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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Simon Schama - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19.... |
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world's deadliest plagues: tuberculosis.. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people,... |
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist's Warning
Peter J. Hotez - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.Shortlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards by the Non-Obvious CompanyDuring the height of the COVID-19... |
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A Year of Last Things: Poems
Michael Ondaatje - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back
Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry.... |
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The Fragrant Flower Garden: Growing, Arranging & Preserving Natural Scents
Stefani Bittner - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more.. There is nothing like the beauty and scent of a flower-filled... |
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The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
Susan Lieu - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam... |
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