false 29036 8 At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, <I>The Great Influenza</I> is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. 29511 2005 The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History total:1463|5:360|4:576|3:411|2:102|1:14| 1463 5555 2537 386 1 11 false false Tue Oct 09 20:30:08 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 10:02:08 -0800 2007
Before critiquing Barry and his writing style, or l...more...]]> 3 5 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 19 21:36:13 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 17:59:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:09:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:49:09 -0700 2009
This substantial book that exhaustively researched ( 60 pages of notes and bibliography) reads like a massive thriller, compelling the reader forward to find a vaccine/cure for this deadly, ever-mutating virus that killed ...more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 08:15:57 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 20:14:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 15:33:50 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 14:03:33 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 14:25:38 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 19:29:43 -0700 2008 "One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it." – E.M. Forster

It took me the better part of the summer to listen to this audiobook in my car (I don't drive that much) -- and I confess that it soon became more of a chore than a pleasure. I do wish...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 13:50:46 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:50:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 01:00:44 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 00:47:12 -0700 2007
Okay, the metaphor doesn't really work with the "bogged down by details"...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 29 08:36:06 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 08:48:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 07:52:22 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 08 12:38:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 08:30:02 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 08:50:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:24:23 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:24:23 -0800 2009 What happens when science, politics, and human nature collide in deadly conflict? Blood, death, and possibly some lessons for today. Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, is a master at fashioning morality tales out of tragedy. Here, Barry expl...

more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jan 24 00:04:29 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 00:04:54 -0800 2009 the first part gives a background of american medical history and why it was shit leading up to a few years before the outbreak in 1918. interesting in a way, and it kind of related ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 20:55:12 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 21:03:48 -0800 2009
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