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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cosmin Costinas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783956791178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Cosmin Costinas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded from a touring exhibition originated at Para Site in 2013, this book critically analyzes historical and contemporary imaginations and politics of fear in the face of disease and the specter of contamination in society and culture. Scholars, artists, novelists, and journalists depart from Hong Kong's history of epidemic--the most recent being the SARS outbreak of 2003, shortly followed by the tragic death of pan-Asian pop icon Leslie Cheung, and tackle the galvanizing power and the varied perceptions of contagion in the context of lingering histories, myths, anxieties, and memories across geographies. While composing a complex picture of the Hong Kong psyche, these contributions speak from a humanistic and global perspective, pointing to the intersections of urban environments and post-colonial psychology, popular culture and racism, public health and migration, national identity and art. Copublished with Para Site, Hong Kong Contributors Michael Berry, Natalia S. H. Chan, Cosmin Costinas, Dung Kai-cheung, Inti Guerrero, James T. Hong, Austin Ming-han Hsu, Zuni Icosahedron, Finnouala McHugh, Pak Sheung Chuen, Lawrence Pun, Shih Shu-ching, Xiaoyu Weng
Author : Lloyd Constantine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620872005
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the Plague Year written by Lloyd Constantine and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace from the perspective of his senior advisor and longtime friend, focusing on the seventeen months prior to the former Governor's revelations that he had patronized prostitutes while in office.
Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593320735
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Plague Year written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393961881
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe's most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe's lifetime.
Author : Edward Bloor
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375989374
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Plague Year written by Edward Bloor and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone. It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. But by year's end there will be ruined, hollow people on every street corner. Meth will unmake the lives of friends and teachers and parents. It will fill the prisons, and the morgues. Tom's always been focused on getting out of his depressing coal mining town, on planning his escape to a college somewhere sunny and far away. But as bits of his childhood erode around him, he finds it's not so easy to let go. With the selfless heroism of the passengers on United Flight 93 that crashed nearby fresh in his mind and in his heart, Tom begins to see some reasons to stay, to see that even lost causes can be worth fighting for. Edward Bloor has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year, and become stronger than before.
Author : Miquel Parets
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Miquel Parets and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumors that plague had entered Barcelona's poorest quarter started circulating shortly after the New Year of 1651, but local officials hesitated to impose a full quarantine on the city. Within months the number of sick in the pesthouse had swelled to 4,000, and thousands more had fled the city. By the time the plague abated in September, at least 15,000 Barcelonans had died. This book is a translation of the 1651 journal of Miquel Parets, a Barcelona tanner who set out, like the protagonist of Camus' The Plague, "to state quite simply what we learn in a time of pestilence." His journal is rich with the details of life during the epidemic, including accounts of prisoners who escaped from jail by claiming they had the disease; of priests hearing confessions with a torch held between them and the sick to avoid contagion; and of people desperately seeking wetnurses for children after their mothers had died. Unlike other accounts, which depict local authorities as the bulwark of enlightened authority amid a sea of popular superstition, Parets accuses the local elite of negligence, selfishness, and abuse of authority during the contagion. His journal is notable both for its non-elite perspective and for its emotional quality--especially in the moving passage wherein the tanner recounts the death of his wife and three of their children. Amelang introduces the journal, illustrating the unique place of the work in the plague literature, and supplies notes and commentaries that clarify the historical context for the contemporary reader. Also included is a helpful appendix of excerpts from other popular plague texts.
Author : Elise Engler
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250824680
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Diary of the Plague Year written by Elise Engler and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary illustrated chronicle of 2020 that captures this indelible year in America in all its tragic, surreal, epic, and (sometimes) comedic intensity Artist Elise Engler set herself a task five years ago: to illustrate the first headline she heard on her bedside radio every morning. The idea was to create a pictorial record of one year of listening to the news. But when Donald Trump was elected, the headlines turned too wild for her to stop the experiment. Then 2020 happened. Was there ever such a year? Headlines about the death of Kobe Bryant and Donald Trump's impeachment began to give way to news of a mysterious virus in China, and Engler’s pages were quickly filled with the march of COVID-19: schools closing their doors, hospitals overflowing, graveyards full to capacity. Day by day, Engler drew every shocking turn of the year: the police murder of George Floyd and protests around the globe; a war against science and those who preached it; fires consuming California; a vicious election, absurdly contested. Other stories appeared, too: “Harvey Weinstein Sentenced,” “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized,” “China Extends Control over Hong Kong,” and—on repeat—“Stock Market Plunges.” The result is a powerful visual record of an unprecedented time, collected in A Diary of the Plague Year, which follows the headlines from the first appearance of the coronavirus to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Made in real time, Engler’s vibrant, immediate images recapture what it was like to live through 2020, bringing texture, feeling, and even charm to what we might not remember and what we will never forget.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986777857
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. The novel probably was based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe
Author : Watson Nicholson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
