A vivid, sweeping history of mankind\'s battles with Infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari\'s Sapiens and John Barry\'s The Great Influenza .
Striking Humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion--quarantining th.
For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection.
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind\'s battles with Infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari\'s Sapiens and John Barry\'s The Great Influenza