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Stacking the coffins

2018-05-22 Social Science
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Release : 2018-05-22
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Book Synopsis Stacking the coffins by : Ida Milne

Download or read book Stacking the coffins written by Ida Milne. This book was released on 2018-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1918–19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time.

Flu

2011-04-01 Social Science
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Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Flu by : Gina Kolata

Download or read book Flu written by Gina Kolata. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.

Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself

2000-12 Crafts & Hobbies
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Release : 2000-12
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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Book Synopsis Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself by : Dale Power

Download or read book Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself written by Dale Power. This book was released on 2000-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques for coffin construction and decoration are discussed and illustrated in over 230 color photographs. The installation of working coffin hardware and the application of exterior finishes and interior linings are explained. Patterns for the coffin and two lid designs are provided.

The Sound of Building Coffins

2009 Fiction
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Release : 2009
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Sound of Building Coffins by : Louis Maistros

Download or read book The Sound of Building Coffins written by Louis Maistros. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1891 in New Orleans, and young Typhus Morningstar cycles under the light of the half-moon to fulfil his calling, re-birthing aborted foetuses in the fecund waters of the Mississippi River. He cannot know that nearby, events are unfolding that will change his life forever-events that were set in motion by a Voodoo curse gone wrong, forty years before he was born. In the humble home of Sicilian immigrants, a one-year-old boy has been possessed by a demon. His father dead, lynched by a mob, his distraught mother at her wit's end, this baby who yesterday could only crawl and gurgle is now walking, dancing, and talking - in a voice impossibly deep. The doctor has fled, and several men of the cloth have come and gone, including Typhu's father, warned off directly by the clear voice of his Savoir. A newspaper man, shamed by the part he played in inciting the lynch mob that cost this boy his father, appalled by what he sees, goes in search of help. Seven will be persuaded, will try to help...and all seven will be profoundly affected by what takes place in that one-room house that dark night. Not all will leave alive, and all will be irrevocably changed by this demonic struggle, and by the sound of the first notes blown of a new musical form: jazz..

Lucifer's Shadow

2005 Fiction
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Release : 2005
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Lucifer's Shadow by : David Hewson

Download or read book Lucifer's Shadow written by David Hewson. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disillusioned by the darker side of Venice, English cataloguer Daniel Forster discovers a lost musical masterpiece within a library of dusty manuscripts and is drawn into a treacherous game of deception that spans three centuries, from the periods of Vivaldi and Rousseau to the present. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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