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Books : Black DeathIn association with Amazon.com Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780708813218 Format: Import ISBN: 0708813216 Label: Futura Publications Manufacturer: Futura Publications Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 23, 1978 Publisher: Futura Publications Studio: Futura Publications Sales Rank: 4483682 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Amazing how the world changes in thirty years.Gwyneth Cravens and John S. Marr, The Black Death (Dutton, 1977) Mediocre disaster-of-the-week novel about (unsurprisingly) an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in New York City. Relatively readable for a seventies thriller novel of its type, but the casual sexism and racism is far more shocking today than the actual subject matter. Still, if you're into the literary version of the disease-of-the-week TV movies of the seventies, there are certainly worse ways to pass the time than this. ... Read More Rating:  - This book was simply amazing!!!Check it out and also check out Kate Jackson, Kathleen Robertson, and Jeffrey Nordling in Quiet Killer. It's a nice tv movie version of this book. Rating: - A pleasing 70s-style medical thrillerThis 1977 novel is a fast-paced and entertaining example of a 70's thriller, and worth picking up if you can find it in a used bookstore or rummage sale. The subject matter remains relevant to comtemporary audiences, particularly in the wake of the anthrax bioterror outbreak in the eastern US in the Fall 2001. "The Black Death" will appeal to the Robin Cook / Michael Crichton audience as well as anyone with an interest in medical thrillers. The plot is straightforward: a teenage girl ... Read More Rating: - A fun and frightening forecast of a possible plagueThis book helped spark my interest in epidemiology -- or should I say took it out of the boring tedium of academics and made it interesting. It was the precursor to the a genre that became popular within a few years of publication. What made the book fascinating was the author's nearly loving description of the organism Yersinia pestis and his command of the public health bureaucracy in a large city. The story opens with a young woman returning from a camping trip in the western US, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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