Category - History
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Epidemics and the American Military: Five Times Disease Changed the Course of War
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Epidemics and the American Military, Dr. Jack McCallum examines the major role the military has played propagating and controlling disease thr...
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Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and ...
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Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with th...
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest ...
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When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Maintain isolation - practice good hygiene - wear a mask - be kind. We all know these methods of fighting COVID-19, but this prescription comes f...
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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their ge...
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life "By turns a ...
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Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease ...
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus—one th...
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the m...
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped ...
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and a celebration of the heroes who fought the...
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Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu — Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an e...
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With a New Chapter and Updated Epilogue on Coronavirus A Financial Times Best Health Book of 2019 and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choic...
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