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Author |
: Edward Marriott |
Publisher |
: Pan MacMillan |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2003-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0330483196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780330483193 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plague Race by : Edward Marriott
An inspiring story of scientific endeavour and human bravery, The Plague Race is the story of one brave scientist who made an amazing discovery made in Hong Kong 100 years ago -- during an outbreak of the plague that threatened to decimate the island and, from there, the world. A tense and frightening race was run in appalling conditions by two rival scientists: Alexandre Yersin - rigorous, solitary, cerebral - and the suave Kitasako, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this book is an enthralling work of narrative history. And Marriott's investigations into plague in the modern world bring some disturbing facts to light . . . 'Beautifully written . . . Marriott's discourse encompasses empire, science and discovery as well as prejudice . . . The Plague Race is part history, part thesis, part thriller. As an investigation, it is all-entrancing' Observer
Author |
: David K. Randall |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393609462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393609464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by : David K. Randall
“A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston.” —Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcast On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown—but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate. Black Death at the Golden Gate is a spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.
Author |
: Alana Lentin |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2020-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509535729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509535721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Race Still Matters by : Alana Lentin
'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race? This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin argues that society is in urgent need of developing the skills of racial literacy, by jettisoning the idea that race is something and unveiling what race does as a key technology of modern rule, hidden in plain sight. Weaving together international examples, she eviscerates misconceptions such as reverse racism and the newfound acceptability of 'race realism', bursts the 'I’m not racist, but' justification, complicates the common criticisms of identity politics and warns against using concerns about antisemitism as a proxy for antiracism. Dominant voices in society suggest we are talking too much about race. Lentin shows why we actually need to talk about it more and how in doing so we can act to make it matter less.
Author |
: Todd Henry |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2013-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781591846246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1591846242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Accidental Creative by : Todd Henry
Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just "works." Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're "always on." Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an "accidental creative," this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.
Author |
: Nayan Shah |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2001-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520226296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520226291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contagious Divides by : Nayan Shah
"Nayan Shah has written a book of exceptional originality and importance. With a focus on issues of body, family, and home, central concerns of urban health reform, he illuminates the role of political leaders, public opinion, and professionals in the construction and reconstruction of race and the making of citizens in San Francisco. He brilliantly analyzes the politics of the movement from exclusion to inclusion, regulation to entitlement, showing it to be an interactive process. Yet, as he shows with great subtlety, the mark of race remains. As a study of citizenship and difference, this work speaks to a central theme of American history."—Thomas Bender, Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies at NYU, and editor of Rethinking American History in a Global Age Contagious Divides is an ambitious contribution to our understanding of the troubled history of race in America. Nayan Shah offers new insight into the ways that race was inscribed on the streets, the bodies, and the institutions of San Francisco's Chinatown. Above all, he offers powerful examples of the impact of ideas about disease, sexuality, and place on the rhetoric and practice of racial inequality in modern America.—Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Author |
: George Yancy |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2017-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190498573 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190498579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Race by : George Yancy
With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despair that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal treatment, facing hate speech, brutality, and a national spirit of hopelessness; their reality is hardly "post-racial". The need for clarity surrounding the significance of race and racism in the United States is more pressing than ever. This collection of interviews on race, some originally conducted for The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, provides rich context and insight into the nature, challenges, and deepest questions surrounding this fraught and thorny topic. In interviews with such major thinkers as bell hooks, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Singer, and Noam Chomsky, Yancy probes the historical origins, social constructions, and lived reality of race along political and economic lines. He interrogates fully race's insidious expressions, its transcendence of Black/white binaries, and its link to neo-liberalism, its epistemological and ethical implications, and, ultimately, its future.
Author |
: Adrian Tchaikovsky |
Publisher |
: Tordotcom |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2021-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250768711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250768713 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elder Race by : Adrian Tchaikovsky
"A Ursula Le Guin-like grace... Ten out of 10." —New York Times In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it). But Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: Peter J. Rasor |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2022-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781666732832 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1666732834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plague of Kosmon by : Peter J. Rasor
The search is on! The world of Kosmon needs a cure for a plague that leads ultimately to everyone’s death. The Scientian race, known for its rationality and understanding, continues to fail in finding a cure, while the Transmutant race, known for living by its emotions, turns its hate toward the race of Seers, attempting to wipe them out. Amid the search for a cure, Seikh, a young Seerean boy, is led on a journey to discover who he is and his purpose, which is ultimately to find the cure. The journey, however, is not without its troubles. Along the way, he encounters those who want to deceive him and others who want to help him. Will Seikh find the cure, or will he be deceived by dark forces, leaving the world of Kosmon forever plagued with death?
Author |
: Edward Marriott |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2004-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466829190 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466829192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plague by : Edward Marriott
A riveting account, at once a reconstruction of the race to find a cure, a history of bubonic plague, and an investigation into the threat of plague today Plague. The very word carries an unholy resonance. No other disease can claim its apocalyptic or mythological power. It can lie dormant for centuries, only to resurface with ferocious, nation-killing force. Here, with the high drama of a great adventure tale, Edward Marriott unravels the story of this lethal disease: the historic battle to identify its source, the devastating effects of pandemics, and the prospects for the next outbreak. Through a range of primary sources, Marriott takes us back to Hong Kong in the summer of 1894, when a diagnosis of plague brought two top scientists to the island-Alexandre Yersin, a lone, maverick Frenchman, and his eminent rival, the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato. Marriott interweaves his narrative of their fierce competition to discover the plague's source with vivid scenes of the scourge's persistence: California in 1900, when plague arrived in the United States; Surat, India, in 1994, where torrential floods drowned millions of rats, causing the worst epidemic in seventy years; and New York City, some time in the future, where there is a rat for every human being, a diminishing budget for pest control, and an emerging strain of plague that is resistant to antibiotics. A masterly recounting of medical and human history, Plague is an instructive warning, a gripping account of history, and a chilling read.
Author |
: William Samuel Sadler |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 462 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015043521957 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race Decadence by : William Samuel Sadler