuffed) Field Mouse, must come through time and again to thwart the criminals in his peaceful-albeit mouse-obsessed-hometown of Melnik, Nebraska Carrie Evans, hates mice and loves the big city, do why has she returned to her dinky hometown and taken up residence in an infested house? Museum curator Bonnie Simpson is attacked while at work in the proud home of Maxie. Can she believe the guy's claim to have never before seen-let alone murdered-the person in Bonnie's storeroom? Attorney Tyler Simpson thinks he's found a home in Melnik, but will he be run out of town when he's forced to defend the town's nemesis as her court-appointed attorney? .
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Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [Two Volumes]
From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work. Entries include: AIDS Literature and the Arts in the United States Astrology and Medicine Bio-terrorism Black Death Flagellants Corpses Disease in the Pre-Columbian Americas Ectoparasites Folk Medicine Hippocrates Leprosy Measles, Efforts to Eradicate Mary Mallon Napoleonic Wars Personal Hygiene and Epidemic Disease Quacks Third Plague Pandemic in Africa Thomas Sydenham.
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Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)
Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms..
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Dynamic Modeling of Diseases and Pests (Lecture Notes in Mathematics; 751)
This book, as others in the MDS series, is geared towards making the modeling of disease attractive to students and those with emerging interests in the subject. It is the intention of the authors that these students be able to go on to model local outbreaks and understand the power of contagion in the modern, global, highly interactive world. It is not meant as an exhaustive, high-level text in disease ecology or epidemiology. The book will likely be a small seminar course text or a supplementary text in infectious disease, population biology, pest and disease management, or biological modeling courses. Courses are taught in departments of public health, epidemiology, environmental sciences, and biology. Typical class size: 20 students. A CD-Rom with STELLA and models will be included with the book. I have discussed a new arrangement—WITH NO ROYALTIES—with isee systems, the software owner. This contract will be contingent upon a final agreement with isee systems to include a save-disabled version of STELLA with the book. .
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