Bugged : how insects changed history / Sarah Albee ; illustrated by Robert Leighton.
Albee, Sarah.; Leighton, Robert, 1960-
2014
QL467.2 .A43 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Bugged : how insects changed history / Sarah Albee ; illustrated by Robert Leighton.
Author
Albee, Sarah.
ISBN
9780802734235 library edition
0802734235 library edition
9780802734228 paperback
0802734227 paperback
Published
New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury, [2014]
Language
English
Description
168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
QL467.2 .A43 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
595.7
Summary
Chronicles the rivalry between the human and insect worlds that draws on myriad disciplines to explain the varying roles that bugs have played in building and toppling empires as well as the bug stories behind infamous disasters.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index.
Added Author
Leighton, Robert, 1960-
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Bad-news bugs
The earliest epidemics
Close encounters of the ancient kind
Medieval microbes
More thinking but still stinking: the Renaissance
Travel troubles
It's all fun and games until someone loses an isle
How revolutionary!
Dastardly diseases and demented dictators
The Nineteenth Century: crawling toward a cure
The nitty gritty about the itty bitty: germs discovered at last
Twentieth-century pox
The craze about sprays
Now what?

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