Duel Without End
Title | Duel Without End PDF eBook |
Author | Stig S. Frøland |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 633 |
Release | 2022-06-20 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1789145066 |
From the bubonic plague to theoretical pathogens on other worlds, a sweeping look at the past, present, and future of mass infections—and how we battle them. In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and other great epidemics have not only led to enormous suffering and mass death but have also contributed to the fall of empires and changed the course of history. We also discover how new infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 emerge—and how we wage war against them. Humanity has struck back at the microbes: antibiotics and new vaccines have saved millions of lives. But the battle with these relentless, silent enemies is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and even potential extraterrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity’s future exploration of deep space.
Crown Duel
Title | Crown Duel PDF eBook |
Author | Sherwood Smith |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780152016081 |
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World Without End
Title | World Without End PDF eBook |
Author | Amber Reeves Blanco White |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1911 |
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Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community
Title | Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community PDF eBook |
Author | Kaoru Yamamoto |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2017-04-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474250041 |
Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community uses Conrad's phrase 'strange fraternity' from The Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the concept of community in his writing, including his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and Hannah Arendt, Yamamoto offers original readings of Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', The Rover and Suspense and the short stories “The Secret Sharer”, “The Warrior's Soul” and “The Duel”. Working at the intersection between literature and philosophy, this is a unique and interdisciplinary engagement with Conrad's work.
Plagues upon the Earth
Title | Plagues upon the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Harper |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 704 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691224722 |
A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism, and reveals the enduring effects of historical plagues in patterns of wealth, health, power, and inequality. He also tells the story of humanity’s escape from infectious disease—a triumph that makes life as we know it possible, yet destabilizes the environment and fosters new diseases. Panoramic in scope, Plagues upon the Earth traces the role of disease in the transition to farming, the spread of cities, the advance of transportation, and the stupendous increase in human population. Harper offers a new interpretation of humanity’s path to control over infectious disease—one where rising evolutionary threats constantly push back against human progress, and where the devastating effects of modernization contribute to the great divergence between societies. The book reminds us that human health is globally interdependent—and inseparable from the well-being of the planet itself. Putting the COVID-19 pandemic in perspective, Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how we got here as a species, and it may help us decide where we want to go.
Not Half No End
Title | Not Half No End PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Bennington |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2010-02-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748642234 |
Gathers Bennington's essays since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004. These 16 continue the work of elucidating Derrida's difficult and complex thought, often with reference to his persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what he sometimes calls 'half-mourning'. Bennington relates these to the core concepts in Derrida's work: deconstruction and differance. Derrida's suspension of the end - in differance, in death - has wide-ranging consequences for our thinking and how we attempt to categorise that thinking, whether as epistemological, ethical, political, aesthetic.Not Half No End moves through Derrida's rich and varied corpus in a weave of styles, from the expository and analytical to the autobiographical and confessional, in the ongoing process of deconstruction.
Wars Without End
Title | Wars Without End PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Downton |
Publisher | Kaplan Publishing |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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