Pale Rider
Title | Pale Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Spinney |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1610397681 |
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 that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth -- from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted -- and often permanently altered -- global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid, and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity.
Pale Horse Rider
Title | Pale Horse Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Jacobson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0698157982 |
We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America... Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. “Fake news” is the order of the day. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of. A former U.S. naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the American prison system. According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated—because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth—by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals; and the Illuminati are secretly involved with the U.S. government to manage relationships with extraterrestrials. Cooper died in a shootout with Apache County police in 2001, one month after September 11, in the year in which he had predicted catastrophe. In Pale Horse Rider, journalist Mark Jacobson not only tells the story of Cooper’s fascinating life but also provides the social and political context for American paranoia. Indeed, with the present NSA situation and countless other shadowy government dealings often in the news, aren’t we right to suspect that things may not be as they seem?
The Pale Rider
Title | The Pale Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Jb Trepagnier |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-06-02 |
Genre | |
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I wake up surrounded by death and my memories are gone. A man in a beige hazmat suit reaches his hand through the carnage. "Come with me if you want to live." I know I'm supposed to know that from somewhere, but I don't. I know the world outside me is not right. People either die or they are Rage Heads. Somehow, a virus got out that has turned people into red eyed freaks who eat flesh. They are fast, their flesh is rotting off their bodies and they have one goal-kill. I don't know my mystery man in the hazmat suit, but he says I can trust him. He was at that lab looking for something. He claims not to have found it. He only found me. I see the way he looks at me when I ask what he was doing in that lab. I might feel safe with him, but he's lying to me. He knows everything about me, including the nickname people used to call me, but he tells me I ask too many questions. Maybe I'd be safer on my own. The Pale Rider is Book 1 of End of Days, a Post Apocalyptic slow burn reverse harem romance. The harem will slowly grow as the books progress. The harem features the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Pale Rider
Title | Pale Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Dean Foster |
Publisher | Grand Central Pub |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 1985-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780446327671 |
Gun-toting preacher Gabriel takes on ruthless, gold-hungry miner Coy Lahoud and a gang of gunfighters led by Marshall Stockburn, a dark spectre from Gabriel's past, to protect the independent miners of Carbon Canyon
Comes a Pale Rider
Title | Comes a Pale Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Caitlin R Kiernan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2020-11-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781596069855 |
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Title | Pale Horse, Pale Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-05-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781951479213 |
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels
Title | Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
Publisher | Library of America |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1598533339 |
The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918 In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of Old Mortality introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her family’s romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth. Miranda returns in the title story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a hospital. Throughout her ordeal, on everyone’s mind is “the war, the war, the WAR to end WAR, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever.” Available in this exclusive Library of America e-book edition