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  • Epidemics and the Modern World

    Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events.This book uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Soap and Water & Common Sense

    The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease

    The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America’s leading public health authorities, now updated with a new introduction on protecting yourself and others from COVID-19.Dr. Bonnie Henry, a leading epidemiologist (microbe hunter) and public health doctor at the forefront of the fight against the worldwide COVID-19 coronavirus ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    par Laurie Garrett ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Plagues and Peoples

    par William McNeill ...
    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures."A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    par Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Pathogenesis

    A History of the World in Eight Plagues

    A sweeping examination of how germs have played a starring role in the most significant transformations in history, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the creation of world religions and the birth of capitalism.According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, to actions undertaken individually and collectively that have changed the arc of history ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Extra Life

    A Short History of Living Longer

    par Steven Johnson ...
    “Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter)“An important book.” —Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewThe surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromIn 1920, at the en... ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Patient Zero

    A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

    From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $1.99 CAD

  • Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History

    par Bryn Barnard ...
    “An engrossing introduction for young adult readers to the chillingly topical subject of man vs. microbe.” —The Wall Street JournalDid the Black Death destroy medieval Europe? Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan? Did yellow fever help end the slave trade? Remarkably, the answer to all of these questions is yes. Time and again, diseases have impacted the course of human history in ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Viruses, Plagues, and History

    Past, Present and Future

    The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles. Nearly 300 million people were killed by ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD

  • This Mortal Coil

    A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

    par Andrew Doig ...
    A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and wher... ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Murderous Contagion

    A Human History of Disease

    par Mary Dobson ...
    Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined.Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD