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29 reviews
Louise Erdrich

Harper, 2008

The interconnectedness of everything
THE PLAGUE OF DOVES was stitched together from a number of short stories, many of them previously published in "The New Yorker". There is a bit of disjointedness, but it is remarakable how well the patchwork comes together to make a whole, integral quilt (a metaphor that I see has occurred to other reviewers as well). The novel covers a century of life in North Dakota, focusing on the lives ...

Plagues and Peoples

44 reviews
William H. McNeill

Anchor, 1998

Amazing How a Few Invisible Germs Changed the World
The main thesis of William McNeill's "Plagues and People" is that disease states and the general health of various regions of the world throughout history have shaped social practices, religious thinking and political structures -- even leading to the rise and fall of entire civilizations. MacNeill's startling, well-defended claims are fascinating, eminently quotable and worthy of re-reading. ...

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

25 reviews
Molly Caldwell Crosby

Berkley Hardcover, 2006

A very interesting book to read!
I loved reading the first part of the book based in Memphis and was sad at first when that part of the story ended to tell the story of Cuba. After getting into the second part of the book I actually liked that part even better. This is two stories that are connected by Yellow Fever. It is a very good book and an excellent example of where a wrong but popular scientific view can not only get ...

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

24 reviews
David Hajdu

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Fascinating History
I found this book totally fascinating. Not only does it discuss the social history surrounding comics in the 40's and 50's but you can also see some parallels between the traditional culture's reaction to comics back then and the reaction of some to video games today. (There as some big differences though that will prevent the anti-gaming types (Jack Thompson, etc.) today from doing the damage ...

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

174 reviews
Norman Cantor

Harper Perennial, 2002

Interesting, but uneven
This is an interesting book about one of the direst slice of history. In just three years (1347 - 1350), the Plague will have wiped out over a third of Western Europe. Some countries incurred lesser but significant recurrence of the plague centuries later, including England in 1665. England will recover its pre-plague population level not until 1750 or four centuries later. Gathering ...

Plague Ship (Oregon Files)

45 reviews
Clive Cussler

Putnam Adult, 2008

Great couple of CD's but missing 3rd
The cd is great for the first time listner. It gives a lot of history on the creation of the Corporation and the Oregon. There are intimate details on the crew and how they joind the Corporation. The only problem is I was shipped only 12 of the 13 Cd'd. Now I am in limbo. I don't know what to do.

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book)

28 reviews
Jim Murphy

Clarion Books, 2003

Riveting and Terrifying History
This dramatic account of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is riveting. It is packed with historical facts and presents the horror of the disease, the implications for the city of Philadelphia and neighboring areas, and the reaction of both the townspeople as well as those in power with vivid detail. Politicians, the medical community, common people, orphans, the poor are all brought to life ...

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

68 reviews
Laurie Garrett

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

Extraordinary
After finishing this book you will never read a newspaper the same way again. I am amazed, and a little scared, at how much of what Laurie Garrett wrote in 1995 has come to pass in 2007. Her story about the "disease cowboys" who track the causes of unexplained epidemics in the remote corners of the world is both absorbing and eye-opening. And it has helped me to see disturbing trends in ...

The Plague

152 reviews
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert

Vintage, 1991

Find meaning in a meaningless existence / Camus is one cool cat
After reading The Stranger and thoroughly enjoying it, I decided to purchase The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library), and have just got done reading The Plague. Frankly, this review begins with a summary of Camus' philosophical outlook; I find these particularly relevant to a decision whether or not to purchase one of his books, and I discuss this ...

Plague of the Dead (The Morningstar Strain)

65 reviews
Z. A. Recht

Permuted Press, 2006

Great Zombie book!
This is a great story and a fun book to read. The sequal is even better!!!

The White Plague

30 reviews
Frank Herbert

Tor Books, 2007

Riveting
I bought this book new back in the early 80's and just saw it is now back in print -- good news. I've been reading science fiction for nearly 50 years and this is still one of my favorites. It doesn't rely on gratuitous sex and violence to achieve a perfectly believable, white knuckled terror. I'd label it speculative fiction. Misogyny, meet extinction.

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

18 reviews
William F. Ruddiman

Princeton University Press, 2007

Interesting Hypothesis without hype
As stated more eloquently in other reviews, this book puts forth the hypothesis that human activities have led to an interruption in the glacial/interglacial cycle that has been occurring in the Northern hemisphere over the last 3-4 million years. The author's treatment of the Milankovich orbital cycles will be instructive to those who have yet to be exposed to this data. It was refreshing to ...

The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)

5 reviews
Albert Camus

Everyman's Library, 2004

Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death
What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a huge outbreak of bubonic plague in Oran, Algeria on the north African coast. With the possibility of dying so close, each ...

The Power of Plagues

2 reviews
Irwin W. Sherman

ASM Press, 2006

Excellent introduction to disease in society
This book languishes in some obscurity, published at a high price by a rather arcane scientific society. I hope some mass publisher has the sense to buy the rights and bring it out in paperback. It deserves the widest circulation. The book is a survey of major diseases, their biology, their transmission, and their major historic effects. Irwin Sherman talks about disease in general, then ...

Plague War

3 reviews
Jeff Carlson

Ace, 2008

More Classic Action-Adventure
For anyone who likes high-speed action loaded with shocks and wild ideas, the second PLAGUE book delivers. Carlson hits the ground running with PLAGUE WAR and only accelerates from there. This is one scary series! I've never seen end-of-the-world techno thrillers written this way. PLAGUE WAR is very personal but big in scope at the same time, loaded with politics and intrigue while jampacked ...

Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 2008

What can we know about the Dark Ages?
Factors like epidemics as important historical forces have been largely underestimated. Little information has survived from these dark centuries and even less facts are available. This book tries to assess the demographic, economic and fiscal consequences of one of the first big epidemics which was recognised as such. Bringing in new methodologic approaches from biochemistry, the authors allow a ...

A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)

4 reviews
Daniel Defoe

Penguin Classics, 2003

Journalism not fiction
This edition restores Defoe's original punctuation, with capitals for nouns and colons for stops, so that the writing has the vitality, weight and elasticity that Defoe meant when he wrote it. To enjoy this book you need to read it as creative journalism rather than fiction otherwise it will seem dull, and Daniel Defoe is never dull. It can't satisfy as fiction because it isn't fiction. It ...

Plague Year

20 reviews
Jeff Carlson

Ace, 2007

When you crave a different sci fi book...
A fast read... a real page turner! You can't put it down because you simply can't predict what is going to happen next. This book is very chilling because we already live in a time where we can't really keep track of all the new technology that we're presented with. Science is propelled forward with such leaps and bounds that I have this nagging fear that somehow some experiment is going to ...

Viruses, Plagues, and History

8 reviews
Michael B. A. Oldstone

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

Fascinating!
I ordered three books on similar subjects, "Viruses, Plagues, and History", "Man and Microbes", and "Plagues and Peoples" at the same time. Each book has something different to recommend it. My least favorite was "Plagues and Peoples". The writing was pompous and cumbersome, and while the thesis of the book, that man's relationship to society and our planet is pathogenic, is interesting, it ...

Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease

8 reviews
Paul Ewald

Anchor, 2002

Awesome Book - Must read for all med students and biologists
This book is a real mind opener. It intelligently braves to confront orthodoxy. Good for Paul! Medicine needs to constantly challenge the orthodox theories when they clearly don't work. By faith and science, I am a creationist, but do not feel threatend by Ewald's genuine search for the truth. Microevolution is a testable fact and a great deal can be learned from this text and his theories ...

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