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| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most T...
by Steven Johnson $9.75 Recommended by Nikki: "I'm partway through 'The Ghost Map' by Steven Johnson. It's a look on the Cholera outbreak in London in... | A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Class...
by Daniel Defoe $8.80 Recommended by Sarah: "It really is fascinating. Defoe describes in nasty detail the suffering of his fellow Londoners. Each ... | The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical M...
by D.T. Max $10.85 |
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| Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smal...
by Jonathan B. Tucker $12.60 I was really hoping that it would focus more on the "Once" rather than the "Future", but I was sadly disappointed. Although th... | Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
by Anthony Bourdain An entertaining urban historical of the infamous Typhoid Mary Mallon - the Irish cook with pestilence coursing through her ...... | Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of ...
by Deb Hayden Recommended by Nina: "Good read." This book analyzes several major figures in history - from Lincoln to Hitler - and asks th... |
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| Typhoid Mary : Captive to the Public's Health
by Judith Walzer Leavitt Recommended by Lissa: "The cover art will grab you immediately as it is a drawing of a woman cook throwing tiny skulls into a... | The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
by Thomas Dormandy Recommended by Wendy: "It's highly readable and covers the treaments as well as those treated and how the disease made such a... | Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From...
Recommended by Marion: "It's wonderfully morbid and historical!" |
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