Atlantic Fever

Author : Joe Jackson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142996913X
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Fever written by Joe Jackson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic. Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.

Author : Joe Jackson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374106754
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Fever written by Joe Jackson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manuel Barcia
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215851
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yellow Demon of Fever written by Manuel Barcia and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.

Author : Kathy Gilsinan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039386703X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Helpers: Profiles from the Front Lines of the Pandemic written by Kathy Gilsinan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving narrative of the coronavirus pandemic, told through portraits of eight individuals who worked tirelessly to help others. In March 2020, COVID-19 overtook the United States, and life changed for America. In a matter of weeks the virus impacted millions, with lockdown measures radically reshaping the lives of even those who did not become infected. Yet despite the fear, hardship, and heartbreak from this period of collective struggle, there was hope. In The Helpers, journalist Kathy Gilsinan profiles eight individuals on the front lines of the coronavirus battle: a devoted son caring for his family in the San Francisco Bay Area; a not-quite-retired paramedic from Colorado; an ICU nurse in the Bronx; the CEO of a Seattle-based ventilator company; a vaccine researcher at Moderna in Boston; a young chef and culinary teacher in Louisville, Kentucky; a physician in Chicago; and a funeral home director in Seattle and Los Angeles. These inspiring individual accounts create an unforgettable tapestry of how people across the country and the socioeconomic spectrum came together to fight the most deadly pandemic in a century. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, The Helpers is about ordinary people who stepped up to meet an extraordinary moment. “This is the story of how we beat the pandemic,” Gilsinan writes, “but I hope that it someday serves as an introduction to the story of how we made a better country. That future starts with people like the ones in this book.”

Author : Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632888
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicalizing Blackness written by Rana A. Hogarth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.

Author : American Association of Economic Entomologists
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Concerning the North American Fever Tick written by American Association of Economic Entomologists and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Lester Marlatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Concerning the North American Fever Tick written by Charles Lester Marlatt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter David Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Concerning the North American Fever Tick written by Walter David Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Austin Winfield Morrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Concerning the North American Fever Tick written by Austin Winfield Morrill and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deon Meyer
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802156940
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Hunt written by Deon Meyer and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold case reaches from Cape Town’s shadowy past to bucolic Bordeaux, France, in this thriller by the Barry Award-winning author of Thirteen Hours. When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel’s desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence. Did ex-cop Johnson Johnson simply disappear on the world’s most luxurious train line—or was he murdered? Two fellow travelers might have the answers Griessel and Cupido need, but they too seem to have disappeared, and the few clues that exist suggest a cover-up. Meanwhile, Daniel Darret has settled into a new, quiet life in Bordeaux, far from his revolutionary past in South Africa. But now a man from that past has reappeared. And he wants to commission Daniel’s unique skills one more time. As the two storylines come crashing together, Griessel and Cupido are left uncertain of the truth—and of their own future. A top-notch addition to the acclaimed Benny Griessel series, The Last Hunt makes a brave and powerful statement about the pervasive corruption that has stolen so much from Deon Meyer’s native country. “Superb…this may be the breakthrough book this author deserves.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)