En esta colección de textos a la vez desgarradores y estimulantes Rob Wallace rastrea las formas en que la gripe y otros patógenos emergen de una agricultura controlada por corporaciones multinacionales. Con un ingenio preciso y radical yuxtapone fenómenos espantosos, como los intentos de producir pollos sin plumas, con viajes en el tiempo microbianos y el ébola neoliberal. También ofrece alternativas sensatas al agronegocio letal. Algunas, como las cooperativas agrícolas, el manejo integr...

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some bravely descended into the caves where bat species hosted coronaviruses, in...

Pandemia e agronegócio: doenças infecciosas, capitalismo e ciência, de Rob Wallace, defende que os novos vírus que há alguns anos amedrontam o planeta com epidemias e pandemias são, sim, uma criação dos seres humanos. Mas, não, não estamos falando das teorias conspiratórias difundidas pelos robôs de Donald Trump ou Jair Bolsonaro, que responsabilizam laboratórios chineses especializados em guerra biológica pela origem do novo coronavírus. Para o autor, esses micro-organismos são resultado ...

The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science togetherThanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry—each animal genetically identical to the next—packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtere...

Proposes the pragmatic changes we must make to survive COVID and the worst of the new diseases on the horizonThe Trump administration’s neglect and incompetence helped put half-a-million Americans in the ground, dead from COVID-19. Joe Biden was elected president in part on the promise of setting us on a science-driven course correction, but, a little more than a year later, another half-a-million Americans were killed by the virus. What happened? In The Fault in O...

Seitdem Menschen sesshafte Landwirtschaft betreiben, kommt es immer wieder zu tödlichen Epidemien. Aber warum nehmen diese Infektionen heute die Form weltweiter Pandemien an, so wie es bei COVID-19, SARS, MERS oder der Vogelgrippe der Fall war? Warum häufen sie sich - und was lässt sich dagegen unternehmen? Der US-amerikanische Biologe Rob Wallace erklärt, wie Pandemien entstehen und warum sie sich global ausbreiten. In seiner Analyse berücksichtigt er die evolutionäre Dynamik der Krankhei...

To Prove Them InnocentBy: Donna ClementeHow do two housewives with no personal relation to the case become involved in a ten-year long battle to set three men free? To Prove Them Innocent is the true story about how their efforts, along with the fortitude of the families of the men convicted, fought to uncover and expose the truth. When three men can be sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit, it screams for reform within the justice system. The news media isn’t always...

Whether you’re in the mood for a Chicago-style deep dish of darkness, or prefer a New York wide slice of thin-crusted carnage, or if you just have a hankering for the cheap, cheesy charms of cardboard-crusted, delivered-to-your-door devilry; we have just the slice for you.Bring your most monstrous of appetites, because we’re serving suspense and horrors both chillingly cosmic and morbidly mundane from acclaimed horror authors such as Brian Evenson, Jessica McHugh, and Cody Goodfell...

This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus. Using a variety of different perspectives, the contributors offer lessons from research on rural crime, justice and security from the seven continents with a macroscopic perspective on issues of international concern.The book identifies the global context in which rural crime takes place, presenting insights on crime prevention, safety and security to students, researchers...

We love ghost stories. Flat love them.But finding ghost stories that meet the unique qualities of a Pulphouse Fiction Magazine story proves a daunting task indeed.Even with that, editor Dean Wesley Smith found a bunch of stories that fit perfectly into this fun reprint anthology, including stories from the fantastic Annie Reed and a story each from New York Times bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Kevin J. Anderson.Ten fantastic, fun and perfect Pulphous...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online on Pul...

Everyone loves a good ghost story. Somehow the creepiest, scariest ghost stories always feature sadness at their core.From a story about a woman who must face her ghosts on Christmas Eve night, to a ghost detective stuck in his own cemetery helping other ghosts move on by solving their own murders, to a ghost who writes letters to the living—these ghosts seem more alive than dead. Their sagas just continue into another realm.So, steel your courage and delve into these ten s...