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  • Dead Epidemiologists

    On the Origins of COVID-19

    by Rob Wallace ...
    A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Big Farms Make Big Flu

    Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science

    by Rob Wallace ...
    The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science togetherThanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry—each animal genetically identical to the next—packed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Fault in Our SARS

    COVID-19 in the Biden Era

    by Rob Wallace ...
    Proposes the pragmatic changes we must make to survive COVID and the worst of the new diseases on the horizonThe Trump administration’s neglect and incompetence helped put half-a-million Americans in the ground, dead from COVID-19. Joe Biden was elected president in part on the promise of setting us on a science-driven course correction, but, a little more than a year later, another half-a-million ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • People Get Ready

    The Future of Jazz Is Now!

    Edited by Rob Wallace, Rob Wallace, Ajay Heble ...
    Series series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
    In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • To Prove Them Innocent

    by Donna J Clemente, Rob Wallace ...
    To Prove Them InnocentBy: Donna ClementeHow do two housewives with no personal relation to the case become involved in a ten-year long battle to set three men free? To Prove Them Innocent is the true story about how their efforts, along with the fortitude of the families of the men convicted, fought to uncover and expose the truth. When three men can be sent to prison for a crime they didn’t ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

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  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Science for Sale

    How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

    by David L. Lewis, PhD ...
    When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s commentary in Nature, titled “EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics.” Three years later, and thirty years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Viral Storm

    The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

    by Nathan Wolfe ...
    "One of the world's foremost virus hunters" ( Financial Times), Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the origins of the world's most deadly diseases and how we can combat and stop contagions.A "mix of biology, history, medicine, and first-hand experience [that] is potent and irresistible,"* The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age shares information Wolfe uncovered on his ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Skeptical Environmentalist

    Measuring the Real State of the World

    by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Not a Scientist

    How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

    by Dave Levitan ...
    An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected officials attack scientific findings that conflict with their political agendas. The next time you ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Monster at Our Door

    The Global Threat of Avian Flu

    by Mike Davis ...
    The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and "its argument is irrefutable" ( The Independent).Hailed by The Nation as a "master of disaster prose," author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people in three months. Now, leading ... Read more

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  • The Lancet: Zoonoses

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Endemic and enzootic zoonoses cause about a billion cases of illness in people and millions of deaths every year, and emerging zoonoses are a rising threat to global health. Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of human infectious diseases, and have been responsible for some of the most devastating disease outbreaks in recent ... Read more

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