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... a fascinating book ... it succeeds quite well in bringing together a rather diverse set of approaches that are not often considered the business of 'mainstream' microbiology. It will appeal to final year microbiology undergraduates and postgraduates as well as senior researchers in bioarchaeology. (MicroBiology Today )
... provocative and informative. (The Lancet )
This is a very nicely produced book that contains much that is likely to be of interest to readers of the Transactions and the editors are to be congratulated on their initiative in producing a book that can truly be said to be original and for drawing so much disparate information together. (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene )
This publication is of importance for anybody with an interest in these pathogens. (European Journal of Protistology. )
One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in important ways mysterious. This collection of essays, all of them previously unpublished, represent the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future. The volume includes a biographical essay that covers some of the major turning points in the poet's life, especially those emphasized by her letters. Other essays discuss Dickinson's religious beliefs, her response to the Civil War, her class-based politics, her place in a tradition of American women's poetry, and the editing of her manuscripts. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson concludes with a rich bibliographical essay describing the controversial history of Dickinson's life in print, together with a substantial bibliography of relevant sources.
“John Kelly gives the reader a ferocious, pictorial account of the horrific ravages of [The Black Death].” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times )
“Splendidly written. Kelly has written a popular history based on the best scholarship available, and written it very well indeed.” (Detroit Free Press (**** 4 out of 4 stars) )
“A fascinating account of the plague. A frightening reminder of what could happen today.” (Nelson DeMille, The Birmingham News )
“Stunning. The Great Mortality [is endowed with] the sheer immediacy ancient history yields to only a few.” (Houston Chronicle )
“A compelling and bone-chilling account.” (Tampa Tribune )
“...splendidly written...” (Philadelphia Inquirer )
“This sweeping, viscerally exciting book contributes to a literature of perpetual fascination.” (Booklist (starred review) )
“A ground-level illustration of how the plague ravaged Europe…putting a vivid, human face on an unimaginable nightmare.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“...accessible and engrossing...” (Publishers Weekly )
“A compellingly vivid account.” (The Guardian )
“THE GREAT MORTALITY skillfully draws on eyewitness accounts to construct a journal of the plague years.” (New York Times Book Review )
“THE GREAT MORTALITY is a chilling account of a global siege, public pits, death-carts, silent villages and empty streets.” (Charleston Post & Courier )
“A compelling and eminently readable portrait.” (Library Journal )
“Powerful, rich, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose.” (Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Audubon: The Making of an American )
“Written with a keen eye for the details of the past, it might also be a warning about our future.” (Jack Weatherford, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World )
“Rich and evocative…written in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman, I couldn’t stop reading this work of brilliance and wisdom.” (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone )
ntensively researched, passionately argued, and intellectually rigorous, Sexual Ecology sounds a clarion call for the controversial revision of the gay male community's beliefs about and approaches to AIDS. It is widely agreed that Sexual Ecology is the first book since And the Band Played On to fundamentally challenge social perceptions of this virulent modern plague. Gabriel Rotello argues that a series of accepted views, such as "there are no such things as risk groups, only risky behaviors," the product of well-intentioned attempts to combat social stigma are fallacies that have hampered our attempts to study the disease. From the false security of condoms to the seeming magic bullet of protease inhibitors, simplistic ways of looking at AIDS have allowed thousands of gay men to become infected each year. Weaving together the intertwining threads of sexual politics, science, and survival, Sexual Ecology constructs an incisive, even-handed discussion that has been debated by activists and affirmed by scientists and epidemiologists, and that is relevant to all our lives.
The extremely strong response to the hardcover and wide media coverage confirms the timely nature of the subject.
Includes a new afterword by the author.
