With its broad range of current and bestselling nonfiction titles -- including biography, history, essays, humor, politics, popular science and memoirs -- this series fills the need for books that appeal to men. Occasionally there are also travel, self-help, and health guides geared to today's mature reader.An estimated forty million people died in 1918 during the Great Flu Epidemic, including more American soldiers than were killed in battle in World War I. If such a plague returned today, an estimated 1.5 million people ...
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With its broad range of current and bestselling nonfiction titles -- including biography, history, essays, humor, politics, popular science and memoirs -- this series fills the need for books that appeal to men. Occasionally there are also travel, self-help, and health guides geared to today's mature reader.An estimated forty million people died in 1918 during the Great Flu Epidemic, including more American soldiers than were killed in battle in World War I. If such a plague returned today, an estimated 1.5 million people would die. Now Gina Kolata unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of an adventure story, tracking the race to recover the live pathogen, probing the fear that has impelled government policy, and addressing the prospects for a recurrence.
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Add this copy of Flu to cart. $21.59, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Thorndike Press.
Add this copy of Flu: the Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 to cart. $69.87, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by G K Hall & Co.
