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Binding: School & Library BindingDewey Decimal Number: 614.51809041 EAN: 9781417618019 ISBN: 1417618019 Label: Topeka Bindery Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 338 Publication Date: 2001-01 Publisher: Topeka Bindery Studio: Topeka Bindery Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Not that goodI am a full time Mechanical Engineer, father and grad student going for my Master's degree. I don't have alot of time on front of a fireplace to read. When I bought this book I wanted a rundown of the pandemic and history involved. This book delivers that but I had to weed it out painstakingly. This book mostly gives biographies of the scientists and pathologists who researched the virus with a bit of info given on the actual subject of the book weaved into it. I constantly found myself skipping ... Read More Rating:  - this is junk; there are much better books out there on the subjectForget this over-blown newspaper story that does not really talk about either influenza as a disease or events of 1918 at all. Buy "The Great Influenza" instead, which does both, and more. Or Crosby's book. Rating:  - Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza PandemicIn 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed 40 million people worldwide. More Amer. soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu than were killed in battle during WW1. And no area of the globe was safe. The percentage of Amer. who died is comparable to 1.5 million Amer. today. Scientists have recently discovered shards of the flu virus in human remains frozen in the Arctic tundra & in scraps of tissues preserved in a gov't. warehouse. Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen & probes the fear that has ... Read More 
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