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Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill, which explains how the bubonic plague changed the world, or The Very Rich: A History of Wealth by Joeseph J. Thorndike Jr. is sort of a who's-who of people who ran the world. Also, The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a must if you're at all interested in Bri ... ... fishes: Close to Shore
598 - Aves (Birds): The Beak of the Finch
614 - Incidence and prevention of disease: Plagues and Peoples
624 - Civil engineering: Why Buildings Stand Up
641 - Food and Drink: In the Devil's Garden
646 - Sewing, clothing, personal living: Getting Thin ... ... o 612 Human physiology
o 613 Promotion of health
o 614 Incidence & prevention of disease - Plagues and peoples by William Hardy McNeill
o 615 Pharmacology & therapeutics
o 616 Diseases - 3 incl. The deadly truth : a history of ... ...
Find advice on how to write it? I can't even find out what to *call* it! (Other than: "What would you call Blink and Plagues and Peoples and To Engineer is Human and Everything Bad Is Good for You? '______ '? OK, well, that's what I write . . . but Gladwell, McNeill, Petroski, and Jo ... ... that are in the 570s, which now seem to be defined as biochemistry and physiology.
614 Incidence & prevention of disease Plagues and peoples
615 Pharmacology & therapeutics Cardiovascular pharmacology
617 Surgery & related medical specialties Principles of neurosurgery
623 Military & ... ... physical law
QE Geology Wonderful life
QH Natural history, Biology The selfish gene
RA Public aspects of medicine Plagues and peoples
RC Internal medicine Management of gastrointestinal diseases
RD Surgery Principles of neurosurgery
RJ Pediatrics Pediatric dermatology
RM Therapeut ... ... the development of civilizations. Many of the ideas he used were amplified in Guns, Germs and Steel. McNeill also wrote Plagues and Peoples and The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000. These volumes also provide analysis over and above the simple ... I am not reading stuff about Ibsen for my English paper.
I am also not reading Plagues and Peoples for my research paper because I left it in my friend's suite. Oops.
Also, I am not reading Fairest or any of the Colored Fairy Books because they are ALL THE WAY HOME IN NEW JERSEY! *crie ... ... by Heidegger. I did not separate this author page because it looks like, however rarely, there are a couple of instances (Plagues and Peoples, e.g.) where the books by the historian (William H./William Hardy) McNeill have come into LT as just 'William McNeill'. Eventually this will have to be ... Even though it's considered a bit dated, I would still recommend McNeill's Plagues and Peoples. It's an outline of the effect of disease on history, broken down into two threads. The first, what he calls "micro"-parasitism, deals with traditional disease and which I thought was well done. The ... ... mooched recently include:
Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym, courtesy of MaggieO (which I'm currently reading)
Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
A History of the American People by Paul Johnso ... Eurydice , yes Plagues and Peoples is much better, though it also covers a wider topic. It has more science information about disease, the vectors, and how it spreads.
It looks at disease and how it impacted and changed people and civilizations. It was written in 1975, so there is no mention ... ... used), but haven't read it yet. Some of the material I browsed through in the appendix looked fairly odd.
Is Plagues and Peoples, by William McNeill, better? I've tried to buy it more than once, and found the copies already gone.
Apologies for the considerable plague-related ...
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