The Black Death: Natural and Human Disater in Medieval Europe

5 best books like The Black Death: Natural and Human Disater in Medieval Europe (Robert Steven Gottfried): Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century, Alan Turing: The Enigma, The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

Author

John Lydon

"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon

Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.

Seventeen...

The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

Author	William Rosen
ISBN	0670025895

How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history
 
In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly...

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Author	Andrew Hodges
ISBN	0802775802

Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept...

The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	1434604888

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown

Author	Michael Cunningham
ISBN	0609609076

In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the...