I enjoyed reading this book. It provides a vivid description of several terrible viral diseases that have in some cases been controlled by vaccination to the point of extinction (e.g. smallpox ...

Book jacket: Plagues Upon the Earth by Kyle Harper (Princeton University Press 2021.) This book is divided into four parts and comprises a total of twelve lengthy chapters. It progresses in ...

Thus, October 7 taught me, and should teach all of us, a sad and unfortunate truth. Sometimes there are people so cruel and vicious, and so persistent in their desire to oppress and kill others no ...

According to the biblical Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities inflicted by God to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery.