The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren - the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure - are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in...

Joe Rush is on a secret mission in Northern Alaska when a small group of researchers is found dead on the tundra. At first the scene appears to be a murder-suicide, but Joe realizes they were all infected with the most deadly disease on earth, a nightmare infection that is utterly fatal. The stakes rise quickly as part of Alaska is cordoned off by the army. Then Rush is targeted by killers, and suspected of complicity by his own allies. The answers...

"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"

Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the "Plague of Justinian" in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. In the twenty-first century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a powerful reminder that we have not escaped the global impact of epidemic diseases. In this Very Short Introduction,...

A time-traveler is stranded in medieval Europe during the Black Death.

It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description.

Thinking himself the only person alive after a plague that killed his wife and child, a scientist fights a nightly battle with what appear to be vampires, trying to break into his house.

Millions were killed in a pandemic plague during the reign of Justinian I in the middle of the sixth century. According to the author, the end of this pandemic plague marked the birth of European-nation states. Includes a biography of Justinian I, evolution of the plague, military history, geography, theology, jurisprudence, epidemiology, and the economics of the silk trade, etc.

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.