A Visitation of the Plague

Daniel Defoe

Classic Fiction

One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin s 60th anniversary. All the titles are extrac

pandemic, plague, shortstories

Guns, Germs and Steel

A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years

Jared Diamond

Science

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is

anthropology, biology, evolution, pandemic, popular, pulitzer

Plagues and Peoples

William H McNeill

History

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a ra

anthropology, pandemic, plague, sociology

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Classic Fiction

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death.

humanist, pandemic, plague, renaissance

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

Classic Fiction

In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year,

england, historical, london, pandemic, plague

The Great Influenza

The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

John M Barry

History

At the height of WWI, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with A

biology, flu, pandemic, virus

Spillover

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

Science

Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that trans

aids, biology, pandemic, virology, virus

The White Plague

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man

future, newwave, pandemic, plague, scifi

Virus Hunt

The Search for the Origin of HIV

Dorothy H Crawford

Science

In Virus Hunt, renowned virologist Dorothy H. Crawford takes us inside one of the great research quests of our

aids, pandemic, virus