The Black Death Of Babylon

Author : Edward J. McFadden, III
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615706096

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The Black Death of Babylon by Edward J. McFadden, III Pdf

Don Oberbier investigated anomalies, but he had never encountered one as powerful as the Black Death of Babylon. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its tool and its seal-black patches that appeared to eat its victim from the inside out. And the disease attacked with a viciousness that decomposed its victim within two hours. When a Professor at prestigious Babylon University snaps and starts killing people with the disease, Don has the campus quarantined. He learns that the universities alumni directory contains a list of those to be murdered, and the investigation picks up speed as Don tries to catch the killer before everyone on the list is infected. PRAISE for The Black Death of Babylon A fun, dark, globe-hopping adventure that's part action thriller, party mystery, and part atmospheric horror tale. There's something here in Ed McFadden's novel for everybody." Tom Piccirilli, author of THE LAST KIND WORDS, two time International Thriller award winner, and four time Bram Stoker award winner. "The Black Death of Babylon is a riveting murder mystery drawing upon the enigmatic elements of Fringe or The X-Files. And yet, Edward McFadden finds a way to make everything happening in this book truly believable. The plot is fascinating for what it reveals about the behind the scenes workings of brilliant scientists who've let their experiments get the best of them. The story is beautifully written-this allows seasoned fans of mystery, horror, and SF to find this book irresistibly hard to put down." Michael Laimo, author of DEAD SOULS and DEEP IN THE DARKNESS. "In this age of horrifying natural plagues--AIDS, flesh-eating bacteria--and the threat of even scarier manufactured ones--terrorist-designed Avian Flu--it takes a truly creepy book to go beyond the daily headlines. Thankfully for all lovers of high-tech bio-horror, Ed McFadden has written that novel with his The Black Death of Babylon. Marrying characters you embrace with terrors you flee, this novel will take readers on a mystery-suspense filled-spook-house ride they won't soon forget." Paul Di Filippo, author of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: TIME'S BLACK LAGOON. "Edward McFadden's The Black Death of Babylon is a dark roller coaster ride that will leave you wanting more. When a prestigious member of the Babylon University faculty finds DNA that he uses to recreate the most deadly disease planet Earth has ever seen-the Black Death-his enemies start dying, and the Babylon Campus is quarantined. The pace picks up even more as the book moves toward a believable and satisfying conclusion. Realistic, entertaining, well written, and different. Don't miss this one." Patrick Thomas, author of the Murphy's Lore Series and FAIRY WITH A GUN.

Author : Ole Jørgen Benedictow
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527583054

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The Complete History of Plague in Norway, 1348-1654 by Ole Jørgen Benedictow Pdf

Historical studies of plague are predominantly related to individual local epidemics, often associated with the Black Death. However, this unique book provides a complete presentation of the entire Second Plague Pandemic in Norway, from the Black Death to the last outbreaks of plague in 1654. It begins with a succinct presentation of the history of plague and its basic clinical and epidemiological features, while also drawing upon new scholarship and research. It confirms the great genetic stability of the plague contagion, and shows that the outbreaks and spread of plague can be studied in interaction with two historical societies of two historical periods, the late medieval society and the early modern society. The changes and differences in epidemiology and dynamics of plague between the two halves of the pandemic are gateways to understanding how plague epidemics are transmitted, disseminated and evolve. The book’s long-term perspective allows it to study plague’s epidemiology and to identify consistent long-term features.

Author : Gilgamesh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590416402

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Ishtar and Izdubar, the epic of Babylon; or, The Babylonian goddess of love and the hero and warrior king, restored in mod. verse by L.L.C. Hamilton by Gilgamesh Pdf

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517031249

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By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet Pdf

The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest. Afterwards, both the man and the metal must be purified. These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods-this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name. It is there that spirits live, and demons-it is there that there are the ashes of the Great Burning. These things are forbidden- they have been forbidden since the beginning of time.

