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  • A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine

    by Susan D. Jones, Peter A. Koolmees ...
    Series series New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
    From Ayurvedic texts to botanical medicines to genomics, ideas and expertise about veterinary healing have circulated between cultures through travel, trade, and conflict. In this broad-ranging and accessible study spanning 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing. Drawing on inter-disciplinary and multi ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Soap and Water & Common Sense

    The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease

    by Dr. Bonnie Henry ...
    The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America’s leading public health authorities, now updated with a new introduction on protecting yourself and others from COVID-19.Dr. Bonnie Henry, a leading epidemiologist (microbe hunter) and public health doctor at the forefront of the fight against the worldwide COVID-19 coronavirus ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Vegetarian Myth

    Food, Justice, and Sustainability

    by Lierre Keith ...
    Series series Flashpoint Press
    We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray--not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance.The truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plagues and Peoples

    by William McNeill ...
    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures."A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... Read more

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  • The Germ Code

    by Jason Tetro ...
    THE WAR ON GERMS CAN NEVER BE WONOur plan should be to choose our battles carefully and co-exist as best we can.Wise, witty and authoritative, The Germ Code chronicles the enormous influence of our tiny enemies on human history. Microbiologist Jason Tetro relates how pandemics such as the plague, HIV and “swine flu” came about, how others have been averted and how more may occur if we aren’t ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition

    How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

    by John Robbins ...
    Originally published in 1987, Diet for a New America awakened the conscience of a nation with its startling examination of the food we buy and eat — and the moral, economic, and medical price we pay for it. Drawing a clear line connecting America’s factory farm system with disease, animal cruelty, and ecological crises, Robbins makes perhaps the most eloquent argument for vegetarianism ever ... Read more

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  • The Secret Life of Germs

    Observations and Lessons from a Microbe Hunter

    by Philip M. Tierno Jr., Ph.D. ...
    They're everywhere. Silent and invisible to the naked eye, they're on everything we touch, eat, breathe -- on every single inch of our skin. And despite the remarkable advances of science, germs are challenging medicine in ways that were unimaginable just a decade ago. Due to an explosion of infections never before reported in modern history and a new germ horror story surfacing every week, it's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History

    by Bryn Barnard ...
    “An engrossing introduction for young adult readers to the chillingly topical subject of man vs. microbe.” —The Wall Street JournalDid the Black Death destroy medieval Europe? Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan? Did yellow fever help end the slave trade? Remarkably, the answer to all of these questions is yes. Time and again, diseases have impacted the course of human history in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Mad Cowboy

    Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

    by Howard F. Lyman ...
    Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries.Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Plague Cycle

    The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

    by Charles Kenny ...
    A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • An Epidemic of Absence

    A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

    by Moises Velasquez-Manoff ...
    A brilliant, groundbreaking report on the dramatic rise of allergic and autoimmune disease, and the controversial therapies scientists are developing to correct these disorders.From asthma to Crohn’s disease, everyone knows someone who suffers from an allergic or autoimmune disorder. And if it appears that the prevalence of these maladies has increased recently, that’s because it has—to levels ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • This Mortal Coil

    A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

    by Andrew Doig ...
    A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and wher... ... Read more

    $19.59 USD