The wages of sin : sex and disease, past and present, Peter L Allen

Автор: Oldstone Michael B. a.
Название: Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 0195327314 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195327311
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles. Nearly 300 million people were killed by smallpox in this century alone and the author presents a vivid account of the long campaign to eradicate this lethal killer. Oldstone then describes the fascinating viruses that have captured headlines in more recent years: Ebola, Hantavirus, mad cow disease (a frightening illness made worse by government mishandling and secrecy), and, of course, AIDS. And he tells us of the many scientists watching and waiting even now for the next great plague, monitoring influenza strains to see whether the deadly variant from 1918--a viral strain that killed over 20 million people in 1918-1919--will make a comeback. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile, and fully updates the original text with new findings on particular viruses. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies. Oldstone's book is a vivid history of a fascinating field, and a highly reliable dispatch from an eminent researcher on the front line of this ongoing campaign.

Автор: Burnette
Название: Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
ISBN: 0521312280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521312288
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. Joyce Burnette demonstrates that gender differences in occupations and wages were largely driven by market forces and resulted from actual differences in productivity. She shows that rather than harming women competition actually helped them.

Автор: Bowley
Название: Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 110741900X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107419001
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book, which was first published in 1900, provides a statistically based examination of British wages during the nineteenth century. The text constitutes an attempt `to illustrate the various questions that arise in the study of wages, choosing those groups which afford problems of any special difficulty or interest`.

Автор: Lim Jie Hyun
Название: Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past
ISBN: 1137289821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137289827
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume explores the politics of memory involved in `coming to terms with the past` of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.