The Plague

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476797749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the Plague written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : Diane Bailey
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435894359
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague written by Diane Bailey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history and effects of the bubonic plague, describes how the disease spread, and offers information about treatment and prevention in the modern world.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679720219
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-05-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Author : James Belich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215669
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World the Plague Made written by James Belich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318676
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have.” —Los Angeles Review of Books The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel to a new generation of readers. • "A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." —The Washington Post The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus's ever-resonant tale. Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague. This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.

Author : Charles Kenny
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982165332
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague Cycle written by Charles Kenny and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza. For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion—quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic cycles—resulting in an urbanized, globalized, and unimaginably wealthy world. However, our development has lately become precarious. Climate and population fluctuations and aspects of our prosperity such as global trade have left us more vulnerable than ever to newly emerging plagues. Greater global cooperation toward sustainable health is urgently required—such as the international efforts to harvest a Covid-19 vaccine—with millions of lives and trillions of dollars at stake. Written as colorful history, The Plague Cycle reveals the relationship between civilization, globalization, prosperity, and infectious disease over the past five millennia. It harnesses history, economics, and public health, and charts humanity’s remarkable progress, providing a fascinating and timely look at the cyclical nature of infectious disease.

Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE PLAGUE written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a quizzical exploration through epidemic chronicles with "The Plague: MCQ Pandemic History." Tailored for history enthusiasts and those intrigued by the impact of pandemics, this MCQ book invites you to delve into the somber history and lessons learned from various plagues throughout time. Download now to engage with thought-provoking Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) covering the causes, consequences, and societal responses to historical plagues. Elevate your knowledge of these impactful events, gain insights into the resilience of communities, and reinforce your understanding through interactive learning. Whether you're a history buff, a student of public health, or someone looking to test their knowledge, this essential MCQ resource is your key to a quizzical exploration of The Plague. Download today and navigate through the questions that shed light on the historical complexities of pandemics.

Author : Patrick Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise of the Plague written by Patrick Russell and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525508112
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merits of the Plague written by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo—survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to mention tens of millions of others throughout the medieval world. Holding up an eerie mirror to our own time, he reflects on the origins of plagues—from those of the Prophet Muhammad’s era to the Black Death of his own—and what it means that such catastrophes could have been willed by God, while also chronicling the fear, isolation, scapegoating, economic tumult, political failures, and crises of faith that he lived through. But in considering the meaning of suffering and mass death, he also offers a message of radical hope. Weaving together accounts of evil jinn, religious stories, medical manuals, death-count registers, poetry, and the author’s personal anecdotes, Merits of the Plague is a profound reminder that with tragedy comes one of the noblest expressions of our humanity: the practice of compassion, patience, and care for those around us.

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141998148
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague Year written by Lawrence Wright and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review 'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The Observer Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War. This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent. With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, The Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled. 'Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen' Kirkus