Author: Simon Dodd
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987307908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A fast-paced comedy thriller with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. Coronial investigator Jack Slazenger's holiday on Lord Howe Island is interrupted when American tourist Harvey Jacob is found dead on Muttonbird Drive, with an equally dead muttonbird sticking out of his ear! Was it truly a case of 'Death By Incompetent Seabird', or is something more sinister afoot? On his way to find out, Jack discovers a BASE jumper with a death wish, an attractive itinerant dentist, a Polynesian princess on the run, a deranged Swedish amputee, and the secret to a 60-year-old mystery!
Death By Muttonbird
Author: Simon Dodd
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987307908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A fast-paced comedy thriller with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. Coronial investigator Jack Slazenger's holiday on Lord Howe Island is interrupted when American tourist Harvey Jacob is found dead on Muttonbird Drive, with an equally dead muttonbird sticking out of his ear! Was it truly a case of 'Death By Incompetent Seabird', or is something more sinister afoot? On his way to find out, Jack discovers a BASE jumper with a death wish, an attractive itinerant dentist, a Polynesian princess on the run, a deranged Swedish amputee, and the secret to a 60-year-old mystery!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987307908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A fast-paced comedy thriller with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. Coronial investigator Jack Slazenger's holiday on Lord Howe Island is interrupted when American tourist Harvey Jacob is found dead on Muttonbird Drive, with an equally dead muttonbird sticking out of his ear! Was it truly a case of 'Death By Incompetent Seabird', or is something more sinister afoot? On his way to find out, Jack discovers a BASE jumper with a death wish, an attractive itinerant dentist, a Polynesian princess on the run, a deranged Swedish amputee, and the secret to a 60-year-old mystery!
The Viral Network
Author: Theresa MacPhail
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454883
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official end to the pandemic in August 2010. Experts agree that the global death toll reached 284,500. The public health response to the pandemic was complicated by the simultaneous economic crisis and by the public scrutiny of official response in an atmosphere of widespread connectivity. MacPhail follows the H1N1 influenza virus's trajectory through time and space in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of what happens when global public health comes down with a case of the flu.The Viral Network affords a rare look inside the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as well as Hong Kong’s virology labs and Centre for Health Protection, during a pandemic. MacPhail looks at the day-to-day practices of virologists and epidemiologists to ask questions about the production of scientific knowledge, the construction of expertise, disease narratives, and the different "cultures" of public health in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and China. The chapters of the book move from the micro to the macro, from Hong Kong to Atlanta, from the lab to the WHO, from the pandemic past in 1918 to the future. The various historical, scientific, and cultural narratives about flu recounted in this book show how biological genes and cultural memes become interwoven in the stories we tell during a pandemic. Ultimately, MacPhail argues that the institution of global public health is as viral as the viruses it tracks, studies, and helps to contain or eradicate. The "global" is itself viral in nature.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454883
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official end to the pandemic in August 2010. Experts agree that the global death toll reached 284,500. The public health response to the pandemic was complicated by the simultaneous economic crisis and by the public scrutiny of official response in an atmosphere of widespread connectivity. MacPhail follows the H1N1 influenza virus's trajectory through time and space in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of what happens when global public health comes down with a case of the flu.The Viral Network affords a rare look inside the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as well as Hong Kong’s virology labs and Centre for Health Protection, during a pandemic. MacPhail looks at the day-to-day practices of virologists and epidemiologists to ask questions about the production of scientific knowledge, the construction of expertise, disease narratives, and the different "cultures" of public health in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and China. The chapters of the book move from the micro to the macro, from Hong Kong to Atlanta, from the lab to the WHO, from the pandemic past in 1918 to the future. The various historical, scientific, and cultural narratives about flu recounted in this book show how biological genes and cultural memes become interwoven in the stories we tell during a pandemic. Ultimately, MacPhail argues that the institution of global public health is as viral as the viruses it tracks, studies, and helps to contain or eradicate. The "global" is itself viral in nature.
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Author: Royal Society of Tasmania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress.
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress.
Transactions
Author: Royal Society of New Zealand
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings
Author: Royal Society of New Zealand
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry
Author: Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
Book Description
Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.
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Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
Book Description
Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.
Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology
Author: D. Bruce Means
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561647683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Based on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of the animals he has studied. In Australia, Means searches for the fiercey, reputed to be the worlds deadliest terrestrial snake. In Mexico, he stalks the rattlesnake that might have served as the model for the mythical plumed serpent of Mayan art. In Florida, he is chased by cottonmouth moccasins. Through his experiences, Means hopes that readers will gain a new appreciation for animals called herps, or creepy-crawly things.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561647683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Based on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of the animals he has studied. In Australia, Means searches for the fiercey, reputed to be the worlds deadliest terrestrial snake. In Mexico, he stalks the rattlesnake that might have served as the model for the mythical plumed serpent of Mayan art. In Florida, he is chased by cottonmouth moccasins. Through his experiences, Means hopes that readers will gain a new appreciation for animals called herps, or creepy-crawly things.