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Mongrels volume 5
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English
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Urban fox Nelson's effete French pen friend Christian arrives for a visit, and starts behaving uncharacteristically badly - exhibiting mood swings and frothing at the mouth. Yes, it seems Christian has rabies. When pigeon Kali is caught up in a nasty pigeon cull, she resolves to take over the world and take revenge on humankind by creating the pigeox - half pigeon, half fox.
3) Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920
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English
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Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of "Mad dog!" possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization.
Focusing on a transformative era in medicine, politics,...
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320 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Based on the reminiscences of his three friends following Casey's spectacular death, a fictional oral biography of Buster "Rant" Casey chronicles the violent world of a small-town rebel who becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing.
7) Cujo
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Series
Biblioteca de Stephen King volume 38
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392 pages ; 17 cm.
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Español
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150 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--
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392 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (The Man, The Woman, and The Boy) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes...
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436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Sweden, produced safe, clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against...
13) Animal viruses and humans, a narrow divide: how lethal zoonotic viruses spill over and threaten us
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xv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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xviii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and the swine flu in Mexico, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the arrivals of new germs and the reemergence of old ones. In this newly revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to Germs, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Wayne Biddle...
15) Stay, illusion
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viii, 100 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Presents a collection of poems which explore imagination, myth, violence, the treament of animals, and the death penalty in America.
17) Virus
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256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus offers an unprecedented look at 101 incredible microbes that infect all branches of life on Earth-- from humans and other animals to insects, plants, fungi, and bacteria."--Dust...
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"A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened...
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307 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the...
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"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. The book is narrated...
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