Bioterrorism and Deadly Diseases: Fact and Fiction
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Germs
by Judith Miller
In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that …
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared M. Diamond
In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to …
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Pox Americana
by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of the War of Independence, and why it caused a continental epidemic, …
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Biohazard
by Ken Alibek
“Read and be amazed. . . . An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware.”—Robin Cook, author of …
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Plague
by Edward Marriott
Finally he addresses the possibility of a new pandemic, one in which plague has become resistant to antibiotics."--BOOK JACKET.
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Underground
by Haruki Murakami
In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world. …
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Anthrax
by Jeanne Guillemin
This book has implications in an era of growing concern over chemical and biological weapons.
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The Barbary Plague
by Marilyn Chase
""San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with …
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The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston
Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to …
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Biological Weapons
by Joshua Lederberg
The essays in this book, many of which were originally published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examine the medical, scientific, and political …
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America's Achilles' Heel
by Richard A Falkenrath
Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons delivered covertly by terrorists or hostile governments pose a significant and growing threat to the United States and other …
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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It …
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The Cobra Event
by Richard Preston
“One of those books you literally can’t put down . . . makes The Hot Zone virus—far away in a rainforest—look like no big deal.”—Detroit …
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Prey
by Michael Crichton
A cloud of nanoparticles - all programmed to become predators - has escaped from a laboratory in Nevada.
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens …
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Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! The President is dead. Now, the weight of the world falls on Jack …
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Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy
In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to …
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The Stand
by Stephen King
Horrific disaster as a plague virus sweeps the U.S., leaving only a handful of survivors.
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Living Terrors
by Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H.
America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare that threatens all we hold dear.... A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed …
