Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gs pearson”
Skip side bar filters

  • Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease

    Edited by Malcolm R. Dando, G.S. Pearson, Bohumir Kriz ...
    Series Book 35 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    There is increasing concern over the possible use of biological weapons. If they are used, an attack will manifest as a disease outbreak among humans, animals or plants. It is thus important to be able to distinguish between natural disease outbreaks and the result of such an attack. The bok discusses the scientific and technical means available to investigate this question and then goes on to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    **The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —The Guardian**The flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deadliest Enemy

    Our War Against Killer Germs

    by Mark Olshaker, Michael T. Osterholm ...
    A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling

    by Emilia Vynnycky, Richard White ...
    Mathematical models are increasingly being used to examine questions in infectious disease control. Applications include predicting the impact of vaccination strategies against common infections and determining optimal control strategies against HIV and pandemic influenza. This book introduces individuals interested in infectious diseases to this exciting and expanding area. The mathematical level ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Living with Germs:In sickness and in health

    In sickness and in health

    by John Playfair ...
    The word germ is defined as 'a microbe that causes disease'. The vast majority of microbes do not infect us at all: it is pathogens that make us ill. These include bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, worms, and prions. Living with Germs not only looks at all of these in detail, but also at the defence mechanisms by which we come to terms with them, whether by eliminating them, stopping them from ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • West Nile Disease

    An Exhaustive Look At A Deadly Disease Where You Will Learn Top-Rated Secrets For West Nile Treatment, West Nile Fever, West Nile Symptoms and How To Defeat The West Nile Virus

    by Tina Knutsen ...
    If you want to know about the west nile disease and how to prevent it then you will love this eBook. This book will provide you with a wealth of information on how to identify west nile symptoms, west nile treatment, how to combat west nile fever, west nile virus and more. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections

    by Ron Barrett, George Armelagos (the late) ...
    This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Neolithic to the present day. Despite recent high profile discoveries of new pathogens, the major determinants of these emerging infections are ancient and recurring. These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities. The recent ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Ebola

    Profile of a Killer Virus

    by Dorothy H. Crawford ...
    First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious disease spread rapidly from villages to urban centres. Initial quarantine responses proved often too ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction

    by Marta Wayne, Benjamin Bolker ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which disease spread. By taking an approach focused on the general evolutionary and ecological dynamics of disease, this Very Short Introduction provides a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Death By The Black Death - Ancient History 5th Grade | Children's History

    by Baby Professor ...
    The Black Death killed thousands of people during a time when hygiene was questionable and diseases unknown. Today, we can only look back at the gruesome events of the past with the goal of learning from them. Scientific advancements were experienced after the Black Death, and we are still feeling these benefits up until the present. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents

    A New Dilemma for the 21st Century

    Edited by I.W. Fong, Kenneth Alibek ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been focused on the threat of b- logical warfare and bioterrorism. Biological warfare agents are de?ned as “living org- isms, whatever their nature, or infected material derived from them, which are used for h- tile purposes and intended to cause disease ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data

    by Timothy L. Lash, Matthew P. Fox, Aliza K. Fink ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Bias analysis quantifies the influence of systematic error on an epidemiology study’s estimate of association. The fundamental methods of bias analysis in epi- miology have been well described for decades, yet are seldom applied in published presentations of epidemiologic research. More recent advances in bias analysis, such as probabilistic bias analysis, appear even more rarely. We suspect that ... Read more

    $107.09 USD