Conquest of Malaria
Italy, 1900-1962
ISBN: PB: 9780300256468,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the arm...
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22.50 GBP
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Yellow Demon of Fever
Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300215854,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
296 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
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 fou...
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55.00 GBP
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Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300256390,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
608 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
608 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...
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17.99 GBP
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True Creator of Everything
How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
ISBN: HB: 9780300244632,
Yale University Press,
February 2020
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 39 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 39 black&white illus.
Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety...
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22.50 GBP
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Sick to Debt
How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care
ISBN: HB: 9780300238464,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
216 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
216 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amoun...
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27.50 GBP
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Think Tank
Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience
ISBN: PB: 9780300248524,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
312 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular scien...
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13.99 GBP
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Florence Under Siege
Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
ISBN: HB: 9780300196344,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 50 colour illus., 4 maps
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 50 colour illus., 4 maps
Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, th...
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35.00 GBP
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Rotten Bodies
Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300233520,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
352 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especi...
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32.50 GBP
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Itch, Clap, Pox
Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780300217056,
Yale University Press,
March 2019
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In...
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57.50 GBP
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Master and His Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
ISBN: PB: 9780300245929,
Yale University Press,
February 2019
616 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
616 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...
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16.99 GBP
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