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Release: 1985-08-22
Publisher: Papermac
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0333395670
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Rats, Lice and History (Papermac) pdf
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When Rats, Lice and History appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym, virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats, Lice, and History, which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership. To Zinsser, scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease, a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats, Lice and History was to bring science, philosophy, and literature together to establish the importance of disease, and especially epidemic infectious disease, as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the "biography" of a disease. In his view, infect Download Rats, Lice and History (Papermac) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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