Harper, Kyle
Summary: "Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HARFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 FITEdwards, Roberta
Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Wld Hist What EdwardsKennedy, Jonathan
Summary: "A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023