The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late Medieval World
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In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the...
Illuminae: The Illuminae Files: Book 1
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The year is 2575 and two mega-corporations are at war over a planet that's little more than an ice...
Infestation: Volume 2
David Messina, Casey Maloney, Kyle Hotz and Scott Tipton
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* The first-ever event in IDW Publishing's history crosses over into the Star Trek universe! A...
Julian of Norwich: A Revelation of Love
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Written in a time of plague and persecution, Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love grapples with...
Piers Plowman: The Donaldson Translation, Select Authoritative Middle English Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism
Elizabeth Robertson, William Langland and Stephen H. A. Shepherd
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Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at...
Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970
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The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not...
The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
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It has been called 'the plague of the 21st century' for its dramatic increase in numbers and the...
Janeeny (200 KP) rated The Black Death in Books
Sep 13, 2019
I bought this book when it was first released as it interested me, gradually my interest waned and it’s now been sitting on my shelf for seven years.
The Black Death is a non-fiction account of a little village in Suffolk during the plague years. Each chapter starts with a factual account of what was going on in the rest of the world regarding the spread of the disease then it launches into the story of this little village.
Hatcher has taken factual records and accounts and added a little poetic licence to create an engaging story that really involves you in the day to day life. He does take great pains to reiterate how poor the records were for that time and how much of a liberty he was taking, but I feel it’s unnecessary.
Molecular Approaches to Fundamental and Applied Entomology
John Oakeshott, Max Whitton and M.J. Whitten
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The fruit fly Drosophila has been a major research organism in the molecular revolution that has...
Ghost Moon
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When Lark Cavanaugh’s life in New York City falls apart, she’s left reeling from a staggering...
Ghosts Hauntings