Tag: Pox

Free Download Stephen Jay Gould, "The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities"
English | ISBN: 0609601407 | 2003 | 288 pages | PDF | 59 MB
In his final book and his first full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.

Free Download Noelle Gallagher, "Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination"
English | ISBN: 0300217056 | 2019 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art

Free Download Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR1YHKCJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Colin Elliott
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
A dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle. In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall. In Pox Romana, historian Colin Elliott offers a comprehensive, wide-ranging account of this pivotal moment in Roman history.