Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History
5 best books like Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History (Dorothy H. Crawford): Death Beside the Seaside, Viruses, Plagues and History, Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism, Scottish Ghost Stories, Real Ghost Stories
July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing—and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve.The...
Viruses, Plagues and History
| Author | Michael B.A. Oldstone |
| ISBN | 0195134222 |
The story of viruses and the story of humanity have been intertwined since the dawn of history. The first small cities formed not only the cradle of civilization, but the spawning ground for the earliest viral epidemics, the first opportunity for viruses to find a home in the human herd. This is a story...
| Author | John Calvert |
| ISBN | 0231701047 |
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue who established the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the postcolonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of Osama...
This would be an easy five stars, adjusted to a still-brilliant four stars. A couple of cases were too ghoulish and disturbingly evil for the word "enjoy" to resonate all the way through to them. Those are occasions in which one is sorry that this book comprised true stories, as best as they were recounted...
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) was an English journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational minister. He attended Silcoates School in Wakefield, but was early apprenticed in a merchant's office at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He soon gravitated into journalism, and in 1871 became...
