The Mosquito Crusades

The Mosquito Crusades
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780813547008
ISBN-13 : 0813547008
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mosquito Crusades by : Gordon Patterson

Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing, as demonstrated by the long battle to control these bloodsucking pests. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population. Providing readers with a fascinating exploration of the relationship between science, technology, and public policy, Gordon Patterson's narrative begins in New Jersey with John B. Smith's effort to develop a comprehensive plan and solution for mosquito control, one that would serve as a national model. From the Reed Commission's 1900 yellow fever experiment to the first Earth Day seventy years later, Patterson provides an eye-opening account of the crusade to curtail the deadly mosquito population.

The Mosquito

The Mosquito
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 639
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ISBN-10 : 9781524743437
ISBN-13 : 1524743437
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mosquito by : Timothy C. Winegard

**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village. Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.

Gotham Unbound

Gotham Unbound
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9781476741246
ISBN-13 : 1476741247
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Gotham Unbound by : Theodore Steinberg

Presents the history of New York City as it was transformed over a four-hundred-year period by politicians and developers from a Hudson River estuary with rolling hills, rivers, and forests into the concrete flatland that exists today.

Faith in Bikinis

Faith in Bikinis
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780820347332
ISBN-13 : 0820347337
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Faith in Bikinis by : Anthony Joseph Stanonis

An untold story of the southern coastline that explores how tourism played a central role in revitalizing the southern economy and transformed its culture. By negotiating the rigid religious, social, and racial practices of the inland cotton country and the more indulgent consumerism of vacationers, many from the North, a New South emerged.

Mosquitopia

Mosquitopia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9781000435085
ISBN-13 : 1000435083
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Mosquitopia by : Marcus Hall

This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth, only a few dozen of them are really dangerous—so that the question arises as to whether humans and their mosquito foe can learn to live peacefully with one another. Chapters assess polarizing arguments for conserving and preserving mosquitoes, as well as for controlling and killing them, elaborating on possible consequences of both strategies. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we? Offering insights spanning the technical to the philosophical, this is the “go to” book for exploring humanity’s many relationships with the mosquito—which becomes a journey to finding better ways to inhabit the natural world. Mosquitopia will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore dependencies between human health and natural systems, while offering novel perspectives to health planners, medical experts, environmentalists and animal rights advocates. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003056034, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Merchants of Doubt

Merchants of Doubt
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781608193943
ISBN-13 : 1608193942
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Merchants of Doubt by : Naomi Oreskes

Documents the troubling influence of a small group of scientists who the author contends misrepresent scientific facts to advance key political and economic agendas, revealing the interests behind their detractions on findings about acid rain, DDT, and other hazards.

Medical Record

Medical Record
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1138
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027176950
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Medical Record by : George Frederick Shrady

Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes

Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780190215255
ISBN-13 : 0190215259
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes by : Marc E. Epstein

Marc E. Epstein provides a complete biography of Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr., one of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century. Epstein chronicles Dyar's impressive scientific accomplishments in the field of entomology, as well as his complicated personal life and many eccentricities.

Medical and veterinary entomology

Medical and veterinary entomology
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:24504233030
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Medical and veterinary entomology by : William Brodbeck Herms