Author : Igiaba Scego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931883831

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Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego Pdf

"Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--

Author : Anthony Mattiello Jr
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973612544

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Babylon Revealed by Anthony Mattiello Jr Pdf

Babylon Revealed is an epic journey of Gods plan of salvation for mankind. The journey begins with Gods call to Abraham to come out of Babylon and settle into the land of Canaan. The book examines Satans efforts to mislead humanity into apostate worship, which began in this region. From the historical record, the book takes the reader on a journey through time and ends in the same place where the journey began. Civilization began in Babylon and will end in Babylon the Great. Apostate worship will ultimately lead to the destruction of the world. God, from the beginning, knew the future and numbered the days of Babylon and Satans kingdom on earth. Satan opposes God in order that he may continue to exist and remain in the world by separating the Creator from His creation. Satan is allowed to continue to exist through mankinds choice to remain apart from the Lord. This book reveals Gods mysteries and warnings about mankinds ultimate fate, which is found in the prophetic books of the Bible. Mans only hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ, who will, in the end of time, triumph over the forces of evil and establish Gods kingdom on earth.

Author : Diane Zahler
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467703758

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The Black Death, 2nd Edition by Diane Zahler Pdf

Could a few fleas really change the world? In the early 1300s, the world was on the brink of change. New trade routes in Europe and Asia brought people in contact with different cultures and ideas, while war and rebellions threatened to disrupt the lives of millions. Most people lived in crowded cities or as serfs tied to the lands of their overlords. Conditions were filthy, as most people drank water from the same sources they used for washing and for human waste. In the cramped and rat-infested streets of medieval cities and villages, all it took were the bites of a few plague-infected fleas to start a pandemic that killed roughly half the population of Europe and Asia. The bubonic plague wiped out families, villages, even entire regions. Once the swollen, black buboes appeared on victims’ bodies, there was no way to save them. People died within days. In the wake of such devastation, survivors had to reevaluate their social, scientific, and religious beliefs, laying the groundwork for our modern world. The Black Death outbreak is one of world history’s pivotal moments.

Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313038549

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Daily Life during the Black Death by Joseph P. Byrne Pdf

Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political, and economic stucture. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by the terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled day and night. Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. During the three and a half centuries that constituted the Second Pandemic of Bubonic Plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by epidemics that mowed them down like a reaper's scythe. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political and economic structure. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled night and day. Plague time elicited the most heroic and inhuman behavior imaginable. And yet Western Civilization survived to undergo the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and early Enlightenment. In Daily Life during the Black Death Joseph Byrne opens with an outline of the course of the Second Pandemic, the causes and nature of bubonic plague, and the recent revisionist view of what the Black Death really was. He presents the phenomenon of plague thematically by focusing on the places people lived and worked and confronted their horrors: the home, the church and cemetary, the village, the pest houses, the streets and roads. He leads readers to the medical school classroom where the false theories of plague were taught, through the careers of doctors who futiley treated victims, to the council chambers of city hall where civic leaders agonized over ways to prevent and then treat the pestilence. He discusses the medicines, prayers, literature, special clothing, art, burial practices, and crime that plague spawned. Byrne draws vivid examples from across both Europe and the period, and presents the words of witnesses and victims themselves wherever possible. He ends with a close discussion of the plague at Marseille (1720-22), the last major plague in northern Europe, and the research breakthroughs at the end of the nineteenth century that finally defeated bubonic plague.

Author : Frederik Poulsen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161568626

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The Black Hole in Isaiah by Frederik Poulsen Pdf

"Isaiah is strangely silent on the destruction of Jerusalem and the people's deportation to Babylon in the early sixth century BCE. Frederik Poulsen demonstrates that the exile hides itself as a "black hole" at the center of the composition and thereby has a decisive influence on the literary structure, poetic imagery, and theological message of this prophetic book."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814471862

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Energy and International War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew A. Berk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Jews
ISBN : CHI:091406867

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The History of the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity to the Present Time by Matthew A. Berk Pdf

Author : Lynn Lusby Pratt
Publisher : Standard Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0784715289

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Devotions by Dead People by Lynn Lusby Pratt Pdf

This book of 50 devotions pulls back the shroud, revealing life lessons from long-gone Bible characters. The choices they made and the results—good and bad—provide teens with insights into this life . . . and the next!

Author : Pat Frank
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062296207

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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Pdf

“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness. This classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.

Author : E. Cashmore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135083731

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Rastaman (Routledge Revivals) by E. Cashmore Pdf

First published in 1979, this book makes a detailed study of Rastafarianism. It traces the expansion of Rastafarian culture from its origins and development in Jamaica through to the growth of Rastafarian life in Britain. It looks at Rastafarian culture in England in the late 1970s based on the author’s intimate experiences and communications with followers of the movement.