Charles Kenny
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. 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 the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower--or so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?